January 18, 2000
MARKETS' BITTER PILL: SMITHKLINE NUMBERS' A BAD RX FOR STOCKS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe London stock market beat up on Glaxo Wellcome's $76 billion bid for SmithKline Beecham yesterday, and the U.S. market is set to deliver more blows today. Glaxo dropped almost...
SIR RICHARD: THE NEW DRUG LORD
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amGlaxo Wellcome Chairman Sir Richard Sykes is set to assume a new title: Drug Lord. Under the terms of Glaxo's $76 billion acquisition of SmithKline Beecham, Sykes will become chairman...
LEVI'S MAKES BIG BET ON UPSCALE JEANS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amLevi Strauss & Co. is hoping their latest line of ergonomic jeans will save the ailing company from becoming a blast from the past. Levi's is set to introduce Engineered...
DOTS NOT THE FULL STORY; BIG MONEY TAKES STREET SUITES
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amI F you're among those New Yorkers led to believe that Times Square is the new Wall Street, with its spectacular Nasdaq video screen and companies like Morgan Stanley, take...
MYSTERY CPU MAY BE PAIN TO GIANT INTEL
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amMicrosoft co-founder Paul Allen, billionaire investor George Soros and Linus Torvalds, better known as the father of the Linux operating system, are behind a new computer chip from Transmeta Corp.,...
GRAVES' DESIGNS ARE COMING IN RIGHT ON TARGET
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amCould Wal-Mart soon turn into the next Barney's? Probably not. But it might get a little hipper, as the mass market retailing industry has been thrown into a tizzy over...
UN-CONVENT-IONAL HABITS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amChristine Setticase, one of six children from Brooklyn, was 16 when she asked God for something that the Almighty apparently didn't refuse. "I said to God, if you can find...
CUBAN INVASION: U.S. RECORD EXECS COME SEARCHING FOR THE NEXT RICKY MARTIN
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amCUBA and the U.S. are in a full-swing romance when it comes to music, despite the bitter struggle over Elian Gonzalez. Spurred by the surprise success of the Buena Vista...
BLUES WITH VERVE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amGET WILD! Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials ½ Alligator Records Lil' Ed Williams' Blues Imperials -- a Chicago outfit that was defunct for the better part of the '90s...
THE STARR REPORT
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amHe's steady FreddieFreddie Prinze Jr., guesting on yesterday's "Rosie O'Donnell Show," told Rosie how he almost killed 96-year-old Bob Hope. Prinze, who lives near Hope in Palm Springs, said he...
BORDEAUX BALLET AD DANCES WITH DANGER
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW IT was a classic case of deja vu all over again.A poster trumpeting the merits of the Bordeaux Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet" at the Brooklyn Center for the...
WHY WASTE SIX WEEKS ON LETTERMAN REPEATS? STAND-UP DAVE HAS DOCS IN STITCHES
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amDAVID Letterman returned to stand-up yesterday -- getting out of his hospital bed for the first time since heart surgery and taking a walk around his room. Clutching his IV...
WHY WASTE SIX WEEKS ON LETTERMAN REPEATS?; THESE GUYS COULD SIT IN...
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amGET Seinfeld. That's what the producers of David Letterman's "Late Show" should do now that their man is likely to be out of commission for 6 to 8 weeks, or...
VH1 VEEJAY HOSTS A REVIVED 'LATER'
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amAFTER three years the "Later" show on NBC has finally found a host -- VH1 veejay and sister of rock legend Lenny Kravitz, Cynthia Garrett. Garrett just signed a one-year...
NY REALLYLOVES; 'SOPRANOS' ; BUT RATINGS GET WACKED IN THE WEST
January 18, 2000 | 5:00am'THE Sopranos" got off to a roaring start Sunday night -- at least here in its New York backyard. HBO's Jersey-mobsters-on-Prozac series kicked off its highly publicized second season with...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amLuxe for bucks Vacationers with an urge to splurge might try Barbados In Style Concorde Holidays. For rates starting at $4,499, wealthy wanderers can hop on the Concorde for the...
TWO CARPETBAGGERS SEAL DEAL WITH A KISS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amFIRST, they kissed. It wasn't quite a Suha Arafat embrace-the-enemy type deal. It was more of a hug-nuzzle, executed quickly, as onlookers rose to their feet and cheered. But this...
WHAT CONTENDERS SAY THEY'LL DO FOR NATION'S SCHOOLS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThis is the first in a series in which The Post looks at where the leading presidential contenders stand on various issues: DEMOCRATS Al Gore: Boost fed spending by $115...
ARMY HEROES FIGHT FOR GOOD WILL: SOLDIERS' TALES OF LIFE IN KOSOVO: WE'RE NOT THE UGLY AMERICANS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amIn the wake of a GI being charged in the shocking rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Kosovo, two U.S. Army officers in the war-ravaged Yugoslav province told...
NATO TRIES TO EASE TENSIONS WITH VILLAGERS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amNATO commanders struggled yesterday to contain an explosive dispute between U.S. peacekeepers in Kosovo and local villagers after a soldier was charged with the rape-murder of an 11-year old Albanian...
RAISE HELL OVER MORE THAN FLAG
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amBY NOW, the furling of the Stars and Bars over the South Carolina Statehouse seems a foregone conclusion. This is as it should be. If I were a black citizen...
PATAKI'S GOP MASSACRE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY LEADING New York Republicans are increasingly alarmed over Gov. Pataki's transformation into a tax-and-spend Rockefeller-style liberal, but not for the reasons many would suspect. These longtime GOP loyalists aren't...
MEET GEORGE W.'S BRAIN: STRATEGIST KARL ROVE BUILT THE MEAN W. CAMPAIGN MACHINE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amGEORGE W. Bush is standing atop a campaign that may be the most breathtaking U.S. political machine since the advent of the modern presidential campaign in the 1970s. There's never...
MANSE'S MONIKER WILL MAKE 'HILL' AT HOME
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amWhen TV executive Wendy Walker Whitworth was a little girl living in Chappaqua, she and her sisters called their majestic home "The Hill House." How apropos. Whitworth's childhood home was...
IT'S OFFICIAL: MARS LANDER LOST IN SPACE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amNASA finally gave up hope yesterday of saving its $165 million mission to Mars, after more than a month of searching in vain for a signal from the polar lander....
HOW THEY'RE COURTING CRUCIAL WOMEN'S VOTE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amWEST DES MOINES, Iowa - Women picked the president in 1996 for the first time ever - their votes re-elected Bill Clinton while most men backed GOP loser Bob Dole...
RIDERS THINK METROCARD MACHINES ARE FARE DEAL
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amStraphangers are getting hip to buying MetroCards at new vending machines - and avoiding long lines at manned subway booths. The ATM-like machines have collected more than $43.5 million in...
FDA APPROVES NEW MEDICINE FOR EPILEPSY
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe FDA cleared a new anti-convulsion drug yesterday that researchers said could help tens of thousands of epileptics who suffer partial seizures. "Uncontrolled seizures often have a severe domino effect...
WINDS TOO TAXING FOR SHOPPERS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amBlustery winds froze shoppers out of city stores yesterday, despite widespread sales, a holiday from work and the lure of tax-free clothes. Few braved the cold to enter clothing and...
BLOOD BANK IN CRITICAL CONDITION
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe New York Blood Center yesterday said the metropolitan area's blood supply is critically low, and there's a need for about 1,000 donors a day. "We have less than a...
WHITNEY HOU-'STONE' DUCKS BUST FOR POT: BOARDS JET AS GUARDS SEIZE STASH
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amSinger Whitney Houston avoided arrest at a Hawaii airport by simply walking away from security guards who found a half-ounce of marijuana in her bag, police said. The guards --...
CITY WARMING UP TO A SCORCHING 26 DEGREES TODAY
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amBrr-other, it's cold outside! But frostbitten New Yorkers can forget about the sixth layer today -- forecasters predict the temperature will be around 26 degrees, relatively balmy compared to yesterday's...
RAFT BOY NOT ONLY PAWN IN FIDEL'S FAMILY FEUD
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amShowing the same political savvy as her father, the estranged daughter of Fidel Castro has a solution to the excruciating tug-of-war over raft boy Elian Gonzalez: "If Fidel wants the...
$LUMPING JORDAN MAY BE BIDDING TO REMAIN BIZ WIZARD
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amMichael Jordan's expected return to the NBA as part owner of the Washington Wizards has all the makings of a crafty business maneuver. His Airness could be aiming at re-energizing...
BOOK: SOON-YI WOOED WOODY: TOME TRACES ANTICS BY TEEN TEMPTRESS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amWoody Allen's young wife cunningly roped the neurotic comic into a steamy love tryst by following him everywhere and cruelly criticizing her adoptive mom, Mia Farrow, a new book claims....
'KID SALE' HEROES FIGHT FOR CUSTODY
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe Minnesota couple who last year went undercover to blow the whistle on an international Internet baby-selling operation will ask a Long Island judge this week to award them custody...
COPS KILL MAN WHO KNIFED MOM
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amA knife-wielding, mentally ill Queens man who stabbed his mother early yesterday was shot and killed by police when he prevented paramedics from helping his mom and then turned on...
SEEKING 'POTTER' GOLD: SPIELBERG IN LINE TO DIRECT FILM BASED ON 'HARRY' BOOK
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amWarner Bros. says director Steven Spielberg has the magical touch it needs for the first movie adaptation from the enormously successful "Harry Potter" children's books. Warner expects "Harry Potter and...
BROOKLYN DRAG-RACE VICTIM'S KIN ARE ROBBED
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe family of a 21-year-old man left in a coma after a fiery drag-racing crash in Brooklyn returned home from the hospital yesterday and found their home ransacked. "This is...
SANTANA WINS BEST ALBUM
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amCarlos Santana's "Supernatural" won the best-album honors at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles yesterday -- marking another step in an amazing career comeback for the 52-year-old rocker. "A...
'SPIDER-MAN': I ROBBED TO FUND MY SLAY ESCAPE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThe "Spider-man" mugging suspect told investigators he went on his frenzied robbery spree to raise money to flee the country -- after stabbing a man to death in a park,...
HILL COURTS REV. AL -- AND BLACK VOTE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a peace-making powwow with the Rev. Al Sharpton -- and with swipes at Mayor Giuliani that painted...
KING LEGACY INSPIRES RALLY VS. REBEL FLAG IN S.C.
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amIn the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality, nearly 50,000 protesters marched on South Carolina's Statehouse yesterday to call its Confederate flag a symbol of slavery...
B'KLYN MOSQUE BARRED SUSPECT
January 18, 2000 | 5:00am"Spider-man" suspect Waftali Triplett was known at his Brooklyn mosque as an "erratic" troublemaker who was barred from socializing there after picking a fight. "He was a troubled youth who...
BILL DARES AL ON RACE PROFILING: PREZ SHOULD ACT ON ISSUE NOW: BRADLEY
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amDES MOINES -- Democrat Bill Bradley challenged 2000 rival Al Gore to get President Clinton to ban racial profiling now -- in a sharp exchange last night during their final...
CITY KEEPS HANDS OFF TAX-SCOFFLAW LANDLORD
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amA Brooklyn landlord who receives massive subsidies from the federal government has run up a property tax bill of $15.7million -- and the city is doing virtually nothing to collect...
RAM DEFENSE LOVIN' LIFE IN FAST LANE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amST. LOUIS -- They simply cannot compete, and so, they don't even bother to try. No matter how many opposing running games they stuff, no matter how many opposing quarterbacks...
STORM'S NOT TAKING HALL LIGHTLY
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThis could be the classic letdown game. It also is could be the ultimate look-ahead game. Therefore, it is one of the most dangerous games of the season for St....
ON-A-ROLL TITANS BELIEVE GOOD THINGS COME IN THREES
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amThings are going so well for the Tennessee Titans that NASA should have Jeff Fisher's crew look for that Mars Polar Lander. After two spectacular playoff weeks, the Titans get...
HAMPTON OPEN TO STAYING
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amAce left-hander Mike Hampton's flight was late yesterday but now that he's landed in New York, he sounds as if he wouldn't mind staying for a while. "They have everything...
NETS' GIVEAWAY DAY: VAN HORN'S LATE TURNOVER DOOMS COMEBACK
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amSixers 101 Nets 96 PHILADELPHIA -- The Nets needed three points to tie. Keith Van Horn had two options as the closing ticks wound off the clock. He could drive...
LUCIOUS SNAPS OUT OF SLUMP
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amNET NOTES PHILADELPHIA -- Lucious Harris' shooting slump was continuing. He had missed 16 of 22 shots in his three previous games and now he bricked three more. Something had...
KNICKS STILL HOT FOR ROD: TRADE TALKS COULD RESUME IN FEBRUARY
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing newsworthy about Rod Strickland longing to rejoin the Knicks and New York's desire to acquire the Wizards' penetrating point guard despite his lousy play this season and conflict...
WOODY GETS BALL ROLLIN'
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amWhen Robert Wood Johnson IV is officially sworn in and welcomed into the NFL by the league owners today at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, it'll mark the first domino...
THIS MA BELL MADE ALL THE RIGHT CALLS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amA bachelor, Derek Bell owns a Rolls Royce convertible and two Mercedes. He will live on his 63-foot yacht, "Bell14," during spring training. Diamonds sparkle from both wrists. "I'm just...
JOCKEYS PULL PLUG ON AQUEDUCT CARD
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amRacing at Aqueduct was canceled yesterday due to the extremely cold weather. The jockeys met at 11 a.m. and it was decided that the conditions, with temperatures in the low...
LADY HUSKIES ARE STARTING TO LOOK LIKE WORLD BEATERS
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amWOMEN'S HOOPSUConn 65 Rutgers 50 HARTFORD -- There will be no March Madness in women's college basketball this season. There will be no Cinderella to don a glass slipper and...
MCMANUS STEALS THE SHOW
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amBish. Kearney 77 Bish. Loughlin 76 Coaches always tell their players not to try to win games by themselves. Bishop Kearney head coach Catherine Crockett probably won't say that anymore...
PLAYERS OK WITH VAN GUNDY'S RANT
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy treaded on sensitive territory Sunday when he said he was tired of excuses, alluding to the Bobby Phills' tragedy being just the latest to crop...
SWEET REVENGE ; KNICKS PAY BACK PISTONS WITH STIFLING DEFENSE AT GARDEN
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amScore 114 points on the Knicks once. But don't try it twice. Especially in the same week. The high-flying Pistons, winners of nine of 10, found that out during yesterday's...
EWING'S ON STAGE, NOT BENCH, IN THE CLUTCH
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amTwice in eight days, Patrick Ewing sat out the fourth quarter of a Knick game in favor of Marcus Camby, and coach Jeff Van Gundy admitted his star center wasn't...
AIR COMPARISON UNFAIR TO HILL
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amNBA television ratings are down almost as far as Mirsad Turkcan at the end of the bench. The Air is out of the ball, The Heir is still uncrowned and...
OLIWA SCORES ONE FOR MOM
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amDevils 5 Hurricanes 2 It was a goal a mother could only love. Tears of joy streamed down her face last night as Krystyna Oliwa watched her son, Krzysztof, the...
CHARISMATIC'S TOTAL ECLIPSE
January 18, 2000 | 5:00amKentucky Derby winner Charismatic, a colt once so fat, lazy and slow his owner tried to sell him twice but couldn't, put a "happily ever after" ending to his Cinderfella...