June 20, 2000
GLOBAL CROSSING UNIT INKS HUGE LEASE
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amDespite the critical shortage of commercial space, big leases are still being negotiated in Manhattan. GlobalCenter, a subsidiary of Global Crossing Ltd., has taken 500,000 square feet at 636 Eleventh...
UAM IS BIG WINNER FOR ROBERTSON
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amRevenge is sweet for Julian Robertson. The legendary value-oriented hedge fund manager's 14.6 percent stake in United Asset Management increased in value yesterday by $36.6 million after attracting an acquisition...
HOW TO DROP A COOL $17,598 ON THE WEB IN JUST MINUTES
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amWill consumers pay top dollar for a bag or a watch without actually seeing it? The folks at eLuxury.com are betting they will. Luxury kingpin Bernard Arnault launched his eagerly...
DOW, NASDAQ SOAR - SLOWING ECONOMY SOOTHES RATE-HIKE FEAR
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amStocks rallied as investors became more confident there won't be any more Federal Reserve-imposed interest rate hikes in the near future. As government statistics provide evidence of a slowing economy,...
DEAL UNDER WATER - STOCK DROP HURTS VIVENDI, SEAGRAM
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amVivendi and Seagram plan to announce their merger today - and already the deal is under water. Because Vivendi's stock has dropped 16 percent since talks restarted - falling below...
MACKLOWE THE RELENTLESS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHOUSE by house, lot by lot, Harry Macklowe's ground-gobbling machine grinds on. The developer is poised to snatch up another piece of the puzzle in his slow-jelling assemblage at Second...
UNCERTAIN NOTE FOR UNIVERSAL MUSIC
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amExecs at Universal Music are optimistic they'll keep their jobs with the acquisition of their company by Vivendi - but they're wary of what changes will follow. Vivendi's chief, Jean-Marie...
SLUGFEST IN WORKS FOR SOTHEBY'S
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amSaying the future of Sotheby's is at stake, Wall Streeter Ron Baron is gunning for a floor fight at the auction house's annual meeting. Baron yesterday said he's still dissatisfied...
NO BIG $$ IN FASHION AWARDS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS year's fashion "Oscars," aka the CFDA American Fashion Awards, bested the real Academy Awards show in a significant way: the ceremony was entertaining and it was mercifully short. But...
HARCOURT'S HONCHO PUTS IT ON THE BLOCK
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amEducational-book giant Harcourt General has put itself into play, sending its sluggish stock soaring to a new high. The stock closed yesterday at $54.81, up $12.78. Industry analysts estimate a...
PUBLICIS IS AD-DING SAATCHI FOR $1.5B
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amAdvertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi is expected to announce today that it has agreed to merge with French ad house Publicis in a deal valued at approximately $1.5 billion. The...
PRIX FIXE, JUST $40.2B - VIVENDI, SEAGRAM BOARDS OK DEAL
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr. is finally getting his family off his back today. He's served up the family business to the French for $40.2 billion - in a tax-free stock swap...
APOCALYPSE NOW
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBUSTA RHYMES "Anarchy" Elektra Entertainment In the beginning, it wasn't clear what Busta Rhymes was up to artistically. But last year's "E.L.E." and today's "Anarchy" - the Brooklyn rapper's fourth...
WANDERLUST ON THE WEB - CITY SITES WORTH CHECKING OUT
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amI CAN'T speak for everyone, but the Internet has turned the way I travel upside down - in a good way. Two sites largely responsible for this are: Citysearch (citysearch.com)...
CONN. 'MACBETH' PRAISED
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amMACBETHThe Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Conn.THE Connecticut "Macbeth" should have opened on Broadway. The version that the Royal Shakespeare Company has brought to the Long Wharf Theatre in New...
HERB, DRUG MIX? JUST SAY KNOW - DOCTORS URGE CAUTION WHEN USING NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHERBS - so natural, so New Age ... so dangerous.Or at least they can be, if mixed with certain prescription drugs. Natural and increasingly popular remedies such as St. John's...
GRAMMER'S SCOT GETS DAGGER
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amOUT, out damned show!The Broadway production of "Macbeth" starring Kelsey Grammer will close Sunday after just eight previews and 13 regular performances. The play will lose its entire $1.5 million...
THE SOUND OF ONE FOLK IMPLODING
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S bad enough Folk Implosion's Lou Barlow had to figure out how to replicate the sound of dulcimers, banjos and glockenspiels from the latest album on stage - then John...
THE STARR REPORT
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amLast 'Live' show Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford are ready to take their "farewell" on-stage bows in their final concert together. Diners at Zocalo overheard plans for Philbin and...
POST TV WRITER DON KAPLAN JUMPS IN THE LIMO AND BUCKLES UP FOR A RIDE THAT CAN ONLY GET REAL UGLY; MY BIG (BELCH!) NIGHT OUT (BURP!); 'MAN SHOW'
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amIT was an offer too good to refuse: a testosterone-charged night out on the town with the hosts of Comedy Central's "Man Show." Beer, belching and babes were promised, a...
IT'S 'LATE FIGHT'; DAVE SWINGS AT LENO WITH A TOP 10 PUNCH
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHE may be a recovering heart patient, but David Letterman is heartless when it comes to his top-rated rival, Jay Leno. In his latest and most brutal salvo yet, the...
TWO-DAY CAMEL RACE IN BOULIA, AUSTRALIA.
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amOutback antics If the Olympics in Sydney are too tame for your taste, get yourself to the remote Queensland town of Boulia for the annual "Boulia Desert Sands" camel race;...
MEET MR. BIGGS - LOVABLE 'LOSER' ON WAY TO HUNKHOOD
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amIn the year since his brazen big-screen debut, Jason Biggs has dropped a whopping 25 pounds. He's also shed the tag that's dogged him since his experimental pastry-poking provided the...
AL'S AMAZING APPETITE - WHY NO GOP OUTRAGE AT HIS CALL FOR $1 TRILLION IN NEW SPENDING?
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amLAST week, Al Gore basically proposed spending a trillion dollars of taxpayer money - the largest increase in the size of a government in peacetime ever considered by any nation...
U.S. OPENS THE DOOR TO TRADE WITH N. KOREA
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Clinton administration yesterday dropped economic sanctions imposed against North Korea almost 50 years ago. The move, prompted by last week's historic summit between leaders of the two Koreas, implements...
LADY COP IS A REAL KNOCKOUT
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amDETECTIVE Jean Martin is one of those cops who packs a helluva punch - she's the top light-welterweight amateur woman boxer in the nation. Martin, 29, a member of the...
CHINA GANG EYED IN ALIEN HORROR
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBritish police experts said yesterday that Chinese criminal gangs called "snakeheads" were suspected in the smuggling of illegal immigrants that led to the deaths of 58 people found in a...
UNDEPOSITED CHECKS COST CITY 294G: HEVESI
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amAn audit of the city Finance Department's Brooklyn office found 97 boxes containing about $26 million in undeposited checks - some older than six months - piled on floors and...
HILL HAS LAZIO PINNED DOWN IN D.C.
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHEY, Rick, phone home. Hillary Rodham Clinton is keeping close tabs on Lazio's attendance record in Congress - and it's starting to take a toll on the Suffolk County Republican....
COURT BARS PRE-GAME STUDENT PRAYER
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that student-led prayer at public school football games was out-of-bounds - and banned it. "Today's ruling should effectively put an end to so-called...
RICK HITS BACK AS AD WARS HEAT UP
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amSenate candidate Rick Lazio fired back at Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday, launching a TV ad that claims the first lady's campaign is about "tearing people down." Responding to two ads...
ARCHBISHOP'S PRAISE FOR DEAD PRIEST MOVES SIS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe relatives of a stockbroker-turned-priest who died of leukemia said yesterday they were honored that his memory lived on to inspire New York's new archbishop, Edward Egan. "For Egan to...
VIDEOTAPE HAS CHANGED SHARPTON'S POINT OF VIEW
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amTEN years ago. Same park. Similar crime. A very different reverend. July 2, 1990. Al Sharpton delivered these words outside the trial of three youths who tackled, raped and savagely...
RUDY READIES LAWSUIT AGAINST GUN-MAKERS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amPrecisely one month after dropping out of the Senate race, Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday the city would follow the lead of dozens of other municipalities and sue gun-makers for hefty...
WHAT AN UNHOLY TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amTHE U.S. Supreme Court has finally made America safe from the intolerable threat, the horrifying specter, the bone-chilling menace of invocations before public high-school football games. Good grief. You wonder...
'THONG' PRINCIPAL GRILLED 2ND STAFFER
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Lower East Side principal, under fire for demanding to know if a teacher wore thong underwear, caught more flak yesterday for grilling another instructor on whether he appeared in...
GRAND JURY SET TO INDICT FIRST PARK SUSPECTS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan grand jury is expected to indict several of the suspected Central Park marauders as early as today, The Post has learned. The first targets are likely to be...
BELLA DONNA'S KILLER LOOKS - CITY FIRST LADY PUTS FIRST PAL TO SHAME
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amIF LOOKING good is the best revenge, then the Almost Former Mrs. Mayor has emerged with an arsenal worthy of a beauty editor. Yes, Donna Hanover stepped out yesterday to...
BABS & CBS: JUST FLIRTING?
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amWalters: CBS would have to top her $12 million salary. BARBARA Walters is turning up the heat on ABC. The ABC News veteran has met with CBS News president Andrew...
'SOPRANOS' MOM LOSES HER FIGHT FOR LIFE
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amActress Nancy Marchand - who played Livia, the bitter and scheming mother of gangster Tony Soprano on HBO's "The Sopranos" - died Sunday at her home in Stratford, Conn. Marchand,...
COLUMBIA-SLAY JURY HEARS 911 HORROR
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amManhattan jurors winced yesterday while listening to a dramatic 911 tape of a boyfriend sobbing, "There's blood everywhere!" after finding the corpse of his Columbia University law student girlfriend. "Hurry,...
JFK JR. KIDNAP PLOTS BARED
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe FBI knew of at least three threats to kidnap John Kennedy Jr., the last time four years before his fatal plane crash last year, records show. The last threat...
SWEET NUN DIDN'T THINK PUPIL WOULD BE A PRIEST
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe 96-year-old nun who was Archbishop Edward Egan's first-grade teacher said yesterday she never dreamed he would even become a priest. Tiny, white-haired Sister Mary Donatilla Ryan stood up with...
MORAD TO PROBE MICK'S OTHER A$$ETS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amMick Jagger couldn't get no satisfaction in Manhattan family court yesterday when a hearing examiner ordered him to turn over his financial records and sing about his kids in court....
EGAN ERA BEGINS WITH PRO-LIFE CRUSADE - NEW ARCHBISHOP CHEERED HEARTILY AT ST. PAT'S MASS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amArchbishop Edward Egan, celebrating his first Mass as leader of New York Catholics yesterday, declared his devotion to his newly adopted hometown - and called on his flock to fight...
SUSPECT WAS CLEARED - BUT STAIN LINGERS ON
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amANTHONY BRYANT froze when he saw his picture in the newspaper - one of a rogue's gallery of men wanted in Central Park sex attack. He recalled his feelings as...
MAJOR FIRMS SLAMMED BY SNEAKY NEW CYBER VIRUS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amA tricky new computer virus making its way around the Internet yesterday shut down e-mail systems at four Fortune 100 companies, computer experts said. This virus spreads through e-mail that...
FANS ATTACK SHAQ'S CAR AFTER LAKERS WIN
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Thousands of Lakers fans rioted in downtown Los Angeles last night, celebrating their team's victory in the NBA finals by burning cars and attacking TV news vans....
EXEC BUYS TRIP TO OUTER SPACE FOR A MIR $20M
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHe's got $20 million and a dream - and now 59-year-old New York native Dennis Tito is poised to be the world's first space tourist. Tito, chief executive of the...
POLS GET BUGS OUT OF PESTICIDE BILL
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - State lawmakers reached a breakthrough agreement yesterday on a "pesticide notification bill" giving the public increased warnings about pesticide use. The legislation, expected to be approved when the...
POLLS APART ON BRUCE'S SONG
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Bruce Springsteen's new song about the Amadou Diallo killing is getting an overwhelming thumbs-down in a new Internet poll. Forty-seven percent of the 1,125 who responded as of...
HARRISON FORD'S PLANE IN CLOSE CALL
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHarrison Ford reprised his "Star Wars" role as ace pilot Han Solo for real this weekend when he expertly landed his twin-engine plane on a Nebraska runway in extreme wind....
FRUITS & VEGGIES 'PRODUCE' CANCER-BEATERS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amAmericans may obsess about living longer and healthier - but they aren't bothering to eat their fruits and veggies, experts say. A lack of the vitamins found in fruits and...
BUSH: GORE COPIED MY SAVINGS PLAN
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - George W. Bush charged Al Gore with flip-flopping yesterday for offering a government-backed investment scheme after bad-mouthing a similar idea a month ago. The Texas Republican skewered the...
ADWATCH
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton adwatch TITLE: Two ads in identical format -- "News Update: HMOs" and "News Update: Hate Crimes" RUNNING TIME: 15 seconds each PRODUCED BY: "Team Hillary," which includes...
MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN ARE DERAILING SOCCER
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - However euphoric the nation felt after England toughed it out over Germany to finally end a 34-year jinx, the mood changed quickly to dread when it became apparent...
FOR HAMPTON, TRY DRY AGAIN
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES When Mike Piazza walks out to the plate tonight, he will look out and see No. 32 on the mound. What will Piazza be thinking? "He's one of...
KENNY WON'T GET RAISE OUT OF ISLES
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amUnder their new, loaded owners, the Islanders appear ready to raise the team's payroll considerably next season. Except when it comes to Kenny Jonsson. A restricted free agent, the Islanders'...
TOUGH ENOUGH FOR THE TITLE ; SALLUSTIO PITCHED MOUNT OVER TOP
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amGutty. It's a trite, overused word in sports, especially high school sports. When a player isn't overpowering and leads his team to a victory, he's usually called "gutty." And when...
JORDAN'S WAITING FOR NETS' CALL
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amThe Hawks will wait, apparently, for Nets assistant Eddie Jordan to make a decision about joining their staff. "I can truly say the Hawks have put no pressure on me,"...
GOIN' IN WRONG DEREK-TION ; BELL STILL TOILING, NOT TOLLING
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amIt is invoked every day. The Derek Bell Watch is its name. Heading into tonight's Mets-Phillies game at Shea, the 31-year-old Bell owns just 10 hits in his past 79...
A HACKER HITS PEBBLE HISTORY
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - The Tiger tracks were still fresh, almost fresh enough to touch. The grandstands, the power lines, and the matted grass offered evidence that what we saw at...
TOUR PLAYERS AREN'T A SPOT ON TIGER'S TAIL
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - While Tiger Woods sauntered around Pebble Beach Golf Links Sunday in what was merely a coronation to his winning his third of the four majors, there were...
ZIM SEES 3-WAY SCRAMBLE ; YANK COACH SAYS JAYS NOT GOING AWAY
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees and Red Sox, locked in a four-game, first-place showdown at Fenway Park, hear the same thundering footsteps and they no longer are in the distance. Check...
STANLEY: WE'LL KEEP PACE WITH YANKS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - He was a leader in the Yankees' clubhouse, and he has an even stronger influence in the Red Sox' clubhouse. If anyone knows what the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry...
BATTY YANKS THROW BOSTON GLEE PARTY: FEARLESS RAMIRO EXPOSES RED SOX HOLES
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Yankees needed a pitching performance such as the one Ramiro Mendoza gave them last night almost as much they needed the schedule to send them to Fenway...
BOSS SESS PITCHER AS A PRIORITY
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Instead of traveling to New England's living room to watch his bloodied and battered Yankees punish the Red Sox 22-1 at Fenway Park last night, George Steinbrenner met...
EL DUQUE TO GET SECOND OPINION
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - In order to make sure his elbow problem is nothing more than the sprain it was diagnosed as Sunday, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez has an appointment...
BATTY YANKS THROW BOSTON GLEE PARTY: END SLUMP WITH FENWAY LAUGHER; MENDOZA DELIVERS
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 22 Red Sox 1 BOSTON - As one Yankee run followed another last night, the corridors leading to the Fenway Park exits turned into an ocean of flesh. Nine...
BLUE JAYS COULD FLY HIGHEST IN AL LEAST
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - He played for and managed the Cardinals and tasted the rivalry with the Cubs up close and personal. "To me, this is better than Chicago/St. Louis," Torre said...
NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! TORRE'S RX FOR YANKEES: NIX THE SELF-PITY & FIGHT
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre understands better than most that in order for his slumping Yankees to snap out of a miserable stretch, they must look within themselves. "You can't feel...
STANLEY: WE'LL KEEP PACE - SAYS SOX WILL MATCH YANKS MOVE FOR MOVE
June 20, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - He was a leader in the Yankees' clubhouse, a strong, reliable presence and he has an even stronger influence in the Red Sox clubhouse. If anyone knows what...