April 12, 2001
LUXLOOK ON THE ROPES - OFFERS TO PAY 70% OF BILLS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThere looks to be trouble at Luxlook.com. Several of the luxury retailer's vendors have been offered a maximum of 70 percent payment on outstanding bills, The Post has learned. "We...
SPECULATORS DRAWN TO YOUNG BROADCASTING
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amVINCENT Young doesn't come right out and say that his company is for sale. But he doesn't do a whole lot to dispel the notion. "We always pay our phone...
FORTUNE CUTS STAFF WHILE BUYING OUT RIVAL
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amFortune Editor John Huey is poised with a blank check in one hand to buy rival Business 2.0 - and an ax in the other hand posed to fire five...
RIVALS.COM STRIKES OUT, HEADS FOR SHOWERS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amDespite cobbling together 20,000 paying subscribers, online sports network Rivals.com has thrown in the towel. The Seattle-based company, which specialized in aggregating Web sites for minor league and high school...
ECONOMIST'S ANDERSON IS PLUGGED IN AT WIRED
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amChristopher Anderson is the surprise winner to succeed Katrina Heron as the editor-in-chief of Conde Nast's Wired. Heron said last month that she wanted to step down to spend more...
A BLOODBATH @ YAHOO! INC. - 12% OF STAFF GET AX; POSTS $11.5M LOSS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Yahooligans got a drubbing yesterday as the portal giant announced poor earnings and massive layoffs. Yahoo! Chairman and CEO Tim Koogle, who himself is on his way out, announced...
TRIO AIMS TO BRING LUXURY STORES TO WEST 125TH ST.
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIs Harlem ready for luxury retailing? A trio of developers - Lenn Shebar, Larry Ortiz and Nikoa Evans - hopes to open a 26,000-square-foot retail complex at 12th Avenue and...
E*TRADE IS TALKING - CITI, DEUTSCHE BANK, SCHWAB KICK THE TIRES
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amWhile E*Trade Group Inc. has been telling investors it is prepared to go it alone, the online discount broker has quietly entertained offers for a possible sale. Over the last...
EXCHANGE AFTER TOTAL CONTROL OF SIAC
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIf knowledge is power, then the NYSE is set to gain more power, soon. The New York Stock Exchange is quietly negotiating for full ownership of SIAC, the consolidator of...
NASDAQ RALLY CONTINUES; RISES 16% IN ONE WEEK
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn a reversal of fortunes, blue chips finished down yesterday, while the Nasdaq advanced almost 50 points. In one week, investors have handed back 16 percent to the battered tech-heavy...
POSTAL SERVICE 'GOING POSTAL': TO SELL AD SPACE
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe company that brought you Times Square's billboard extravaganza will start selling ads on all mail trucks, mailboxes, mail packets and even on stamps. "We thought long and hard about...
KOZMO SHUTS DOWN DELIVERY SERVICE; LIQUIDATES ASSETS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amNew York's rolling deli, Kozmo, is shutting its shop. The three-year-old dot-com will announce today it is closing its doors for good, Cnet reported last night. A source close to...
THE STARR REPORT
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amAnd the similarities don't end there . . . Talk about weird coincidences. England's ITV has reportedly just crowned its second "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" winner - just...
NIELSEN SNAFU DELAYS RATINGS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amA human error in Nielsen's high-tech computer has wreaked havoc with the highly anticipated weekly ratings report this week. The bug rendered Sunday's ratings data useless - and caused headaches...
'S2' STAR'S ENGAGING NEWS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amSEXY "Survivor 2" contestant Elisabeth Filarski is engaged. Filarski -whose sugar-sweet nature and steely attitude have turned the 23-year-old into one of the Outback's most popular players - is taking...
TALKING-CLAM FOIL FOR FURBY - CAN YOU DIG IT?
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amFURBY has a new friend - and he's making a big splash in Manhattan today. Shelby the talking clam - created by Furby inventor Dave Hampton - is making his...
THEY USED TO BE CALLED RERUNS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S official: NBC has run out of TV shows. That's the only way to explain tonight's laughable lineup of moldy oldies. Yes - Must-see TV becomes Musty TV as NBC...
SHE'S EVERYWHERE! SHE'S EVERYWHERE! - 'WEAKEST LINK' ADS TEST OUR LIMITS FOR EARLY HYPE
April 12, 2001 | 4:00am'YOU are the weakest link. Goodbye!" If that phrase isn't buzzing around in your brain by now, then you are probably in a coma. NBC's publicity blitz for its upcoming...
FIT FOR THE QUEEN
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amDIVAS LIVE: THE ONE AND ONLY ARETHA FRANKLIN DIVAS are like the witches of Oz - there are good ones and wicked ones.At VH1's annual spring diva fete at Radio...
TAXING ELOQUENT ON THE IRS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amNOW that my accountant, Rob N. Steele, is currently crunching a different set of numbers - as in 5 to 10 - with only four days until our taxes are...
EX-'SURVIVOR' TESTIFIES VS. CBS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amBIBLE-toting ex-"Survivor" Dirk Been gave a top-secret, six-hour videotaped deposition yesterday as part of castaway Stacey Stillman's lawsuit against CBS. Stillman contends that "Survivor" producers manipulated the vote in which...
NOW . . . FOR BILLBOARD'S ALL-HITS BUFFET
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amAN album featuring a smorgasbord of mainstream hits has knocked the late rapper Tupac Shakur off the top of the charts. "Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 6," which...
THE LATEST NEWS ON THE GREAT PAPER CAPER
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amBACK in 1996, Internet experts were predicting the demise of newspapers, magazines, books - most printed material. The thinking was that in this new Information Age, all kinds of content...
CLIP 'N' SAVE COUTURE - DOWNTOWN DO-IT-YOURSELF DESIGN PARTIES SEW, SEW CHIC
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amPSSST . . . there's an easy way to become a cutting-edge clothing designer and sell your clothes in a Lower East Side boutique. Of course, there's no guarantee your...
MOUSE HOUSE TIES UP TIGER
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMOVE over Mickey Mouse, there's a Tiger coming to town - Tiger Woods. The world's No. 1 golfer and the Walt Disney Co. are said to have shaken hands on...
CAN ANYONE UNDERSTAND THIS PLAY? - STOPPARD'S LATEST TEST AUDIENCES
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amCRITICS call it brilliant - but does anyone really know what Tom Stoppard's latest play, "The Invention of Love," is about? "I loved it," claimed James Kiberd of Westchester after...
SPY PLANE'S CREW COMES HOME - CRISIS' PEACEFUL END A WIN FOR W.
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The 24 crew members from the downed Navy spy plane are back on U.S. territory today, and will get a heroes' welcome - with President Bush leading the...
RUDY AIDE: TUNNEL SALE A 'PLOY'
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amDEPUTY Mayor Rudy Washington is street-smart. He's also in charge of the task force that monitors clubs where drugs are sold to teenagers. And Rudy Washington does not believe that...
SUDDEN SOLUTION: HOW FINAL HOURS PLAYED OUT
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amAfter days of wrangling over the words "regret" and "sorry," the diplomatic deadlock between the United States and China was broken in a matter of hours yesterday: President Bush had...
SUDAN'S LEGACY OF EVIL - MORE THAN JUST AN 'ETHNIC' CONFLICT
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMARIAL BAI, SUDAN SLAVERY is the reason we are here. It's important that the world bears witness to an unconscionable practice - and labors to end it. But it is...
NEW YORK POST: FROM APRIL 12, 1912
April 12, 2001 | 4:00am"Miss Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross Society in the United States, died at her home in Glen Echo, Md., at 9 o'clock this morning. The cause of her...
DEAL LETS PUFFY'S EX KEEP HER TONY DIGS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe mother of Sean "Puffy" Combs' youngest child can keep living in her posh, Puff-paid pad, her landlord's lawyer said yesterday. Kim Porter's landlord had wanted her booted from her...
HERO FIREMEN GRAB FLEEING ROBBER: COPS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amAn alert group of firemen returning from a call yesterday morning jumped from their truck and nabbed a knife-wielding robber who had just held up a sushi restaurant, police said....
120G PSYCHIC WAS SUCKER'S REAL 'CURSE': COPS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amA fortuneteller, dripping with diamonds and dressed to the nines, was busted yesterday for fleecing a lovesick man out of $120,000 to remove a "big curse" and reunite him with...
ECO GROUP: HUDSON MUST BE DREDGED
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amA conservation group says the Hudson River is the nation's fourth-most-endangered waterway. And American Rivers says the Hudson's health won't improve unless the federal Environmental Protection Agency forces General Electric...
JUDGE STALLS CATSKILLS CASINO BID
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - A bombshell court ruling yesterday put a proposed Indian-run casino for the Catskills in peril and had Atlantic City mogul Donald Trump feeling aces. State Supreme Court Justice...
OSAMA WANTS KIDS FOR JIHAD AGAINST U.S.
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amSaudi terror master Osama bin Laden urged Muslims around the world to unite behind his extremist agenda yesterday and to prepare a new generation to fight his holy war against...
EPILEPSY RX MAY HARM FETUSES: STUDY
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amAnti-seizure drugs given to pregnant epileptic women, and not the disorder itself, are to blame for a spike in birth-defect rates in their babies, a new study suggests. The study...
STRAWBERRY PUT ON DRUGS TO BATTLE DEPRESSION
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry is being treated for severe depression with three powerful prescription drugs, his lawyer said yesterday. After the former baseball star's mental demons were bared in court, a judge...
PREZ PASSES HIS FIRST BIG TEST WITH FLYING COLORS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amPRETTY darn good for a rookie president who once flunked a pop quiz on foreign policy. The bottom line? President Bush is getting the spy-plane crew back without kowtowing to...
RUDY DEFENDS AIDS HOTELS - SAYS COURTS MANDATE HOUSING
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday defended the city's lavish spending on suites in four-star hotels as emergency housing for homeless people with AIDS - saying the courts gave the city no other...
COPS: BURGLARS NABBED IN BIZMAN'S BRUTAL SLAY
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amA businessman was gunned down at his Westchester County home yesterday by bandits who used a borrowed Verizon van as a ruse to get inside - and then led cops...
'SIAMESE' MOM: GOD & DOCS WILL HELP KIDS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe loving parents of Siamese twins delivered at a Manhattan hospital proudly described their day-old daughters as "beautiful" and said they have faith doctors can help the babies. "I feel...
REVLON RON WINS BATTLE FOR CHILD
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amBillionaire cosmetics mogul Ron Perelman has won in a long and bitter court battle with ex-wife Patricia Duff over their 6-year-old daughter, Caleigh - but the dispute may not be...
RENT AND TAX WOES CLOUD GATIEN'S BID TO SELL CLUBS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amPeter Gatien might have to pay a pricey "cover" charge to leave the club world with peace of mind. The nightclub impresario owes more than $2 million in back rent...
SHRINKS: TIME TO BURY HATCHET
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIt's time for a truce. That was the unanimous verdict last night from psychologists, who urged Ron Perelman and Patricia Duff to halt their child-custody war now that the judge...
CITY MUNICIPAL WORKERS NAIL 'SUBSTANTIALLY' $WEETER DEAL
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and the city's largest municipal union reached a tentative contract last night that provides wage and benefit increases totaling 9.87 percent over 27 months. Giuliani described the deal...
SPY-PLANE'S PILOT EARNED HIS WINGS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Pentagon is hailing the young Navy pilot who safely landed his crippled spy plane in China for a "spectacular" job that saved the lives of his entire...
THIS 'APOLOGY' ISN'T EXACTLY WELL-DEFINED
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn the end, it was all a matter of translation. We told the Chinese - in English - we were "very sorry." When this was translated into Chinese, it was...
HERO TO GET 'HUG AND A KISS' FROM S.I. SIS - FAMILIES OF CREW CELEBRATE ACROSS NATION
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amStaten Islander Barbara DiStefano cried tears of joy yesterday after her brother and 23 others from a downed U.S. spy plane were freed by China. "I'm going to give my...
STATE TAKES CLOSE LOOK AT CULT KIDS IN FACTORIES
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - State labor investigators have visited two of five businesses run by a controversial upstate cult to see if they are illegally forcing children to work. The Post reported...
RUDY BUDDY SAYS FERRER'S BAD NEWS FOR JEWS: REPORT
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's top political adviser has reportedly claimed that if Fernando Ferrer becomes mayor, he'd hire people who "should be of great concern to the Jewish community." Bruce Teitelbaum, Giuliani's...
POLICE 'WAR PLAN' TAKES AIM AT PARADE THUGS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe NYPD has developed a massive battle plan designed to prevent a repeat of the sexual wilding attacks that followed the Puerto Rican Day celebration last summer, The Post has...
MUNICIPAL WORKERS NAIL $WEET NEW PACT WITH CITY
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe city and its largest municipal union, District Council 37, reached a tentative agreement last night on a 27-month contract that gives workers increases totaling 9.87 percent. The pact, which...
MAN NABBED IN AUG. 'BIKE' SLAY
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amA 20-year-old man who shot another man dead last August after an ongoing dispute over a bicycle has been arrested for the murder, police said yesterday. Roy Bowers was arrested...
REVLON RON WINS CUSTODY OF DAUGHTER
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amBillionaire cosmetics mogul Ron Perelman won a long and bitter court battle with ex-wife Patricia Duff for custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Caleigh, sources said last night. In her 80-page...
SIAMESE TWINS' DAD: 'THE KIDS ARE BEAUTIFUL'
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe loving dad of Siamese twins delivered at a Manhattan hospital proudly described his day-old daughters as "beautiful" yesterday and said they were breathing on their own. "The doctors tell...
SPY PLANE'S CREW HEADED HOME - CRISIS' PEACEFUL END A WIN FOR W.
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The 24 freed crew members from the downed Navy spy plane are due in Hawaii today en route home to a hero's welcome with President Bush leading the...
HEROES' FAMILIES PLAN WARM WELCOME
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amStaten Islander Barbara DiStefano cried tears of joy yesterday after her brother and 23 others from a downed U.S. spy plane were freed by China. "I'm going to give my...
HOW TWO POWERS INCHED TOWARD AGREEMENT
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe confrontation over the downed U.S. Navy spy plane held the world's attention for 11 days and threatened to become the first serious crisis between the two superpowers. Here is...
WHAT LIES AHEAD
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amHere are the next delicate issues in U.S. relations with China: * The United Nations Commission on Human Rights will vote next Wednesday on a U.S.-sponsored resolution condemning China's human...
IN SO MANY WORDS . . .
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amWHAT THE UNITED STATES SAID IN ENGLISH: * "Sincere regret" - over the missing pilot and fighter jet * "Very sorry" - directed to the Chinese people and the lost...
BRUISED AND BATTERED - PACERS POP KNICKS; CAMBY HURTS HIP
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Marcus Camby limped out of the visitor's locker room late last night at Conseco Field House. He winced with every step he took. The games are dwindling, the...
SPARTANS SIDESTEP GOVERNORS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amH.S. BASEBALLJohn Adams 6 - Clinton 5 By the end of this season, Glenn Beyer will have many more gray hairs. And he probably will have watched his team win...
SEVEN EYE WOOD MEMORIAL
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amWith post positions set to be drawn this morning, a field of seven 3-year-olds looks set for Saturday's Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, New York's major prep for...
FIRST ROUND FOR BIG BLUE A LATE AFFAIR
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Giants aren't sitting out the first round of the NFL Draft, but it's close. By nature, Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi is not the most patient person you will...
OVERMATCHED CAROLINA NO THREAT TO CHAMPS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amLast year, their eyes were squarely trained on their first-round foe, and Scott Stevens opened his Conn Smythe Trophy playoff with a legendary series against Pavel Bure that turned them...
THEY'RE PREPPING FOR BOLD RULER
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amDelaware Township worked three furlongs in :36 4/5 breezing yesterday morning in his final prep for Saturday's Grade 3 $100,000-added Bold Ruler Handicap. The Ben Perkins Jr. trainee was second...
KITTLES TAKES SHOT AT NBA'S DOC
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amKerry Kittles yesterday angrily tried to clarify one prevailing perception about his situation. Kittles insisted he never told the NBA's independent doctor who examined his knee that he expected to...
TORRE PLAYS IT SAFE WITH AILING POSADA
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - A night sleeping on a hotel floor without a mattress left Jorge Posada's back feeling better to the point where he told Joe Torre to...
DEVILS SENSE URGENCY - WORKING UP HEALTHY 'FEAR' OF HURRICANES
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amContradicting FDR, the thing the Devils fear is not having any. They can worry now, or worry for real very quickly. They may have to manufacture dread with a vampire...
'EXECUTIONER' AWAITS HOLMES
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amBERNARD "The Executioner" Hopkins doesn't mind telling you how good he is. Keith Holmes would rather show you. Both fighters get to reach for their objective Saturday night at The...
BOMBERS ON CRUISE CONTROL - KEISLER'S K.C. SPEED BUMP CAN'T SLOW YANKS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amYankees 8 - Royals 5 KANSAS CITY - Four pitches into a fourth-inning at-bat against Carlos Beltran with the Yankees leading by two runs, Joe Torre walked to the mound...
THESE JERSEY GIANTS REAL PIECE OF WORK
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amSO HERE are the Devils, a team with two Cups in six years that never has and never will be the headline act in either Manhattan or a three-ring circus....
ZIM FIRES BACK AT SPACEMAN
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amDon Zimmer and Bill "Spaceman" Lee probably won't be sitting down for coffee any time soon. Yesterday in an interview on ESPN Radio, Lee ripped into his former Red Sox...
COLEMAN STOKES FLAMES IN BOSOX-YANKEE RIVALRY
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Add another chapter to the bitter Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. With the Yankees set to invade Fenway Park for a four-game series beginning tomorrow night and highlighted by...
ACHING ALLAN COULD MISS NEXT THREE
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Allan Houston may not have much preparation before Game 1 of the playoffs. Houston sat out his second straight game with a right thigh bruise last night as...
TIMO IS PUT ON DL
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMet outfielders are going down one by one. First it was Jay Payton, who missed three games with a throat infection. Then it was Benny Agbayani placed on the 15-day...
RUSCH STAYING COOL
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Glendon Rusch is a 26-year-old who pays attention. Tonight, as he tries to pitch the Mets to a series win, he hopes he learned from last year. Last...
ATLANTA'S VILLAINS ENJOY LAST LAUGH
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThere are few things that could've dampened the spirits of the 36,048 soggy fans at Shea last night more than the Mets' 2-0 loss or the chilling cold or constant...
LAYDEN NOT RULING OUT AIR SHOW AT GARDEN
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Knicks GM Scott Layden didn't hesitate when asked if the Knicks would have interest in trying to woo Michael Jordan to New York if he declared...
AMAZIN'S WET & MILD - MADDUX & BRAVES STIFLE METS ON 1 HIT AT RAIN-SOAKED SHEA
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amIn the cold and rain at Shea last night, Greg Maddux threw magic. Pitches that departed Maddux' right hand looking like fastballs would arrive 60 feet, 6 inches later as...
SAME OLD MADDUX - BRAVES ACE MAKES QUICK WORK OF METS
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMID-APRIL night in New York. Colder than Vladimir Guerrero's assigned seat at a Turk Wendell Invitational campfire. Wetter than the theory that pitchers who work the edge of the plate...
RICO OFF & RUNNING, EVEN IF BRAVES AREN'T
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amRico Brogna is winning over his doubters in Atlanta. When the Braves signed the former Met, Phillie and Red Sox first baseman to a one-year, free-agent contract this offseason to...
A COUPLE OF CONTROL FREAKS - NEW STRIKE ZONE NO PROBLEM FOR REED, MADDUX
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amMID-APRIL night at Shea. Cooler than a Turk Wendell character reference for Vladimir Guerrero. Game five of 19 between the Mets and Braves to gain a psychological edge that no...
THIGH'S THE LIMIT FOR HOU - ALLAN STILL HOBBLED BY LEG
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Allan Houston may not have much preparation before Game 1 of the playoffs. While Houston is still considering coming back for either Sunday in Philly or Monday in...
OUCH! NOW IT'S TIMO - PEREZ IS LATEST METS OUTFIELDER TO LAND ON DL
April 12, 2001 | 4:00amThe Met outfielders are going down one by one. First it was Jay Payton, who missed three games in Montreal with a throat infection. Then it was Benny Agbayani placed...