January 4, 2001
SAFETY-SEEKING BOND-BUYERS CAUGHT IN WHIPSAW
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amJust a day after hordes poured billions into the safety of bonds, they got a surprise stomping by Alan Greenspan. In an aggressive and unexpected move, the Federal Reserve chairman...
FOODLINE, STARVED FOR CASH, FILES BANKRUPTCY
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amIt's last orders for Foodline. The online restaurant reservation company quietly filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Dec. 29. The company has until Jan. 8 to hand over its list of...
SKYSCRAPER PLANNED FOR SITE FACING CARNEGIE HALL
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amDevelopers have been quietly planning a skyscraper across from Carnegie Hall on 57th Street, and the planning - but not the building - is expected to continue. Led by Gary...
CANNED LIPPER SAYS HE WAS UNDERUSED
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amTold he's no longer needed at the company he founded, A. Michael Lipper says he could have been used a lot more effectively. "As a shareholder, I didn't think they...
MULLIGAN NAMED NEW CHAIRMAN OF FOX TV
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amBrian Mulligan, the former finance whiz and dealmaker at Seagram, landed the top job at Fox Television yesterday. Mulligan, 41, the new chairman of Fox Television, joins the company at...
STARBUCKS GETTING WIRED, SANS CAFFEINE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amUndeterred by its disastrous forays into the Internet, Starbucks announced yesterday it will make high speed wireless 'Net connections available in its coffee shops. But there are strings attached. Starbucks...
AUTO MAKERS HELPING US ENJOY THE SNOW
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amB EING a serious skier, I'm delighted to report that automakers sponsor more than just summer sports.Chevrolet tops the list with a muti-year, multi-million dollar commitment as official sponsor of...
LOUNGEWEAR - BABY, IT'S HUGH!
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN it comes to making a cocktail party menu, you'd do well to think like Martha Stewart. But when it comes to choosing an outfit for the same fete, consider...
IF STAYING IN'S IN IS GOING OUT OUT? - BEST COCKTAIL FASHION, BAR NONE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE best-dressed drinks have a whole new look. Whether it's classic or modern, barware has become bar-wear. Cognoscenti have discovered that cocktails are not only a simple pleasure easily made...
GET A KNACK FOR SNACKS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amSO, your bar is jazzed up and set to pour. Now, what about snacks? To sidestep the same ol' pretzels and chips, here are a few easy suggestions. * Olives...
CHUCK BARRIS, BRING BACK THAT GONG
January 4, 2001 | 5:00am"Late Friday" Friday night at 1:35 a.m. on NBC Zero stars NOW I understand why so many comedy shows use laugh tracks. It's to cover up the tepid applause and...
RIOULT'S GRAND DANCERS USHER IN DUKE OPENING
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amA brand-new theater is always an occasion, so a hearty welcome to The Duke on 42nd Street - named in recognition of a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable...
POSH ANDLIZ GET'FRIENDLY'; GUEST SPOTS FOR BRIT BABES
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amSPICE Girl Victoria Beckham and screen gem Elizabeth Hurley might pay a visit to "Friends" later this year. Beckham (who is known as Posh Spice) and Hurley are said to...
CBS LOSES 'BRO' BATTLE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amA CHICAGO Federal judge is allowing a $20-million lawsuit by the estate of George Orwell against CBS and "Big Brother" to proceed. The lawsuit alleges that the reality show CBS...
THE STARR REPORT
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amRae of hope: Ernie a help for 2 at 11Ch. 2's Ernie Anastos era (Part II) got off to a promising start Monday. Ch. 2's 11 p.m. newscast, co-anchored by...
GRAMMY'S GOT A GENERATION GAP - NO TAKE-ALL WINNER LOOMS, AS OLDSTERS BATTLE NEWCOMERS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE was no top dog among the nominations for the 2000 Grammy awards announced yesterday - much like the year's music.Last year, Grammy belonged to Carlos Santana, who took eight...
THREE GAY ; HATRED ON THE PRAIRIE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amTHE horrifying murder two years ago of Matthew Shepard - a gay Wyoming college student who was beaten, tied to a rail fence and left to die - had something...
STUDY: IF YOU CUT SALT, YOU CUT BLOOD PRESSURE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amConsuming less salt significantly reduces high blood pressure, whether or not you already eat a healthy diet, a new study says. Doctors routinely urge people with high blood pressure to...
NUT POL: I'LL BE TOUGH TO CRACK
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amA newly elected member of the New Hampshire state Legislature who has advocated killing cops and beating women defended himself against calls for his resignation yesterday. "I am not a...
PATAKI CALLS OUT FOR CHANGE (AND HOW?) - GIVES BROAD IDEAS ON SCHOOL AID, DRUG LAWS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki urged "dramatic" changes in state education funding and the tough, often-criticized Rockefeller drug laws yesterday. In a decidedly upbeat seventh annual State of the State Address...
PATAKI CALLS OUT FOR CHANGE (AND HOW?) - GIVES VAGUE IDEAS ON SCHOOL AID, DRUG LAWS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki urged "dramatic" changes in state education funding and the tough, often-criticized Rockefeller drug laws yesterday, but provided few specifics for his plans. In a decidedly upbeat...
HILL GETS HER SHOT AS A POLITICIAN - TAKES THE OATH OF U.S. SENATOR
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton added "Senator" to her titles at 12:20 p.m. yesterday, joining America's most exclusive club as her husband the president fought off tears and...
GALA GIRL GALLOPS FROM GIG TO GIG - IN THE KNOW AT SHINDIGS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThis is the first in a weekly column on the comings and goings of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.MEET Hillary Rodham Clinton - party girl. Supping with Vice President Al Gore,...
WILDFIRES RAVAGE CALIF. HOMES
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amCalifornia firefighters braced for a big job today after wildfires, fanned by 65-mph gusts, burned luxury homes, forced the evacuation of an Indian reservation and casino, and rained ash on...
11 KIN PERISH IN DEL. BLAZE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amEleven family members - including seven children - were killed yesterday when a fire gutted their rural Delaware home, officials said. "I think any number of people is too many,...
THREE THINGS RUDY MUST DO TO ASSURE A POSITIVE LEGACY
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amRUDY GIULIANI is most effective when faced with problems that are susceptible to a military-like solution - like crime and snow removal. He is less effective in solving problems that...
CRIME IS SOARING AT N.Y. AIRPORTS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amBad weather isn't the only headache for the Port Authority this winter - new statistics show crime is way up at New York City's two airports. At Kennedy, crime jumped...
DOCS CONFIRM JOHN PAUL II SUFFERS FROM PARKINSON'S
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amPope John Paul II is suffering from Parkinson's disease, a member of his medical team has acknowledged - the first official statement linking the 80-year-old pontiff with the disease. Gianfranco...
IRAQ ABUZZ OVER SADDAM 'STROKE'
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amNew intrigue centered on Iraq last night after reports surfaced out of Baghdad that strongman Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized after suffering a severe stroke. The Iraqi government immediately denied...
HE TOOK CUE FROM HILLARY AND BRUNO
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's address was inspired by two of the state's sharpest politicians, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joseph Bruno, insiders say. Republicans and Democrats at the Capitol said lessons...
SUMMARY OF GOVERNOR'S PROPOSALS FOR REFORM
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amHighlights of proposals included in Gov. Pataki's seventh State of the State Address:EDUCATION * Put control of major urban school systems such as New York City's into the hands of...
MAYOR MULLS GREEN'S BILL 'PROTECTING' ABUSE VICTIMS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani may sign a domestic-violence bill tomorrow that his Human Rights Commission chairwoman has attacked as "problematic" and "arguably discriminatory." The bill, first proposed by Public Advocate Mark Green,...
LOTT WARNS DEMS NOT TO PULL ANY FAST ONES
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Democrats get to pretend like they won for the next 16 days, but top Republican Trent Lott warned yesterday they better not try any "shenanigans." In the...
TIME OUT OF BOUNDS - 'SORRY' FOR HAILING O'CONNOR'S DEATH
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amA red-faced Time Out New York magazine yesterday offered an apology to outraged Catholics for saying "good riddance" to John Cardinal O'Connor and calling his death "the best" event of...
ACNE RX PURE SUICIDE? - FOES: ACCUTANE CAUSES DEADLY TEEN DEPRESSION
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amIT HAS been hailed as a miracle drug for the 500,000 teens who will try it this year - a pill that can cure even the worst cases of acne...
SUPERSTARS 'RAP' UP NODS FOR GRAMMYS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amRap rules the Grammys this year. Potty-mouthed Eminem and pioneering gangsta rapper Dr. Dre grabbed the lion's share of nominations announced in Los Angeles yesterday for the 43rd annual music-awards...
PREZ SAYS ARAFAT WILLING TO BEND ON PEACE PACT
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - The White House kept alive hopes of a Mideast peace deal in the final days of the Clinton administration by saying PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had agreed to...
TERROR TRIAL STARTS AMID HYPER SECURITY
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe most heavily guarded trial in New York City's history began yesterday as four accused terrorists in leg shackles entered a Manhattan federal courtroom for the start of jury selection....
HE'S BEEN LIVING WITH A LOADED SKULL FOR YEARS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amAn East Village man went to the doctor for a CAT scan - and found he'd had a bullet lodged in his skull for a quarter-century and never knew it....
DIP INTO FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH - ELDERLY SOCIETY TYCOON TO WED YOUNG PRINCESS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amIT came as no surprise when wealthy New York financier Dixon Boardman took up with the decades-younger Princess Arriana von Hohenlohe shortly after he divorced his popular socialite wife. After...
THE BOARD OF ED SHOULD GO - BUT IT WON'T GO QUIETLY
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amIT was one of those rare moments when the future suddenly becomes clear - if not in detail, at least in form and substance. Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy, in...
STOX GET BETTER BY 'HALF' ON RATE CUT
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe stock market celebrated the Fed's chopping an unexpected half-point off a key interest rate yesterday, setting off a Wall Street rally of the kind that hasn't been seen for...
BIZARRE CULT-SUICIDE THREAT CHILLS CITY HALL
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amCity Hall looked like an armed camp for five hours yesterday after two mysterious Pennsylvania men told authorities they were members of a cult planning a mass suicide on the...
SPORTS BROADCAST GREAT GLICKMAN IS DEAD AT 83
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amRapid-fire sports announcer Marty Glickman - whose early career as a track star was destroyed when he was yanked from the 1936 U.S. Olympic team for being Jewish - died...
FIREFIGHTERS: PAY US MORE TO INSPECT BLDGS.
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amFirefighters expect extra pay if they assume duties being handled by building inspectors, union officials said yesterday. Mayor Giuliani, who formed a task force last September to recommend ways of...
HIZZONER SEES RED AS HE RIPS DELTA'S BIGWIGS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday compared Delta Airlines to the Soviet Union for distancing itself from its Kennedy Airport operations director - who sent Hizzoner an e-mail critical of the Port Authority....
SLAIN 'TRASH' BABY'S TEEN MOM CHARGED
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amA teenage girl was charged with murder yesterday after the medical examiner determined her newborn girl, whose body was found at a city sanitation garage earlier this week, had been...
BUSH: WE STILL NEED TAX CUT TO BOOST BIZ
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amAUSTIN, Texas - President-elect Bush hailed Fed chief Alan Greenspan's surprise inauguration gift of a rate cut yesterday and claimed it shows the need for "bold" tax cuts to revive...
CLINTON AND LAZIO SKIRTED SOFT-$$ BAN HERE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amState Democrats and Republicans made an end-run around a soft-money ban in the New York Senate race last year - spending millions of unregulated dollars in its final weeks, The...
PROGRESS IN CITY TALKS WITH TEACHERS, BUT . . .
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani and the teachers union broke the ice yesterday in trying to settle a new contract after months of bitter sparring. But the two sides admit they are still...
FLOOD OF CLIENTS SAYS GYM $OAKED THEM
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amBally Total Fitness customers have swamped The Post with dozens of new complaints charging the gym chain bamboozled them into signing contracts, unfairly damaged their credit, and ripped them off....
NEW YORK HAS LOST ITS CLOUT IN CONGRESS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amNEW YORK will have fewer friends in high places than in many a moon when President-elect Bush takes office in a few weeks. The Empire State gave Bush just 35...
GOV WANTS SWEEPING SCHOOL CHANGES - TIME TO DITCH CITY ED BOARDS HE SAYS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday called for abolishing boards of education in the state's largest cities and giving control of the schools to elected officials. In a decidedly upbeat seventh...
DEMS RIP SCHEME - BUT RUDY HAILS IT
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe education priorities Gov. Pataki outlined in his address yesterday were greeted with quick disdain by Albany Democrats - but Mayor Giuliani and city schools officials applauded the proposals. Pataki...
2 KILLED AT LIRR CROSSING: TRAGEDY ON DRIVER'S 20TH B'DAY
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amTwo young women were killed and one was critically injured when a Long Island Rail Road train slammed into their car after they drove around a lowered crossing gate in...
NIXON BIG ROGERS IS DEAD AT 87
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amWilliam Rogers, a pal of Richard Nixon's whose service as secretary of state was overshadowed by Henry Kissinger's role as Nixon's top foreign-policy adviser, has died at age 87. The...
GRID STORY SET FOR TITLE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Florida State coach Bobby Bowden finally tipped his hand. One day before his Seminoles played Oklahoma last night in the Orange Bowl for the national championship, Bowden said...
RICE HOPING TO BE AFOOT BY WEEKEND
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES BOSTON - Glen Rice is shooting for a Sunday return. Rice missed his first game of the season last night against the Celtics with plantar fasciitis of the...
FOR STORM, OMAR'S 'DIFFERENCE'
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amWhen Omar Cook was growing up in Brooklyn, starring for Christ The King, he always had to have the ball - and his team's fate - in his hands. It...
PIRATES PUT TO THE TEST IN FIRST CONFERENCE TUSSLE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amBig East equals big expectations. Seton Hall insists it is ready for the challenge. The Pirates opened the Big East portion of their schedule last night at the Meadowlands against...
ECLIPSE FINALISTS NAMED
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe National Thoroughbred Racing Association, National Turf Writers Association and the Daily Racing Form announced the finalists for the 2000 Eclipse Awards, voted on and presented by the three organizations...
SCOTT GIVES THUMBS UP TO KEITH'S WORKOUT
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - Nets coach Byron Scott was watching Keith Van Horn in a hard two-on-two session with the Nets' three reserve centers yesterday. Asked how Van Horn looked,...
BENCHED HOLIK TRIES TO COPE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amAlready embarrassed, Devil center Bobby Holik yesterday left open the possibility of confronting Larry Robinson over being benched. "I will not comment," was Holik's response to a question of whether...
ISLES GRAB JASON BLAKE FROM KINGS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe Kings yesterday traded 27-year-old center Jason Blake to the Islanders for a conditional draft pick. The 5-10, 185-pounder is in his second full pro season out of the University...
CASTELLANO HEADING TO BIG A
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amJavier Castellano, the leading rider at the recently concluded Tropical at Calder meet, will be switching his tack to Aqueduct on Jan. 15. The 23-year-old Castellano is a native of...
EAGLE COACH SEES A LOT OF FAVRE IN MCNABB
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - As a Packers assistant coach during Brett Favre's prime, Andy Reid saw quarterback play at its finest. But now that he's blessed again with another star signal caller,...
BIRDS PUT BULL'S-EYE ON BARBER
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amEAGLE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - After the pounding they took from Tiki Barber twice this season, the Eagles know what needs to be done Sunday against the Giants. "We got to...
GRAND KENYON FIRES UP NETS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Kenyon Martin was tired of just hanging around. So he approached Net coach Byron Scott with an idea. Martin asked for the lead role in a defensive scheme...
BACK TO THE BUNKER ; TUNA, WOODY CONTINUE JET STALL JOB
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe Jets emerged from their bunker yesterday to announce . . . well, nothing. Much the way "Seinfeld" was a TV show about nothing, the Jets' canned statement was a...
JESSIE RALLIES THE TROOPS ; LOCKER-ROOM GENERAL GIVES MARCHING ORDERS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amHe took a walk, paying a visit to each group of players inside the practice bubble. Not so much a shepherd with his flock, more so a general looking over...
AN AMAZIN' DREAM ; WELLS TO PHILLIPS: MAKE ME MET SO I CAN BEAT PANTS OFF YANKS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amDavid Wells shares the dream of millions of Met fans. He wants GM Steve Phillips to bring him to Shea so he can "beat the pants off the Yankees" and...
'SPY' BARROW WON'T LET MCNABB OUT OF HIS SIGHT
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMicheal Barrow listened to the line of questions, looked around at the crowd around him and smiled. "Are you assuming I'm the spy?" he asked. Yes, we're assuming he's the...
GLICKMAN WAS ALWAYS THE BEST
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amIN April of 1982, Ch. 4, WNBC, came up with what seemed like a fabulous idea. It had hired the legendary Marty Glickman, then nearly 65, to anchor evening sportscasts....
BLUESHIRTS ALL OUT OF EXCUSES
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amIt was the schedule. That was one of the excuses the Rangers provided for themselves when they began to slide last month. It was the schedule that mandated too many...
BANGED-UP TIKI WILL BE BRACED FOR BATTLE
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES It was not a sight to excite the Giants. Tiki Barber, wearing a bulky cast on his left arm, from elbow to wrist, running and weaving in and...
ECLIPSE AWARD FINALISTS NAMED
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amThe National Thoroughbred Racing Association, National Turf Writers Association and the Daily Racing Form announced the finalists for the 2000 Eclipse Awards, voted on and presented by the three organizations...
PIRATES PASS FIRST CONFERENCE TEST WITH FLYING COLORS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amSeton Hall 87 Providence 80 The big expectations of the Big East opener were fulfilled last night by Seton Hall freshman forward Eddie Griffin even if his coach and most...
HOT KNICKS 'RUN' IT UP ON CELTICS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amKnicks 100 Celtics 91 BOSTON -The Knicks attacked the basket, ran the fastbreak with zeal and reached the century mark in points last night. Every style the surging Knicks try...
STORM POURS IT ON VS. HOKIES
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amSt. John's 89 Va. Tech 64 If St. John's was looking for a test from Virginia Tech last night, a measuring stick as to their readiness for the Big East...
SPREE MAY NEED STERN'S VOTE FOR ALL-STAR BID
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amBOSTON - The fate of whether NBA fans get what they want in having Latrell Sprewell in the East's starting lineup for February's All-Star Game in Washington will rest with...
SURGING KNICKS 'RUN' OVER CELTS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amKnicks 100 Celtics 91 BOSTON -The Knicks attacked the basket, ran the fastbreak with zeal and reached the century mark in points last night. Every style the surging Knicks try...
IN THE END, TITLE MAY BE LOAD OF BCS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - All the garbage in eight computers become nothing but garbage out as the undefeated trashmen from Oklahoma picked up the national title last night. Left out on the...
THERE'S NO DISPUTE - SOONERS CHAMPS
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amORANGE BOWL Oklahoma 13 Florida St. 2 MIAMI - Instead of a split decision, Oklahoma posted a knockout last night. The Sooners left no doubt that they are college football's...