July 24, 2000
ON THE NEWSSTAND
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amHUNKS, clothes, more hunks and how to fight acne: the formula for teen girl magazines seems pretty simple. But the turmoil in this sector of the industry of late would...
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM BUYING VOICESTREAM
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amRon Sommer finally achieved his dream - but is he paying too much for it? The Deustche Telekom boss is set to get his hands on a U.S. wireless operator...
THE REALITY OF BIG BLUE'S NUMBERS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amSOMETIMES a company's profits aren't all they are cracked up to be. Let's take a look at how IBM managed to get its profits - on a per-share basis -...
BYTES OF REALITY
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe Web guru who pioneered music on the Internet with the hit site Sonicnet has been bitten by the reality-based programming bug. Tim Nye, a Silicon Alley legend who founded...
FOX PLANNING ELECTION NIGHT BLITZ
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Fox News wants to go prime time, and dance on the year's biggest political stage - election night. Having already built a cable-news outfit from scratch in...
BOLSHOI WONDER GIRL A DREAM GISELLE IN DEBUT
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amWOULD she or wouldn't she? Could she or couldn't she? Should she or shouldn't she? A fog of drama swirled round Svetlana Lunkina's local debut in "Giselle" at the New...
FAMILIAR TERRITORY ; MIDLER TO USE REAL EXPERIENCES AS SITCOM MATERIAL
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Can Bette Midler - and her larger-than-life, brash New York persona - fit on the little screen? Yes, says CBS, and that's the network's final answer for...
THE STARR REPORT
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amUniversal acclaim She's leaving the air this Friday, but Kathie Lee Gifford is keeping busy at Universal Records. Universal promo point man Steve Leeds says Gifford has now completed two...
FOX SET FOR EXTENSIVE ELECTION COVERAGE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amPASADENA, Calif. _ Fox news wants to go prime time, and dance on the year's biggest political stage _ election night. Having already built a cable news outfit from scratch...
MADISON AVENUE? BUT OF KORS!
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amMichael Kors didn't even consider SoHo as a place for his two new stores - as far as he was concerned, Madison Avenue the only choice. "This is the most...
HIGH FASHION IS MOVING UPTOWN
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amSO LONG, SoHo -- Fifth and Madison avenues are back. After years of downtown domination, the center of fashion retail is shifting further north than ever -- from 49th to...
DEVIL GETS THE BUSINESS ON MONDAYS - WEEKLY EXORCISMS FREE THE FAITHFUL OF DEMONS - & CASH
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amYesterday, The Post reported on a controversial Pentecostal church whose pastors claim to exorcise demons, and heal everything from backaches to AIDS - for a hefty donation. Active in Europe,...
LAWN-ORDER KINDA GUY IS ON ROAD TO SALVATION IN B'KLYN
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amYOU can't tell from merely looking, but four immaculately tended lots along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway are not just a neighborhood-beautification project - they're one man's strategy for surviving Armageddon. Seriously....
TIGER ROARS INTO HISTORY - YOUNGEST TO WIN FOUR MAJOR TITLES
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amTiger Woods - the king of golf - furthered his growing legacy yesterday, sweeping all four major championships with a record-setting victory in the British Open. Woods is just the...
GOLF'S LEGENDS ARE HIS ONLY COMPETITORS NOW
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS. ERNIE ELS walked off the Old Course at St. Andrews yesterday afternoon with a familiar dumbfounded look painfully etched on his face. Els, ranked No. 2 in the...
BUSH REPS LAUNCH TV 'CAMPAIGN' FOR CHENEY
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Aides to Texas Gov. George W. Bush yesterday hit the talk shows to praise the vice-presidential front-runner, former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. The move came as another contender...
VICTORY #2 IS SWEETER FOR CYCLE HERO LANCE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amVive le Lance! American cyclist Lance Armstrong celebrated his second Tour de France triumph yesterday, saying the second time around was even sweeter than last year's victory. "It seems more...
14 WOUNDED IN CITY SHOOTINGS - B'KLYN MAN SHOT IN EYE BY STRANGER
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amA 20-year-old man was battling for his life in a Brooklyn hospital yesterday after he was shot in the head in a bizarre sidewalk attack - one of eight early...
COURTS WILL LIKELY SEE MORE GENDER-BENDERS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amWith U.S. sex-change operations on the rise, court cases like J'Noel Ball's will likely come up again. The Foundation for Gender Education in Boston estimates sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) is...
BID TO SHUT CLUB ECSTASY DEATH
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe city will look into trying to shut the doors of a popular dance club following the death of a promising pre-med student who apparently overdosed on the illegal drug...
THE HIDDEN REASON GEORGE MIGHT PICK DICK
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amDICK CHENEY had an easier time casting for the vice president's job than the 15,000 wannabes who lusted to sing "Soprano." What is it about this democracy that being second...
BILL BACKS BID TO EASE UP ON FIDEL
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe White House indicated support yesterday for legislation allowing the sale of food and medicine to Cuba - provided that relaxing sanctions would not bolster President Fidel Castro's regime. White...
STATE: NURSING HOME EASY TO FLEE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The Bronx nursing home that let a senile resident wander off this weekend for the seventh time had been warned about its lax security measures, The Post has...
BIKER SHOOTS 2, KILLS SELF
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amA Suffolk County man - who had just shot two people - blew his brains out after crashing his motorcycle while fleeing cops yesterday on the Northern State Parkway, police...
HARRY POTTER AND THE UNWRITTEN BEST SELLER
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amHarry Potter is really working his magic on the best-seller lists - his fifth adventure, not even written, is already receiving advance orders. Officials at Amazon.com say they've taken thousands...
TRUMP $UPPORTED GROUP THAT FOUGHT INDIAN CASINO BID
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amMEGABUILDER Donald Trump secretly funneled thousands of dollars to an upstate "institute" that opposed an Indian casino in the Catskills, The Post has learned. The payments are expected to trigger...
HOSTAGE DRAMA WEARS ON
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amAn ex-con on a bloody crime rampage was still holding three people -including a 11-month-old boy - hostage near Disney World in Florida as a two-day hostage drama continued last...
TWO DEAD BIRDS ADD TO CITY'S 'HOT ZONES'
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe discovery of two more dead birds infected with West Nile virus has forced the city to add a third spray zone, this one straddling the Queens-Brooklyn border, Mayor Giuliani...
JOAN CAN'T 'BARE' DOING 'GRADUATE'
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amJoan Collins has gone from nude to prude. The still-sultry star - who went naked in '70s sexploitation flicks and did a Playboy spread - has vetoed the stage role...
N.J. PROF, KIN ON TRAGIC TOUR CHOPPER
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe bodies of a Seton Hall professor, his wife and two children were recovered yesterday from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into a steep mountain in Hawaii. Economics...
MAN GIVES NOTE TO CLERK AND LEAPS UNDER TRAIN
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens man jumped to his death in front of a subway train yesterday - 20 minutes after he handed a note to the token-booth clerk, police said. Investigators told...
QUIET ENVOY WHO'S BATTLING FOR PEACE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - In a summit of sleepless nights, missed meals, tense confrontation and agonizing over minutiae, no one at Camp David has suffered more in the quest for a...
TRIAL GETTING SNIPPY OVER SEX CHANGE - TYCOON'S SON WANTS WIDOW OUT OF THE WILL
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amLEAVENWORTH, Kansas - Marshall G. Gardiner was, by all accounts, an eccentric. But when the 87-year-old Kansas millionaire died last summer, even his closest friends were stunned to learn his...
MOM BARES HER SOUL ON MEG OF HER HEART - HOPES RIFT IS HEALED BY ACTRESS' SPLIT WITH QUAID
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amTO MOVIEGOERS, Meg Ryan conjures up images of hearts, flowers and a perpetually pretty pout. But to her mother, Susan Jordan, Meg is something less than the cute-as-a-button queen of...
PHILLY & L.A. COPS READY BATTLE PLANS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe battle lines are drawn. On one side are the organizers of the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions, who hope to get their candidates and political platforms across to voters....
WHY GURU HASN'T CAUGHT HELL YET
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amEdir Macedo Bezerra, spiritual leader of the controversial Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, is often pursued, but never caught. He has been accused, sued and investigated repeatedly -...
STATE: NURSING HOME TOO EASY TO FLEE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The Bronx nursing home that let a senile resident wander off this weekend for the seventh time had been warned about its lax security measures, The Post has...
SARGE USED OUR JOHN: LADY COPS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn women cops have filed a complaint after a male sergeant who heads a fraternal group allegedly used a ladies' room in the 75th Precinct station house while they...
D-RAYS IN AWE OF NEAGLE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amThe Devil Rays didn't know exactly why Denny Neagle was so good. They just knew he was. Neagle, in his second start with the Yankees, tossed a complete game four-hitter...
DUVAL'S DAY A DOWNER ; BUNKER COSTS DAVID 315G
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - David Duval so cherished playing in the final pairing of yesterday's British Open final round he'd even fallen out of character on Saturday and shown what could...
ELS STUCK IN SECOND
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK ST. ANDREWS - What's Ernie Els to do? Els, who tied with Thomas Bjorn for second at the 129th British Open at 11-under after his final-round 70, has now...
JUMPING GERALD ROBS PAL JETER
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amDerek Jeter and Gerald Williams have been close for many years, but that friendship is sure to be tested now. "He shouldn't even call me any more after that," Jeter...
COX: IT'S ALL MENTAL
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amAnybody who has seen Bryan Cox throw a tantrum on the field isn't likely to forget it; helmets fly, curses flow, ears burn. And on occasion, opponents back down. But...
OL' LT LOMAS: I CAN STILL CUT IT
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - There are things he cannot do. Not at 37. Not after 15 years serving as the armor for a variety of quarterbacks, down in the trenches where impact...
BAILEY'S GOOD FOR THE 'GANDER'
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amJerry Bailey capped off a tremendous Belmont spring meet yesterday with an impressive two-length victory aboard Gander in the $82,050 Evan Shipman Handicap for New York-breds. Shut Out Time was...
TIGER HAS NO SLAMS LEFT TO CONQUER ; WOODS BECOMES YOUNGEST TO WIN ALL FOUR MAJORS ; BRITISH ROMP GIVES TIGER SLAM
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amST. ANDREWS - Jack Nicklaus. Ben Hogan. Gene Sarazen. Gary Player. Tiger Woods. To properly grasp the magnitude of Woods' career-grand-slam-completing British Open victory yesterday, what it means in the...
JEFF'S SET TO GIVE UP ON WEIS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Pete Mickeal made a huge last impression, LaVor Postell made a big first impression and point guard Louis Bullock made the biggest impression of all, but one that...
BENNETT BATTLES BULGING DISK
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - Much of the Giants' newly-designed offense is centered around Sean Bennett, the second-year running back who is supposed to create heavy-duty matchup problems. Bennett, though, won't...
BOMBER TRAIN STILL WAITING IN STATION
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amDENNY Neagle does trains better than Amtrak. On demand, he can mimic a whistle much louder than any Frank Robinson blows on Carl Everett. Neagle generates a rumble in his...
TIGER HAS NOT SLAM LEFT TO CONQUER: GREATEST EVER, BY A LONG SHOT
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amFUNNY that ABC's Jim McKay from St. Andrews yesterday said that writers have run out of adjectives to describe Tiger Woods. Sorry, Jim, but that adjective-shortage angle has been played...
NET ASSISTANT BACKS BOBBY
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Nets assistant coach Lawrence Frank majored in Bobby Knight in college and never once saw his mentor use anything other than verbal abuse to reprimand his players. "I...
SHEA, HEY: ESCOBAR'S TAKING AIM AT HAVING AMAZIN' CAREER
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES ATLANTA - Top prospect Alex (The Great) Escobar is like a lot of Met fans. He one day wants to see himself at Shea playing for the home...
MATCH RACE A LAME EFFORT
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - The Maurice Greene-Michael Johnson matchup last night resembled too many Super Bowls: a week of non-stop hype followed by blowouts. Johnson blew out at 50 meters of their...
LARKIN NOT DEPARTIN'
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - With Barry Larkin staying in Cincinnati, the Mets plan on moving their focus to Indians outfielder Manny Ramirez. "We have some big deals we're still talking about," GM...
MARION'S DRIVE FOR FIVE IS ALIVE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - Unlike Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene, Marion Jones came to the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials and saw her big plans through to great success. Minutes before...
CLARKS MAKE WOMEN'S 800 A FAMILY AFFAIR
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK SACRAMENTO - To get one of three Olympic berths in the women's 800 meters yesterday, you had to clear the Clark bar. And no one outside the clan could....
METS CAN LEARN ART OF REAL DEAL FROM BRAVES
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - This is how the Braves make a trade: They send their scouts to work, identify the man they need to help them win the pennant, surrender the talent...
DANDY ANDY GOOSES METS: ASHBY OUTDUELS JONES WITH SHUTOUT
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amBraves 1 Mets 0 ATLANTA - So here it is, the same old story, the same formula. This Braves tale is a tired one for the Mets. The Mets played...
LARKIN'S NOT DEPARTIN': BARRY NIXES DEAL, METS SHIFT FOCUS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - With Barry Larkin staying in Cincinnati, the Mets plan on moving their focus to Indians outfielder Manny Ramirez. "We have some big deals we're still talking about," GM...
BRAVES' INSURANCE POLICY PAYS OFF QUICKLY
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amATLANTA - In the same 24-hour period Barry Larkin said no to the Mets and yes to the Reds' astonishing three-year, $27 million contract, the Braves' pennant insurance policy went...
MORE TO TRIALS THAN 3M STARS
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amSACRAMENTO - There was a competition here that did not include the three Ms. Maurice, Michael and Marion assumed center stage with their flying legs and rambling mouths. They were...
BOLTON ENJOYING THE GREENE-MJ BATTLE
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amTRACK NOTES SACRAMENTO - Ato Boldon has loved the battle between Michael Johnson and Maurice Greene. Loved it in a way no one else participating or attending these U.S. Olympic...
IN CONE THEY TRUST: YANKS STILL BELIEVE IN STRUGGLIN' RIGHTY
July 24, 2000 | 4:00amDavid Cone understands what's on the line every time he gets the ball now. Starting today against the Devil Rays, Cone knows he needs to pitch better for many reasons....