August 19, 2000
ANALYSTS HEAR STATIC IN PHONE MERGER
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amAnalysts yesterday slammed the idea of a merger between the struggling AT&T and European giant British Telecommunications. "Two wrongs don't make a right," said Drake Johnstone, an analyst at Davenport...
A CRAFTY CRUISER - ICAHN LOOKING TO SHAKE UP SLEEPY GM
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amStill high from his $930 million Nabisco killing, Carl Icahn is now setting a fire under his biggest target ever: General Motors. Icahn intends to buy a relatively small chunk...
A NEW DATING GAME HAS INTERESTING ODDS...; 100 SINGLE WOMEN AND 2 LUCKY GUYS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S no small feat carving into the already-too-crowded world of reality television. With upcoming shows featuring women chained to men, people trying to lose weight and others exacting revenge -...
THE PLOT THICKENS: HAS 'HARRY' BEEN CAST?
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amHOLLYWOOD is abuzz with news that Warner has found its big-screen Harry Potter, and the name on everyone's lips is Gabriel Thomson. The relatively unknown 13-year-old London schoolboy is rumored...
HE'S FOREVER YOUNG - NEIL ENJOYS 'OLD TIMES' AT JONES BEACH SHOW
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amLIKE boxes that contain smaller and smaller boxes, alongside the Atlantic at Jones Beach there was a waning harvest moon, above a mackerel sky, above stage lights, above a weathered,...
RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN - CLEANING OUT THE COBWEBS IN TIME FOR SCHOOL
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amOK, kids, listen up: While you've been skipping waves, zipping around on your scooters and exercising your Nintendo thumbs, September has been sneaking up faster than you think. So why...
RIDE 'EM, COWBOY!
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amIt's not every day the rodeo comes to town - this town, especially. But this weekend some real, rootin' tootin' cowboys will be galloping through The Bronx - Crotona Park's...
GOD BLESS 'GODZILLA'
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amPICK OF THE WEEK "GODZILLA" (PG): The prehistoric monster, played by a stunt man in a rubber suit, endures attacks by the Japanese military before saving Tokyo from a shape-shifting...
DANCING ON AUSCHWITZ GRAVES SPURS RAGE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA leading Jewish group yesterday denounced plans to open a discotheque near the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz. "Young Poles are being encouraged to dance in the immediate vicinity...
INTEREST APLENTY IN RUDY'S $4M
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amTHREE months after dropping out of the U.S. Senate race, Mayor Giuliani is still sitting on a $4 million campaign war chest - and it isn't clear how he plans...
A MIXED REPORT CARD FOR EDISON
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amEdison Schools has a mixed track record as educators in other parts of the country, independent audits show. Edison managed 79 schools in 36 cities spanning 16 states this year,...
HERO'S WELCOME SET FOR BABY BOMBERS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Baby Bombers who fell a game short of the Little League World Series arrived home yesterday to learn they're on deck for two grand-slam celebrations. The spunky 11- and...
W. HAS ONLY FAINT PRAISE FOR HIS RIVAL
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush, on an in-your-face trip to Veep Al Gore's home state, yesterday praised Gore for "standing on his own two feet" even as he tried to blame him...
DEM TICKET TO RIDE: AL & JOE ROLLIN' ON THE RIVER
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amPRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. - Vice President Al Gore chugged down the Mississippi on a paddle-wheel boat yesterday, rousing supporters in four cities along the way and basking in a...
GOOD NEWS FOR MCCAIN ON HIS CANCER
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain's doctors yesterday told him his deadly form of skin cancer hasn't spread - and most likely would be cured by surgery set for today. "I'm...
BILL AND HILL NEARLY CRASH WEDDING - HOTEL TRIED TO BUMP THE BRIDE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSENECA FALLS, N.Y. - Bill and Hillary Clinton's upcoming vacation in the Finger Lakes almost ruined Heather Lee's wedding. After reserving the ballroom in the Holiday Inn in Auburn a...
HOLD THE PHONE: VERIZON DEAL IS CLOSE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amNegotiators trying to end a strike by 87,000 Verizon telephone company workers said yesterday they were getting closer to ending the nearly two-week-old walkout. "We believe an awful lot of...
FIRM IN $130M BID TO RUN ; FAILING CITY SCHOOLS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amEdison Schools - the nation's largest private education management firm - unveiled an ambitious $130 million plan yesterday to run nearly half of the city's worst-performing schools. Edison was one...
CLINTONS, GORE GO LONG WAY ON TAX $$
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Taxpayers have had to fork over $292 million for 159 overseas trips taken by President Clinton, wife Hillary and Vice President Al Gore between 1997 and last March,...
RUDY WILL ANOINT NEW TOP COP TODAY
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's 40th police commissioner will be unveiled this morning, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. "All of a sudden, it occurred to me that this is the right person and that...
WEST NILE DETECTED IN 2 MORE QUEENS AREAS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amFive more dead birds have tested positive for the West Nile Virus - including in two new areas of Queens - prompting the city to add an additional night to...
DEM JUDGE: SEXGATE LEAK WAS MY FAULT
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A Democratic federal judge admitted yesterday he accidentally leaked that Independent Counsel Robert Ray has impaneled a new Sexgate grand jury - a leak widely blamed on Ray...
SPECIAL ED TEACHER DEALT CARLOAD OF DRUGS: POLICE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA 51-year-old veteran city school teacher who lives in a luxury building in tony Gramercy Park was busted with a carload of drugs, police said yesterday. Veda Kaleya - who...
RISING PR STAR DIES IN FALL ON THIRD RAIL - HORRIFIED FIANCEE WITNESS TO TRAGEDY
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA celebrity publicist riding between subway cars on his way to pick up his marriage license plunged to his death yesterday in front of his horrified fiancee. Peter Seligman, 30,...
PUTIN: CREW WAS SUNK FROM DAY ONE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amRussian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday the 118 sailors trapped aboard a sunken sub were doomed from the start - even as a rescue vessel reached the craft for the...
SWAMPED GRANNY SURVIVES HELL & HIGH WATER
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amAn 83-year-old grandmother survived three days of hell in a snake-infested Florida swamp, thanks to her Brooklyn-bred survival instincts and a stick of gum. "I am a survivor," said Tillie...
LAZIO TEARS INTO HILL'S BREAST-CANCER RECORD
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio yesterday charged that Hillary Rodham Clinton has a "horrendous record" on efforts to fight breast cancer. Campaigning in Seneca Falls - the birthplace of the women's rights movement...
HERE'S THE PLAN: SIPHON THE SURPLUS - GORE'S PERFECT WORLD IS A $1 TRILLION VISION
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore's promised bag of goodies - the best schools in the world, health care for all kids, a cure for cancer, middle-class tax cuts - could come...
AUCTIONED CAR HAD 'BODY' WORK
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA worker at a Brooklyn salvage company yesterday made a grisly discovery when he popped the trunk of a car bought at a city auction and found a human skeleton...
NEWTIE AND THIRD CUTIE TIE THE KNOT
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSorry, gals - he's taken! Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tied the knot for the third time yesterday, trading "I do's" with congressional aide and longtime mistress Callista Bisek at...
THREE SHOT AS GUNMEN BLAZE AWAY OUTSIDE MOVIE HOUSE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amThree people, including a 6-year-old boy, were wounded today when bullets started flying outside a Bronx movie theater. The violence erupted at 12:40 a.m. at the Bay Plaza multiplex near...
JAPANESE VOLCANO STIRS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA revived Japanese volcano spewed black ash five miles high yesterday and forced more than 2,000 people from their home. Mount Oyama on the resort island of Miyake had been...
SUBWAY CABLE VICTIM LUCKY SHE IS ALIVE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA Bronx woman thanked God for being alive yesterday after she was hit by an almost 4-ton, runaway cable spool that critically injured another woman. "Thank God I didn't get...
PUSHY ACTOR FLIES RIGHT INTO TROUBLE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amActor Terrence Howard, who starred in the movie "The Best Man," was jailed in Cleveland after he assaulted a stewardess on an airplane, police said yesterday. Meredith Hughes, 23, said...
BIENAMADO AIMING FOR ARLINGTON MILLION
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - After a two-year hiatus when Arlington Park was closed, the Grade 1 Arlington Million - since 1981 one of the world's great turf races - returns today...
ALABAMA FAVORITE IS NO SECRET
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on Derby eve at Churchill Downs brought together a full field of 14 standout 3-year-old fillies, and everyone expected a closely run...
SUPER PAIR IN MAIDEN FORM WORTH LOOK
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - There are a pair of seven-furlong maiden races for 2-year-olds today that offer solid betting opportunities. In the second race, trainer John Ward sends out first-time starter...
HAIRLINE FRACTURE KOS 'GRAEME' FROM TRAVERS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Just a day after Preakness winner Red Bullet defected from next Saturday's $1 million Travers, the "Midsummer Derby" lost the colt who might have been favored in...
TRUEBREADPUDDING WINS YADDO
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Truebreadpudding took the lead in midstretch and held off a game Shopping for Love to win the $86,775 Yaddo Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares by...
DUNLAP HUNTING FOR TIGER - WOODS LEADS BY ONE AT VALHALLA
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - At least he's keeping it interesting. Tiger Woods isn't destroying the field like he did at the U.S. and British Opens, the last two major tournaments he won...
BEAR BOWS OUT WITH LAST HURRAH
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Jack Nicklaus wasn't about to go out with a whimper. Instead, he opened his second and potentially final round of major-tournament competition with a Golden Bear roar. Nicklaus...
ROCCO TAKES FALL IN FREAK ACCIDENT
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amPGA NOTES LOUISVILLE-Rocco Mediate came to Valhalla riding a way of momentum after winning the Buick Open last week. He felt confident he could contend in the PGA Championship, perhaps...
DON'T LOOK FOR KNOBBY IN LEFT FIELD
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES GM Brian Cashman and Joe Torre both made it clear last night that Chuck Knoblauch, who showed improvement with his sore right elbow in a Tampa workout yesterday,...
'BRAIN STACK' GIVES HILL MENTAL POWER
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amWith nine home runs in 45 at-bats as a Yankee, Glenallen Hill has clearly demonstrated a keen mind for the game. Maybe those "brain stack" supplements really work, after all....
MARTINA RETURNS TO U.S. OPEN
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amMartina Navratilova is coming back to the U.S. Open after a five-year absence. Navratilova will play women's doubles and mixed doubles in the final Grand Slam event of the season,...
SLOPPY GIANTS INFURIATE FASSEL
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amIt is not as angry as he's ever been, but it was among his top 10 most bitter moments, and, after all, this is merely the preseason. Jim Fassel is...
NEITHER TEAM HAS A SUPER CHANCE
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amDON'T expect a rematch. I know, I know, it is folly to make any kind of definitive judgment immediately after any preseason game, especially Jets-Giants, because everyone in the NFL...
JETS READY FOR TAKEOFF - OFFENSE IS SHARP IN FINAL TUNEUP
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe Jets were down to their final dress rehearsal. Their previous two preseason games were sloppy, their opener in Green Bay is 15 days away and last night's game against...
SAY IT AIN'T MO - THANKS TO RIVERA, YANKS BLOW 5-RUN LEAD IN 9TH
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amA stunner. That's what happened to the Yankees and Mariano Rivera last night at the Stadium. This was the kind of loss that takes your breath away, highlighted by a...
MARTIN JETS' BEST WEAPON AGAIN
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amCurtis Martin continued his outstanding preseason with his finest performance of the summer last night, rushing for 107 yards on 18 carries in the Jets' 27-24 victory over the Giants...
HURTIN' HAMPTON'S NEXT START STILL UP IN AIR
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Mike Hampton felt a little better yesterday, but the Mets don't know if he will be able to start Tuesday in San Diego. It basically will come...
WINNING FORMULA -WHY YANKS ARE BACK ON TOP
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amStealthily, the Yankees are moving back to their rightful position as the best team in baseball. They've scored 212 runs in 33 games, an average of 6.4 a game, since...
BENNY'S BOUNCED BACK -AGBAYANI DOESN'T LET MENTAL ERROR BOTHER HIM
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A week ago today, Benny Agbayani almost made a career-defining mistake. Instead, it will just be another anecdote in what is turning into a magical, but turbulent,...
BORDICK COULD BE A SHORT-TERM SOLUTION
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - There is some feeling that if the Mets are unable to sign Alex Rodriguez this offseason, they will make a big push to keep Mike...
AMANI SUITS JINTS FINE - IMPROVING TOOMER A BIG BLUE THREAT
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amAmani Toomer has never met Mike Piazza, but if he ever did, the Giants' fast-improving receiver could engage in a lengthy discussion about "the zone." Piazza resides in a hitting...
BIG BLUE JUST BLUNDERFUL
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amThis may mean very little or nothing at all. The Giants sure hope so. Thus far this summer, the Giants have proved they are a more interesting team than they've...
JETS SEEKING GIANT ANSWERS
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amThe regular season doesn't begin for another 15 days, but last night's preseason finale against the Giants at Giants Stadium was the Jets' final true dress rehearsal for the regular...
LACK OF DEPTH HAS FASSEL CONCERNED
August 19, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The reason the Giants are not disgusted with their preseason record the past few years is that more often than not, they have the lead when it's time...