April 5, 2000
SOUNDSCAN TO TRACK 'NET MUSIC
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amSoundScan, the company that tracks sales of recorded music in more than 17,000 retailers in the U.S., said it will now include downloadable music in its reports. The move marks...
SEAR MUST PAY $500G IN RELIGIOUS BIAS CASE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amRetailing giant Sears will spend nearly $500,000 to accommodate workers' religious rights after state officials found the company discriminated against Orthodox Jews and others. "People should not be forced to...
HOW STOCKS TURNED BACK FROM THE ABYSS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amSOMETHING happened at around 1 p.m. our time yesterday that pulled the stock market back from the edge of the cliff. Traders say it was almost like divine intervention. One...
FUND INVESTORS ARE BURNED BY BIG SELL-OFF - TECHS TAKE BIG TOLL ON 401(K)S
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amMutual fund investors -- some half of all Americans these days -- are taking it on the chin. The big technology sell-off of the past two days hurt not only...
JUSTICE WON'T WAIT - WANTS MICROSOFT RESTRICTIONS NOW
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe Justice Department is considering a plan to seek immediate punishment of Microsoft to prevent the software giant from using the appeals process to consolidate its hold over the high-tech...
D.C. POLS ARE OPPOSED TO NASDAQ CIRCUIT BREAKERS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amForget about safety nets for Nasdaq gamblers. Unlike the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq doesn't have any circuit breakers that automatically shut down trading when stocks dive in a...
ABBOUD'S DONE WHEELS; NOW HE WANTS TO DEAL
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWhat's the difference between a suit and car? Ask trendy designer Joseph Abboud, who just designed a limited edition Buick Regal for General Motors. "Buick is appealing to a younger...
TECH EXECS: 'NO NEED TO PANIC'
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe titans of tech were able to hold onto their lunches at a media conference in New York yesterday despite losing billions in the market. "I've been saying for two...
MIKE BLOOMBERG TO THE RESCUE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amMICHAEL Bloomberg, the billionaire owner of Bloomberg Financial Markets, is expected to step in and host the bash following the Washington Correspondents Association dinner this month. When news spread yesterday...
SUFFERING FROM 'ARREST'-ED DEVELOPMENT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amANNA Deavere Smith is a woman on a mission. A shrewd intellect who has long structured her material to make political points, Smith has dealt on stage with Crown Heights...
'BLACK & WHITE' LACKS SHARPNESS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00am'BLACK and White" may be the first fictional film in which the best scene features two real-life convicted felons -- Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. and ex-heavyweight champ Mike Tyson....
CONFESSIONS OF A RESTAURANT CRITIC - WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amRESTAURANT reviews are dangerous.They're made of flimsy stuff -- memories of fleeting sensory impressions that cannot be replicated. Yet people go to restaurants they've seen reviewed and expect the same...
FROM SOUL FOOD TO GUSTATORY DELIGHT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amIT doesn't get any simpler than an empanada. The little Spanish turnovers are just stuffed dough that's been fried or baked, right? Right. And Jennifer Lopez is the girl next...
THE STARR REPORT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amDinner guest$ABC News chiefs David Westin and Sherrie Rollins are bringing a group of elite gu ests to tomorrow night's Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Hilton....
SEGA 'DREAM' DEAL? - NEW GAME-PLAYER FREE TO 'NET-SERVICE SUBSCRIBERS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amALTHOUGH Sega's Dreamcast sold out all over Manhattan when the video-game console launched in September, sales haven't been up to par -- so the company has decided to give them...
'SOUTH PARK:' THE TOOTH FAIRY MEETS DAN RATHER
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWHEN Cartman discovers that the Tooth Fairy has turned into a big spender (two bucks under the pillow as opposed to the usual cheapskate quarter), the boys decide to make...
COLUMNIST ADAM BUCKMAN SAYS THE 'EARLY SHOW' DESERVES A MERCY KILLING - BYE,BYE BRYANT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amGIVE it up, CBS -- your morning show is toast. It's time to send Bryant Gumbel back to the golf course from whence he came. His "Early Show" is an...
'X-FILES:' THE FINAL MYSTERY
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTHE truth is out there -- but we don't know it yet."The X-Files" is scheduled to start shooting its season finale within the next two weeks -- but no one...
THE LAST OF THE GONZO FILMMAKERS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWITH one close friend and partner in hedonism -- producer Don Simpson -- dead, and another -- Warren Beatty -- enjoying domesticity and fatherhood, writer-director James Toback (whose extraordinary "Black...
DARVA'S DAY IN COURT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" hath joined may take at least until today to put asunder. That's when television bride Darva Conger and her controversial groom, Rick Rockwell,...
RUMORS OF A REPUBLICAN DEATH-WISH MAY BE PREMATURE, BUT ... - WHAT ARE LAZIO & CO THINKING?
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amIN one 1980 Republican presidential debate, Ronald Reagan took gentle aim at Rep. John Anderson -- a moderate Republican who'd threatened to not endorse the GOP ticket if Reagan was...
MIR WILL BE STAR TOURIST ATTRACTION
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTwo cosmonauts blasted off for the Mir space station yesterday on a privately financed mission to bring the vacant craft back to life -- as a tourist destination. The station,...
FED PROBERS PUT STATE FIGHT BIGS ON THE ROPES
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTHE FBI has launched an investigation of job-selling, no-show jobs and a junket to Poland by top officials at the New York State Athletic Commission, The Post has learned. In...
HEY, HILL, DON'T SKIRT ISSUES BY CRYING SEXISM
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTHE first lady is playing the little lady again. Lordy, Ms. Hillary. What's a li'l girl to do? In her latest incarnation, Hillary Clinton, former shark lawyer and fierce feminist...
STATE EARMARKS $1B FOR FULL EAST SIDE LINE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY -- Gov. Pataki reached a $78 billion-plus tentative budget deal with the leaders of the Legislature yesterday that includes $1 billion for work on a "full-length" Second Avenue subway....
ISRAEL PLEDGES TO BE OUT OF LEBANON BY SUMMER
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amIsrael said yesterday it would work "fully" with the United Nations on a plan to retreat all of its troops from Lebanon by July. U.N.Secretary-General Kofi Annan, meeting Israeli Foreign...
ROSS RE$CUING 'PLANET' - INVESTS IN AILING CELEB EATERY CHAIN
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWilbur Ross is going Hollywood -- Planet Hollywood, that is. The so-called "vulture investor" (and former husband of ex-Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey) has decided there is life in the bankrupt...
COURT UPHOLDS COMMUTER-TAX KO
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY -- The state's top court yesterday upheld repeal of the New York City commuter tax. In a unanimous decision, the Court of Appeals also ruled that making commuters from...
PROS SAY STAY THE COURSE IN ROUGH WATERS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTech-stock holders who used the big Nasdaq sell-off as a catalyst to step in and buy on the dip early yesterday were punished as the sell-off worsened. But technology investors...
THE DONALD'S DAUGHTER BARES HER SEXY SIDE IN BRIT MAG SHOOT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amHere's Donald's little girl as you've never seen her before. Ivanka Trump sizzles in sexy snaps in Britain's GQ magazine this month, including one pose showing off the leggy 18-year-old...
DAY-CARE AIDES: WE WERE FIRED FOR REPORTING ABUSE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTwo assistant teachers say they were fired from an East Side day-care center for blowing the whistle on an abusive colleague who would smack toddlers so hard their "feet would...
DIVA MARIAH IN HOSPITAL
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amPop goddess Mariah Carey, who was rushed to a Boston hospital with severe food poisoning after she ate a plate of raw oysters, was in fair condition last night. The...
STATE SAYS CITY'S SPECIAL-ED PROGRAM IS ESPECIALLY BAD
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY -- The city's special-education students are performing far worse -- and dropping out more -- than their peers from across the state, top education officials revealed yesterday. As a...
GORE NOW SAYING FATHER KNOWS BEST
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amVice President Al Gore yesterday seemed to shift his stance on Elian Gonzalez, saying the views of the boy's dad -- who wants to take him back to Cuba --...
UPPER-CRUST CHEFS FLEE - CHECK, PLEASE! DYNAMIC DUO DEPARTING LE CIRQUE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amIt could be a recipe for disaster at one of the city's fabled restaurants. Two of New York's top chefs are bolting celebrity-studded Le Cirque 2000, The Post has learned....
O'CONNOR TAKING UP JAILED DRUG MOM'S CAUSE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor has asked authorities to review the case of a mother of three -- serving a long jail term under the harsh Rockefeller drug laws -- with an...
$60M 'BALLPARK' FIGURE FOR PLAN TO REVITALIZE CONEY IS.
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amConey Island is not only getting a minor-league baseball stadium, it's slated for a major makeover worth $60 million, a top city official revealed yesterday. Until now, Giuliani administration officials...
HOUSE REVIVING 'PARTIAL BIRTH' DEBATE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amCongress faces another abortion showdown today as the House takes up the bill to ban so-called "partial birth" abortion. The bill will easily pass, but pro-choicers hope to keep the...
SILVER MADE SURE RIDERS DIDN'T GET SHORT END
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amAdvocates of a full-length Second Avenue subway got their wish yesterday when Albany lawmakers shelved the MTA's plan for a much shorter line. "We're talking from Whitehall Street to 125th...
RATINGS SOARING WHILE FLOOR IS ROARING
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe wild roller-coaster stock-market ride left TV viewers breathless -- and the all-business cable networks providing blanket coverage of the breaking story. Rivals CNBC and CNNfn pulled out all the...
TRY AGAIN ON PLAN FOR SUMMER SCHOOL: POL
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amA key state lawmaker yesterday urged Mayor Giuliani and the teachers union to go back to the bargaining table to restore classes for the summer-school program. Manhattan Assemblyman Steven Sanders...
CELEB-SCAM SUSPECT: FREE AGENT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amA celebrity broker accused of swindling millions from his Hollywood star clients now wants to pursue a new role while he's free on bail: an agent in Tinseltown. Money manager...
FORMER SOVIETS PASSOVER-JOYED AT FIRST CHANCE TO CELEBRATE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amHundreds of Russian Jewish refugees shed tears of joy yesterday when they were given bags of matzos and Hebrew books to celebrate their first Passover ever. The bilingual starter kits,...
RUDY CITES ODD TIMING OF PROBES
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani says the Justice Department has "dramatically" increased investigations of the city since he began his Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton. In an interview airing tonight on the...
MAN WHO BEHEADED WIFE & SON GETS LIFE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amA triple ax murderer, convicted of decapitating his wife and son and then fatally slashing his stepson in their Queens apartment, will spend the rest of his life in prison....
TRADERS ON QUEASY STREET - BRAVE INVESTORS TAKING LOW ROAD TO JUMP BACK IN
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amInvestors were taken on a wild and scary bungee-jump as the Nasdaq composite index tumbled for a second straight day -- leaving shareholders to wonder whether the tech-stock bubble is...
NOVICE DAY TRADERS MAULED BY BEARS 'N' BULLS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amIt was a day to lose fortunes -- and a day to make them. Experienced day traders made tens -- even hundreds -- of thousands of dollars in the stock...
ABC NEWS BLUES OVER DICAPRIO'S Q&A WITH BILL
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amLeonardo DiCaprio's interview of President Clinton has set off a war of words between ABC News and the White House. ABC News boss David Westin, trying to placate disgruntled staffers...
PAIR GUILTY ON TEEN-HOOKER 'PIMPING' RAP
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTwo brothers were convicted yesterday of turning a pair of teenage girls from The Bronx into prostitutes and videotaping them engaged in sex acts for cash. Christopher Griffith, 21, rubbed...
WATER TORTURE IN QUEENS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amResidents of a Queens neighborhood got a rude - and very wet - awakening early yesterday when a water main burst, flooding basements and forcing the evacuation of nine homes....
JAPAN GOV'T MOVES TOWARD A NEW P.M.
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amJapan's Cabinet resigned yesterday to smooth the way for a top lieutenant to Keizo Obuchi to succeed the stricken prime minister. Yoshiro Mori was expected to assume Obuchi's duties today,...
COPS: CIG BRIBE BURNS GROCER
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amCops busted the owner of a Bronx grocery yesterday for allegedly bribing police to look the other way at his stock of smuggled cigarettes. Mohammad Yaqub, 39, who lives at...
'PIMP' PRESIDENT BUILDING HIS LEGACY AT BOY'S EXPENSE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amVIDAL Francisco Vidal Blanca could see the future instantly the moment he realized he would be locked up forever if he stayed in Cuba one more minute. "I was on...
DIVA MARIAH IN HOSPITAL AFTER EATING RAW OYSTERS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amPop goddess Mariah Carey, who was rushed to a Boston hospital with a severe case of food poisoning after she ate a plate of raw oysters, was in fair condition...
N.J. BRACES FOR SUPER SATURDAY
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS weekend it is New Jersey's turn to host a trout season opener and preparations have been underway for some time, by both anglers and fisheries biologists. This year almost...
BANK ON SPEED & CLASS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amAs we've noted here many times, speed -- both early and overall -- is the most important asset for a race horse. Horses who race on or close to the...
SHARK TO WEBB: KARRIE ON!
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA -- Greg Norman was so impressed with the recent dominant performance of fellow Aussie Karrie Webb, the LPGA star, that he was compelled to phone her recently to...
BLUESHIRTS NEED JACQUES THERAPY
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amON MONDAY night, Dave Checketts outlined the qualities he is seeking in the individual who will succeed Neil Smith as Ranger GM. The Garden president said he's searching for an...
SALE LEAVES DEVILS A FRACTURED FAMILY
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amThe void is intangible, yet real. Emotions are strangely deadened around the Devils, whose play betrays the empty feeling that has either accompanied their slump, or caused it. There are...
THE MASTER OF INTIMIDATION - RIVALS MUST COPE WITH TIGER PHOBIA
April 5, 2000 | 4:00am"The American tour is certainly watching for one name. After the first round [at Bay Hill] when Tiger shot 69 and was one behind (the lead), the view in the...
TIGER: FEAR STRIKES OUT
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Tiger Woods was asked yesterday if he's ever been intimidated on the golf course. "I did one time," he said. "It's the first and only time I was...
JONES STEPS TO THE FOUR
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amThere is only one emotion that can describe how he will feel at 7:10 tonight. It can just be this one because the last time he started at Shea it...
WOODS' TOUGHEST FOE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Greg Norman, whose Masters meltdowns hardly make him fit to question the heart of other golfers, seemed miffed yesterday that some PGA Tour players (see: Davis Love III...
SYNDICATE SNARES 441G IN S.I. BAR POOL
April 5, 2000 | 4:00am"The Sopranos" have whacked one of the country's largest known sports pools. The winner of the whopping $441,000 NCAA Final Four pool run by a Staten Island bar is a...
2-GAME BAN HAS CHILDS FIGHTIN' MAD
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amFresh off his commanding two-punch triumph against Kobe Bryant on Sunday, Chris Childs has begun promoting his next fight. Furious that the NBA has suspended him for two games and...
PRACTICE A SIGHT FOR SNORE EYES
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Gritting his teeth, Jeff Van Gundy followed the newly instituted NBA edict by allowing reporters to watch the final 30 minutes of practice yesterday at Purchase College. "I...
JETS VS. BELICHICK ON MNF
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amShowing an obvious sense of the dramatic, the NFL schedule-makers came up with a natural and enticing early season matchup for the Jets, as they face their bitter rivals, the...
AMAZIN'S ENJOY HOME COOKIN'
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Like an old jacket you've put on a thousand times, it just felt right. Opening Day at Shea. "When we were in Japan, it was kind of hard...
LEWIS NOT ABOUT TO GRANT HOLYFIELD A REMATCH
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amThere's only so much of Lennox Lewis to go around. These days everyone seems to want a piece. While Lewis is preparing for his upcoming bout with Michael Grant for...
MARBURY MAY BE GONE FOR YEAR
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWizards 102 - Nets 93 WASHINGTON -- We're going to have to level with you. It's not looking too good for the Nets' playoff push right about now. A situation...
FORGET ABOUT PITINO BOLTIN' BOSTON
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amRick Pitino to North Carolina? To UNLV? Back to Kentucky? To the Nets? Forget all those rumors. The Celtic coach made it clear to The Post yesterday that he's staying...
ISLANDER SALE SEEMS NEAR; GUTKOWSKI STILL WANTS IN
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWith the Islanders on the verge of being sold to Computer Associates owner Charles Wang this week, Bob Gutkowski told The Post last night that he and Charles Koppelman should...
ARMS BUYING TIME UNTIL YANK BATS GET IN SWING
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amANAHEIM -- The plan is to steal and stall, quicken the learning curve and fight old age. The Yankee offense is both evolving into new realms and evoking the familiar...
BERN-ING BRIGHT - WILLIAMS HR IN 9TH LIFTS YANKS TO 2-0
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 5 - Angels 3 ANAHEIM -- As Bernie Williams' flyball headed for the left-field foul pole, Clay Bellinger inhaled hard. If the ball stayed fair, it was a two-run...
BROSIUS HEADED FOR DL AFTER HURTING RIB CAGE
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM -- Third baseman Scott Brosius is headed for the 15-day disabled list after straining his rib cage during batting practice last night. To take Brosius' roster spot,...
MO: 'I AM HUMAN' - MARIANO SHRUGS OFF END OF HIS ZERO STREAK
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amANAHEIM - With his consecutive-scoreless-inning streak shattered by a soft Mo Vaughn single to center in the ninth inning Monday night, Mariano Rivera says we shouldn't be surprised when his...
YANKS' ATTACK PLAN IS ALL ABOUT ARMS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amANAHEIM - The plan is to steal and stall, quicken the learning curve and fight old age. The Yankee offense is both evolving into new realms and evoking the familiar...
STINT AT DH DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH WILLIAMS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amANAHEIM - There may come a time when Bernie Williams will embrace not playing center field and get accustomed to being a DH. However, that day hasn't arrived for the...
OPENING LONGBALL JUST WHAT SPENCER NEEDED
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - As Shane Spencer went about getting ready for spring training in the latter days of February, he hoped he was going to get a full shot...
BIG GHEORGE GETS CHANCE TO IMPRESS
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Gheorghe Muresan wanted to play in the MCI Center when he was with Washington and the joint opened in December, 1997. But Muresan was on the injury list...
NFL SKED LEAVES GIANTS OFF MONDAY NIGHT MENU
April 5, 2000 | 4:00amWant an early indication as to what sort of expectations there are, at least nationally, about the upcoming Giants season? Look no further than the NFL schedule, which was released...