March 29, 2000
A SHORT LIST OF STOCKS INVESTORS REALLY HATE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amWHAT stocks do investors hate the most? According to Schaeffers Research, Action Performance Cos. had the highest percentage of short interest to outstanding stock available for trading. Short interest is...
ABBY OUTLOOK PULLS MARKETS BACK TO EARTH
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amStocks fell yesterday after Wall Street guru Abby Joseph Cohen recommended that clients dump some equity holdings. "We are reducing the recommended equity exposure in our model portfolios," said Cohen,...
CLOCK STOPPED - MICROSOFT, DOJ CONTINUE TALKS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial agreed to postpone issuing his final verdict in the case for 10 days to give frantic 11th-hour settlement efforts one last chance. Lawyers...
BONY EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY IN MONEY $CAM
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amA former Bank of New York employee pleaded guilty yesterday to charges she took part in a massive $7 billion Russian money-laundering ring. Svetlana Kudryavtsev, 50, admitted to Manhattan Federal...
VULTURES CLAIM CAROL PUBLISHING
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTHE sad, sorry final chapter of Steve Schragis' Carol Publishing Group was written at a bankruptcy auction in Seacaucus, N.J. yesterday.Walter Zacharius, chairman and CEO of Kensington Publishing, says he...
NORDSTROM HITCHED TO WEDDING LIST
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amNordstrom is finally set to walk down the aisle and enter the $17 billion wedding gift market. The Seattle-based retailer yesterday inked a deal with The Wedding List -- a...
AT&T WIRELESS IPO WOULD BE BIGGEST EVER
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amAT&T's initial public offering of its wireless business tracking stock could be the biggest in U.S. history -- up to $11.5 billion. The company is planning to sell 16 percent...
ROGERS LANDS $70M OPTIONS WHOPPER - PRIMEDIA SHARES GET BIG BOOST
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amIn just six months on the job of reviving Primedia, Chairman Tom Rogers has more than doubled his company's stock price -- and earned a quick $70 million on his...
YAHOO! TELLS SEC: WE'VE GOT NOTHING IN MUTUAL
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThere may be a new Web business model: search engine to mutual fund in just six years. Yahoo!, the Internet search directory, finds itself perilously close to being treated by...
NBA MINOR LEAGUE BALL IN PLAY - STERN TALKS WITH RADIO GIANT CLEAR CHANNEL
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe NBA has talked to the country's No. 1 radio station owner about helping put together a minor hoop league. San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications, with 850 radio stations and...
ANOTHER SHOT AT THE SEX PISTOLS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTHE antithesis of the old-fashioned rock-documentary spoofed by "This Is Spinal Tap," "The Filth and the Fury" is a brilliant, exuberant collage that doesn't just tell the funny, sad, bizarre...
BACK IN THE SWIM
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amFISHBONE AND THE FAMILYHOOD NEXTPERIENCE "The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx" Hollywood Records Fishbone's new album squarely establishes the L.A. ska-style group as the funkiest rock band in music today. It's clear...
CUT TO THE CHASE AT MONKEY BAR
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amRESTAURANT REVIEW MONKEY BAR 60 E. 54th St. (212) 838-2600 'YOU'VE got to check out this guy Andrew Chase at the Monkey Bar," I kept hearing from friends. "He's a...
'THEORY' NOT WORTH PONDERING
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW THE HOLOGRAM THEORY McGinn/Cazale Theater, Broadway and 76th Street, through April 9. Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or visit www.culturefinder.com THERE'S this club kid, see, who got, like, horribly murdered...
DON'T CLOSE THE BOOK ON REGGIE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amYOU'D have thought I'd given Reggie a winning ticket in the lottery. Those teeth, which could reflect sunlight, flashed and he kept on saying: "Thank you." Reggie Harris, who today...
FASCINATING 'JOURNEY' TOWARD RECONCILIATION IN S. AFRICA
March 29, 2000 | 5:00am'LONG Night's Journey Into Day" is a fascinating look at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that's refreshingly free of the high-mindedness that plagues so many well-meaning documentaries. This commission...
ELIAN INTERVIEW LABELED 'A VISIT'
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amQUESTIONS about Diane Sawyer's exclusive interview with 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez had ABC News yesterday scrambling to defuse a public-relations time bomb. The interview, taped over two days last...
THE REAL DISH ON CATERERS: TIPS FROM THE PROS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00am'JUST as you wouldn't look for a doctor in the Yellow Pages, don't look for a caterer there, either," says Manhattan-based celebrity party planner Colin Cowie. Instead, he says, get...
HIGH-TECH FORK HELPS YOU GRILL TO PERFECTION
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amSTICK a fork in it, and you'll know when it's done.That's the key behind Brookstone's digital Chef's Fork, which will help weekend grillmasters serve fewer hockey pucks this barbecue season....
ON THE SIDE: BYE-BYE, ALAIA
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amAND then there was one -- Baldwin, that is. Billy and Stephen Baldwin's oft-maligned restaurant, Alaia, has closed. Opening in its lower-Fifth Avenue place will be a redecorated, as-yet-unnamed restaurant...
HEY, THIS IS A TERRIFIC MADNESS! -- AND 'WONDERLAND' WORKS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00am"Wonderland" Tomorrow at 10 p.m. on WABC/Ch.7 "WONDERLAND" the new show about life in the looney bin premiering tomorrow night on ABC, does not -- repeat, does not -- have...
TEST YOUR HI-FI IQ
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amARE you fit to work at Championship Vinyl, John Cusack's record store in "High Fidelity"? If you answer yes to four of these six questions, you qualify. Do you own...
'HIGH' TIMES FOR WRITER
March 29, 2000 | 5:00am'HIGH Fidelity" novelist Nick Hornby, 42, who's been called the Martin Amis for the Doc Martens set, likes his obsessions. His first book, the memoir "Fever Pitch," a best-seller in...
VINYL LIVES! - CUSACK'S NEW FILM A RECORD GEEK'S JOY
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amWITH a whopping 61 songs, John Cusack's "High Fidelity," which opens Friday, reveals the star -- who plays a vinyl-obsessed record store owner -- to be a major music geek...
PUTIN NAMES DEFENSE AIDE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amRussian President-elect Vladimir Putin said yesterday he would keep Boris Yeltsin's defense minister Igor Sergeyev, but was weighing other changes after his May 9 inauguration. The retention of Sergeyev was...
TED'S BRIDGE TO THE CLINTON ERA - KENNEDY ESCAPES TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT CHAPPAQUIDDICK -- EVEN WHEN CHARACTER QUESTIONS KNOCK OUT AN OPPONENT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amFASTER than you can say Jack E. Robinson, Massachusetts Republicans suddenly find themselves without a viable challenger to Sen. Ted Kennedy. Earlier this month, the candidacy of Robinson, a wealthy...
MAG: WHITNEY ON DIFFICULT-DIVA DUTY 24/7
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amWhitney Houston lived up to her reputation as a difficult diva in a recent interview with Jane magazine. With tongues wagging over Houston's 11th-hour disappearance from the Oscar-show lineup, the...
GOOD TIME$ GIVE BIRTH TO BABY BOOMLET
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amWelcome to the Stork Club. A baby boomlet, fueled in part by a surging economy, helped push the birth rate up 2 percent in 1998, the first increase since 1990,...
NUDE-PIX RULING BARES JUDGE'S INCOMPETENCE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amABSOLUTELY, Mayor Giuliani must be a Nazi. He didn't want a photographer to shoot 75 naked people on a lower Manhattan street. And yes, he must be the worst of...
EXPERT FEARS OUR SKEETER VIRUS COULD PLAGUE NATION
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe West Nile virus drove the Big Apple buggy, and could now pose a national public-health threat, one entomologist said yesterday. "If this virus does reappear, there's a very good...
WIZ KID POTTER FINDS LOVE IN NEXT BOOK
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amFirst, he battled evil wizards and dragons. Now Harry Potter is taking on his greatest challenge of all -- girls. The fictional British boy, who took the world by storm...
DOMINGO'S 'SECRET' GRANDKID BARES ALL - STRUGGLING 26-YR.-OLD IN SPREAD FOR PLAYBOY
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amOPERA legend Placido Domingo took the stage at the Metropolitan Opera last night to star in Wagner's "Die Walkure." But the thunder of the Teutonic saga seems muted compared to...
FANTASTIC TALE'S NOT JUST ANY OLD FISH STORY
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amIT MAY be just a fish, but nations have fought over it, multimillion-dollar expeditions have been launched in search of it, and submarines have been hand-built to find it. Now,...
IT'S UP TO YOU, FIDEL: LET HIS DAD COME
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amAT THE height of the custody battle over raft boy Elian Gonzalez four months ago, his teary-eyed father sat near the front door of his home in Cuba and explained...
LEVY: DON'T SPARE ROD ON TEACH ATTACKS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY-- Interim City Schools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday said it's time for the state to adopt legislation to protect teachers from violence. "If we don't have a safe environment for...
STUDY LINKS CHEMO TO BRAIN DRAIN
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amChemotherapy dulls the minds of cancer patients, leaving them with poor memories and muddy thinking, a new study says. Cancer patients often complain of "chemo-brain," or woolly-headedness, during chemotherapy treatment....
JUDGE RIPS 'YESHIVA BOY' DRUG DEALS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn judge scolded the Borough Park Jewish community yesterday for turning a blind eye to drug smuggling as he cut a teen a break -- giving him 2 ½...
MCCAIN GIVES RUDY A D.C. BOOST
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amStepping up his fund-raising, Mayor Giuliani dashed to Washington yesterday for a Senate money event -- with John McCain making a surprise appearance -- and soon will hit at least...
NUDE KATHLEEN A TURNER-ON IN STAGE 'GRADUATE'
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amAnd here's to nude, Mrs. Robinson. Kathleen Turner is the talk of London after baring all for the steamy seduction scene in the stage version of the movie "The Graduate."...
COMMISH LAUDS PRIVATE AMBULANCES
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe head of the Fire Department defended the use of private ambulances on 911 calls yesterday, telling the City Council that the city isn't liable if they have accidents. "We...
LUSTY 'AMERICAN CUTIE' TIES KNOT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe sexy schoolgirl whom Kevin Spacey lusts after in "American Beauty" has gone off and gotten hitched. Mena Suvari plays the seductive schoolgirl who tantalized Spacey in the film, which...
'WE DIDN'T KNOW WE'D SHOT HIM' - OFFICERS FOUGHT GUARD AFTER HE WAS WOUNDED
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTHE cops involved in the shooting death of Patrick Dorismond didn't know the unarmed man was wounded until after they knocked him down in a struggle outside a Midtown bar,...
INMATE-TO-STEPDAD TRANSPLANT IS STALLED - HMO ORDERS MORE TESTS FOR KIDNEY MAN
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amA former Broadway conductor who jumped one bureaucratic hurdle last December to get a life-saving kidney transplant has encountered yet another roadblock to recovery -- his HMO. Charles Coleman, 66,...
RUDY NOT 'DUNG' YET THROWING ART FITS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe artist who organized a "Doody-Rudy" elephant-dung toss says the mayor is retaliating with trumped-up felony graffiti charges. Graffiti artist Stephen Powers -- who four months ago invited people to...
GREEN SEEKS PROBE OF RAP-SHEET RELEASE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amCity Hall is being dragged into court over the release of Patrick Dorismond's juvenile record -- after Public Advocate Mark Green invoked an obscure provision of the City Charter. Green's...
TWO INDICTED IN 5-YR.-OLD MURDER OF B'KLYN BOXER
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTwo reputed Russian mobsters were indicted yesterday in the murder of an up-and-coming Brooklyn boxer five years ago. Sources said Alexander Nosov and Natan Gozman kidnapped Sergei Kobozev in Sheepshead...
THE METROCARD $WIPER - SUBWAY BOOTH CLERK STOLE 327G: COPS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amA token-booth clerk with a penchant for motorcycles took the Transit Authority for a $327,000 ride in the largest MetroCard scam on record, officials said yesterday. Vincent Cappuccio, 29, was...
SAFIR TO PROBE COP CHASE THRU BED-STUY SCHOOLYARD
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir ordered an investigation yesterday into whether undercover cops violated procedures by chasing a drug suspect through a Brooklyn schoolyard full of students. "We're taking a look...
OPEC PRODUCTION HIKE COULD FUEL PRICE SLASH: ENERGY BOSS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amOPEC yesterday voted to increase oil production -- prompting U.S. government analysts to predict lower gas prices by midsummer. The Energy Department says prices might drop 11 cents to 18...
SPORTS COLLECTOR CLAIMS 250G THEFT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amA baseball-memorabilia trader told cops yesterday that someone made off with $250,000 in collectibles from his Staten Island home. Scott Goodman -- who last year spent $50,000 on an Oscar...
LIVERY CAB MOWS DOWN 4 IN MIDTOWN
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amAn out-of-control cab plowed onto a busy sidewalk in the Theater District yesterday -- severely mangling the legs of a pedestrian as he was sent flying through a glass window,...
U.S. BORE A BOUNCING LITTLE BABY BOOM IN '98
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amWelcome to the Stork Club. A baby boomlet, fueled in part by a booming economy, helped push the birth rate up 2 percent in 1998, the first increase since 1990,...
NEW STUDY FINDS CHEMO BRAIN DRAIN
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amChemotherapy dulls the minds of cancer patients, leaving them with poor memories and muddy thinking, a new study says. Cancer patients often complain of "chemo-brain," or woolly-headedness, during chemotherapy treatment....
SAYONARA, METS: FAMS GET WAKE-UP CALL AS CUBS TOP AMAZIN'S IN TOKYO
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amMaybe they should call Times Square the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of sleep-deprived Mets fans converged on the crossroads of the world at 5:00 yesterday morning to celebrate...
THEY'RE THE BEST ... BY A MILE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe most demanding distance in American racing is a flat mile, run out of a chute around one turn. It's not a sprint, it's not a route. The flat mile...
YANKS VICTIMS OF STRAW'S 'VICTIMLESS CRIME'
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- The Yankees and Darryl Strawberry get out today. The team from Florida. Strawberry from drug rehab. One more time when the two will not be getting together this...
CTK STAR KEEPS FAITH IN JARVIS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Mike Jarvis told Christ The King's Omar Cook that he would remain as St. John's coach for the next "four or five years," the star point guard knew that...
THIS BUD'S NOT FOR YOU: GREEDY SELIG SELLS OUT FANS WITH JAPAN OPENER
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amBY the time you read this, the first Opening Day of the 21st century will already be over. I'm willing to bet you missed it. And you will probably miss...
WORKOUTS LET VARGAS TALK TOUGH
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amIf you listened to Fernando Vargas talk about his current physical shape, you would think he was endorsing one of those new scientific workout plans. Vargas, the IBF junior middleweight...
YARNALL FARMED; PAGNOZZI LET GO
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Given a golden opportunity to be the Yankees' No. 5 starter when spring training opened, Ed Yarnall slowly let it slip away by getting punished regularly. Yesterday the...
BOMBERS EYE HUNTER AS BENCH INSURANCE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- With their bench troublingly thin, the Yankees are monitoring what happens to Brian Hunter, a speedy outfielder who is expected to clear waivers Thursday afternoon. "We...
HIGGY RUMORS FIZZLING
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Phil Garner noticed a crowd of New York writers surrounding Bobby Higginson yesterday as the Tiger manager strolled through the clubhouse. "What's the deal with Higgy? Why don't...
GOOD TIME TO VISIT SEATTLE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES SACRAMENTO -- The Knicks got a break in their first meeting with the Sonics when Gary Payton got ejected in the first quarter for arguing with a referee....
HEELS GELLED JUST IN TIME
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amIn North Carolina's rich and storied basketball history, the Final Four was treated as a birthright, as natural as death and taxes. But the Tar Heels' 15th Final Four seemed...
FED-UP MSG DUMPS SMITH & MUCKLER: RANGERS BEGINSEARCH FOR GM
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe bloodletting came two weeks earlier than expected, that's all. Now, in the wake of yesterday's almost anti-climactic dismissals of president and general manager Neil Smith and head coach John...
OWNERS TARGET SHINY NEW BRASS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amThe Nets' goal all season on the court has been getting to the playoffs, despite a senses-numbing start and some losses that would have turned Disney World into a place...
FED-UP MSG DUMPS SMITH & MUCKLER: GM CREATED HIS OWN MESS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amHERE'S a story to illustrate the dysfunction within the Ranger organization and why Neil Smith would likely have been dismissed even if the season hadn't so spectacularly blown up in...
GIANTS GIVE GRAGG HIS WALKING PAPERS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amIn many ways, the Giants yesterday reinforced their new philosophy of trimming the fat from their roster when they released right tackle Scott Gragg, an expected move that further changes...
FED-UP MSG DUMPS SMITH & MUCKER: NEIL THE WEASEL ALWAYS DUCKED BLAME
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amHAVING left John Muckler staggering and bleeding from repeated stabbings in the back, Neil Smith ended up finally getting it himself yesterday. That wasn't as much ironic as inevitable. Smith...
NETS SNUFF OUT PACERS
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amNets 111 Pacers 106 Up by 21 points with just over 11 minutes to go. The Pacers had just lost Reggie Miller to technical fouls. Nope, not even the Nets...
DEVILS THROWN IN PITT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amPenguins 3 Devils 2 PITTSBURGH -- The Devils are getting it down pat. As collapsing goes, practice does make perfect. Six games from the playoffs, three games into the coaching...
KEYSHAWN: JETS ARE DISSING ME
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amKeyshawn Johnson lashed out at the Jets yesterday, for the first time publicly announcing his stance and anger with the organization for refusing to renegotiate his contract. Saying he felt...
STRUGGLING EWING DESERVES NO ROSES
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO -- The plots and subplots are thickening. That's why there is never a dull day around the Knicks. From rose petals for Patrick (again) to sympathy for the Rangers'...
WEBBER POUNDS KNICKS: RECORDS TRIPLE-DOUBLE AS KINGS RULE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amKings 103 Knicks 95 SACRAMENTO -- King forward Chris Webber made good on his promises -- not only showing up Knick coach Jeff Van Gundy last night, but his former...
BARKLEY GETS 50G LINE OF CREDIT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amFormer St. John's point guard Erick Barkley is learning that being a pro can be an expensive proposition. Bret Bearup told The Post last night that Barkley recently received a...
SURGING NOTRE DAME PUMMELS PENN STATE
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amNotre Dame 73 Penn State 52 After inexplicably snoozing through most of the '90s under John MacLeod, Notre Dame is finally beginning to stir again. While not ready to revisit...
WAKE ME WHEN IT STARTS : METS OPEN THE SEASON BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO - The debut of the pitcher who is supposed to lead the Mets to the World Series. The first major-league regular-season game ever played outside of North America. The...
DIRT IN THE DOME JUST DOESN'T CUT IT
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES TOKYO - Here's the dirt on the Tokyo Dome: It's not up to major-league standards. So for this morning's game, there is new dirt for the mound and...
METS' BIG QUESTION: WA? AMAZIN'S MUST STAY UNITED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO - For all the speculation on what sort of toll the Eastern swing will take on the Mets and Cubs, they both actually caught a scheduling break early this...
THANK GOD YOMIURI'S NOT IN THE NL
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO - The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! Well, maybe not, but the Yomiuri Giants did sweep the major leaguers the past two days, and they...
VAN MAKES PITCH FOR PAT: SAYS CONSTANT SCRUTINY OF EWING IS UNFAIR
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Jeff Van Gundy is getting tired of the constant scrutiny of Patrick Ewing's role this season, tired of the second-guessing on whether Ewing should be taking the game's...
PENN STATE STAR BEATS MSG JINX
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amJarrett Stephens had a twinge of anxiety as he entered the Garden yesterday afternoon. It was two years ago during the NIT semifinals at the Garden when Stephens, then a...
IT'S EARLY MOURNING FOR METS IN OPENER: HAMPTON WALKS NINE; CUBS TEE OFF ON BULLPEN
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Cubs 5 Mets 3 TOKYO - This is not the type of history 27-year-old Mike Hampton wanted to make here. He didn't ride in a plane for 13-hours to...
IT'S EARLY MOURNING FOR METS IN OPENER: HOUDINI HAMPTON CAN'T ESCAPE CUBBIES
March 29, 2000 | 5:00amABSTRACT: TOKYO - Nearly 7,000 miles from home, Mike Hampton's location was off by several inches this morning (New York time). The bases were as crowded with Cubs runners as...