September 3, 2000
LISTEN UP! YOUR 'SECURE' RETIREMENT IS AT RISK
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHOSE bumbling lawmakers in Washington are at it again. This time, they're messing around with your retirement. No, this is not about Social Security reform, which the politicians will surely...
ROSIE'S IN THE MARKET FOR A COZY 4-5 ACRE SPREAD
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amONE of the more persistent rumors making the rounds through the beauty parlors and country club luncheons in Bedford, N.Y. has Rosie O'Donnell in the midst of buying one of...
CNN GIVES CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE - EVEN TO CNBC
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amYEAH, that was CNBC anchor Joe Kernan on archrival CNN Thursday night. No, Kernan didn't switch jobs. In a move that shocked broadcasting and Wall Street vets, CNN invited Kernan...
GAP'S CEO HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amWHICH way is he going? Gap Inc. honcho Mickey Drexler, combatting declining sales and a sliding stock price, has promised investors a turnaround. But it's not entirely clear which way...
...AND LOSERS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amRICK KAPLANBooted. * RICK KAPLANThe CNN chief was unceremoniously ousted amid a continued ratings slide. He said he never saw it coming. He was the only one. * TIM KOOGLEThe...
CNN'S MISTER CLEANUP - AFTER GETTING RID OF RICK KAPLAN, TERRY MCGUIRK AIMS TO FIX CNN
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE cleanup crew has been called into struggling CNN; the man who made the call is Terence McGuirk. The chairman and CEO of CNN parent Turner Broadcasting System has been...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00am* ALLEN WHEATThe Credit Suisse First Boston chief bought Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and vaulted his investment bank into the big leagues. * GARY WENDTA judge denied a request by...
PACKER'S HIT AT BELLAGIO TOPPED $65M
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE was much snickering this week after it was reported that media mogul Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, lost upwards of $20 million at the tables of the Bellagio Hotel...
EX-KID STAR KICKS DRUGS, PENS BOOK BONADUCE TOME DUE NEXT YEAR
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amDANNY Bonaduce, former child star of the 1970s TV hit "The Partridge Family," has just inked a deal with Hyperion to tell his life story. Bonaduce - now a 40-year-old...
OLYMPICS SITE TURNS BLIND EYE TO THE VISION-IMPAIRED
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE blind can participate in the Sydney Olympics; they just can't use the official Olympics Web site. While legally blind runner Marla Runyan is preparing to make history as the...
DIS-CONTENT IN ZINE-LAND - KINSLEY'S COMMENT SETS 'NET BRICKBATS FLYING
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amKing Content is dead. Long live King Content. The world of pure content plays online was up in arms this week as the various players thrashed out their business plans...
DOG MEETS BOARD - PREPARING YOUR CANINE FOR A CO-OP INTERVIEW
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amThink it's tough to get approved by a co-op board? Try going through the wringer with man's best friend. In the current seller's market, co-ops are notoriously selective - and...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: ANANDA LEWIS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amYou might not recognize Ananda Lewis if you're over 23 and don't watch MTV. But the wavy-haired veejay and host of the music channel's "Hot Zone" has become a Gen-X...
WHITE NIGHTS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amIn the fashion magazines out this week, the cognoscenti hail this fall's re-embrace of black. But while some style-conscious New Yorkers happily hustle black back into Vogue (literally), many continue...
MORGAN GLORY - THE VENERABLE ACTOR, WHO SHINES AGAIN IN HIS NEW FILM 'NURSE BETTY,' IS SET TO STAR AS NELSON MANDELA
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amFor an actor who confesses to being vexed with continually playing good guys, taking on the role of Nelson Mandela seems an odd move. But what are you going to...
THE STONES' OTHER MICK
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amMichael Kevin "Mick" Taylor doesn't have to be reminded about the stunning blunder he made when he left The Rolling Stones in 1975. His departure from the group was arguably...
FIZZ ED. SELTZER BUBBLES UP AGAIN
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amAll across town, New Yorkers are puttin' on the spritz. Seltzer water - the soda-fountain staple, the punch line of that spray-in-your-face, practical-joke set set - is undergoing a resurgence,...
NO FORMAL RULES AT UPSCALE EATERIES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amIn a typical scene at the elegant Harry Cipriani restaurant recently, a gent who arrived in a polo shirt and khaki pants was pulled aside by the maitre d' discreetly....
HE COULD SHAKE UP A SHOW THAT'S TOO SLICK
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amHere's hoping this year's MTV Video Music Awards event -- increasingly a slick production -- is not a repeat of last year's lame, tame show. The 1999 VMAs, set at...
"THE MAN WHO ATE THE 747" BY BEN SHERWOOD
September 3, 2000 | 4:00am'This is the story of the greatest love, ever." So promises the opening line of "The Man Who Ate the 747," a quirky, colorful new novel by local author Ben...
LONDON POLISHES A HANDFUL OF FORGOTTEN GEMS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - Among the joys of London theater is its simple diversity: You come across plays here that you will never see anywhere else. I don't mean new plays. London...
RECOMMENDED READINGS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00am* Crime writer Elmore Leonard has written his 36th novel, "Pagan Babies." Leonard wrote the books "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight," which were turned into successful films starring John...
BUSH COULD SCOUT AHEAD
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amDOES George W. Bush want to win this election? You might wonder, given the La-Z-Boy complacency of his post-convention campaign. A Newsweek poll released this weekend finds Gore up by...
CRITICS OF PARADE BOOZE BAN USING IMPAIRED JUDGMENT
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amMAYOR GIULIANI'S decision to abruptly ban alcohol at tomorrow's West Indian American Carnival Parade puts his new police commissioner's head in a vise. Anointed to repair police relations with minorities,...
KERIK PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON POLICE DISCIPLINE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amNYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik's no-nonsense style of strict discipline and respect for authority is ruffling feathers at Police Headquarters. In the nearly two weeks since he has assumed command, sources...
RENO: SCOUTS CAN STAY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno, under pressure from the White House, decided abruptly that the Interior Department doesn't have to cut ties with the Boy Scouts because they don't...
IT'S JUST TOO CLOSE TO CALL RIVALS FOCUS ON THREE KEY SWING STATES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It sure looks like a squeaker 2000 presidential race. Most national polls show a virtual tie between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush, there's tough hand-to-hand...
WORKERS TO WEATHER THE LABOR DAY CLOUDS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amThere's rain in the forecast for Labor Day and clouds on the horizon for workers. The sun, which managed to peak its head out yesterday, is expected to do the...
CASTRO'S A CHARMER - HE'S ALSO A SERIAL KILLER
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amI NEVER met a mass murderer at first glance that I didn't like. But then again, they were giving me exclusives - I was writing them into grisly history. Joey...
BOOK: JEWS TRIED TO KILL NAZI POWS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amA group of Jewish guerrillas tried to kill Nazi prisoners of war after World War II by poisoning their bread, a new book says. It is not clear if the...
BIRDIES ON CBS GOLF ARE TWEETER CHEATERS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amCBS has ruffled the feathers of bird lovers by using dubbed bird sounds during broadcasts of golf tourneys. "It's deceitful and overkill - just how perfect do they want us...
PARALYZED GYMNAST'S SPIRIT IS STANDING TALL
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amParalyzed gymnast Sang Lan is thrilled to be returning to New York - and has worked so hard on getting stronger that she "feels like a member of society again,"...
PREZ KEEN TO GRAB SERBIAN WAR CRIMINAL
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged yesterday that President Clinton wants indicted Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic captured, whether through NATO peacekeepers or U.S. military forces. "We want him in...
BRIDE BARKIN TO TESTIFY FOR PERELMAN
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amEllen Barkin is coming to the defense of billionaire husband Ron Perelman's reputation. The sultry screen star will take the witness stand in Perelman's nasty custody battle with ex-wife Patricia...
U.S. PLANES BOMB IRAQ AFTER AMBUSH
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amU.S. warplanes bombed targets in southern Iraq early yesterday after being attacked while patrolling no-fly zones. U.S. and British planes routinely patrol no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq. The...
HILLARY ENJOYS A NEW 'LINK' WITH THE ELECTORATE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSYRACUSE - Forget about rival tax plans or the Jewish vote - the hot issue in the U.S. Senate race yesterday was, um, sausages. A week after GOP candidate Rick...
MILLION YOUTH MARCH DRAWS JUST 300
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe crowd at the Million Youth March was a mere 300-strong yesterday - leaving organizer Khalid Muhammad blasting the "devil white media" for keeping the rally out of the headlines...
AILING POSH SPICE ORDERED TO REST
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amPosh Spice will be kept off the rack for at least two weeks while she recovers from viral meningitis. "She's absolutely exhausted, and she's been told to rest and that's...
HOW TO TAKE POLL POSITION AND WIN IN THE NUMBERS GAME
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amLabor Day is when analysts say campaign polls really start to matter. But not all polls are equally reliable, so here are a few tips on how to read them:...
TENNIS FASHION SERVES UP SKIN
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE U.S. Open's tennis courts are doubling as fashion catwalks - and sexy ones at that. Last week, leggy Russian teen Anna Kournikova reigned supreme at Arthur Ashe Stadium wearing...
VAST TRACTS OF REAL ESTATE IN DISPUTE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amHere's a breakdown of Indian land claims in New York state. * The two Seneca Indian nations in western New York are seeking all islands in the Niagara River, including...
UPSTATE TRIBES RENEW LAND WARS NEIGHBORS FEAR CENTURIES-OLD CLAIMS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A major war is brewing upstate between residents and neighboring Indian tribes. At least four of New York's recognized Indian tribes claim the state wrongly took hundreds of...
BRAKE FLAW MAY FORCE A RECALL OF SCHOOL BUSES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amNearly 50,000 school buses may be recalled nationwide after a defect in the vehicles' anti-lock brakes was discovered. Another 250,000 commercial vehicles may also be affected. Brake systems supplied to...
SKEETER VIRUS FELLS ANOTHER S.I. RESIDENT
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe latest victim of the potentially deadly West Nile virus is yet another Staten Island resident, and the city's mosquito-killing efforts are continuing into a third month. The 53-year-old woman...
A MONUMENT TO SHOCK VALUE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amJUST when you thought the days of monumental new works of art in public spaces were as over with as tech stocks, two great memorial sculptures of two great Americans...
PRICE PUSH SPARKS TEQUILA SUNSET MARGARITA MADNESS AS SUPPLIES DRY UP
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amNew Yorkers are getting priced out of Margaritaville. A combination of forces has sparked a worldwide tequila shortage that's driving prices for the margarita's key elixer through the roof. The...
FULTON FREEZE A RUDY FISH $TORY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amCall it another Mafia myth. Getting the mob out of the Fulton Fish Market was supposed to be a boon to New Yorkers. Mayor Giuliani crowed two years ago about...
CITY SCHOOLS CRAMMING FOR FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amCity public schools open this week with more than 14,000 new classrooms - but that's still not enough to guarantee that plenty of the system's 1.1 million kids won't feel...
JERUSALEM MAYOR TO BARAK: DON'T SPLIT CITY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM. IF he's not careful, Ehud Barak could be the Israeli prime minister who destroys Jerusalem, Mayor Ehud Olmert told me. "If Prime Minister Barak accepts Yasser Arafat's demands to...
BUBBA'S HELP FOR AL COULD HURT TOO
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton holds a wild card in the race to replace him. By engaging in a battle with congressional Republicans this fall, Clinton can do a lot of...
DUCK SEASON GETS STAMP OF APPROVAL
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE WATERFOWL population throughout North America continues to rebound and this success continues to show through the extended waterfowl hunting season and increased bag limits being offered to New York's...
ROB'S SPIRIT SETS SIGHTS ON SARANAC
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Thirteen years have passed since a young trainer named Billy Mott guided the great grass horse Theatrical to an Eclipse Award as turf champion. Now, Bill Mott...
TENNIS NEEDS MAC-HIAVELLIAN MATCHUP
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amPAR for the court, the passion during the U.S. Open's first week was found mostly outside the lines, not between them. The new, naked statue of Arthur Ashe has stirred...
FIRST? FIFTH? NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW - QUESTIONS ABOUND AS BIG BLUE OPENS TODAY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amHe laid it out for his players. Jim Fassel, embarking on a season of decision regarding his career, imparted a heavy message to the Giants in the days leading up...
WIN OR LOSE, JINTS SHOULD BE FUN TO WATCH GIANTS MAY NOT WIN, BUT THEY'LL BE EXCITING
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHESE are not your father's Giants anymore. They are your grandfather's Giants and not just because of the retro-uniforms, either. The franchise is turning back the clock to days it...
LAMBEAU HAS GROH WORRIED
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amJET NOTES GREEN BAY - One of Al Groh's first messages to his team in preparation for today's opener in Green Bay was a talk about Lambeau Field, where the...
OLYMPICS LIGHT UP SYDNEY - SPIRIT OF THE GAMES CAPTURES AUSSIE CITY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSYDNEY - Last week, painters placed a blue stripe across the Harbor Bridge and through downtown to mark the Olympic marathon route and, just like that, Sydney got the Olympic...
IT WILL BE AL RIGHT: COACH CONFIDENT IN DEBUT
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amGREEN BAY - Watch Al Groh today on the sidelines at Lambeau Field. He'll be calm on the exterior and churning on the inside. Groh, playing it as cool as...
DON OF AN OLD ERA - MATTINGLY'S RETURN IS REMINDER OF IMPORTANCE OF PITCHING
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS was the Old-Timer's Day in which Don Mattingly returned and, in the history of the Yankees, it was well-timed. In pinstripe lore, Mattingly represents the great ring-less Yankee. In...
NELSON COUNTING DAYS TO FREEDOM
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amJeff Nelson sounds like a man with a prison sentence. "I've got 29 more days and then the playoffs," Nelson said before the Yankees faced the Twins yesterday at the...
BOUTON: STARS OF YESTERYEAR WOULD BE JUST 'GOOD' TODAY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amIf Mickey Mantle played today, he would be "good." If Sandy Koufax pitched today, he would be "good." Crazy talk? Perhaps, but former Yankee hurler Jim Bouton said both of...
SAMPRAS ROLLS INTO SWEET 16
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amPete Sampras, meet Hyung-Taik Lee. "I haven't heard one thing about him," Sampras said. "Never heard of him." That's the type of weird tournament it's been for the fourth-seeded Sampras,...
IRISH WIN FIRST BATTLE OF YEAR
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. -For Notre Dame's Bob Davie, yesterday's season opener against Texas A&M was the most important game in his three-plus seasons as the head coach of this storied...
LI'L GLENN FOLLOWING FOOTSTEPS
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - Jason Glenn has known about competition his entire life. One of 11 children, and the youngest of five brothers, including Jets cornerback Aaron Glenn, the Texas...
BUSCHWHACKED AGAIN - METS FALL ON FINAL PITCH FOR SECOND TIME IN ROW
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - They don't like it. The Mets can't stand what has happened to them the past two days here. They've lost both games to the Cardinals on the...
REAL RACE IS FOR SPOT ON ROSTER
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - As September has begun, there is another race brewing with the Mets besides the ones for the NL East and the wild card. It's the race to...
HOPEFUL ENDS IN DEAD HEAT
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - In the closest Hopeful Stakes in its 96-year history, 7-5 favorite City Zip and 7-2 second choice Yonaguska hit the finish line in a dead-heat yesterday after...
VENTURA FOOT SHY ON VINA'S WINNER
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - You can go to the deli today and see how much the Mets lost by yesterday. They make hoagies this size. "Probably a foot," Robin Ventura said....
U.S. BRACES FOR BATTLE - NEEDS WIN ON HOME TURF AGAINST GRITTY GUATEMALA
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amHERNDON, Va. - OK, today's World Cup soccer qualifier at RFK Stadium in Washington isn't absolutely a must-win for the U.S., but it might as well be. The U.S. hasn't...
LIKE OLD TIMES IN BRONX ZOO
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amIT turns out this was Old-Timers' Day mostly for George Steinbrenner. Though on this occasion The Boss had as much fastball as Stan Bahnsen did yesterday. Dave Winfield was in...
YES, SER! WILLIAMS ADVANCES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amAlready racked by several injuries this year, Serena Williams was bent over in excruciating pain when she banged her right knee yesterday. In the press room. The nearly calamitous incident...
MOTT'S GOT THE HORSES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Going into today's card, Bill Mott and Todd Pletcher are waging a furious battle for the Spa 2000 training title, with Mott a nose ahead, 14-13. But...
A FAMILIAR SUCCESS STORY
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amDenny Neagle was ecstatic when he was traded to the Yankees. Now we know why. Despite another mediocre start, Neagle yesterday earned his second straight victory in the Yankees' 13-4...
BOSS: I WANT JEFF BACK
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe the Jeff Nelson era in the Bronx isn't approaching an end, after all. Despite having angered management throughout much of the latter half of this season, it isn't impossible...
CAT THIEF, SURFSIDE GEARING UP
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Two runners from the D. Wayne Lukas barn worked yesterday morning. Whitney runner-up and last year's Breeders' Cup Classic winner, Cat Thief, went six furlongs in 1:14...
MARTINA'S DOUBLES VISION
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amThis might be her first U.S. Open since 1995, but Martina Navratilova has played long enough to know that something was wrong. "I'm thinking, I should have hit that volley,"...
ANNA TAKES ANOTHER EARLY EXIT
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amMaybe Anna Kournikova is just not that good. Maybe this is all we should expect from her for the rest of her career - third-round exits in Grand Slam events....
HEAT'S ON, BUT FASSEL HAS JOB IN PERSPECTIVE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Jim Fassel's Giants may have been winless in the preseason, but the coach still felt less pressure than at the same time last year, when his mother was...
YOU GOTTA LOVE VINNY TESTAVERDE HAS WHOLE FRANCHISE ON HIS SIDE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amGREEN BAY - He has dreamed this day for a whole, long year, long before he knew it would be at Lambeau Field, long before he knew Bill Parcells would...
IT'S IN YOUR HANDS, FANS FEELING RIPPED OFF? THEN STAY HOME!
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amIN a 72-hour period last week, we received over 50 phone calls, e-mails and faxes from Met season-ticket and partial season-ticket holders, all of them complaining about recently arrived conditions...
RED SOX REAL DIE-HARDS THEY'RE AT THEIR BEST WHEN THINGS LOOK BLEAK
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amLOGIC dictates that the Red Sox will crash and burn completely out of the American League East race, then fade toward the back of the crowded wild-card standings. For one...
NEAGLE'S SUB KEEPING RED ROTATION HUMMING
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN if injured Michigan quarterback Drew Henson pursues a football career at the expense of his baseball career and injured Double-A outfielder Jackson Melian falls short of his considerable power...
JUSTICE SALARY DUMP PAYING OFF FOR TRIBE
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Indians, emerging as the favorites to win the wild card, greatly aided the cause of the two-time defending World Series champions by trading David Justice to the Yankees. That...
'BLUE HERON' IS TOP FLIGHT S. JERSEY COURSE BOTH FRIENDLY & CHALLENGING
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amThe sand bunkers, with their vast expanse, depth and foreboding fescue grass hair on their edges, give the appearance of the unshaven beard of an unkempt, grizzly old man. This...
BLUE HERON PINES
September 3, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT - A 36-hole facility with a golf school, full practice range that includes putting and sand trap areas, clubhouse, stocked pro shot and dining. WHERE - 550 West Country...