March 25, 2000
GAP EXPECTATION: NEW LINE COMING FOR NINE-MONTH MARKET
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe Gap may already dress Mom, Dad and the kids, but there's one area it has left outuntil now: moms-to-be. The giant clothing company recently launched a new line of...
NEW MERGER RUMORS BOOST EBAY, YAHOO!
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amShares of eBay soared on renewed speculation that the online auctioneer would merge with Yahoo! Both companies refused to comment, but that didn't stop investors. eBay soared $20.19 to $243.75,...
THAT'S THE SPIRIT! A BEACH OF A TIME FOR INDIE FILMMAKERS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Oscar gala tomorrow night isn't the only big movie shindig this weekend.In a giant tent on a Santa Monica, Calif., beach, around 1,200 people will gather this afternoon for...
'TENDERLOIN' TOO BLAND FOR SECOND HELPING BY ENCORE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW TENDERLOIN LIKE many of the Encore concert musical revivals at City Center, "Tenderloin" is fun for a while -- even if the musical is threadbare. In the Encore...
'COSBY' GETS PINK SLIP ; CBS SET TO PULL THE PLUG AFTER FOUR-YEAR RUN
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amIT'S curtains for "Cosby." After four years on CBS, Bill Cosby's failing sitcom won't be back in the fall, the network announced yesterday. The show's final episode will air Friday,...
HEAVENS ABOVE...IS 'GOD' A DEADHEAD? GARCIA FAMILY SAYS CARTOON IS JERRY BUILT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amJERRY Garcia's heirs are threatening to sue NBC over its controversial animated show, "God, the Devil and Bob." Relatives of the deceased Grateful Dead rock icon claim that the hip,...
GO FLY A KITE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amWith this wacky warm-then-cold-again weather, New York kids find themselves with one foot firmly planted in the last dregs of winter and the other trying on their new in-line skates....
SUPER BOWL EX-GRIDDER 'HOLLYWOOD' SNARES $28M IN LOTTO LOOT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amEx-Dallas Cowboys football star Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson has scored big-time again -- winning a $28 million Lotto Texas prize. The former linebacker, who played in three Super Bowls, knows how...
BIDDERS RACE FOR 'HUR' CHARIOTS OF DESIRE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amIn a Ben-Hurry? Try zipping around town in your very own chariot. A pair of stunt chariots from the movie "Ben-Hur" -- which featured one of Tinseltown's most spectacular racing...
LAST EXEC OF OLD REGIME LEAVES MATTEL
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe last man standing from the toppled Mattel regime of toy queen Jill Barad is throwing in the towel to make room for a new team. Ned Mansour, 51, is...
STOCK BULLS DID SOME ILLEGAL SNORTIN': COPS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAt least four Wall Street workers were running their own bull market in cocaine sales -- dealing the drug right on the busy trading floor of the New York Stock...
DELOREAN IS DRIVEN OFF N.J. ESTATE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amEx-automaker John DeLorean may have to drive a golf cart the next time he visits his former 434-acre New Jersey estate. DeLorean, 75 -- famed for the distinctive gull-winged sports...
NEW HOSP SCARE FOR 'WILD' KATE IN LONDON
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAlcoholic supermodel Kate Moss gambled with her life again by failing to take all her antibiotics for a "crippling" kidney infection -- and landing in a London hospital. The paper-thin...
COPS HUNT FOR 'SUBWAY' RAPIST
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amCops are hunting for a serial sex predator suspected in three attacks on women near a Brooklyn subway station -- including two incidents this month. The suspect -- who's grown...
POPE'S SERMON ON MOUNT FEEDS MULTITUDE OF SOULS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM -- Pope John Paul II delivered his own Sermon on the Mount yesterday, fervently urging young people to reject the temptations of the new millennium. An international crowd of...
YOUNG PEOPLE COME, SEE, AND BELIEVE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amMOUNT OF THE BEATITUDES, Israel.THEY came by the thousands, a muddy multitude 100,000 strong at the foot of this Galilean hill where Jesus delivered the most famous sermon in history....
FBI BACKS OFF 'SPY' LABEL FOR INDICTED FED
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAn indicted senior immigration official may not be a Cuban spy after all. Federal investigators have filed no evidence in court showing Mariano Faget ever passed secrets to Cuban officials....
A NEW ROLE FOR PATAKI MOUTHPIECE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Gov. Pataki's controversial communications director, Zenia Mucha, has been given the new title of senior policy adviser, it was announced yesterday. Mucha, whose ouster from the governor's staff...
COURT-OFFICER UNION FIGHT'S A REAL BRAWL
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe president of a court-officers union said yesterday he was viciously attacked and slashed by two other union officials in the midst of a smear campaign against him. Charles Compton,...
MICROSOFT OPENS WINDOW OF HOPE FOR A SETTLEMENT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amMicrosoft Corp. has offered to pay penalties and change its business practices in a new, 11th-hour proposal to settle the landmark federal antitrust case against the software giant. Hopes for...
WELSH TEENS ARE SNARED IN WORLDWIDE WEB $CHEME
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTwo Welsh teenagers were arrested and accused of hacking into Web sites in five countries and stealing 26,000 credit-card numbers. Their names were withheld because they have not yet officially...
CYBER-SAVVY RUDY'S BOAST DRIVES HILL'S MAN BUGGY
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani won't be putting the name of Clinton attack dog Howard Wolfson on his Palm Pilot any time soon. Speaking on his weekly radio show on WABC, the mayor...
LEVY'S LIPS ARE SEALED AFTER FIRST MEETING WITH RUDY
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amNow that acting schools boss Harold Levy has his foot in the door with Mayor Giuliani, the last thing he wants is to get booted out. Levy was coy yesterday...
GAS PAIN$ FUEL TWO-BIT HIKE ON 'DOLLAR VANS'
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amCommuters are being forced to shell out a buck and a quarter for "dollar vans," as drivers of the outer-borough taxi alternatives cope with skyrocketing gasoline prices. Many of the...
SILENCE IS GOLDEN FOR OFFICIAL BALLOT COUNTERS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amMeet the only two people in the entire universe who can tell you today who'll win the Oscars tomorrow. But all the arm-twisting in the world won't get Greg Garrison...
MADONNA PAL'S BAIL ON HOLD ; JUDGE OKS $15M, BUT FED APPEAL STALLS DEAL
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amMadonna pal Chris Paciello nearly got sprung from jail yesterday after a Brooklyn federal judge approved his $15 million bail package -- but prosecutors branded it "a house of cards"...
A HEARTBREAK ONLY A MOTHER COULD UNDERSTAND
March 25, 2000 | 5:00am'THE SAME thing! The samething!" Marie Dorismond cried out as she clutched Juanita Young. The other people mourning Patrick Dorismond, recently killed by police gunfire, fell painfully silently. Young, the...
163 MORE BODIES FOUND IN NEW UGANDA HORROR
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amUgandan police have discovered the grisly remains of 163 strangled people, including 59 children, in a mass grave not far from the church where more than 500 members of a...
CHARITY RAFFLES WILL LET YOU BET FARM TO WIN HOUSE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- The Pataki administration will soon let thousands of charitable organizations around the state offer real estate, stocks and bonds as raffle prizes, The Post has learned. The state...
BIN LADEN'S SPECTER STALKS CLINTON'S TRIP
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- U.S.-hating terrorist Osama bin Laden reportedly attended a secret huddle to discuss President Clinton's visit today to Pakistan, where a mob burned Clinton in effigy last night. Bin...
OSCAR-VOTE SURVEY HAS TINSELTOWN IN A TIZZY
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAcademy Award officials blasted the Wall Street Journal yesterday for scooping tomorrow's Oscar broadcast with a survey of Academy voters that identified "American Beauty" as Best Picture. Outside Los Angeles'...
'WHY DID MY SON HAVE TO GO AWAY?' DORISMOND'S WAILING MOM ECHOED BY PROTEST CRIES AT WAKE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAnger mixed with grief among hundreds of weeping mourners who gathered last night to bid farewell to Patrick Dorismond, the unarmed black man whose death by a police bullet has...
BEIJING TO TAIWAN: AGREE TO 'ONE' CHINA, THEN WE'LL TALK
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amChinese officials said yesterday they would not talk with Taiwan's new president unless he first agrees that the island republic is part of one united China. China Vice Premier Qian...
HERE'S A HEAP OF OBVIOUS DIETING ADVICE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amIf you need to lose weight, take a look at how much food is on your plate, a new study says. Few Americans are aware of how much they're really...
FOR OPENERS, TORRE IS GIVING NOD TO EL DUQUE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amVIERA -- Joe Torre will announce today that Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez will be his Opening Day starter against the Angels on April 3. Yesterday, the right-hander showed why he's...
LEDEE OUT TO PROVE PATIENCE PAYS OFF
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amYankees 19 Marlins 0 VIERA -- When Brian Cashman presented his case to George Steinbrenner that there wasn't a glaring need to add Jim Edmonds or another bat to the...
SELF-CONFIDENT TULSA ROLLS - MIAMI HIT BY GOLDEN HURRICANE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN -- How should Tulsa be labeled? "I could care less what tag they put on us," Self said. "All I know is we're still playing." They're still playing. Oh,...
CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER FITS REVITALIZED HEELS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN -- The shoe never fit, but it does now. North Carolina, upset darlings? The Tar Heels in the role of destiny's darlings? Cinderella in powder blue? True, all true....
BADGERS BUCKLE THEIR CHINSTRAPS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE -- Welcome to Big Ten spring football. The NCAA West Final today is supposed to be a basketball game, but Purdue and Wisconsin have turned this March Madness matchup...
CUNNINGHAM LACKS NAME RECOGNITION
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE -- If Purdue is looking for bulletin-board material, Wisconsin coach Dick Bennett inadvertently gave the Boilermakers a mouthful heading into today's Elite Eight matchup at the Pit. A half...
HALL EXITS WITH HEADS HELD HIGH
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE -- He stood on the bench for the opening tap, and didn't sit down until Rimas Kaukenas had made a pair of free throws. He clapped when Darius Lane...
CTK GIRLS EARN SHOT AT NO. 11
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amGLENS FALLS -- This was supposed to be the game that Christ the King finally lost. The Royals were vulnerable, facing an undefeated opponent. Apparently, someone forgot to tell them....
JFK RATTLES RAVENS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amBOYS 'A' SEMIFINAL JFK 52 St. Ray's 49 GLENS FALLS -- Everyone wondered how John F. Kennedy could beat St. Raymond's. Turns out head coach Johnny Mathis knew all along....
GATORS SWAMP DUKE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE -- It was the ultimate role reversal. When Duke played Florida last year, the Blue Devils routed the Gators by 30 points. But this time around, it was the...
KNICKS HIT ROAD ON A HIGH NOTE ; LATRELL, HOUSTON POWER ROMP
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amKnicks 95 Hawks 83 The slummin' is over for the Knicks. Now they go West for nine days and five games and face the real threat of being out of...
GOOD NIGHT, NURSE: THIS GUY'S A RIOT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS -- If Iowa State's Michael Nurse of Teaneck, N.J., doesn't make it as a pro basketball player, he can work the borscht belt as a comedian. Reporter: "Is...
IOWA ST., MSU PACK 1-2 PUNCH
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS -- Michigan State has the size. Iowa State has the quickness. Michigan State has the homecourt advantage. Iowa State has grown comfortable with the role of the team...
JOHNNIES MAY FACE PROBATION - SOURCES SAY BARKLEY TOOK CASH, BENEFITS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amErick Barkley's legacy at St. John's may very well be that of the player who landed the school on its first-ever NCAA probation. Several sources have told The Post that...
ROBINSON ENJOYS ONE-SIDED DEBUT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amGimmicks sometimes work. Sometimes long enough. At this late stage of the season, gimmickry is the biggest aspect of this coaching change, the adrenaline injection that a world-beating team isn't...
NETS BLAME THIS ONE ON THE ZEBRAS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amOVERTIME T-Wolves 116 Nets 115 This game was a reflection of the Net season thus far: a wretched start followed by lots of positives and expectations at the end. But...
TRIP GRIPES COULD BRING REALIGNMENT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO -- If you are reading this Saturday morning, the Mets already have arrived in Japan. They touched down late Saturday afternoon. Confused? Think how they must feel. If it's...
RANGERS NEAR SAD HAT TRICK
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amThe Ranger$ are six games away from carving a niche in NHL history that when the time comes their employees probably won't be including on their respective resumes. Barring a...
PLAY 'STAG' IN DUBAI
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTHE world's richest horse race, the $6 million Dubai World Cup, will be run today for the fifth time under a desert moon at Nad al-Sheba race course on the...
HAMPTON FIRED UP FOR OPENING START
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amMET NOTES TOKYO -- Mike Hampton is in the process of doing two things he's never done before. Although he's been to Aruba, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, he's never been...
'THE SCHEDULE STINKS' ; AMAZIN'S RIP 'MORON' FOR 'BRUTAL' 2000 SLATE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTOKYO -- As you read this, the Mets are starting what is the worst schedule in baseball. The 13-hour flight to Japan is the beginning. In the end, how the...
HONEST LADY BACK IN FORM
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amA year ago, despite the fact she's a filly, Honest Lady was regarded as a top contender for the Kentucky Derby. The California-based daughter of Seattle Slew had run just...
KIMMEL, CHAVEZ STILL RULE N.Y.
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amJohn Kimmel and Jorge Chavez were named New York's trainer and jockey of the year, respectively, as the New York Turf Writers' Association announced its 1999 award winners. It was...
WATSON EYES OPENER, SERIES
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amVIERA -- Buoyed by a shoulder that was pain-free after his first outing in two weeks and 19 Yankee runs, Allen Watson's thoughts raced all the way to October. "If...
NO FEAR OF GATORS :DUKE FROSH WILLIAMS DOESN'T MIND PRESSURE
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Pressure. Different people handle it in different ways. Some crumble under it. Others ignore it. But Duke point guard Jason Williams has always thrived on it. It feeds...
NEVER TOO BIG TO LEARN: SETON CENTER DALEMBERT THROWING BLOCK PARTY
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amSYRACUSE - Sam Dalembert finally gets it. Maybe it was the competition he faced in the Sweet 16; maybe it was the role he played in getting Seton Hall here...
TENNESSEE MEN CAN'T REACH SUMMITT
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN - The back seat is always reserved for the players on Tennessee's men's basketball team. They can ride along any time, just as long as they know their place...
MIAMI STILL COOL TO 'CANES: SOUTH FLA. IGNORES TOURNEY RUN
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amAUSTIN - Not long ago, right there in his office at the University of Miami, sat a model of the brand-new Ryder Center. It was a depiction of the on-campus...
HOPEFUL NETS ARE BATTLING CLOCK
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amTime has quit being an ally and now is simply a four-letter word to the Nets. The long season has arrived to the point where every game carries so much...
POLY DENIES SENTIMENTAL CANISIUS
March 25, 2000 | 5:00amH.S. ROUNDUP GLENS FALLS - Ordinarily, this should have been a lopsided win for Poly Prep. But Buffalo Canisius (12-15), the Blue Devils' opponent in yesterday's Class C state Federation...