August 20, 2000
THIS INDEX FUND IS ALIVE, KICKING AND SCORING
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amIN this space last week, I said indexing was dead, which generated a call from a reader who said he begged to differ. This longtime reader argued that it's foolish...
THEY'LL BE BANGING IN STERN'S BLDG. - 55TH FLOOR ON BLOCK FOR $20M
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amFANS of Howard Stern often hear him refer to "bangin'" on his radio show. But soon it will be the shock jock who'll be trying to get the banging out...
DREXLER FALLS IN GAP - CURRENT SLUMP'S A RARE SERIES OF MISSTEPS FOR LEGENDARY RETAILER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amMICKEY Drexler is in the hot seat. Gap Inc., the retailing juggernaut he heads, is listing. Profits are down. Sales are weak at Gap and Banana Republic. Sales have fallen...
NOT BANKING ON BANKS ANALYSTS SEE BIG PROBLEMS IN SECTOR
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThinking about selling a stock? Don't look for guidance from Wall Street, where analysts are known for their resistance to placing "sell" recommendations on the stocks they cover. That's why...
NEW HILLARY SHOCKER! SHE & THE POST AGREE ON AN ISSUE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amTO all those cynics who say relations between this newspaper and Hillary Clinton are frosty at best, we now have incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. At a Monday morning rally,...
LONDON LOVES THESE AMERICAN GIANTS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Of all the great playwrights of the 20th century, two have a special place in the hearts of British audiences - Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. London's love...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amAs a little girl, Marcia Gay Harden performed plays on the front porches of Navy bases in Japan, where her father, Capt. Thad Harden, was stationed and her mother was...
BEYOND 'GODZILLA'
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amIf your knowledge of Japanese movies is limited to "Godzilla," have we got news for you. Two examples of Japanese cinema at its finest are on view this week in...
"A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY" BY SARAH SMITH
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn the wrong hands, historic-suspense novels can be as musty as a locked attic. But Sarah Smith gives "A Citizen of the Country," the concluding volume in her neo-Victoria trilogy,...
NEW MEDIA HAWK A SKATEBOARD LEGEND ROLLS TO THE BIG TIME
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amTony Hawk is, simply put, a living legend. The 32-year-old golden boy of skateboarding has been competing professionally for 18 years and has invented more than 80 tricks. He's also...
PURSUER OF JUSTICE - 4 QUESTIONS FOR JOHN WALSH
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn the last 13 years, "America's Most Wanted" and its host John Walsh helped round up 621 dangerous fugitive - 13 of which appeared on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted...
RECOMMENDED READINGS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn Anne George's "Murder Carries a Torch," Southern matrons Mary Alice and Patricia Ann have just returned from a visit to Warsaw when their cousin "Pukey Lukey" (known for his...
THE SECOND TIME AROUND - BOX-OFFICE BIGGIES GET BACK IN THE GAME THIS FALL
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that there are no second acts in American lives, he certainly wasn't talking about Hollywood.Hope springs eternal for Tinseltown has-beens - and relative underperformers -...
GOING FOR THE GOLD: STUDIO HOPING FOR OSCAR CONTENDERS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00am'Tis the season for Oscar contenders - and there appears to be a bumper crop in the offing, at least on paper. Early screenings have generated through-the-roof buzz for "Almost...
ALL ABOUT BOB: MODELSARE TAKING A SHORT CUT
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amAfter unveiling the second consecutive Vogue cover to feature a short-haired model this week, the magazine's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour reportedly decreed that only women with closely cropped locks would be...
FRANCE'S FABULOUS FAUCHON
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amA little piece of Paris came to Park Avenue this week when Fauchon, France's formidable food market, opened Monday in the Drake Swissotel on 56th Street. And nostalgia for the...
BARS WITH BACKYARDS - THESE BUCOLIC OASES ARE NOT FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWith the mild, pleasant weather we've had this summer, you might want some on-the-town options other than stifling nightclubs, where just getting a drink can be a smoky, elbow-jabbing ordeal....
COPS SURPRISE CLOSING ACT AT CLUBS 78 DRUG BUSTS MADE IN RAIDS ON 11 BARS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amCops busted 78 revelers and workers at some of the city's hottest nightclubs yesterday in a series of undercover raids aimed at the widespread sale of Ecstasy, police said. A...
WOMEN'S VOTE HOLDS KEY FOR GORE WIN IN BATTLE OF SEXES, MEN SOLID FOR BUSH
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Democrat Al Gore needs a boost from Lady Luck. To win the White House, he needs to turn the 2000 election into a battle of the sexes...
CYNDI'S TRUE COLORS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amCYNDI LAUPER'S got a husband she loves, a kid she's insane about, a great voice, and last week she became a movie star getting reviews other divas only dream about....
ART FOR ART'S FAKE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amGO figure. Guys who think Cooperstown is a fine arts museum lined up for hours and paid money to visit Steve Wynn's collection of 3 ½ paintings at the Bellagio...
HANOVER HAPPENINGS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amJUST don't like to lose sight of Donna Hanover now that all the hoopla has died down. Yes, she's still at Gracie with the kids; yes, she's still doing First...
YOU'VE GOT E-MAIL
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amFrom STMP: Interesting bits of nonsense: No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. Walt Disney was afraid of...
THE LAST WORD
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT does the ethics probe into Howard Safir's trip to the Academy Awards have in common with the JonBenet Ramsey case? They're both taking 45 years, and neither one has...
DEPUTY'S RECORD MADE HIM A SHOO-IN
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amJoseph Dunne may not have made it to the commissioner's post yesterday, but he's had a remarkably swift ascent up the Police Department career ladder. Dunne, 52, joined the force...
HILL ADS CRY 'WOLF' ON LAZIO & LATINO ISSUES
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amState Democrats yesterday launched a blistering new Spanish-language radio ad on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton that rips Rick Lazio as a "wolf that passes for Little Red Riding Hood."...
RUSSIAN NAVY VETS COMING TO TERMS WITH SUB TRAGEDY
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. RETIRED Russian naval commander Valery Zelichonok told me last night that if a single man on the Kursk crew is trapped and unsavable, then they are probably all unsavable....
HE WAS BORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amAS a teenager growing up in Paterson, N.J., in the early '70s, Bernie Kerik was obsessed with karate. "At that particular time, there were Bruce Lee flicks around, and everybody...
SURVIVOR SKILLS 'HATCH-ED' FROM BIG-BIZ PLAYBOOK
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amHE is the Survivor the viewers love to hate - the wheeling, scheming, arrogant corporate trainer who likes to let it all hang out. Rhode Island's Richard Hatch created the...
KERICK DRAWS MIXED REACTION
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amBernard Kerik's appointment as the city's police commissioner was met with the same spectrum of reactions that predecessor Howard Safir faced almost every day - praise, optimism, derision and suspicion....
BUILDING BRIDGE TO MINORITIES IS JOB NO. 1
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amBernard Kerik's record of managerial success should enable him to deal with the two most important challenges facing the NYPD: fine-tuning the successful crime-fighting machine and repairing rifts with minorities....
W. PROMISES $CHOOL AID TO NATIVE AMERICANS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush yesterday reached out to another minority group Republicans have long overlooked - American Indians - as he traveled to New Mexico and promised more than...
'I OWE HIM MY LIFE': PAL
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amDetective Hector Santiago stood proudly in the rear of City Hall's Public Hearing Room watching as a former narcotics cop who saved his life became the city's 40th police commissioner....
IT'S A NEW WIMPY WORLD OF PROTEST
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN in the eternal rest of heaven, there has to be unrest. The late, great mayor of Chicago Richard Daley was saying: "The cops in Los Angeles shoulda busted some...
PRINCE WILLIAM PLAYS KING OF THE JUNGLE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amPrince William put on his best Tarzan impression yesterday - swinging from trees and braving poisonous snakes - in the remote jungles of Belize. The 18-year-old prince, who secretly flew...
HULKING '70S HERO DUCKS THE GUNFIRE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amHe turns green when he's angry, but the Incredible Hulk also apparently turns yellow when he's scared. Lou Ferrigno, who starred as the grunting green superhero on the hit 1970s...
RUSSIA SAYS SAILORS ARE LIKELY ALL DEAD
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amNorwegian divers went down to the sunken Kursk submarine early today in a final attempt to find survivors - even though Russian officials said all 118 aboard were probably dead....
ARMY INTEL OFFICER ON LAM IN MIDEAST
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amA U.S. Army intelligence officer carrying classified American documents has gone underground somewhere in the Middle East after trying to trade the highly sensitive documents for asylum in Israel, officials...
HERO BOUNCER SLAIN IN BID TO HALT B'KLYN GANG BEATING
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn bouncer who tried to prevent an angry gang from beating a victim senseless yesterday paid for his heroics with his life when he was fatally stabbed, police sources...
TIDE TURNS IN FAVOR OF VEEP: POLL
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amCLINTON, Iowa - Barely able to speak and sucking cough drops to soothe his throat, Vice President Al Gore yesterday pledged to protect the environment and raise the standard of...
COLUMBIA MEN DENY CAMPUS FEMALE-STROM
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWhatever happened to the good old days when carousing fraternity brothers reigned on college campuses - and boys were allowed to be boys? Feminists have spoiled the party, a new...
SHEFF ENJOYS SALAD DAYS PAIR OF HRS DOOM PIAZZA-LESS METS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The sports fans around here aren't as rah-rah as the ones back in the New York, so when Gary Sheffield steps to the plate they don't chant...
MUSIC MEN MAY HAVE TO CHANGE TUNE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe major music labels are already road kill on the information superhighway, according to some legal experts. After being caught napping by Napster, the industry is finally fighting back at...
MOVIE MOGULS HAIL WIN OVER CYBER PIRATES
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amHollywood executives scored a major victory last week against the Internet pirates who have openly mocked their encryption codes and threatened to undercut their billion-dollar business. When Manhattan federal judge...
E-LAW AN UNEXPLODED DOT-BOMB
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Internet explosion has created instant billionaires, a new economy - and a huge legal mess for judges trying to set the rules of e-business for decades to come. On...
BUCHANAN IS OK AFTER GALLBLADDER REMOVED
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amOut of the hospital.Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan was discharged from a hospital yesterday after gallbladder surgery. Buchanan, who's had episodes of stomach pain over the last few months,...
MCCAIN'S 5-HOUR SURGERY ENDS WITH WELCOME NEWS OF CONTAINED CANCER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Cancer apparently hasn't spread to Sen. John McCain's lymph nodes, his doctor said yesterday following more than five hours of surgery at the Scottsdale, Ariz., Mayo Clinic to...
GORE'S SON BUSTED IN N.C. CHARGED WITH DRIVING 97 MPH IN A 55 ZONE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amVice President Al Gore's teenage son, whose near-death in a car accident as a child devastated his family, was busted for speeding in North Carolina two days before the start...
CORRECTION BOSS NAMED NEW COMMISH MAYOR'S CHOICE A HOPE FOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani, making what he described as a "difficult choice," yesterday named Correction Commissioner Bernard Kerik as the 40th commissioner of the nation's largest police department. In an unprecedented arrangement,...
FIRST FAMILY CELEBRATES BILL'S 54TH
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amVacationing upstate with his family in the Adirondacks, President Clinton yesterday turned 54, saying his birthday wish is for his wife and Vice President Al Gore to win in November....
GIRL, 12, DIES AS TRUCK OVERTURNS ON BRUCKNER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amA tractor-trailer last night overturned on the Bruckner Expressway, killing a 12-year-old girl, injuring the vehicle's driver and spilling its cargo of milk onto the roadway. The accident occurred at...
RICHARD THE DEVIOUS KEPT THIS SHOW AFLOAT, NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTTS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amNO matter who wins the $1 million bounty on "Survivor," there's no doubt CBS and the show's fans owe a big debt to one survivor who made it must-see TV:...
BUGGED STATEN ISLANDERS: CITY WON'T SPRAY OUR POND!
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amStaten Islanders are dodging mosquitoes near a stagnant pond they say has been left untouched by the city - even though a neighbor was the first Big Apple resident to...
'DEADLY' MOLD ON THE ATTACK
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 400 residents of an East Side housing complex - including 200 children - are slowly being poisoned by toxic molds in their apartments while their landlord ignores the...
A NATURAL BORN POLITICIAN
August 20, 2000 | 4:00am"I will personally hunt you down,blow the head off your @#$%ingwhore wife, and plant your sick assin the ground all by myself." - Tommy Lee Jones in "Natural Born Killers."...
LATINA QUEEN OF POP HER WEB SITE DRAWS MILLIONS OF HISPANICS - AND HAS WALL STREET CRASHING HER DOOR
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amAdriana Lozada is hanging off the side of a light pole on Sixth Avenue, her electric-blue hair and silver nose bridge sparkling in the sun. It's lunchtime, and a mass...
"CATCHING HEAVEN" BY SANDS HALL
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amSands Hall's quirky debut novel, "Catching Heaven," features two disgruntled sisters - one an actress, the other an artist - who each wish for what the other has in a...
DEM GETS 2ND RUN ON GOP'S TICKET
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amCity Councilman Noach Dear is taking on Anthony Weiner again, armed with big bucks for his Democratic primary run, and, should he lose, he's guaranteed a rematch in the general...
'KEVORKIAN' OF THE HIGH SEAS - AN AUSTRALIAN DR. DEATH SAILS AROUND THE LAW
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Australia's answer to Dr. Jack Kevorkian plans to float a "death ship" that will offer the terminally ill around the world a quick, painless end to their lives....
DUTCH GROUP FLOATS ABORTION-BOAT IDEA
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Dutch group plans to offer shipboard abortions to women around the world who live in countries where the controversial medical procedure is either outlawed or difficult to obtain. Amsterdam-based...
HI-TECH ANKLETS KEEPING SPOUSE ABUSERS IN CHECK
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amCourt orders of protection - regularly scoffed at as worthless after domestic violence victims they've been issued to are slain - have been given a new, high-tech bite. Under a...
IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON ... SUCKERS BEWARE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE arrival of football also marks the arrival of the scamdicapper season. Jimmy Vaccaro, brother of noted sneaker-dangler Sonny Vaccaro and the oft-quoted former head of Vegas sports books, including...
JUSTICE DELIVERS POWER NOT SPEECHES
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amBy his regular array of one-sentence, cliché-ridden answers, dour David Justice has made it clear that he wants no media attention this season. But after belting two home runs in...
ANDY'S GOOD MEDICINE PETTITTE PERFORMANCE CURES YANKEE HANGOVER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE difference between hangover and over with symbolically came with the first batter of yesterday's game. Less than 15 hours after Darrin Erstad delivered the final touches defensively and offensively...
GROH PLAYING IT SAFE WITH VINNY'S TOE INJURY
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amVinny Testaverde (turf toe) remains day to day. "It's no different if he got a sprained ankle stepping off a curb," Al Groh said yesterday. "That type of swelling lingers...
AGENT SAYS LACK OF EXTENSION BOTHERS BOBBY
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Mets manager Bobby Valentine yesterday backed away from his agent's statements that Valentine is very disappointed he has not received a contract extension. "I'm not in negotiations,"...
CALIFORNIA MO IS N.Y. DREAMIN' WANTS TO BE A YANK
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amRomanticising about a future with the Yankees, Mo Vaughn seems to have a Zagat restaurant guide in one hand and a Trump Tower brochure in the other. In the second...
HONEST, 'LADY' IS PRIMA IN BALLERINA
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Any way you look at it, Honest Lady is a cinch to win today's Grade 1, $250,000 Ballerina Handicap for fillies and mares. The seven furlongs fit...
JOSTLE EARNS SOME RESPECT RUNS AWAY WITH ALABAMA
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - As the seven fillies were loading into the gate for yesterday's Grade 1, $750,000 Alabama Stakes, the crowd of 35,226 was giving Jostle the back of its...
MARIANO WON'T LET NIGHTMARE LINGER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThere sat Mariano Rivera at his locker yesterday, whistling while he dressed. One terrible blown save was not going to ruin Rivera's day. There is nothing wrong with his arm...
BRONX AVENGERS - PETTITTE'S GEM REDEEMS PEN
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Yankees arrived at the Stadium yesterday morning with anger in their eyes. World Champions don't like being embarrassed. Losing a five-run ninth-inning lead at home for only the second...
MONTY-TO-FULLBACK PLAN BEING SHELVED
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amIt never seemed like the most inspired notion anyway, and it now appears that Jim Fassel is about ready to scrap the experiment that attempted to make Joe Montgomery a...
INDEFENSIBLE EFFORT - GIANTS SEEK ANSWERS AFTER SHREDDING BY JETS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amPerhaps some public service will be the byproduct of the slop the Giants served up Friday night, especially after a defensive performance right out of the bad old days. "I...
JETS SET AT QB - BUT MANY QUESTIONS REMAIN
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe expectations are considerably lower today for the Al Groh Jets than they were when the pre-season games ended last August. The big question a year ago was backup quarterback....
HAMPTON'S LIKELY TO SKIP A START
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Unless Mike Hampton can do his regular work and throw off the mound today, it appears unlikely he will be able to start Tuesday in San Diego....
TIGER CAN'T RUN AWAY NO-NAMES TRAIL WOBBLY WOODS BY ONE STROKE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE-Who are these guys: Bob May? Scott Dunlap? J.P. Hayes? Greg Chalmers? These can't be the guys the great Jack Nicklaus was talking about when he said golf needed someone...
HAT TRICK WOULD TOP BEN'S
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It was 47 years ago when Ben Hogan did what Tiger Woods is trying to do this weekend at Valhalla. That is the last time someone was able...
IT'S ALL FOR BEST IF MIKE GETS REST
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - See what happens when the manager rests Mike Piazza? Rick Reed has one bad inning and it's curtains because without Piazza, the Mets' lineup just isn't the...
CLUB PRO TURNS INTO TIN CUP
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe only club professional to make the cut in this year's PGA Championship distinguished himself yesterday in an unflattering manner. Frank Dobbs wasn't sure how many balls he knocked into...
TOM FINDS OLD STROKE OF GENIUS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - In was at the sixth hole yesterday where Tom Watson decided to make an adjustment in his putting stroke. Remembering an "old pro" had told him that bringing...
OLAZABAL SETS COURSE RECORD
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amPGA NOTESLOUISVILLE - When last seen, Spain's Jose Maria Olazabal was missing a putt that clinched victory for the Americans at the Ryder Cup last September. Yesterday, he created more...
IN WITH OLD, OUT WITH NEW
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWhile the Knicks' oldest player, Patrick Ewing, most likely will be stuck in New York this season no matter how much the club shops him, their youngest player, former St....
LICENSE SALES SOAR PAST 15 MILLION MARK
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amREFLECTING a broad range of efforts to stimulate hunter recruitment and retention nationwide, hunting license sales rebounded significantly in 1999, pushing past the 15 million mark for the first time...
THE WHISTLE BLOWER FOX' MILLEN LEARNS IT'S NOT EASY BEING AN NFL UMPIRE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amMATT Millen, pre-season apprentice NFL umpire, was in San Francisco, working his first of six scrimmages when he detected a penalty. It was against the offense, which had began the...
RANDOLPH COULD WIND UP AS PIRATES' SKIPPER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amGENE Lamont will be fired as manager of the Pirates at season's, end and don't be surprised if Yankee third-base coach Willie Randolph becomes his successor. Randolph came up in...
HEY, MIKE: RIB INJURY MAY LINGER
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Mike Hampton returns to the Met rotation, don't necessarily take that as a sign he has put his injury (stress fracture of a rib) behind him. It's an injury...
WORST OF TIMES FOR O'S RECENT TRADES TRULY ARE FOR THE BIRDS
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLESLIE Brea, the power pitcher the Orioles received from the Mets in the deal for Mike Bordick, inadvertently told the truth and revealed to reporters he is 26, not 21,...
SINGING THE BLUES OVER 'WRITER CUP'
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amAs much as the annual Jet-Giant NFL preseason game, which was played Friday night at Giants Stadium, the "Writer Cup" has become a rite of summer - on a different...
NO KIDDING! BOY, 8, BAGS ACE IN DEBUT
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe story of Bryan Marchese is enough to make experienced golfers dump their clubs in a lake and watch them sink. The first time Bryan, an 8-year old, stepped on...
PIAZZA PRESENTING STRONG MVP CASE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Mike Piazza has traveled this path before, running first in the National League MVP race, only to fade in September, beaten down by long, hot summers of...
WHITE'S BEEN REAL DEAL - RICK GIVING METS' PEN BIG BOOST
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - At this point, the most important acquisition GM Steve Phillips may have made at the trade deadline is reliever Rick White. While Mike Bordick has been pretty...
FASSEL MAY GO LONGER WITH STARTERS IN FINALE
August 20, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The fourth and final pre-season game is traditionally the don't-get-hurt game, with starters playing one quarter and often even less than that. Coaches have been known to pull...