August 3, 2000
18 SHOE VENDORS TRY ON B2B E7TH.COM FOR SIZE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amVia Spiga, Nickels and Aerosoles are among the shoe brands retailers will be able to order from e7th.com, The Post has learned. The new business-to-business fashion Web site, set to...
PALM'S LATEST MODEL - CLAUDIA SCHIFFER EDITION WILL USE SOFTWARE SHE'S PICKED
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amSupermodel Claudia Schiffer continues to stray from the catwalk - to the world of computers. The teutonic technophile has debuted her namesake Palm Pilot the Palm Vx Claudia Schiffer Edition....
UNIVERSAL MUSIC BUYS RONDOR, TOP INDY MUSIC PUBLISHER
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amUniversal Music plans to buy the world's leading independent music publisher, Rondor Music, in a deal that's valued at about $400 million. The deal ends months of legal battles waged...
REVLON TAKES ANOTHER PASTING IN QTR.
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe red ink keeps flowing at Ron Perelman's Revlon. The cosmetics company reported its fourth straight quarterly loss yesterday, along with a 37 percent drop in sales, as U.S. stores...
BILL GOES BALLISTIC - M'SOFT BOSS SAYS GOV'T CASE IS A CONSPIRACY
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amIs Bill Gates losing it? For the first time, the usually low-key Gates has lashed out publicly at 'conspiracies,' calling the government "worse than dumb" and showing some agitated mood...
DEN PROBED ON PRE-CH. 7 SELL-OFF
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amDisgraced and defunct dot-com DEN is being investigated for a pre-bankruptcy fire sale. The Internet video company that blew through $60 million of venture capital is being probed on allegations...
MILSTEINS' FEUD GETS A NEW SUIT
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe Milsteins are going at each other again - and now it's getting ugly. Seymour Milstein has filed a lawsuit accusing his nephew, Howard Milstein, of denying him access to...
BAD BLOOD GOES WAY BACK IN VALLEY VOLLEYS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amBill Gates is likely to trigger a new war among the titans of Silicon Valley. Gates' dislike of his three giant rivals is widely known, but his startling public accusation...
BILL GOES BALLISTIC: M'SOFT BOSS SAYS GOV'T CASE IS A CONSPIRACY
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amIs Bill Gates losing it? For the first time, the usually low-key Gates has lashed out publicity at 'conspiracies,' calling the government "worse than dumb" and showing some agitated mood...
DRIVE A HARD BARGAIN
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS is a great time to be new car shopping, since dealers must reduce inventory to make room for the 2001 one models arriving soon. This also means it is...
SESAME STREET MEETS THE BIBLE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amA new production of "Godspell" is a good-spirited visit to 1971, when the original show opened. In the version at Saint Peter's Church, Steven Schwartz's lyrics and dialogue are updated...
THE STARR REPORT
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amHappy b'day, Jordan Due to last-minute time and editing constraints, the "houseguest" being added to "Big Brother" won't make his/her appearance until next Wednesday (9 p.m. on Ch. 2). "Viewers...
WHAT A CRAZY 'EIGHT' CAST! 'TRUE' TALES FROM '70S HIT RICH ON EXCESS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00am"E! True Hollywood Story: Eight Is Enough" Sunday on E! at 9 p.m. I have a startling announcement to make: Ron Howard is an alien from outer space. I know...
KEEPING ABREAST; LADY BARES HER CHARMS ON 'TODAY'
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE "Today" show went bust yesterday when a woman opened her shirt and bared her chest live on camera - stunning co-hosts Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and newsreader Anne Curry....
GOP RATINGS UP OVER '96
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amRATINGS are in for the first two nights of the GOP National Convention in Philadelphia - and the proliferation of new all-news channels continues to hurt CNN. For Monday's opening-night...
ONE FOR THE AGES? SIGNS POINT TO RUDY, 72, AS THE FINAL 'SURVIVOR'
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amNOW that Gervase was booted off "Survivor" last night, the hottest parlor game in America continues. But all the signs point to Rudy, who suddenly becomes the front-runner in the...
JUDGE: JURY CAN HEAR OF 'SLAY' DOC'S VIOLENCE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amJurors can hear about a prominent plastic surgeon's violent past when he goes on trial for his wife's murder later this year, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday - including that...
FLIERS HAD HONOLULU OF A PROBLEM
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amA group of airline passengers, whose flight to Hawaii was returned to San Francisco because of engine trouble, boarded another plane - only to have that flight turned back as...
SINN FEIN GOT ALL THE FAX ON PROTESTANT PARADERS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amNorthern Ireland commission yesterday admitted it mistakenly faxed personal details about dozens of Protestant marchers to the IRA's political wing. The information, including names and addresses, was compiled by police...
PRESTON: OUR DAUGHTER'S A MINI-TRAVOLTA
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amMeet the newest Travolta. "She's a Mini-Me of Johnny," proud mom Kelly Preston says of baby daughter Ella Bleu, who has the same shock of black hair and "big delicious...
ELEVATOR ROB SUSPECT IS GOING DOWN
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amThis guy obviously never saw "Take the Money and Run." An armed bandit trying to rip off a courier wound up in a fierce struggle - and while they were...
APP-LE OF YOUR EYE FOR POLITICAL GAMES
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPost Surfer gURL Mary Huhn is presenting a daily guide to Internet political hot spots during the convention. Here's her pick for today. www.apps.com The killer app for political Web...
NEITHER CANDIDATE CAN PIN 'THE BODY'
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Despite Republican convention buzz, it looks as if Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura won't be going to the mat for George W. Bush. Or for Al Gore....
BICYCLE TOUR WILL HELP GET A GREAT DAY ROLLING
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amIt might not be the Tour de France, but cycling enthusiasts who put the rubber to the road Sunday in Harlem probably won't mind. They'll be participants in the second...
PREZ LOSING GRIP ON ANTI-SADDAM GROUP
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe Clinton administration spent the 10th anniversary of the Persian Gulf conflict struggling to hold together the international alliance that was formed to contain Saddam Hussein. A decade after Iraqi...
JEWS: CHASE WON'T OPEN NAZI-ERA BOOKS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amChase Manhattan Bank - accused of helping the Nazis by freezing Holocaust-era accounts - is refusing to open its archives to scrutiny, World Jewish Congress officials charged yesterday. Chase officials...
CARLY ANTES UP BAIL FOR COKE-RAP RAPPER
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amCarly Simon posted $250,000 to help bail out one of her backup singers after he was busted on coke charges. John Forte, a rapper who helped produce the Fugees' smash...
TOUGHEST TEST FOR W. WILL BE THE ORAL EXAM; PANETTA A RUMORED DEM RUNNING MATE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA. UNITY fests are fun, but tonight comes George W. Bush's big test - The Speech. "He's got to continue the transformation of the playboy-fratboy image to show he's serious...
MCCAIN TO HIT STUMP FOR LAZIO ON LONG IS.
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amSen. John McCain won't be riding his "Straight Talk Express," but the maverick Republican plans to campaign tomorrow on Long Island for Senate candidate Rick Lazio, sources told The Post....
BRONX BOMB FOR STADIUM SKEETERS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe spraying war on the West Nile virus opens on a new front in upper Manhattan and near Yankee Stadium in The Bronx tomorrow, as Central Park is shut a...
SILVER: DEREGULATION A POWER FAILURE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amA top state lawmaker yesterday branded energy deregulation a "failure" in New York because small customers are getting walloped with even higher electricity costs. "Clearly, it's been a failure -...
HASIDIC GRAND RABBI DEAD AT 92
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amA sea of black-clad Hasidim packed Brooklyn streets yesterday to bid farewell to the 92-year-old leader of one of the world's largest Hasidic sects. About 30,000 Orthodox Jews took part...
GOP BOAST ON 'TAX SLASHER' GREENSPAN ANGERS DEMS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush's top economic adviser is boasting that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is on the Bush tax-slashing bandwagon - and that has the Gore camp seeing...
WEEPING DANA PLEADS GUILTY TO SCAMMING STARS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amFinancial fraudster to the stars Dana Giacchetto sobbed and sniffled as he pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing millions of dollars from his young Hollywood clients. "What I built became so...
JOHN TIMONEY'S A PRINCE OF ANY CITY HE GRACES
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA. JOHN TIMONEY was still flushed yesterday with the excitement of having met former President George Bush, the grand old man. "When you meet a president of this country, it...
CHURCH TO LEVY: IT'S A SIN TO POACH OUR TEACHERS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amA holy war has erupted between the Catholic Church and the Board of Education over teachers. The Archdiocese of New York accused Schools Chancellor Harold Levy yesterday of trying to...
HE'S GOT APPEAL: DOWNEY JR. OUT OF JAIL
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amHollywood star-gone-bad Robert Downey Jr. was a free man last night after a California appeals court ruled he had served enough time to fulfill his three-year sentence on drug charges....
CRICKETS & SPIDERS & SNAKES, OH, MY!
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Cops intercepted a busload of odious creatures - including hundreds of caged spiders, poisonous snakes and mice - they suspect protesters were going to release during the Republican...
COP ARRESTED ON TEEN-CYBERSEX RAP
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amAn NYPD cop was busted yesterday for trying to lure a 14-year-old girl he met online into having sex with him - even sending her pictures of himself in uniform...
WELCOME TO THE GOP'S STEPFORD CONVENTION
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA. IT'S A good thing they're not having the GOP convention on that "Survivor" atoll. Nobody would ever get voted off the island - for fear that somebody somewhere would...
BASEBALL EYES REGGIE'S INTERNET GAMBLING SITE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Major League Baseball is investigating whether Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson's involvement with a new online casino violates any league rules. The former Yankee - who is...
BASHED WIFE MUST PAY 400G FOR HUBBY'S ATTORNEYS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amA man charged with trying to beat his financial-wizard wife to death with a dumbbell can use $400,000 of their marital funds to pay for his defense lawyers, a Manhattan...
ARREST RENEWS ANGUISH FOR AMY'S KIN
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amTears sprang to Lawrence Watkins' eyes yesterday when he learned that police had arrested a suspect in the senseless stabbing death of his daughter, Amy. "It brought it all back...
DOCS EXPECT STRICKEN FORD TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amFormer President Gerald Ford's one or two small strokes at the GOP convention - initially diagnosed as a sinus infection - will keep him in the hospital for about five...
'BALLISTIC' BARBARA COMES OUT SWINGING AGAINST GORE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amBarbara Bush dived into her family's feud with the Clintons yesterday, charging that "because of some of the things he's done," Al Gore isn't the man to fix the damage...
HONESTY AT LAST! - CHENEY DELIVERS THE MISSING PASSION
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA WHEN the final draft of Dick Cheney's speech circulated through the Bush camp yesterday, I'm told there was last-minute wobbling on the part of some advisers: It was nowhere...
CHENEY: IT'S TIME FOR CLINTON & GORE TO GO
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney last night painted the Clinton-Gore era as a time of "squandered" prosperity and told the Republican convention: "It is time for them to...
COPS CRACK '99 STUDENT SLAY
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amTwo Brooklyn men were charged last night in the year-old murder of Amy Watkins - one of them confessing it was a spur-of-the-moment mugging gone wrong, police said. David Jamison,...
BUSH: AMERICA IS READY FOR CHANGE - SAYS NATION IS TIRED OF BILL AS HE WIDENS LEAD TO 13 PTS.
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - A triumphant George W. Bush tonight accepts the Republican presidential nod, vowing that "America is ready for change" - and he's the man to bring it. Bush arrived...
CHENEY: IT'S TIME FOR CLINTON-GORE TO GO
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Veep wannabe Dick Cheney last night painted the Clinton-Gore era as a time of "opportunities squandered," and told the Republican convention: "It is time for them to go!"...
NO PINNING DOWN 'THE BODY'
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Despite GOP convention buzz, it looks like Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura won't be going to the mat for George W. Bush. Or for Al Gore. An...
YOUNG BLAKE-N-STEIN:EL DUQUE, CONE EYE WEEKEND
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Orlando Hernandez, who has been out with a sprained elbow and back spasms, is set to return to the Yankees. He pitched four shutout innings in a Class-A...
MET PLAYOFF RUN IS TAKING FLIGHT
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amMICHAEL Tucker swung through the heat of Armando Benitez and the humidity of New York for strike 3, out 27 of the Mets' 2-1 win over the Reds and a...
ROBIN PUTS ONE OVER ON REDS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amRobin Ventura feels guilty. Sure, he's frustrated for himself that he's hitting just .239. Lately, he has been affected by a bruised right rotator cuff. He returned from the DL...
YANKS SET FOR ARM-AGEDDON: DESPITE NEAGLE SETBACK, BOMBER PITCHING STILL TOPS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHUS, we are reminded that Denny Neagle has bettered 15 wins exactly twice in his 9-year career. Lefty Grove in his first two Yankee starts, Neagle also does Terry Mulholland....
RIVALDO $CORES BIG WITH BARCA
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - The drinks are on Rivaldo the next time he meets his old buddy Luis Figo. For it was Figo's departure to Real Madrid for a world record fee...
ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR BEHRENS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amWilliam Clifton Jr. and Rudlein Stable's Behrens came out of Tuesday's five furlong breeze of 1:01 3/5 in good order, according to trainer H. James Bond. The prep for Sunday's...
TURK'S REVENGE INSTANT
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Turk Wendell wanted to talk more about Tuesday night's failure than yesterday's success in the Mets' 2-1 win over the Reds. But the right-handed reliever was certainly happy...
POLONIA PART 3 COMIN' TO BRONX
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amLuis Polonia had been looking for a job. The Yankees had been looking for another left fielder. Both got what they wanted, as the Bombers signed the 35-year-old outfielder and...
'BELLE,' 'DEBBY' ROLL
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Speed and slop were a dynamic combination for a pair of fleet fillies here yesterday as Debby d'Or and Bourbon Belle led from the gate to win...
YOUNG BLAKE-N-STEIN: MONSTER EFFORT BAFFLES BOMBERS IN BX. MATINEE
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amRoyals 4 Yankees 1 Logic would have said the Yankees had everything going for them yesterday against Kansas City - sending red-hot Denny Neagle to the mound, playing a team...
PHIFER FEELS NOT SO SUPER WITHDRAWAL
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amImagine leaving Microsoft right before its IPO to join a failing dot-com. Now you know how Roman Phifer must have felt last year. After missing the playoffs for eight seasons...
FORTSON CALLING ON KNICKS TODAY
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amStill hoping to salvage the summer, the Knicks invited rebounding specialist Danny Fortson yesterday to New York. Fortson, the free-agent Celtic power forward, will arrive today and meet with the...
JOMO STARTING TO IMPRESS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - When he arrived at his first NFL training camp, defensive end Jomo Cousins was told to get into his three-point stance, which is akin to instructing a computer...
FOUR PASS ON ISLES' OFFERS
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amWith the deadline having passed earlier this week, none of the Islanders' four restricted free agents has accepted the team's qualifying offers for new contracts. The players include defensemen Roman...
GROH DISAPPOINTED JINTS NIX JOINT WORK
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES Jets coach Al Groh said he was disappointed yesterday that the Giants had canceled the joint-practice with the Jets that was scheduled for next Tuesday at West Point....
ALLAN SUPPORTS RETURN TO S.C.
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amAllan Houston, the most outspoken player regarding the Knicks' boycott of South Carolina over the Confederate Flag controversy, told The Post he supports the franchise's impending decision to return to...
FASSEL WANTS MORE FROM ALFORD
August 3, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - All concerned admit that Brian Alford is having his best training camp. That's fine, but Jim Fassel is hard to please when it comes to a...