July 20, 2000
M'SOFT EARNS BODYSLAM THE MARKETS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amMicrosoft's weak earnings dragged down most stocks yesterday, wiping out the recent gains in Wall Street's high-tech rebound this summer. Analysts said Intel also spooked investors, because it - along...
LOEWS BOOKS METROPOLITAN NAME
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Loews New York hotel name will no longer grace Lexington Avenue, The Post has learned. In a move to further consolidate the upscale status of its growing chain, Loews...
KOZMO KIDS' KISMET - FOUNDERS TAKE BOARD SEATS, DENY THEY WERE OUSTED
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amKozmo's founders did the honorable thing yesterday and fell on their bicycle pumps. Buddies Joseph Park, 28, and Yang Kong, 27, announced it was time for a grown-up to run...
*NSYNC STAR SINGING A NEW TUNE: COUNTRY
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amFrom teen pop star to country music mogul. That's the path Lance Bass, one-fifth of teen-idol-act *NSYNC, hopes to take with the formation of his new country music deal. The...
NEW, BIGGER NYSE PROPOSED
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange is set to unveil today a larger-than-expected 1.8 million square-foot skyscraper as its new home, as the formal land-use review of the site begins, The...
MANDI'S MASSACRE - NEW MADEMOISELLE EDITOR AXES SENIOR STAFFERS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amBritish import Mandi Norwood, the new editor of Mademoiselle brought in to vamp up the languid publication, is burning through staff at a rapid rate. At least five senior editorial-side...
TECH SITES REEL FROM CNET DEAL - $1.6B MERGER WITH ZDNET CREATES INDUSTRY GIANT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amYesterday's $1.6 billion union between techie Web sites Cnet and Ziff-Davis's ZDNet is sending cybershockwaves through the online content industry. Analysts say the new company will put immediate and immense...
DEUTSCHE DIALS IN - VOICESTREAM SHARES RISE ON $53B BID
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn a stunning raising of the ante, Deutsche Telekom AG is making a larger-than-expected bid of $53 billion - or about $205.60 per share - for West Coast mobile-phone company...
COMEBACK BID FOR 'TV SURVIVOR' TARSES
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe TV industry's game of "Where's Waldo?" is heating up with the news Jamie Tarses is gearing up for a comeback. The 36-year-old programming exec, who has been in hiding...
PACKING IT ALL IN
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amYOUR driveway, or the sidewalk in front of your apartment building, looks like the last gasp of a going out of business sale. It's a tangled mess of tennis rackets,...
CASTAWAY SNUBS 'EARLY SHOW'
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amGREG, the "Survivor" contestant booted off last night's episode refused to appear on CBS's "The Early Show" this morning - forcing it to substitute a former castaway. "We have always...
HONG KONG HUNK ON HAND
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amANDY Lau, known as the "Tom Cruise of the East," will be on hand to kick off the 23rd annual Asian American International Film Festival tomorrow - bringing some needed...
'IN CROWD' WIMPS OUT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE IN CROWDThis badly acted, written and directed B-thriller set among rich twentysomethings at a fancy beach club doesn't even deliver on the sleaze front. Starring Lori Heuring and Susan...
LAU FLICK OPENS FEST
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE annual Asian American International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow at 7 p.m. and continues Saturday, Sunday, July 28 and 29 at Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. Scheduled...
THE STARR REPORT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amDoss: Capital idea David Doss, who's overseen NBC's top-rated "Nightly News" for nearly five years, is heading for a new job. "It's in the dot.com and radio/TV domain," says Doss,...
EYES WIDE OPEN: TAMMY FAYE ON HER STYLE, HER EX AND HER FILM
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTAMMY Faye up close: eyelashes the length of a newborn's fingers, tattooed eyebrows and tawny skin that comes only from a bottle. On her way to a TV taping, the...
CA-NINE LIVES; TACO BELL POOCH WILL TALK AGAIN, SAYS COMEDIAN
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE man who speaks for the Taco Bell Chihuahua says it may only be matter of time before the cagey canine returns to TV. "I believe this is a mixed...
IT'S A MAD MACWORLD ; COMPUTER EXPO WOWS BIG CROWD
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amLIKE teenagers camping out for a ticket to see Britney Spears, Mac addicts began lining up at 4 a.m. yesterday to see Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs unveil the latest...
'STRONG MEDICINE' TOUGH TO SWALLOW; DUELING LADY DOCS NEED A GOOD SCRUB
July 20, 2000 | 4:00am"Strong Medicine" Sunday at 9 p.m. on Lifetime 1/2 IF some enterprising TV suit combined "ER" with Vogue, she'd have come up with Lifetime's new weekly hour-long drama, "Strong Medicine."...
FAIRCHILD 'LOBBIES' HER FANS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHEATERGOERS got the shock of their lives when they showed up recently at Morgan Fairchild's new play - the sexy star stood in the lobby, tearfully telling them the show...
BUZZ
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amGoing 'West' "True West" is on its way out. The Sam Shepard play, currently starring Josh Brolin and Elias Koteas as two brothers less unlike than they think, will close...
CLARKE'S BID FOR HOUSE A MAJOR ACT OF BETRAYAL
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amINGRATE is the only word to describe Councilwoman Una Clarke. She is running for Congress against her mentor, Rep. Major Owens, in Brooklyn's 11th Congressional District, despite the precious 18...
HEROES HEALING A HURT HERD
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amOrganizers of the CowParade found a way to milk some more publicity for their ubiquitous bovines - they opened a "hospital" on Park Avenue to treat the molded animals that...
BUSH A HAPPY CAMPER WITH HIS VEEP SECRET
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amRAYTOWN, Mo. TO WATCH Republican George W. Bush happily campaigning these days is to wonder if he's playing "I've Got a Secret" with everyone. A veep secret, that is. Bush...
AL OUT TO DRUB DUBYA IN HIS OWN BACK YARD
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amRAYTON, Mo. - Democrat Al Gore is making a hastily added stop today on George W. Bush's home turf in Texas to paint his rival as a guy who cooks...
TEACHER NABBED IN PURSE-SNATCH
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA public-school teacher was busted in Manhattan early yesterday for snatching a woman's pocketbook while on his bicycle, police said. Ryan Ward, a fine-arts instructor at Manhattan's HS for Math...
5-MINUTE CANCER TEST - EASIER COLON EXAM COULD SAVE LIVES
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amAS EVIDENCE mounts that doctors can miss up to half of all colon cancers without full colonoscopies, support is growing for a new "virtual" version of the dreaded test. Manny...
DEVOUT SLAB-PLUNGE SURVIVOR: I'VE BEEN BLESSED
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA beloved Bible teacher who suffered multiple skull fractures when he was struck by a 6-foot chunk of falling stucco near Madison Square Garden said yesterday that he feels "blessed"...
VIRUS SCARE HAS BIG APPLE IN DE-NILE - NO PANIC, BUT NYERS ARE TAKING PRECAUTIONS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amIT MAY be the calm before the storm. Even as the first barrage of pesticide spraying against the deadly West Nile virus began, city residents remain unruffled. "We expected a...
EX-PAROLE HONCHO TARS TEAM PATAKI - CITES PRESSURE TO RELEASE DONOR'S SON
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA former parole-board bigwig yesterday claimed his boss was under "tremendous pressure" from Gov. Pataki's office to maneuver the early release of a jailed robber whose parents made hefty campaign...
HILL THANKS RUDY FOR SUPPORT IN SLUR FUROR
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she was "very appreciative" of Mayor Giuliani for supporting her against charges she used an anti-Semitic slur - and that she has nothing more to...
QUEEN MUM HAS B'DAY BLAST
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA series of bomb scares threatened to mar the Queen Mother's 100th birthday party yesterday - but the grand dame of British royalty refused to call off the bash. Ignoring...
THE SKINNY ON THE SKEETERS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amHere are 10 things you should know about the West Nile virus. * Has anyone gotten sick from the disease this year? As of last night, there were no known...
PROSECUTORS LAYING OUT DRAKE BRICK-BASH CASE
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amProsecutors offered the first glimpse yesterday of the evidence they say will prove Paris Drake is the man behind the Midtown brick attack that nearly killed a woman last year....
JOY REPLACES ANXIETY FOR PROUD PARENTS BACK HOME
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE last Adelso Morales heard from his son was on Sunday. "He told me he was coming over on Tuesday," Adelso said yesterday from his home in San Nicolas de...
'SOCIOPATH LOSER' GETS A LASHING FROM JUDGE
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Staten Island judge laced into an ex-con charged in the death of a cop yesterday - branding him a "three-time loser" and a "sociopath" who would be lynched in...
STATE LETTING NURSING HOME COMPLAINTS PILE UP
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A bombshell internal state Health Department report admits that a drop in nursing-home inspectors in recent years has led to substantial backlogs in complaint investigations. "There is widespread...
AL'S 'REINVENTED GOV'T' HURTS MINORITY BIZ: DEM
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A Brooklyn Democratic congresswoman charged yesterday that Vice President Al Gore's "reinventing government" plan costs minority- and female-owned small businesses millions in lost contracts. Rep. Nydia Velazquez said...
BARBRA SET TO BOW OUT (YET AGAIN)
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amHere she goes again - Barbra Streisand says she'll quit performing live for good later this year after doing four farewell shows. Two will be in New York and two...
COP WIDOW RIPS SUSPECT - BIKER 'DOESN'T DESERVE TO LIVE'
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amOfficer John Kelly's widow says the career criminal charged with leading her husband on a deadly chase "doesn't deserve to live." "He was sick to do what he did," Officer...
RUDY FORCED TO POSTPONE INCOME-TAX CUT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amDon't spend that tax cut just yet. Mayor Giuliani disclosed yesterday that the city is taking back $312 million from a $418 million cut that had been promised this year....
$TAR POWER IS HELPING FUEL HILLARY'S RUN
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's soft-money machine collected a whopping $2.9 million in the last three months - fueled by megabucks from Hollywood's biggest stars, records released yesterday show. Tinseltown donors to...
HERO, 12, CAN'T SAVE BROTHER FROM ROOF FALL
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA 10-year-old boy plunged off the roof of a six-story Washington Heights building last night, despite his brother's heroic efforts to save him - and his own desperate high-wire act....
KING'S KICKING PUBLISHERS OUT OF HIS WEB
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amFamed horror scribe Stephen King has a terrifying new offering - and it may scare some publishers to death. King, who has already released one book online, now wants to...
SO FAR, SO GOOD: NO CASES ARE CONFIRMED
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA nerve-wracking waiting game is under way to see if the West Nile virus infecting mosquitoes and birds will spread to people, even as spraying begins in the city and...
CUBAN LANDS IN FAIR TERRITORY - ALL-STAR DEFECTS ON SECOND TRY
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amSafe! Cuban baseball star Andy Morales, who struck out when he tried to defect last month, hit a home run on his second try. He's on American soil. And this...
THUGS IN SEX ATTACK ON 3
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThree masked intruders forced their way into a Brooklyn home yesterday and sexually attacked a 45-year-old woman, her 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old niece, police said. Police said the men knocked...
ARAFAT BLOWS BID FOR STATE - FORTUNATELY
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amIT IS often said that the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. True to form, Yasser Arafat and his cabal of hotheads have all but blown their...
SCHOOLS NEGLECT FOSTER-CARE KIDS: ACTIVISTS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amCity and Board of Education officials are neglecting thousands of foster-care kids by failing to make sure they attend school - and are properly educated when they do, a report...
TRUCKER'S ARM SEVERED
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA two-foot slab of concrete hurled from an overpass of a Bronx highway smashed through the window of a truck and severed the arm of the driver last night, police...
RUSSIAN PREZ: GIVE ROCKETS TO N. KOREA
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-il promised to scrap his country's missile program if other countries will supply him with rockets to explore space, Russian President Vladimir Putin reported yesterday. Putin...
ADWATCH
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTITLE: "Economy" RUNNING TIME: 30 seconds PRODUCED BY: "Team Hillary," which includes admaker Mandy Grunwald, pollster Mark Penn and ad firm DeVito/Verdi. TEXT ANALYSIS RESPONSE
HAVANA'S HEROES BEATING A (BASE) PATH TO AMERICA
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amAndy Morales is the latest in a long lineup of star Cuban baseball players who have managed to go north to play on their field of dreams. The most famous...
FAIRCHILD 'LOBBIES' FOR FORGIVENESS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTheatergoers got the shock of their lives when they showed up at Morgan Fairchild's new play this week - the sexy star stood in the lobby, tearfully telling them the...
CAMP DAVID PEACE TALKS ARE ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amA frustrated President Clinton desperately worked to save the Camp David peace summit last night after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told him it would be virtually impossible to make...
REPORT: NURSING-HOME INSPECTIONS SLASHED
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A bombshell internal state Health Department report admits that a drop in nursing-home inspectors in recent years has led to substantial backlogs in complaint investigations. "There is widespread...
MONTY: NOT-SO-GREAT SCOT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - One of the great ironies of this week's preparation for the 2000 British Open, which tees off today on the Old Course at St. Andrews, was Colin...
TIGER HOPING FOR SLAM-BANG FINISH
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - History awaits at this 129th British Open Championship, and what better place for something historic to happen than at the birthplace of golf - St. Andrews and...
JINTS, DAYNE INCHING TOWARD DEAL
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amAt some point in the not-too-distant future, Ron Dayne and the Giants will come to a contract agreement on a deal that will likely be for five years, total about...
FASSEL ON HOT SEAT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe chair behind his desk is certainly plush, and Jim Fassel can crack a smile when asked about its temperature. Yes, those three dirty little words that often add up...
MAKING THE CASE FOR COOPERSTOWN
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amNEW YORK POST SPORTS WEEK With the National Baseball Hall of Fame's relaxed standards, the election of several former Mets and Yankees is imminent, New York Post Sports Week reports...
OTB CHIEF ON MONTI TV: REVENGE NOT IN PICTURE
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amNew York City OTB president Bill Carnevale insisted yesterday that OTB's cutoff of the live racing signal from Monticello Raceway as of July 15 was business, not personal, and had...
DEVILS QUIT ON RE-SIGNING CLAUDE
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThis triumphant second coming is over. The Devils have given up hope of re-signing their Stanley Cup charm, Claude Lemieux. "What Claude is looking for I don't think will be...
DALY SEES SHOOTOUT WITH TIGER
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amBRITISH OPEN NOTES ST. ANDREWS - John Daly said being at St. Andrews is "like coming home." That being the case, hopefully he'll behave more accordingly than in the last...
SPA SET TO HOST OPEN HOUSE
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amSaratoga Race Course's 20th Annual Open House will be held Sunday. The Open House marks the unofficial start of the Saratoga racing season, and provides fans a chance to get...
CHREBET IN POSITION TO SHOW UP KEYSHAWN
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThey no longer share a locker room, but animosity is another story. Taking yet another recent round of ridicule from Keyshawn Johnson, Wayne Chrebet responded in kind by belittling the...
IF DEAL'S RIGHT, ALLAN MUST GO
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Allan Houston was an untouchable last summer. The Knicks had a glaring need for a point guard last August and could have snared Seattle's Gary Payton for Houston....
BAD BACK SIDELINES COX
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Injuries continue to rock the Jets. Bryan Cox sat out the Jets' practice yesterday at Hofstra with back spasms. Coach Al Groh said that he had planned to...
A SWEET SECRET ; SUGAR SHANE IS THE REAL GOODS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHEY WERE spraying water on his arms to simulate sweat, which was a joke in itself because Sugar Shane Mosley has never given anything less than a genuinely hard effort...
TAPSCOTT: NO REGRETS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Ed Tapscott, the Knicks' former interim GM responsible for drafting the French phantom Frederic Weis last summer, defended his decision yesterday. Ironically, Tapscott spoke to The Post as...
SCOTT TAKING WANNABE NETS BACK TO SCHOOL
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Summer League team guard and Net hopeful Frankie King stepped one foot over halfcourt. Immediately, two defenders converged on a trap. Immediately, Byron Scott blew his whistle. "Why?...
FIRST COUPLE OF TRACK & FIELD HOLD COURT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - The first couple of track and field - dubbed beauty and the beast by their many detractors - held what they termed their first joint news conference yesterday...
GRANT'S NOT USING KNICKS, AGENT CLAIMS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Mark Bartlestein, Brian Grant's agent, was infuriated yesterday with a headline in The Post stating his client is using the Knicks as a bargaining chip. The Post reported...
POSTELL BANGED UP
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Knicks rookie Lavor Postell played the entire second half in his summer-league debut Monday. Yesterday, he didn't get past the opening three minutes of the third quarter in...
JONES SENT PACKIN' EARLY FOR CALLING BOBBY V 'A JOKE'
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Because he called manager Bobby Valentine "a joke" among other things in yesterday's Post, the Mets decided to punish Jersey Bobby Jones before last night's 5-3 victory over...
RONDELL MOVE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When the Expos called up outfielder Milton Bradley yesterday, it was the final sign that they will move Rondell White before the Aug. 1 trading deadline. White, currently...
JETER'S 3-RUN TRIPLE BIGGEST HIT OF 'EM ALL
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees pounded out 10 hits in the first four innings last night against the awful Tiger pitching, but Joe Torre had no trouble picking out which was most important....
YANKS AWAIT RESULTS OF EL DUQUE'S MRI
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amOrlando "El Duque" Hernandez' right elbow underwent an MRI late yesterday afternoon in Tampa to determine why the hinge wasn't feeling right and why the Yankee pitcher's velocity dropped to...
ZEILE: I'D MOVE TO THIRD IF VENTURA CAN'T HACK IT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amMets 5 Expos 3MET NOTES MONTREAL - First baseman Todd Zeile has volunteered to switch to third base - his longtime spot - if it will help the Mets deal...
ROGER, OVER & OUT: OLD-FASHIONED HEAT BLOWS 'EM AWAY
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE was no need for any high and tight pitches. No need to intimidate hitters by whizzing fastballs near their noggins. Roger Clemens was plenty imposing enough last night at...
RETRO ROCKET: CLEMENS AT YANK BEST IN WINNING 4TH IN ROW
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 9 Tigers 1 After spending most of the season tinkering with a motor that was flooded with diseased gas, the Yankees are working with a tank of high-octane Rocket...
HIGGINSON WOULD LOOK GOOD IN LEFT
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn a perfect world, Bobby Higginson would like to stay a Tiger, but that doesn't mean he's crazy. "I wouldn't be upset if I got traded to the Yankees," Higginson...
DUQUE OF HAZARD? YANKEES AWAIT RESULTS OF MRI ON ACE'S ELBOW
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amOrlando "El Duque" Hernandez' right elbow underwent an MRI late yesterday afternoon in Tampa to determine why the hinge wasn't feeling right and why the Yankee pitcher's velocity dropped to...
JERSEY JONES SENT PACKIN': GETS QUICKER TICKET TO MINORS FOR CALLING VALENTINE 'A JOKE'
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Because he called manager Bobby Valentine "a joke" among other things in yesterday's Post, the Mets decided to punish Jersey Bobby Jones before last night's game. The lefty...
JUSTICE, NEAGLE ARE REAL DEALS
July 20, 2000 | 4:00amSOMETIMES it's not the big names that make a mid-season trade work, but the right names. Sammy Sosa is not a Yankee. Neither is Juan Gonzalez. Neither is Curt Schilling....