November 1, 2000
PURE ELECTION PLAY - DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS & FANNIE MAE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amFANNIE Mae - next stop, $95 or $55? Shares of the quasi-governmental mortgage agency have been soaring lately and this week passed its previous high of $76 a share last...
BMG, NAPSTER CALL MUSIC WARS TRUCE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amNapster may have been saved from extinction yesterday when it struck a deal to provide song-sharing services for one of the world's biggest record companies, BMG. The agreement brings Napster,...
A GOLD MINE FOR BROADCASTERS SPANISH LANGUAGE TV GETS ITS JUST RECOGNITION AT LAST
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amIt's a "golden age" of television all over again - at least for Hispanic TV. Wall Street is high again on the major Spanish-language broadcasters, whose ratings regularly beat their...
THEY LAUGHED WHEN HE SAT DOWN TO PLAY, BUT . . .
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amHank Barry, a former rock drummer and show business lawyer, stands to reap a huge windfall on his $15 million investment in lawsuit-battered Napster. Silicon Valley and music industry execs...
HAMILL NABS WORLD SERIES QUICKIE BOOK
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSIMON & Schuster has signed the legendary Pete Hamill to be the editor of "The Subway Series Reader" - one of the first hardcover publishers to try to capitalize on...
PLAN FOR LUXURY CONDOS IN WOOLWORTH BLDG.
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Landmarks Commission is considering a plan to convert the top of the Landmarked Woolworth Building into luxurious, residential condominiums. F.W. Woolworth's Cathedral of Commerce would turn into Condos of...
THE JOY OF SIX: MEET THE GUYS WHO GO ALL THE WAY IN 'THE FULL MONTY'
November 1, 2000 | 5:00am"When we were cast in the show, and got our scripts, the first thing we did was turn to the final page to see if we'd have to take off...
MOULES-AND-CARPACCIO HEAVEN OFF MADISON SQ.
November 1, 2000 | 5:00am'OOOOH, the Mets got two points," the midriff-baring young woman whoops at the bar of new Chazal. We cut her slack for not knowing "runs." This place is about Euro-cute,...
ALMOST LIKE PART OF THE FAMILY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S a special night at Gradisca. The clink-clink-clink in the bustling back room is a fork tapping against a glass to nudge a kiss from newlyweds - the chef and...
ABT FROM ASTAIRE TO AUSTRALIA
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAMERICAN Ballet Theatre put both its new eggs in one basket over the weekend at City Center.It offered the season's two novelties in quick succession: the world premiere of Christian...
JOHN EDWARD 'TALKS' TO THE DEAD, BUT SOME CRITICS ARE ASKING: IS THIS MAN THE DEVIL?
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amIs John Edward Satan? Some people think so. They say Edward, who contacts dead relatives for members of the studio audience on his red-hot Sci Fi Channel show "Crossing Over,"...
OLD GAYS, OLD JOKES ...OLD HAT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00am"Normal, Ohio" Tonight at 8:30 on Fox I'M not a gay man. Well, the last time I looked I wasn't. So to help me with "Normal, Ohio," the new Fox...
NOW THERE'S HELP FOR THE SORT WHO CAN'T WAIT FOR PORT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSEARCH the Internet for the initials L.B.V. and pretty quickly you'll run across the Legiao da Boa Vontade, a Catholic "good will" organization based in Brazil whose Web site offers...
THE STARR REPORT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amMadison's avenue could lead to L.A. Ch. 4 news VP Paula Madison has emerged as a front-runner for the GM job at NBC-owned KNBC in Los Angeles, according to Electronic...
DUCASSE TRUFFLES A TRIFLE PRICEY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amTIME to take out the calculators again. Alain Ducasse has topped his own record-breaking menu - pricewise. Now in addition to his $160 seven-course feast, the chef is offering a...
BUY YOUR WAY INTO A NOVEL
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amNOW you can achieve literary fame without writing a word - some of England's top authors are auctioning off spots in their upcoming novels to raise money for charity. Bid...
E.T. CAN PHONE HOME & HEAR TUNES ON THE SAME WIRELESS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amNOW music fans will have one less gadget to carry. The Uproar, from Sprint PCS and Samsung, bundles an MP3 player with its Web-enabled wireless phone, which has some personal...
CHILDHOOD FAVORITE GROWS UP - A NEW TAKE ON MACARONI & CHEESE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSMILE and say "cheese" - make that "macaroni and cheese."The dish is popping up on menus all over town, with some versions so deluxe you'd barely recognize the childhood favorite....
FLASH! NBC KILLS 'DEADLINE' AFTER 5 SHOWS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSTOP he presses . . . please! NBC has shelved the hourlong drama "Deadline," based on a swashbuckling New York City tabloid columnist played by actor Oliver Platt. "Deadline" lasted...
HILL BACKER TIED TO HAMAS 'FRONT' - MUSLIM WAS BIG IN U.S. GROUP EYED AS TERRORIST SHILL
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe U.S. Muslim leader whose support for Mideast terrorists caused Hillary Rodham Clinton to return his campaign money has links to a Virginia think tank suspected of being a front...
WHO HAS BEST RX FOR THE NATION'S ILLS?
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amDay 4 Health Health-care reform has become the hot button issue for Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio as their race for the Senate roars down the homestretch. Both candidates...
IT'S SICKENING THAT HILL STANDS BY FAILED PLAN
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amDay 4 Health It was almost eight years ago when Hillary Rodham Clinton was placed in charge of one-seventh of the American economy -- its health-care system. She was bright-eyed...
SCANS FIND SCHIZOPHRENIA IN EARLY STAGES
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA simple brain scan can detect the early stages of schizophrenia, top psychiatrists say. And earlier detection of the crippling mental illness - locating it before patients suffer delusions or...
GROUP TO FIGHT SIAMESE SURGERY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA new campaign is under way in Britain to stop planned surgery to separate Siamese twins - an operation that will result in the death of one of the babies....
B'KLYN TEACHER JAILED FOR SEX WITH STUDENT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA former Brooklyn high-school teacher will go to jail for almost three years after tearfully admitting yesterday that he knew that the 16-year-old student with whom he had oral sex...
OPPOSITES ATTRACT, SO I'LL PULL A LEVER FOR LAZIO AND GORE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amTALK about tough love - Al Gore can be infuriatingly difficult to like. Affable Rick Lazio can be painful to watch, as he comes maddeningly close to squandering what should...
SHOOTING RAP AGAINST TURNPIKE COPS TOSSED
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA judge threw out criminal charges yesterday against two police troopers whose 1998 shooting of three black men on the New Jersey Turnpike ignited the state's racial-profiling controversy. Superior Court...
W. SIDE ROCKET-LAUNCHER PUZZLE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Upper West Side, normally a bastion of pacifism, was the scene of a most unfriendly discovery yesterday morning - a military rocket-launcher found in the trash, police said. A...
SO LONG, STEVERINO - TV LEGEND WHO LAUNCHED 'TONIGHT SHOW' DIES AT 78
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amFunnyman Steve Allen, the original host of NBC's "Tonight Show" who inspired the late-night lunacy of David Letterman, died of an apparent heart attack Monday in Encino, Calif. He was...
ONLY TIMES' VIEWS FIT FOR HS KIDS?
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amTHE New York Times bellows: "All the News That's Fit To Print." But Brady Totten, a 16-year-old junior at Forest Hills HS, believes he has a chance to mangle the...
'CHEESY' AL & JOE ARE A HIT IN DAIRYLAND, USA
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE. WHAT can you say about a state where people proudly call themselves "Cheeseheads?" When Sen. Herb Kohl, who was the warm-up act (after Jon Bon Jovi) for Al Gore...
LEVY-RUDY CLASH NEARS ON TEACHER PAY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy and Mayor Giuliani could be on a collision course over teacher pay - with the union contract lapsing on Nov. 15. The United Federation of Teachers...
CALLS FOR LENIENCY AS PIRRO'S HUBBY AWAITS FATE TODAY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amWestchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro will stand by her husband today as he is sentenced on a million-dollar tax-fraud conviction - amid a flood of letters asking for leniency....
LATEST POST/FOX POLL PUTS RICK UP BY 5 POINTS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amRick Lazio is holding a 5-point lead over Senate rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York Post/Fox 5 tracking poll shows. The statewide poll, conducted Sunday through yesterday, showed Lazio...
GOOD NEWS FOR 2001 IS CUT IN CITY INCOME TAX
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amTaxpayers got a Halloween treat yesterday, with City Council leaders announcing a deal with the administration to cut the personal income tax surcharge starting Jan. 1. Officials said the cut...
MEDICAID TO COVER NEW ABORTION PILL DESPITE BROUHAHA
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY - The state's health-insurance plan for the poor will cover the controversial new abortion pill, The Post has learned. State officials say the Medicaid program, which already covers surgical...
TEARS FOR 'SHINING STAR' AT FUNERAL
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAn 18-year-old Brooklyn teen killed while helping a teacher change a flat tire was remembered yesterday as a "wonderful person" who aided others and loved his family and the Yankees....
'POOR' KIMES TO GET STATE AID
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAlready in the jailhouse, New York's most notorious killer swindler mom now qualifies for the poor house, a panel of state appeals judges ruled yesterday. The judges approved Sante Kimes'...
STATE LOSING PATIENCE WITH EMS BILLING WOES
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Emergency Medical Services' billing system is in a shambles, with a one year backlog and uncollected accounts totaling $39 million, state Comptroller Carl McCall has found. In an audit...
STATE SUING ED. BOARD OVER FED-FUNDS PROBE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amGov. Pataki's probers are hauling the Board of Education into court for allegedly trying to block a criminal probe into whether some schools used phony data to get federal poverty...
SURVIVORS TELL OF MIRACLE ESCAPES
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSurvivors of Singapore Airlines' doomed Flight 006 dramatically recounted yesterday how they cheated death when the Los Angeles-bound jet crashed and burst into flames seconds after takeoff in a Taipei...
CLINTON LASHES LAZIO FOR 'EXPLOITING' COLE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ratcheted up her attacks on Rick Lazio - launching a hard-hitting ad that accuses her GOP opponent of "trying to exploit" the fatal terrorist bombing of...
NEW BUSH AD GORES AL FOR FIBBING - FOES ARE TARGETING UNDECIDED SENIORS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amGeorge W. Bush launched a TV attack ad on character yesterday that mocks rival Al Gore for "bending the truth" about Social Security as the two men battled for undecided...
NEAR-BLIND MARATHON RUNNER CHASES DREAM
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA nearly blind Burmese runner - who calls himself Tarzan, has a daughter named after Nancy Reagan and this week slept in a bed for the first time - plans...
IN-LAW HELD IN SLAY BID ON BIGAMIST'S WIDOW
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man took out a contract on one of his bigamist brother's two widows in hopes of cashing in on the dead man's estate, Nassau County police said yesterday....
CANDIDATES SCARE UP SOME VOTES OUT WEST
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amPORTLAND, Ore. - Al Gore tried to shake up the 2000 race with populist "class warfare" yesterday, while George W. Bush sounded cautiously confident as they crossed paths wooing the...
IT TAKES THE VILLAGE TO DO H'WEEN RIGHT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amBill Clinton was spotted on Sixth Avenue last night in prison stripes. Nearby, Met catcher Mike Piazza had a broken baseball bat stuck in his chest. And, of course, there...
STOCK SCAMMER TESTIFIES: D'AMATO AIDED COVER-UP
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amEx-Sen. Al D'Amato stymied a state probe of a $100 million stock fraud, the admitted brains behind the scam claimed yesterday while testifying in a Brooklyn federal court case. Testifying...
SCORES DIE IN TAIWAN 747 CRASH - RUNWAY DEBRIS EYED, AS IN CONCORDE HORROR
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAir-safety experts today were looking into whether debris on a runway caused a Boeing 747 to crash during a blinding typhoon in Taiwan, killing 78. The pilot, one of 16...
ROCKET BALKS AT PAYING FINE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amBelieving that paying a $50,000 fine sends a message that indeed he was trying to hit Mike Piazza with the barrel of a shattered bat in Game 2 of the...
WADE'S RETURN NO PIPE DREAM
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amIf you weren't aware that Wade Flaherty was sidelined for nearly a year with a dislocated right shoulder, you probably couldn't believe it. Not after his first two starts this...
FLAWED KNICKS BEGIN LIFE WITHOUT PATRICK
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amLIFE after Patrick Ewing began in earnest last night at the Garden where the Knicks unveiled a new-look team that promised unselfishness, a hard work ethic and a team concept....
BROWN PRAISES ALLEN DOESN'T BURY HIM
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAs hard as the 76ers try to deny it or struggle to change it, the fact remains the same. No matter what center they plug into the middle, or guard...
KNICKS PLAIN SCARY: BOOS ROCK GARDEN IN BAD LOSS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSixers 101 Knicks 72 The chant late in the third quarter was both deserving and overdue. After the Knicks disgraced the Garden and their proud history for nearly 36 minutes,...
BACKCOURT GLUT CATCHES STRICKLAND OFF GUARD
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES At this point, Erick Strickland wouldn't mind a trade, although he won't campaign for one. Strickland does not believe he was given the shaft during training camp. He...
SCOTT CHAMPING AT THE BIT: NEW COACH BRINGS CONFIDENCE TO NETS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThere were diagrams and plays on the board, friends and family in the stands, butterflies and wild horses in the stomach. Byron Scott debuted as the 13th head coach in...
MAXWELL HAD SCORE TO SETTLE WITH KNICKS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amDon't get Vernon Maxwell wrong. It's not like he wanted to be a Knick anyway. But it still stung when the Knicks traded for him and waived him two weeks...
PIVOTAL PROBLEM :RELUCTANT CENTER CAMBY IN MIDDLE OF KNICK CONTROVERSY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amMarcus "I'm not a center" Camby was to take the opening tip last night to officially inaugurate the post-Patrick Ewing era. Is this merely a brief experiment doomed to failure...
YANKS, GLENALLEN TAKING MORE TIME
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Yankees and Glenallen Hill have extended the deadline for the club to pick up a $1.5 million option on the power-hitting outfielder from today to Saturday. "We haven't had...
LET MCSORLEY PLAY NOW!
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amMARTY McSorley has served his time for doing the crime, more time, in fact, than any player in the history of the NHL. Now it's time for Gary Bettman to...
FASSEL HAS GIANTS ON PLAYOFF TRACK
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amYOU know who you are. You, over there, don't hide. Come on out and admit it, you were one of the many who took a look at the 2000 Giants,...
IRON MIKE DROPS IN BY DAN MARTIN
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amJust when you thought boxing couldn't get any more like the WWF, it does. In preparation for his upcoming title defense against David Tua, heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis had an...
HALFWAY HOME, JETS SITTIN' PRETTY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amA quick poll before the season of so-called experts and fans alike and you would not have gotten many people - if any - to predict a 6-2 first-place first...
PHILLIPS & BOBBY STAY . . . TOGETHER ; GM, VALENTINE INK THREE-YEAR DEALS
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Bobby and Steve Show will continue at Shea for at least three more years. But both Bobby Valentine and Steve Phillips vowed yesterday that it will be different than...
FOR FOES, IT'S NEIL AND PRAY : DRYSDALE HAS THE HORSES
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - Like Atlas straddling the universe, one man - trainer Neil Drysdale - towers over the Breeders' Cup extravaganza at Churchill Downs Saturday with two likely winners and bright...
RANGERS CALL ON WITEHALL
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rangers recalled Johan Witehall yesterday to fill in for injured forward Valeri Kamensky. How long he stays, though, is a different story. According to coach Ron Low, Kamensky suffered...
EASY DOES IT FOR AP VALENTINE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - AP Valentine, one of the favorites for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile, breezed a slow half-mile yesterday in :53 for trainer Nick Zito, who also breezed Sprint candidate Valiant...
COCKY SCOTTY: KID IS NO LEMON
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amLOUISVILLE - Rarely has a horse gone from champ to chump as quickly as Lemon Drop Kid, who with one defeat dropped from 5-2 to 5-1 in the odds for...
PHILLIPS & BOBBY STAY.... TOGETHER: SORRY TO SNICKER, BUT THIS MARRIAGE WON'T LAST
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amJUST imagine how much dough Bobby Valentine could have squeezed out of the Mets if he had taken the ball from Al Leiter in Game 5 after Jorge Posada walked....
TURF COURSE HAS A EUROPEAN FEEL
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amBREEDERS' CUP NOTEBOOK LOUISVILLE - Nothing matters more in turf racing than the condition of the ground. Some horses prefer it hard-to-firm. Others, especially Europeans, like deeper going. Right now...
HAMPTON'S NEXT UP ON THE AGENDA
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES It is up to GM Steve Phillips to take the decision out of Mike Hampton's hands. Phillips must make the decision on free agency a no-decision before Nov....
MARY V A CALMING INFLUENCE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amThere have been many times in Mary Valentine's life where she needed, like, 50 feet of industrial strength rope to pull her husband, Bobby Valentine, back from over the edge...
NETS STILL AMONG THE LEAST OF EAST
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Nets are the only team in league history to cover its medical deductible before opening night. Coach Byron Scott has gone from a three-ring playing career to a team...
DEVILS VS. FLYERS NOT QUITE SAME
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amDevils-Flyers is not what it was last spring. In their first meeting since Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Flyers will be without Eric Lindros (unsigned), John LeClair...
NEW FACES, SAME NETS ; COLD SHOOTING MARS SCOTT'S BENCH DEBUT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amCavaliers 86 Nets 82 After personnel, let's try to figure out what exactly was new about the Nets last night. They shot like corpses most of the game. With the...
KNICKS' FALSE START REAL HORROR SHOW
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amLIFE after Patrick Ewing began in earnest last night at the Garden where the Knicks unveiled a new-look team that promised unselfishness, a hard work ethic and a team concept....
JACKSON KEEPS HIS COOL DURING FIRST NBA START
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES Stephen Jackson made absolutely no attempt to hide his feelings before his first NBA regular-season game last night. "I got the jitters like crazy," said the 22-year-old who...
ISLES NOT HALF BAD ANYMORE ; BEAT BRUINS TO GO OVER .500
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amIslanders 4 Bruins 2 On Halloween night, the ghost of the Milsteins was officially put to rest. After doing hard time under the former owners, the Islanders are finally giving...
FANS CHANT FOR EWING IN DISMAL DRUBBING
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amSixers 101 Knicks 72 The Patrick Ewing chant that resounded through the Garden was both deserving and overdue. After the Knicks disgraced the Garden and their proud history for nearly...
DRIBBLING SPREE COMMITS HAIRY CARRY
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Let's hope Latrell Sprewell's role as de facto GM goes better than his horrid season opener. Sprewell, dribbling harmlessly 25 feet from the basket, was called for a...
IVERSON: NEW STYLE, SAME RESULT
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAs hard as the 76ers try to deny it or struggle to change it, the fact is this franchise revolves around - and is carried by - Allen Iverson. Period....
CAMBY 'LAYS AN EGG' IN PATRICK'S OLD PLACE
November 1, 2000 | 5:00amAfter aching to start since he arrived in New York, Marcus Camby finally got his chance when the Knicks traded Patrick Ewing in the offseason. But the willowy Camby repeatedly...