February 17, 2001
IT'S DEJA VU AT BOO AS TOP EXECS JUMP SHIP
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amKate Buggeln, the president of the newly relaunched Boo.com, is leaving the company along with Joseph Marquette, chief technical officer. In addition, Fashionmall.com has eliminated 11 of its 43 positions...
TECH PROFITS BOMB; NASDAQ DROPS 127
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amWobbly techs - combined with new inflation fears and military attacks on Iraq - pushed Wall Street deeper into its worst psychological slump in months. "It was a God-awful day...
MUSIC MAG IS FOLDED
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amOne-year-old music magazine Revolution is folding and hi-tech sister title Business 2.0 is hanging out a "for sale" sign as part of sweeping changes at San Francisco-based Imagine Media. Imagine's...
ROCK'S LOONY-TUNES : BARENAKED LADIES RAP ON REGIS, BREAK UP SELLOUT GARDEN CROWD
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amBARENAKED LADIES THAT was no lady - that was the funniest, most irreverent rock band ever to play Madison Square Garden.In front of a sellout crowd at the arena Thursday,...
COUPLE TRY TO WIN THE HEARTS OF AMERICA
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amIT was a whirlwind romance made for fairytales - and television. But will the story of a U.S. Marine and his runaway princess bride be a double-winner, in the court...
WANTED: MAESTROS OF MESS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amYou've screamed, you've threatened . . . you've withheld their allowance. If you still can't get your kids to clean up their room, join the club - and enter America's...
SEVEN DAYS OF PLAY - A KIDS' GUIDE TO THE BEST WINTER BREAK EVER
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amLooking for something good to do this week? Sure, you could hang out in your PJ's and play Nintendo. But that gets old real fast (and it hurts your thumbs)....
MACKIE THE MAGNIFICENT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amFASHION shows should be fun. Sadly, most aren't - they're too serious, too self-conscious. Too pretentious. It took almost a week, but yesterday morning, fall 2001 Fashion Week finally became...
DON'T WASTE OUR TAX MONEY ON OFFENSIVE GARBAGE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amHEY, you guys at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. While you're on a roll, I got some great megabucks ideas. How about a picture montage of a Ku Klux Klansman...
L.I. DETECTIVE PROBED IN NEW HARASS CLAIM
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amLong Island police are investigating a charge of sex harassment against another Suffolk cop - a detective accused of asking a woman he was interviewing to "show me your panties"...
CONTRACTOR SCAMMED ALZHEIMER LADY: COPS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA "despicable" chimney sweep virtually cleaned out the life savings of an 84-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer by charging $70,000 for repairs he never made, Long Island cops said. Richard St. Marie,...
MCVEIGH COULDN'T HACK SOLITARY: LAWYER
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amOklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh passed up his last chance for clemency because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life behind bars, his lawyer said yesterday. Under...
PETA RIPS 'SURVIVOR' FOR HAMMED-UP PIG SLAY
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amAnimal-rights activists squealed in outrage yesterday after CBS aired graphic footage of a wild pig's slaughter on "Survivor: The Australian Outback." Officials from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
THEY'LL BE RUDY'S UNDOING : MAYORAL HOPEFULS DIFFER ON POLICY
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amMAYOR GIULIANI may be doing everything he can to keep his policies intact after his term ends this year, but his would-be successors already are talking about strategies for "undoing...
FRISCO AT 'CUTTING' EDGE IN BENEFITS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amSan Francisco is expected to become the first U.S. city to pay for sex-change operations for city workers, officials said yesterday. Beginning July 1, city employees could receive up to...
ISRAEL HIT ON NEW TERROR FRONT : SOLDIER IN CONVOY KILLED AT LEB BORDER
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Lebanese guerrillas opened a new terrorist front yesterday, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding three others in a border area. Hezbollah fighters launched an attack with anti-tank missiles...
7 SERBS KILLED IN BUS-BOMB AMBUSH
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amKosovo militants blew up a bus carrying Serb families on a pilgrimage to their ancestors' graves yesterday, killing seven and injuring 43 in the deadliest attack in more than a...
SIZE MATTERS: BUSH CONFIDENT FULL $1.6 TRILLION TAX CUT WILL FLY
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday denied his $1.6 trillion tax cut is in trouble, even though two GOP senators said they won't vote for such a big reduction. "I don't...
VMI CADET IS PREGNANT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPush-ups. Sit-ups. Lamaze? The Virginia Military Institute, which has fought for years to keep women off its campus, has confirmed that one of its female cadets is expecting. And it...
ART VANDAL PROPOSES ACTION AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL PHOTOS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe man who defaced a dung-dappled, porno-packed image of the Virgin Mary two years ago said yesterday that more people need to take a stand against the Brooklyn Museum this...
MAGICIAN FACES LONESOME LEAP
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe NYPD is willing to give magician David Blaine a hand - but not the push he wants from a Midtown building for his next Harry Houdini-like stunt. Blaine wants...
PARKS DEPT. GAVE 50G DUE CITY TO NONPROFITS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amParks Department officials diverted at least $50,000 in fees - intended for the city treasury - to nonprofit groups formed by Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, according to a scathing audit...
REELING PUFFY DEFENSE MAY PUT J. LO ON STAND
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA second day of punishing testimony drove a desperate Sean "Puffy" Combs to the airwaves yesterday, and left his lawyer hinting he might haul in the ultimate weapon - ex-girlfriend...
SADDAM'S BOLD BID FOR PRESTIGE IN ARAB WORLD
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein has been boldly upping the ante in his decade-long cat-and-mouse game with U.S. forces as part of a broader strategy to chip away at U.N. sanctions and increase...
BUSH'S MAN UNDOES CLINTON'S CENSUS PLAN
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe new U.S. commerce secretary yesterday reversed a Clinton administration plan to let the Census Bureau decide whether to adjust the 2000 population count to protect against an undercount of...
IT'S THE LEASE HE CAN DO :RUDY LETS EX-PREZ INTO 125TH ST. OFFICE AFTER SETTLING HARLEM FLAP
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday dropped his opposition to Bill Clinton opening his office in a Harlem building, after the city got a break on its lease and security glitches were worked...
RUDY SPARKS 'MAMA' OF ALL BATTLES : SAYS PORTRAYAL OFNAKED FEMALE JESUS EXPRESSES 'HATRED'
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani charged yesterday that the photograph of a naked, female Jesus in a Brooklyn Museum exhibit promotes hatred and bigotry. The exhibit, spotlighting works by 94 black photographers, opened...
W. GREETS COUNTERPART DOWN MEXICO WAY
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - As the bombs dropped on Iraq yesterday, President Bush was in Mexico, huddling with new President Vicente Fox, kissing Fox's mama and eschewing broccoli. Bush, before arriving at...
'VOLUNTARY' FEES STILL BEING DEMANDED: AUDIT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Parks Department was warned twice by city auditors to stop "misleading the public" about whether membership fees are voluntary at its recreation centers - but misinformation was still being...
WALL ST. EXEC BEHIND BILL SPEECH QUITS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Morgan Stanley executive Mike Rankowitz, who enraged clients by paying Bill Clinton $100,000 for a speech, said yesterday he's quitting. "I'm retiring. My decision has nothing to do...
IT'S BOMBS AWAY OVER BAGHDAD : U.S. & BRIT PILOTS TARGET 'THREATS' TO NO-FLY ZONE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPresident Bush ordered his first military action as commander in chief and launched U.S. airstrikes against Iraq near Baghdad yesterday in a signal that he means to take a tough...
THE SON ALSO RISES TO IRAQI CHALLENGE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amIf Saddam Hussein was testing President Bush, he got his answer yesterday - Don't mess with Dubya. "Every time Saddam raises his head, he gets clobbered," said military analyst Dan...
UFT LAUNCHES BROADSIDE AT LEVY
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe honeymoon is over for Schools Chancellor Harold Levy. The head of the powerful teachers union yesterday blasted Levy as an even bigger obstacle than Mayor Giuliani to reaching a...
BASHFUL HOLDUP GUY GETS STIFFED
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA timid would-be robber walked into a trio of Queens banks demanding money yesterday only to flee empty-handed, police said. The description of the hapless suspect - a Hispanic man,...
COPS CRACK $2M CALL-GIRL RING : SAY 'MADAM' WAS STERN-SHOW REGULAR
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA regular on the Howard Stern show was arraigned yesterday on charges she ran a $2 million-a-year escort service with $4,000-an- hour call girls out of several ritzy East Side...
THE KHALID MYSTERY: IS HE DEAD OR ALIVE?
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amKhalid Muhammad's associates insisted last night the firebrand black activist was alive - capping a day of conflicting reports about his fate. While a top law-enforcement source said the organizer...
CIVILIANS BANNED FROM CONTROLS ON U.S. NAVY SUBS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Navy no longer will allow civilians to operate the controls of its submarines, a move spurred by the fatal collision with a Japanese trawler last week. Civilians also are...
1911 TRIANGLE FIRE SURVIVOR DIES AT 107
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amRose Freedman, the last known survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, died yesterday in California at age 107, The Los Angeles Times reports. When the fire erupted on March 25,...
COPS SEEK TEEN PALS IN PROF SLAYS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amNew Hampshire cops are looking for two teenage suspects in the stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors, and say the duo are on the run. Robert W. Tulloch, 17,...
LIVER VICTIM HOME AFTER 2ND TRANSPLANT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA Brooklyn nurse who was given another chance at life, after receiving a new liver to replace the cancerous one she had received in an earlier transplant, has been released...
BUBBA'S OFFICE TIMELINE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amJanuary 16: Page Six reports that Clinton may lease office space in Carnegie Hall Tower, the tony highrise at 152 W. 57th St. January 20: The Post reports that Clinton...
RANGERS' PLAY IS NOTHING SPECIAL
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amWhere's that Church Lady now that you need her? Where's that unique, caustic someone to say, "Now isn't that special?" Because, you see, the Ranger "specialty" teams have been anything...
BERNIE'S EAGER TO GET TO WORK
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - The days of Bernie Williams racing into spring training seconds before the start are gone. For the second straight year, Williams was among the Yankees' early arrivals and...
BIG A BRACING FOR XTRA EFFORT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amA field of five, led by 122 pound highweight Xtra Heat, will square off in today's seventh running of the Dearly Precious Stakes for three-year-old fillies at Aqueduct. After winning...
BENITEZ READY TO PUT PROBLEMS BEHIND HIM
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Now that he's cleared and the legal situation with his ex-girlfriend is behind him, Armando Benitez is ready to focus on the season. "I'm glad this...
GIANTS STOCK ROSTER WITH 11 FREE AGENTS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants yesterday re-stocked their roster for training camp this summer by signing 11 free agents and then allocating seven of them to play in NFL Europe this spring. Many...
AFTER 2 YEARS, RE-SIGNED MO CAN OPT TO GO
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - So, just how long is Mariano Rivera going to be a Yankee? Even after the three-time defending World Champions and the All-Star closer finally agreed yesterday on the...
STAMPER IS RAM-TOUGH
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPSAL PLAYOFFS M. Center71 Tilden55 Most players on Manhattan Center had waited nearly two weeks for their first-round PSAL playoff matchup against Tilden. J'son Stamper had waited nearly two years....
POSADA SAYS HE'S ON DECK FOR LONG DEAL
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - Next. With long-term contracts now complete for Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada becomes the next, logical candidate to be considered for a multi-year pact by the...
OCTOBER'S FAR AWAY FOR 'DO-LITTLE' METS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Blood rushed to the face of general manager Steve Phillips the moment he spotted a headline that referred to his team as the "do-little" Mets over...
BOBBY'S SENDING NO VALENTINES TO DARRYL
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The situation between Darryl Hamilton and Bobby Valentine continues to worsen. While Hamilton feels lied to by Valentine and would like to be traded to get...
APPIER, TRACHSEL MOVE ON : AMAZIN'S NEW HURLERS HEAD IN RIGHT DIRECTION
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The two guys who will likely determine if the Mets return to the World Series do not know where they are going. Their trip around here...
PRECIOUS PINSTRIPES HAVE MAGICAL LURE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amTAMPA - What in the name of Scott Boras is going on around here? Few players could have created negotiating leverage like Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. Great stars. A...
VAN HORN: REFS GIVE NETS NO RESPECT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amThe frustration was painfully evident. Keith Van Horn felt he got hosed by the officials against the Knicks last night as he was limited to just 18 minutes and two...
'GLOBAL' JUMPS INTO 'FOUNTAIN'
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amInstead of the traditional south Florida victory feast of stone crab claws, trainer Bob Baffert and owners Bob and Beverly Lewis will be dining on Maryland-style crab cakes after today's...
MARBURY'S LOST ON WRONG SIDE OF RIVER
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amLOOK into Stephon Marbury's eyes and you see a lost basketball soul. All the goodwill created by his All-Star heroics and 50-point explosion against the Lakers was washed away last...
DIPIETRO GETS 1ST NHL WIN; WADE DEALT
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amEDMONTON, Alberta - Rick DiPietro's wait is over. DiPietro, the first goalie ever drafted No. 1, made 24 saves for his first victory in six NHL starts, and Roman Hamrlik...
IN METRO MATCHUP, MARBURY'S TOP GUN - UNTIL FINAL SCORE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amSEARCH the memory banks. Send them into overdrive. Before Stephon Marbury, when was the last time the Nets had the best player on the floor while playing the Knicks? You...
GRIDLOCK GIVES PLAYERS HELLISH COMMUTE
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK-NET NOTES A Friday night. On a holiday weekend. With rain. In New York City. You might want to leave a little earlier if you're driving. Duh! Well, the thought...
STUDLY STEPHON IN KNICK CROSS HAIRS - NET POINT GUARD IS TARGET OF 'D'
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amOh, here's a real surprise. The Knicks claimed they wanted to focus on Stephon Marbury as the way to stop the Nets' offense last night. "I would focus on Steph,...
DEVILS' SWOON LOOKS FAMILIAR - INJURIES CATCH UP WITH CHAMPS
February 17, 2001 | 5:00amIt seems lost in their Stanley Cup heroics, but the Devils did nosedive to end last season, costing their coach his job. They seem to be starting the same move...