August 21, 2000
WHAT'LL FED DO AFTER THE ELECTION?
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Federal Reserve this week will probably do what Feds have traditionally done - leave interest rates alone and continue a neutral, politically safe monetary policy between now and the...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amFALL'S just around the corner, and that means just one thing: It's time for the fashion mags to go nuts. Who says size doesn't matter? Judging from the looks of...
EXPERTS: FED WON'T HIKE RATES ... THIS TIME
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amWill he or won't he? Most economists say Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan will leave interest rates unchanged at the Open Market Committee's next meeting tomorrow. There is overwhelming evidence...
LIFE AFTER 'SURVIVOR' - TRADING IN THEIR 15 MINUTES OF FAME FOR A REAL JOB IN TV
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amSEAN got the job, but it's Colleen who ought to be on television. Colleen Haskell, the 23-year-old advertising student from Miami who was voted off the "Survivor" island Aug. 9,...
RICH AS MARRIAGE MATERIAL?
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amCONNIVING "Survivor" finalist Richard Hatch says he's been innundated with marraige proposals from both women and men, plus naked pictures from admirers - despite his image as the show's master...
DID KATIE OVERSTAY HER WELCOME?
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE escalating tensions between ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show have taken another ugly turn. "GMA" is angry at "Today" - specifically co-host Katie Couric - claiming that...
JUST PLUG IN THE VIDEO AND BLOW
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE videotape of me being taught to blow-dry my hair will never take the place of, say, "Betty Blue" on my most frequently watched list. Despite the fact it stars...
COWABANGLE! HAUTE HILLBILLIES DRESS IT UP - NEW YORK COLLECTORS LASSO THE GLITTERY SHOW DUDS OF COUNTRY STARS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amRHINESTONE cowboys are alive and well - and living in Manhattan.Banish any thoughts of dusty cowfolk swinging lassos from atop an F-train - the ones in N.Y.C. are less interested...
IT'S '100%' THAT ANDY'S RUNNING FOR GOV: PALS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amANDREW CUOMO has "absolutely" decided to seek the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002, sources have told The Post. The federal housing secretary, who said at last week's Democratic National...
CITY HORNING IN ON COW MAN'S DINNER
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE way I figure it, somebody either owes Aladdin El-Sayed $500 or the speedy return of tomorrow night's dinner. And, at the very least, someone is going to have to...
BRAVERY IS FOREIGN TO POLS WHO BOOST BILINGUAL EDUCATION
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE New York City school system continues to resemble an ugly bomb crater. And yet, the liberal education establishment steadfastly clings to a policy of disaster. I talk specifically about...
400 AT FUNERAL FOR PUBLICIST ELECTROCUTED ON SUBWAY
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amA standing-room-only crowd yesterday bade a final farewell to celebrity-publicist Peter Seligman, who fell to his death between two subway cars as he and his fiancée traveled to get their...
GORE RALLY CRY: LET'S ALL 'STICK TOGETHER'
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Al Gore tour left the Mississippi and headed down the highway to Moline, Ill., yesterday, where the Democratic presidential candidate told supporters, "If we stick together, we can do...
WHITEY FORD DAY MOVES BELOVED YANKEE TO TEARS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amYankee legend Whitey Ford, the cool-as-a-cucumber hurler who was the Bombers' greatest money pitcher, fought back tears yesterday as 50,000 fans honored him and his generation of Bronx legends. Showing...
TENANTS OF 'MOLD' APTS. CRY FOR HELP
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amFrightened residents of a Manhattan housing complex yesterday pleaded for local lawmakers to save them from the burgeoning mold they say is making them sick. "We need help," said Troy...
FRONT-RUNNERS WHO MAY FILL OUT HIS TEAM
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amIncoming Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik faces an immediate challenge in picking replacements for several of the most important superchief positions atop the NYPD. With the elevation of Chief of Department...
AL & GEORGE TEAMS CLASH OVER SPENDING
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Gore and Bush camps yesterday butted heads over who's the biggest spendthrift. Aides to Al Gore - under the GOP gun after he made dozens of big-bucks...
CANDIDATES CLOSE, BUT NO ENCOUNTER
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Clinton and Rick Lazio yesterday narrowly missed running into each other for the second time on the campaign trail. Both Senate candidates traveled to the heart of Cheektowaga, a...
GAS BLAST KILLS TEN CAMPERS - FIVE KIDS AMONG VICTIMS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amProbers searched yesterday for the cause of a blast in a New Mexico natural-gas pipeline that all but wiped out two families camping nearby, killing five children - including infant...
'HURRICANE' BEARS DOWN ON ISLANDS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTropical Storm Debby was expected to turn into a full-strength hurricane by tomorrow - gathering power as it moves ominously toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. "We don't foresee...
EXPERTS FORESEE 'NATURAL' SHIFT
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amThere's a fuel war raging between oil and natural gas for the hearts, minds and furnaces of homeowners. In the end, energy experts predict, natural gas will win the day...
THE 'WINNER' IS . . . READERS WEIGH IN
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amStraight-talking ex-Navy Seal Rudy Boesch should win the $1 million "Survivor" show jackpot, according to Post readers who cast their ballots for the 72-year-old Vietnam vet. "Rudy is basically smart...
GAY GROUP REJOINS INDIA PARADE
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amA gay and lesbian group, booted from the Indian Independence Day Parade in 1992, made a triumphant return to the annual march down Madison Avenue yesterday. "It's just fantastic," said...
16 DIE AS FUEL TRAIN EXPLODES
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amAt least 16 people were burned to death in Kenya yesterday after nine runaway train cars, six of which carried liquefied gas, derailed and caused an enormous fireball. The accident,...
N.Y. VERIZON STRIKE OVER - UNIONS IN OTHER STATES NEAR DEAL
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amStriking phone workers were expected to be back on the job in New York today after their unions reached agreement on a three-year contract with Verizon Communications. The tentative accord...
'TRIBOROUGH' BERNIE'S FIRST DAY - NEW COMMISH COVERS THREE KEY CITY LOCALES
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's new top cop hit the ground running yesterday in a bid to win over New Yorkers - from cops on the beat to minorities often critical of the...
GET READY FOR WINTER HEAT $TROKE - FUEL, GAS PRICES EXPECTED TO SOAR
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe heat will be on this winter - on your wallet. Energy experts warn that the region's fuel-oil and natural-gas stocks are so low that a cold winter wind could...
VERIZON 'STRIKES' A DEAL WITH UNIONS IN NEW YORK
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amStriking phone workers were expected to be back on the job in New York today after their unions reached agreement on a three-year contract with Verizon Communications. The tentative accord...
'SINGLE' GIRL SARAH'S FAVORITE ROLE: A REAL-LIFE WIFE
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amSultry "Sex and the City" siren Sarah Jessica Parker says that although she plays a sleep-around single-girl icon on TV, she's happy to be a married woman. Parker, who's hitched...
TIGER ROARS INTO HISTORY WITH DRAMATIC WIN
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amIt took 21 holes, but Tiger made it out of the woods yesterday. Golf's greatest player finally separated himself from the competition nobody predicted he'd have in Louisville to capture...
RESCUE DIVERS OPEN HATCH OF SUNKEN SUB
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amA team of divers pried open the hatch of the sunken Russian submarine early today - but found no sign of life inside the flooded escape chamber, officials said. "There...
VOICE OF UNREASON
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE cover story of the current Village Voice - "The Uncle Tom Dilemma: Are Blacks Like Colin Powell Asking African Americans to Sell Out?" - succeeds remarkably in being both...
A 'PARTY' OF FOUR FOR YOUR 'SURVIVOR' BASH
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amYES, the last four "Survivors" - the fat yutz, the annoying, whiney truck driver, the complaining, competitive river guide and our beloved Rudy - will vanish from our radar screens...
TIGER SHAKES 'ROOKIE' ON HIS TAIL FOR HISTORIC WIN
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amIt took 21 holes, but Tiger made it out of the woods yesterday. Golf's greatest player finally separated himself from the competition nobody predicted he'd have in Louisville to capture...
RESCUE OF SUB CREWMEN STILL POSSIBLE: DIVERS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amNorwegian divers who examined Russia's sunken sub believe a rescue team will be able to open the escape hatch - and that there may be some air pockets inside. "We...
UBMARINE-RESCUE BID SET AMID NEW GLIMMER OF HOPE
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amA British mini-sub was set to dock today with the crippled Russian submarine in a last-ditch attempt to open its escape hatch and find out whether the 118 crewmen are...
DESPERATE TENANTS OF 'MOLD' APTS. CRY FOR HELP
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amFrightened residents of a Manhattan housing complex yesterday pleaded for local lawmakers to save them from the burgeoning mold they say is making them sick. "We need help," said Troy...
ARE YOU GETTING BURNED BY HEATING BILLS?
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amWhen Eric Szymanski's parents bought a two-family home on Fresh Pond Road in Maspeth, Queens, in June 1999, the price of fuel oil was 89 cents a gallon.Within six months,...
JOE'S CATCHING UP - JUREVICIUS STEPPING UP IN TIME OF NEED
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amThey may need all the firepower they can possibly muster, which is why the belated but needed emergence of Joe Jurevicius is so important to the Giants' cause. It remains...
55-1 SHOT CREATES 292G PICK 6 PAYOFF
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Amaretta, an also-eligible who drew into the third race yesterday, dropped a nuclear bomb on the Old Spa by kicking off the mammoth Pick 6 with a...
A NEARLY PERFECT DAY - TEARS FLOW AS FORD'S HONORED
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amWhitey Ford wasn't Slick yesterday. The Chairman of the Board wasn't in control. His voice cracked. The tears flowed. He hugged many of his former teammates, especially his designated closer...
RON'S BEEN NOT-SO-GREAT DAYNE
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Rookie RB Ron Dayne continues to plod along in the preseason. He showed little (12-37) against the Jets in Friday night's 27-24 loss and in three games his...
'DREAM' TAKES BALLERINA
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Riding Chester House in Saturday's Arlington Million, Jerry Bailey waited and waited, then waited some more, for room to open along the rail at the top of...
A BUNCH OF BULLPEN! - YANK RELIEVERS WASTE CONE GEM
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amAngels 5 - Yankees 4 On a wonderful August Sunday with a hint of October in The Bronx air, the Yankees honored a member of their storied past and then...
WHITEY-LIKE OUTING NOT ENOUGH FOR DAVID
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amAfter the greatest pitcher in Yankee history threw out the ceremonial first pitch yesterday, Whitey Ford had a message for starter, David Cone. "I was at the July 18th game,"...
OTIS DOESN'T MAKE THE CUT - JETS WAIVE GOOD BYE TO VETERAN CORNER
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amThe Jets waived eight players in the next-to-last cut of the preseason yesterday; and veteran cornerback Otis Smith was one of the casualties, as much for fiscal reasons as physical...
FIRED-UP LIBERTY GET EVEN
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amGAME 2 Liberty 51 - Rockers 45 Faced with elimination yesterday at the Garden, the Liberty sought any motivation possible in the second game of their Eastern Conference Finals series...
BUT YANKS HAVE FLAWS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amTHE sky was a perfect Yankee blue yesterday. Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra were back on the lush green grass giving each other a familiar hug, and David Cone's breaking...
GAVIOLA'S LOOKIN' TO TAKE FIFTH
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Gaviola seeks to win her fifth consecutive race as she faces 10 opponents in the 17th running of the Grade 2 $150,000 Lake Placid Handicap here today....
TRULY A-MAY-ZING SPECTACLE - DRAMA OF FANTASTIC FINISH JUMPS THROUGH TV SCREEN
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amFRANKLY, I'm glad the PGA's majors season has ended. I'm exhausted, totally spent. Starting with the Masters, the sights and sounds have been so spectacular, so intense, that the thought...
CHREBET'S FEELING THE LOVE
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amAfter Keyshawn Johnson had repeatedly thrown verbal barbs at Jets WR Wayne Chrebet - including ripping him in Saturday's New York Times - Chrebet thinks he's finally figured out why...
METS GET THE LAST LAUGH - WIN SERIES ON DODGER BLUNDERS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - There is no weakness. If you go down each position on the Mets, 1-through-25, each role is defined, each player well suited for his position on this...
ELS FAR FROM SECOND BEST
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amPGA NOTES LOUISVILLE - Ernie Els came up short in his bid for a Grand Slam of sorts. Els, who had finished second in the three previous majors, managed a...
YANKS TAKING TIME WITH BERNIE, CHUCK
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Taking absolutely no chances with their MVP, the Yankees are expected to keep Bernie Williams out of the lineup until they are convinced his rib cage problem on...
HUNDLEY'S A HERO AGAIN
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Cara Grodsky, a 14-year-old girl from Commack, L.I., locked in the potentially deadly grip of a cancer known as Ewings sarcoma, was granted one wish from the...
TIGER A SURVIVOR IN PGA SHOWDOWN - OUTDUELS MAY TO DEFEND PGA TITLE, WIN THIRD STRAIGHT MAJOR
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The golf world has been waiting for a suitable challenger to Tiger Woods, someone who would match him stroke for stroke through the back nine of a major...
WACKY ENDING FOLLOWS ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR SCRIPT
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The Dodgers are three times as comical an act as the Three Stooges, which makes perfect sense because on days such as yesterday they play as if...
PIAZZA WORRIES POP
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The father watched from a luxury box as his MVP candidate son hustled, which has to make a parent proud. But when Mike Piazza started running into...
ALL THAT EXTRA WORK PAYS MAJOR DIVIDEND
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - It was around 9 o'clock Saturday night; 8:56 to be exact. That's when Tiger Woods decided he'd hit enough balls, and enough chips and enough putts. Only then,...
BARBECUED RIB WILL FORCE HAMPTON TO MISS START IN SAN DIEGO
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Mike Hampton will miss his start tomorrow in San Diego because of the fracture in his right ribs and a slightly pulled oblique muscle. "We haven't come...
EVEN IN DEFEAT, MAY HAS HIS DAY
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Bob May and Tiger Woods first met when they played junior golf in Southern California. May, seven years older, was the established star and setting records, while Woods...
DEAL TAYLOR MADE FOR SEATTLE - SONICS MAY SWING DEAL IF FALK CAN DELIVER MO
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amVin Baker wants to do it. The Knicks want to do it. Patrick Ewing's superagent David Falk wants to do it. Now if only Sonics brass will cooperate on this...
FROM NOW ON, HE'LL BE KNOWN AS MR. MAY
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Bob May and Tiger Woods first met when they played junior golf together in southern California. May, seven years older, was the established budding star, while Woods was...
A SECOND-PLACE FINISH WOULD'VE BEEN SOMETHIN' ELS
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amPGA NOTES LOUISVILLE - Ernie Els came up short in his bid for a Grand Slam of sorts. Els, who had finished second in the three previous majors, managed a...
SCRATCH AND CLAW THEN WIN BY A PAW - TIGER OUTLASTS SCRAPPY MAY IN PLAYOFF
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The golf world has been waiting for a suitable challenger to Tiger Woods, someone who would match him stroke for stroke through the back nine of a major...
DEAL TAYLOR MADE FOR SEATTLE - SONICS MAY SWING DEAL IF FALK DELIVERS MO
August 21, 2000 | 4:00amVin Baker wants to do it. The Knicks want to do it. Patrick Ewing's superagent David Falk wants to do it. Now if only the Sonics will cooperate on this...