February 5, 2001
WALL STREET WANTS ONE OF ITS OWN AT THE SEC - OR DOES IT?
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWHO will be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission? Wall Street insiders are buzzing about little else. Ever since Arthur Levitt, who's held the job for eight...
THIS IS NOT THE DEFINITION OF 'RECESSION'
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWHAT recession? Last Friday, the Labor Department said 268,000 new jobs were created in the U.S. during January. But if you look closer, the government's statistics really showed growth that...
NBA VOW: NO SPYING ON FANS - WON'T FOLLOW NFL IN SCANNING CROWD AT ALL-STAR GAME
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWhat's good for the NFL is not good for the NBA. The pro hoops league will not allow its fans to be analyzed by high-tech security cameras at its high-profile...
A NEW RUN @ LATINAS - CLARISSA BRONFMAN LAUNCHING A NEW PORTAL EN ESPANOL
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amClarissa Bronfman - wife of Seagram scion Edgar Jr. - has jumped into the Internet world, launching a Latin portal with three partners , The Post has learned. The Venezuelan...
O'DAIR NAMED ME OF TEEN PEOPLE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amEnding weeks of rumors, much-traveled veteran editor Barbara O'Dair is going home today to Time Inc. to be formally named the new managing editor of Teen People. O'Dair succeeds Christina...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S raining men's mags this week. But you can save your hallelujahs, because there's not a lot of vim or vigor in these titles. Maybe it's those late-winter blahs. Men's-mag...
MARGE, HOMER, BART & LISA
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amQUICK, name the members of the Bush cabinet. Too hard? OK, here's another one: Name the members of the cast of "Survivor 2." Chief Executive Officers of Fortune 1000 companies...
FRONTIER'S ONE STEP AHEAD
February 5, 2001 | 5:00am"YOU can't kick us out; we're leaving!" That's what the executives of Frontier Insurance Group effectively told New York Stock Exchange Chairman Dick Grasso late last week. The NYSE had...
BIG BANKS' FUZZY MATH
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWALL Streeters know all about lies, damned lies and statistics. Look no further than the press releases recently issued by the technology groups of Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley...
MEEKER, CNBC A COMPLICATED COUPLE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amCNBC hasn't been too nice to Mary Meeker lately. The Internet analyst for Morgan Stanley was reduced to stuttering when she last appeared on the business channel, after Squawk Box...
EMERGENCY DEVICES FOR FLYING OR DANCING
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amNOTHING beats living well, except maybe living long enough to tell your grandchildren about it. Given the many inherent risks the wealthy take in everyday life - like yachting, flying...
OUTDOOR SPORTSWEAR CAN ACTIVATE RETURNS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amIS your portfolio active enough? When Americans dissed desk culture, outdoor sportswear companies stepped in. Now some of those companies are styling the masses, and their stocks are on a...
A JUNK BOND FUND WITH A CONSCIENCE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amONE reason there are so many mutual funds is that there are so many investors with so many different needs. One investor, for example, might want a conservative bond fund,...
OH BOYS! A CRAFTY SHOW
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHE BACKSTREET BOYSTonight, 7:30, Nassau Coliseum. The concert is sold out. Expect a multi-night return engagement at Madison Square Garden on the second leg of their American tour in early...
FANCY FOOTWORK - SHOE LIBRARY AND AUCTION SHOWCASE THE LIFE, TIMES AND PLAID STILETTOS OF A LATE DESIGN GENIUS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWhen shoe lovers die, they go to heaven. When they go to heaven, they go to Queens. An unspectacular warehouse in Long Island City is home to one of the...
THE STARR REPORT
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amNew 'Live' co-host Kelly: Meet the press If all goes as planned, Regis Philbin will introduce Kelly Ripa as his new co-host on this morning's show - which will now...
THE DARK SIDEOF THE OSMONDS: FROM WHITE BREAD TO TOAST IN A FEW SHORT YEARS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amGOD forgive me, I kinda like tonight's TV movie, "Inside The Osmonds."Oh, calm down, I didn't say "really love," I said "kinda like." Unlike the other mostly terrible TV movies...
BEST PICTURE PLOT THICKENS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amTHERE may be some surprises when Oscar nominations are announced next Tuesday - quite possibly, some huge ones. As The Post begins its annual preview with a look at the...
DOWNEY'S FINAL BOW - FOR NOW: ALLY MCBEAL LOSES ANOTHER BEAU
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amCONVENTIONAL wisdom holds that drug addicts can't be depended upon to perform their jobs. You certainly wouldn't want them handling hot rivets on construction sites, operating locomotives, driving buses or...
XFL RATINGS TOUCHDOWN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amNBC says its first broadcast of the XFL football league Saturday was a hit. The games were watched in 10.3 percent of homes in the largest U.S. media markets. It...
WHEN A FRIEND GETS TOO FRIENDLY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amLAST Saturday night, after going to the movies, my best friend blurted out-of-the-blue, "Michael, I love you," and, suffice to say, I was shocked more than Ben Franklin out flying...
SOULFUL AMY CORREIA TOPS CLUB SOUNDS AROUND TOWN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSINGER/SONGWRITER Amy Correia was halfway through an English major at Barnard when a bad back sidelined her for two months in Lakeville, a small town in southeastern Massachusetts. She wrote...
INCEST PORN IN THE PEN SPURS STATE CRACKDOWN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The state is cracking down on a bizarre growing interest in incest porn among jailed convicts, The Post has learned. Noting a flurry of inmate requests for smut...
BEEFSTEAK PIG-OUT IS THE 'STUFF' OF LEGENDS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWHEW, thank goodness there won't be any potatoes! "Potatoes only fill you up. Who needs 'em?" explains chef Waldy Malouf, who is hoping to re-establish a great New York tradition...
'WELCOME' NOT SO DANDY FOR ANDY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSTATE GOP Chairman William Powers has written Andrew Cuomo a blistering "welcome home" letter, blaming Cuomo's father for the decline of New York. "To paraphrase the classic Oldsmobile ad campaign,...
'SCARLET LETTER' OF LAW FOR SHOPLIFTER
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amA court has ordered a Pennsylvania woman to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter" every time she goes shopping. Lebanon County Judge Bradford Charles handed down the bizarre edict...
'DONNIE BRASCO' AGENT HELPING SCOTLAND YARD
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe mob-busting, deep-undercover FBI agent played by Johnny Depp in the hit movie "Donnie Brasco" has joined Scotland Yard. Joe Pistone - whose secret life as a Mafia snitch became...
BROOKLYN AID WORKER IS RELEASED AFTER MONTH IN CHECHEN CAPTIVITY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn man, kidnapped at gunpoint in rebel Chechnya for giving medical aid to the needy, has been freed after a month of captivity - and bravely vowed to return...
POT-O'-GOLD MCAULIFFE DARES TO CALL THE KETTLE BLACK
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amIF TOMORROW, on his 90th birthday, the curse that visited our hero Ronald Reagan was suddenly lifted, he would pop a jelly bean and have to indulge in a polite...
LEVY PUSHES FOR NEW VOCATIONAL-ED EXAMS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy has revived controversy over the state's tougher graduation standards - proposing that vocational students be exempt from taking some exams to earn a diploma. Levy says...
WEAVER GETS GALACTIC $22M FOR 'ALIEN 5'
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSigourney Weaver has agreed to star in "Alien 5" - and her return to the smash sci-fi series will make her the highest-paid actress in movie history, a London newspaper...
BRIT 'PARENTS' OF TUG-OF-WAR TWINS TO MOVE TO U.S.
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe British couple battling an American couple over the custody of twin girls adopted over the Internet say they plan to move to the United States. Alan and Judith Kilshaw...
CITY HALL SCRIBE TO BE EULOGIZED
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amA memorial service for Andy Logan, who covered City Hall for The New Yorker magazine during an amazing career that spanned six decades, will be held later this month. Logan...
SCHUMER PUTS HEAT ON BUSH
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSen. Charles Schumer called on President Bush yesterday to boost emergency heating assistance by $600 million to help homeowners socked by a 40 percent jump in natural gas prices this...
BUSH WOOS DEMS WITH A PITCH FOR TAX-CUTTING
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Setting the stage for the introduction this week of his 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax-cut package, President Bush dropped in on a private meeting of congressional Democrats to take...
KIDNAPPED GIRL, 11, FOUND AT PA TERMINAL
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amAn 11-year-old girl thought to have been kidnapped from a Brooklyn restaurant turned up unharmed in the Port Authority Bus Terminal yesterday. Police had frantically searched for more than 12...
BREINDEL JOURNALISM AWARD IN 3RD YEAR
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amEntries are now being accepted for the $10,000 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism - named for the former Post editor and columnist who died in 1998. The annual...
HEDY NEWS: LAMARR'S SON NOT ADOPTED
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amFamed actress Hedy Lamarr - who made movie history with her nude swimming scene in "Ecstasy" - deceived her eldest son all the way to the grave, insisting he had...
INDIA QUAKE SCANDAL
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSleazy real-estate developers who cut corners on construction are being blamed for thousands of extra deaths in the India earthquake disaster. Scores of new buildings in the western Indian state...
POLS BLAME HARLEM BABY DEATHS ON HEALTH-PROGRAM CUT$
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amA group of city lawmakers yesterday blamed cutbacks in federal programs for the skyrocketing infant-mortality rate in Harlem - and vowed to replace the federal money with city funds. For...
SINGER FOULS OUT OF KNICKS' GAME - MIAMI COPS BOUNCE BUFFETT
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe Knicks' domination of the Miami Heat yesterday got too hot for pop star Jimmy Buffett - who was ejected from his baseline seat after launching a foul-mouthed tirade. An...
AFGHANISTAN MAY DEPORT BIN LADEN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amAfganistan's ruling Taliban is eyeing a possible deal with the United States to toss out terror boss Osama bin Laden in exchange for official recognition, it was reported today. "We...
IS OIL DEBATE FUELING BUSH FAMILY FEUD?
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - It could end up being Bush vs. Bush on the issue of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It's been a week since Gov. Jeb Bush of...
CLINTONS' OTTOMAN EMPIRE - THEY MAKE 28G IN WHITE HOUSE FURNITURE THEIRS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe gifts that former President Bill Clinton took with him include $28,000 in furnishings that belonged to the White House's permanent collection, The Washington Post reports today. Two furniture-makers told...
HEVESI HECKLED OFF STAGE AT BRONX DIALLO RALLY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amA crowd of hundreds gathered in The Bronx last night to mark the second anniversary of the police shooting of Amadou Diallo - and jeered Comptroller Alan Hevesi off the...
NASH'S FUTURE AS GM IS ON THE LINE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amThis could be a nail-biting week or so for Nets GM John Nash. And an expensive one. Nash's contract with the team is up after this season but the team...
CITY GOING SNOWWHERE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amNew York's wet and wild white winter is expected to continue today, as the city last night braced for snow. The National Weather Service predicted that a light snowfall could...
RICH WAS SPY FOR ISRAEL - FUGITIVE FAT CAT ALSO OFFERED AID TO CIA & OTHERS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amBillionaire Marc Rich lived a double life during his 20 years as a fugitive, funneling secret data to Israeli and other intelligence services about some unsavory governments. Sensational details about...
PROTEST IN BRONX MARKS TRAGIC DIALLO ANNIVERSARY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amThe father of police-shooting victim Amadou Diallo led a procession of hundreds through the streets of The Bronx last night, vowing to continue his quest for justice on the second...
ALL IS FORGIVEN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amIn addition to Marc Rich, here are the 21 people who won last-minute pardons from President Bill Clinton as he bypassed normal Justice Department procedures: * Tom Bhakta, a Bentonville,...
ED FOUNTAINE'S DERBY DOZEN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amHORSE Jockey Trainer ODDS COMMENT1. AP ValentineJorge Chavez Nick Zito6-1Zito says his A.P. Indy colt "fleshed out over the winter, and that's what you need if you're going to last...
X-TREMELY DISTASTEFUL
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amFOR however much longer the XFL lasts, there's really only one scorecard worth keeping. It's the one that notes all the sell-outs who lent their names, careers, reputations and consciences...
KNIGHTS NAB HALL OF A WIN: PIRATE SHIP SINKING AFTER RUTGERS' UPSET
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amRutgers70Seton Hall64 It was fitting that, as the final seconds ticked off on Rutgers' 70-64 upset of No. 22 Seton Hall, sophomore Todd Billet was dribbling around at midcourt and...
BIG A SCRAPS SIMULCASTING TODAY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWith the forecast of bad weather headed to the metropolitan area, Aqueduct has canceled dark-day simulcasting today. All OTBs will be open to take wagers on all scheduled simulcast tracks....
53 EUROPEANS NOMINATED FOR TRIPLE CROWN
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amWith the Kentucky Derby 13 weeks away on May 5, followed by the Preakness May 19 and the Belmont Stakes June 9, a record 439 3-year-olds have been nominated to...
THE REAL ST. RAY'S FINALLY STANDS UP
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSt. Raymond's78Molloy65 St. Raymond's guard Julius Hodge shoots over Archbishop Molloy's Wendell Bryant. Hodge struggled from the floor (3-of-16) but scored 16 points and grabbed 10 boards as Ravens rolled...
INNER TURMOIL TEARING SETON HALL APART ; PIRATES SINKING OWN SHIP
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSETON Hall's loss to Rutgers was their worst loss in a string of bad losses, their lowest point in valley of low points. Watching the 22nd-ranked Pirates blow a 17-point...
JASPERS HOLD OFF SIENA'S CHALLENGE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amManhattan56Siena51With both teams struggling to generate offense last night, it seemed as if Manhattan and Siena knew exactly how to stop each other's plays. But that would make sense, considering...
NO QUIT IN MARIST
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amAs far as Marist coach Dave Magarity was concerned, it was over. Less than eight minutes remained, Fairfield led the Red Foxes by 10 points, and Magarity was ready to...
KNICKS DON'T MIND: SURVIVE IN OT WHEN HEAT FAIL ON FREE THROWS
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amOVERTIMEKnicks103Heat100 MIAMI - The Knicks knew it. After all these Miami wars, they knew the Heat were going to choke this one away at the end. So when Heat swingman...
WATCHING A RERUN: HOT RICE TOO MUCH FOR HEAT TO HANDLE
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - When Glen Rice was with the Heat, it was never like this. The Knicks were Eastern Conference kings and Miami still hadn't shed its expansion label. The games...
STORMY BEHAVIOR HURTS JOHNNIES
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amSOUTH BEND, Ind. - The Big East Conference doesn't keep statistics for low blows so we can say only that, unofficially, St. John's leads the league with two. Saturday night...
WATCHING A RERUN: JOHNSON, MASE NEARLY DUKE IT OUT
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amMIAMI - Larry Johnson and Anthony Mason were traded for each other a long time ago, back in 1996, and truly the bad blood between them has never disappeared. Mason...
STARS BURN UP NETS IN SHOOTOUT
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amDENVER - Theo Fleury, whose paltry two goals yesterday wouldn't even qualify him to park the cars of his fellow North American All Stars, let alone qualify him to win...
COYOTE SALE HITS ANOTHER SNAG
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amDENVER - The sale of the Coyotes to a group headed by Wayne Gretzky and Steve Ellman, expected to be consummated this week, has been delayed again, and along with...
BURE CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO WAIT UNTIL IT'S OVER
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amDENVER - By the end, he may not have been any more invisible than any of his teammates in his own end. But it is customary for players to stay...
NETS STUMP ANSWER: STEPH, KENYON STUN IVERSON, PHILLY
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amStephon Marbury stared down Aaron McKie. With a first step dart, he exploded to his right, got around the Sixer guard and then found stud defensive forward George Lynch closing...
FEICK'S FOOT KEEPS HIM ON THE BENCH
February 5, 2001 | 5:00amNET NOTES The tape came off Jamie Feick's surgically repaired left ankle and Achilles. And there was pain. So there's always tomorrow or Thursday. Feick, who had been a long...