November 13, 2000
BULL'S EYEBOXHEAD: CLUBBY GOLFERS PREPARE TO FEND OFF TONY TOURNEY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amWALL Street executives paying $10,000 a year to tee off at fancy country clubs like Ridgeway and Manhattan Woods, or at any of the other half dozen in the northern...
VORNADO IN TALKS WITH INSIGNIA
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amIn what could lead to a marriage of Big Apple real-estate giants, Vornado Realty Trust, the city's largest commercial landlord, is reportedly in preliminary talks to buy top brokerage Insignia...
MEDICAL FUND'S FEELING FINE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amIF the Democratic administration has been holding back health care stocks so far this year, it's news to Paul Abel. He's the portfolio manager for Kinetics Asset Management's Medical Fund,...
MY LORD, YOUR CASTLE AWAITS - ON EBAY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amHave you longed to become a legitimate king of the castle or lord of the manor, but lacked the proper pedigree? Thanks to the convenience of eBay and one person's...
ELECTION RESULTS WROTE THE RX
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amLast week's election was just what the doctor ordered for the health care industry. The cliffhanger for president may be causing a few heart attacks and raising blood pressures across...
COOLING OFF OVERHEATED STOCKS: LEHMAN ANALYSTS EARN HIGH MARKS FOR DEADLY ACCURACY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amLEHMAN Brothers has a reputation for being one of the most bullish shops on Wall Street. And yet, the investment bank has been playing the role of the matador when...
RECOUNT OF FLORIDA VOTES DEMANDED AGAIN!
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE election was rigged, and Bull's Eye has the definitive proof. No, not the presidential election. We're talking about the election of new officers to lead the Securities Industry Association,...
FARM HAS TIES THAT BOND
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amJim and Alexandra Lebenthal live, eat and breathe bonds. And when they are in the position to give gifts, they give bonds. The father-and-daughter team behind Lebenthal & Co., New...
NIXED 'NET FORUM FACES REALITY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE first-ever World Internet Forum has been canceled - due to lack of interest. The conference, which was meant to have started today, was killed off by its organizers after...
MORGAN STANLEY'S BIG WINNER
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amVINCE Cangro starts work today as a computer programmer at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and right away, you know he's going to be one of the most popular guys in...
A WIDER FOOTPRINT; HOGAN STEPS OUT WITH SOHO STORE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amOne of Europe's hottest new brands is launching its assault on the U.S. market. Hogan, a division of Tod's SpA, plans the official opening of its U.S. flagship in SoHo...
LIQUID AUDIO, EMUSIC TO BERTELSMANN?
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amBertelsmann's shopping spree may have just begun. After buying music e-tailer CDNow and taking a stake in the renegade Napster, the German media giant is thinking about acquiring Liquid Audio...
DOMESTIC DIVA GETTING CLOSE TO OPRAH TERRITORY; MARTHA'S BIG BREAK
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amMore and more Martha, thanks to Dr. Laura's stumble. Stewart is moving into the on-deck circle - this close to showdown with daytime TV sluggers Judge Judy and Oprah.MARTHA Stewart...
PLAYING HER STRONG SUIT: HOW MUCH FOR THAT DREAMY TAHARI TWO-TONE? OUR REPORTER CONSIDERS TRADING 50 LUNCHES
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amURVI Mehta wants to sell me a suit. And if you're a woman size 2 to 14 with a budget somewhere between Prada and H&M, she'd like to sell you...
PURSE-ONAL STYLE!
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amYou can tell a lot about a man by his shoes, but you can tell even more about a woman by her purse - and what's in it. No one...
TO BE(TRAY) OR NOT TO BE(TRAY)?
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amNOTHING leads to infidelity more than marriage.I usually never think about things like cheating - unless, of course, I'm dating someone. But the subject began to intrigue me after seeing...
GOP HEAVY-HITTERS TEAM UP TO SAVE CHAIRMAN POWERS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amA BEHIND-THE-SCENES coalition of powerful Republican forces is combining to keep embattled state GOP Chairman William Powers in office, The Post has learned. The Powers alliance includes Mayor Giuliani, Senate...
HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION: THE BUSH CAMP: ALL BOXED IN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Bush camp has boxed itself into a corner. The confusion and distress etched on George W. Bush's face this weekend have infected the efforts to pursue the 25 electoral...
HILLARY ONCE STOPPED BILL FROM BEATING AIDE: AUTHOR
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Clinton once stopped her enraged husband from beating a cowering aide to a pulp, the first lady's biographer says. Author Gail Sheehy says Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas,...
RIFT OVER RECREATING KILLER FLU
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTop scientists want to recreate the lethal 1918 flu virus that killed 40 million people worldwide. The idea of rebuilding the devastating virus in the lab has divided the academic...
PAUL: I BELIEVE IN 'YEAH-TODAY'
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amPaul McCartney's prim and proper dad once battled the Beatles over their use of slang words - and wanted to alter the lyrics of one of their most famous songs....
TESTICLE CELLS MAY HELP STROKE VICTIMS RECOVER
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTransplanting cells from the testicles into the brain may help some patients recover from strokes, new research shows. Scientists say a certain type of cell, called a sertoli cell, releases...
REPUBLICAN LAWSUIT STIFLES WILL OF THE PEOPLE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHE American presidency is hanging by a "chad." A semi-detached flap of paper, dangling by a fiber, has become the perfect symbol for this crazy election. There has now been...
SCHUMER SEEKS NEW WAY TO VOTE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amOn the heels of the presidential-election fiasco, Sen. Charles Schumer said yesterday he'll call on Washington lawmakers to come up with a new voting system that's fit for the 21st...
CITY IS TOPS IN SMOKING OUT KIDS' CIG VENDORS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe city's top consumer-protection watchdog boasted yesterday that New York City beats the state and nation in stopping tobacco sales to kids. In 7,811 inspections over the past year of...
'DHARMA' BUYS MADONNA'S HOME
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amFrom one famous blonde to another: Madonna has sold her posh Hollywood Hills home to TV star Jenna Elfman for about $4 million, it was reported yesterday. Jenna, who appears...
DEMS' CHAD, CHAD, CHAD, CHAD WORLD
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amWEST PALM BEACH. JOSE VASALLO dreams of a free Cuba, Denise Lorenzo dreams of a Bush win and County Commissioner Carol Roberts dreams of a new career - as a...
THEY'RE GOING NOWHERE FAST - BOTH SIDES ARGUE OVER PROCEDURE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amPlayers in the White House tug-of-war are about as far apart on how to resolve the conflict as Oregon and Florida, two states that may still play crucial roles in...
CITY STANDS BEHIND $AFIR'S THICK BLUE LINE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday defended former Police Commissioner Howard Safir's NYPD security detail as something that is "routinely" available to outgoing top cops. The Post reported in Sunday's editions that...
'HOME-ALONE' FOLKS BUSTED
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe parents accused of leaving their four young kids home alone in a squalid Brooklyn apartment were arrested yesterday after having ignored a police message about their children's whereabouts, police...
A GORE 'LEAD' WOULD HARDLY BE LEGIT
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHIS Bush-Gore fight is starting to feel like a vicious divorce, with custody of the American people being tenaciously fought over by pit-bull lawyers. It's got to end soon, for...
HERO NABS SUBWAY-STAB SUSPECT
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amA straphanger incensed over subway directions stabbed a conductor on the N train yesterday morning, police said. A passenger who had just gotten off the train at the 53rd Street...
RECOUNT FEVER IS OUT OF CONTROL - COURT HEARING TODAY AS MORE COUNTIES JOIN FRAY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amNew ballot battles are spreading chaotically across Florida as the presidential showdown between Al Gore and George W. Bush heads to its first court clash today - with no end...
FOES TAKE DAY OFF FROM BALLOT BATTLE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN, Texas - While their minions battled in Florida and on television, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush spent the day in near-seclusion at their homes...
4 RACES FOR CONGRESS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore and George W. Bush aren't the only politicians sweating out close elections and waiting to learn if they'll have a Washington job in January. A Senate race in...
JESSE'S CALL FOR RECOUNT DRAWS BLACKS & JEWS ALIKE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson called yesterday for the painstaking recount of Florida votes to continue, saying Jews and blacks were treated unfairly in the ballot bungle. Speaking to a group...
BIG GUNS STOCKPILED INSIDE THE WAR ROOMS - BUSH LOADS UP WITH A POSSE OF LEGAL EXPERTS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amGeorge W. Bush has put his presidential hopes in the hands of a war room filled with his party's top legal minds and a raft of political operatives who are...
CHEESEHEAD BALLOT HAS HOLES, TOO
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - Tales of voter fraud and irregularities in last week's presidential election have swept through Wisconsin, where Al Gore enjoys just a slim lead over George W. Bush. Since...
JUDGES TELL N.M. COPS TO GUARD BALLOTS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE - Judges ordered state police to safeguard ballots this weekend from at least a dozen counties in New Mexico - where George W. Bush maintained a microscopic lead in...
INSIDE THE WAR ROOMS - GORE'S VETERANS OF SPIN WERE THE FIRST IN TRENCHES
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore's battle for the White House is being commanded by a tough, experienced band of street fighters - who went to the mattresses before the other side knew what...
Q&A ON THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE VOTE-COUNT MESS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amQ: What is George W. Bush trying to do in Miami federal court today? A: He is trying to stop a selective hand count of as many as five mostly...
RECOUNT FEVER IS OUT OF CONTROL: COURT HEARING TODAY AS MORE COUNTIES JOIN FRAY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amNew ballot battles are spreading chaotically across Florida as the presidential showdown between Al Gore and George W. Bush heads to its first two courtrooms today - with no end...
FLA. FALLOUT COULD END IN A CRA$H - UNCERTAINTY IS TORTURE ON MARKET
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amIF YOU want a stock market crash, America, keep doing what you're doing in Florida. Wall Street has enough problems without the constitutional crisis being caused by the recent presidential...
FAMILY FEUDJARS FINANCE EMPIRE ; POWER STRUGGLE IS BITTER 'TRAGEDY' FOR ONCE-LOVING CLAN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTHEY are one of New York's wealthiest families, with a $10 billion real-estate and banking empire ruled from palaces in Scarsdale's golden ghettos and from chintz-lined drawing rooms on Central...
BALD TRUTH: HAIRLESS JUST CAN'T WIN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amSO LET me get this straight: Missouri can elect a dead guy to the Senate, but New York, New Jersey and Connecticut can't elect a bald guy? Apparently not. Results...
STAGE IS SET FOR TYSON
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Saturday night, David Tua ate something that didn't agree with him. Lennox Lewis' jab. Two hundred and thirteen of them, to be precise. Now, Lewis would like...
BETTMAN LAUDS ISLES' OWNERSHIP
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amObserving the Islanders' resurgence to a .500 record and the improvements made to the Coliseum (the roof no longer leaks), NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is pouring praise onto the Islanders'...
BIG BLUE FAILS TO STAND ITS GROUND: GREEN'S 4 TD PASSESRAM-SHACKLE GIANTS IN NFC SHOWDOWN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThe Giants demand a recount. On second thought, forget about it. The less they dwell on what happened yesterday, the better. No hand count is necessary to determine who won...
SEE EW IN SEATTLE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amSo now it's finally upon us - the Knicks vs. Patrick Ewing on the hardwood tomorrow tonight in Seattle's Key Arena. It will be Ewing in white, gold and green,...
NFL CAN RUN & IT CAN HEIDI
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amHEIDI, Heidi, Heidi, ho. The NFL thought it was doing its fans a big favor this season when it relaxed TV restrictions, thus allowing out-of-market games to be seen on...
RERAISE MAKES UP FOR LOST TIME
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amReraise, the 1998 Breeders' Cup and Eclipse Award winning sprinter, made his first start since last May a winning one as he won an allowance race at Hollywood Park yesterday....
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, CROSS NO. 1 IN STATE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME Holy Cross 1 Farrell 0 This year, Holy Cross left nothing to doubt. The Holy Cross soccer team, winner of nine straight games, captured the CHSAA state title for...
SPREE INTENDS TO PLAY
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amLatrell Sprewell would probably have to be in traction for him to miss a chance at attacking the basket against Patrick Ewing and jamming over the 38-year-old ex-Knick legend. Although...
BIG BLUE FLUNKS ANOTHER BIG TEST ; GREEN'S 4 TD PASSES RAM-SHACKLE GIANTS IN NFC SHOWDOWN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amRams 38 Giants 24 No recount, by hand or otherwise, is necessary. The Giants lost, and it wasn't even close. In a game they pointed to as the one to...
SILENT RAMS' SWEET REVENGE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amDon't believe athletes when they claim an opponent's trash-talk doesn't get them fired-up. St. Louis remembered all the Giants' pregame yapping about how they were going to beat up the...
OREGON GETS A WHIFF OF ROSES
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amSATURDAY'S LATE RESULTS Oregon can practically smell the roses. The Ducks (9-1, 7-0), ranked seventh by The Post, took a major step toward the Rose Bowl by defeating Cal 25-17...
ST. LOO SPECIALS SO MUCH BETTER
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES As solid and spectacular as the Rams are on special teams, that is how erratic and unexciting the Giants are when it comes to things like punt coverage...
'RUBY' SPARKLES IN STALLION
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThings looked rosy for Ruby Friday when yesterday's Perfect Arc division of the New York Stallion Stakes series at Aqueduct was switched from grass to the main track. The 3-year-old...
MARBURY HAS LANDED
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amThings are good right now for the Nets. At 3-3, they are playing .500 ball and were all smiles yesterday after blowing the doors off the Sonics on Saturday afternoon....
REED DEAL REAL CLOSE ; METS OFFER THREE YEARS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amNegotiations between Rick Reed's agent and GM Steve Phillips are progressing to the point where a deal could be completed by the end of the week. The hangup right now...
CAMBY'S PUMPED FOR WAR WITH EWING
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Marcus Camby is having a better season than Patrick Ewing. Tomorrow night he gets to prove he is a better center. The Camby-Ewing showdown in Seattle is a...
GREEN AND COMPANY PROVE RAM TOUGH
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amIt seemed almost incomprehensible for a St. Louis team with the best offense in the NFL, maybe the best in league history. The very notion seemed laughable while QB Trent...
NO DEFENSE FOR GIANTS' POROUS PERFORMANCE
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES The Giants entered yesterday's game as one of the most unyielding defenses in the league, having allowed an NFC-low 115 points per game. In eight of the nine...
JETS STARE GIFT HORSE IN MOUTH: DROP 3RD STRAIGHT AS COLTS WRECK COMEBACK BID
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amColts 23 Jets 15 INDIANAPOLIS - Another Jets game, another heart-stopper. Another Jets' night game, another night of sleep deprivation for their fans. The end result after yet another breathless...
AS CURTIS GOES, SO GO JETS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - As the Jets played the AFC East-favorite Colts last night at the RCA Dome in a pivotal division showdown, the Jets were trying to regain control of their...
PEYTON HAS COLTS MOVING IN RIGHT DIRECTION
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Colts would like to officially arrive this season. To go from a team with youthful potential to a proven winner worthy of serious Super Bowl consideration. From...
JINTS JUST NOT ON FAST TRACK: SPEEDY RAMS LEAVE 'EM IN DUST
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amWORD that the Giants had a playoff-caliber team had traveled slower than Jim Fassel has been to fix his special teams. Even at 7-2, the NFC leaders had to turtle...
BIG PLAYS HURT JET 'D'
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Big plays against the Jets' defense have come with such regularity it's threatened the success of their season, not to mention last night's game against the...
MACLEAN STILL LINGERS IN LIMBO
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amWhen the Rangers journey to Minnesota for a match Wednesday night to open a three-game trip that will continue in Vancouver on Friday and then conclude in Calgary the following...
FOR TRENT, IT'S EASY BEIN' GREEN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTrent Green, less than an hour after the game of his life, was standing in front of his locker at the Meadowlands. He had matched a career-high with four touchdowns,...
BURKE, COYOTES TAKE BITE OUT OF RANGERS
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amJust as it's inappropriate to overreact to any one victory, it's just as inappropriate to overreact to any one defeat, especially when it's inflicted by as impressive a team as...
TOOMER'S DAZED AND CONFUSED
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amAmani Toomer did not look good. He appeared dazed, off kilter, and when he spoke, he sounded even worse than he looked. Suddenly, one of the Giants' main offensive weapons...
RAM ATTACK IS TOO MUCH
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amTO be fair, the Giant defensive backs riddled for 272 passing yards and four touchdowns yesterday were getting little help from any kind of a pass rush. To be unfair...
IT'S THE SAME SORRY SCRIPT FOR GANG GREEN
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Were the Jets really, 6-1? This season? Really? Were they a team that talked about going to the playoffs, maybe even a Super Bowl? Seems like decades ago...
HALL TAKES BIG STEP BACK
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Just when it looked like he was about to forge ahead in his best NFL season, Jet kicker John Hall took a step back last night. Hall missed...
MARTIN, CHREBET SHINE BRIGHTEST
November 13, 2000 | 5:00amJET NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - The two brightest stars in the Jets' loss last night were Curtis Martin and Wayne Chrebet. Despite the Jets falling behind early again, Martin rushed for...