April 17, 2001
FEEL LIKE SUING A BROKER?
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amANGRY about how much you've lost in this stock market? Feel you were misled? Want to sue your broker? I've gotten calls from many readers who would answer yes to...
CNN IS HUNTING FOR MORE STARS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe changes at CNN are far from over. New Turner Broadcasting chief Jamie Kellner - along with his new programming sidekick, Garth Ancier - made the rounds last week at...
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, REVISED: OCEANA BRINGS LUXURY TO SEASIDE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amOCEANA has dropped anchor in Brighton Beach, and the atmospheric enclave where Russian accents meet the rumbling surf will never be the same. Worlds removed from Manhattan's crop of lookalike...
HOUSE PROBING ANALYSTS' 'HIDDEN' STOCK HOLDINGS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street brokerage firms will face a Congressional probe next month following revelations that some analysts hold big stakes in the companies they tout. An investigation has revealed that only...
NOW: PUT UP OR SHUT UP ; TO FIGHT FLAMES, ORGANIZATION CHARGES FOR BULLETIN BOARD USE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe National Organization for Women has found a way to fight online sexism: start charging for it. NOW has decided to offer its bulletin boards only to those people using...
NASDAQ SKIDS AFTER WARNING FROM ANALYST; DOW RISES 31
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street bears returned to maul tech stocks yesterday ending four straight winning days on the Nasdaq while blue chips closed near their highest point in more than a month....
CNBC'S STAR WARS ; ON-AIR BIGS ARE IN A CONTEST FOR BEST BOOK $ALE$
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe book battle at CNBC is on. While it's too soon to tell which of the books from the business network's star personalities will become a bestseller, a clear winner...
DREAMWORKS & UNIVERSAL PAIR UP FOR 5 MORE YEARS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amAfter months of shopping around its movie studio, Dreamworks finally opted to stick with Universal Studios. Vivendi Universal's Universal Studios and Dreamworks agreed to extend their agreement for Universal to...
TIAA-CREF TO SAVE TOWNHOUSES
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amTIAA-CREF plans to preserve five historic townhouses on the East Side while building a significant addition to them.. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association has bought the complex between Lexington and...
BUSINESS 2.0'S SALE IS LIKELY BY THIS WEEK
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amnsiders at Business 2.0 heard that a deal to sell the magazine is likely by week's end and that three suitors were still in the running. Michela Abrams, publisher of...
ANOTHER TOP LAWYER TURNS DOWN SEC POST
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush can't seem to find anyone to take the top market cop slot at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dubya's latest recruit for chairman of the SEC was rumored...
CISCO'S RED ALERT: AXING 8,500 STAFFERS AS REVENUES PLUNGE 30%
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCisco Systems hit the Street with a bombshell last night: Its revenue will drop 30 percent from the last quarter. The maker of networking equipment, which has benefited most from...
THIS DISC REALLY GAINES THE HIGH GROUND
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amJEFFREY GAINES "Always Be" Artemis Records While it might appear that rock and pop are owned by a few hype-powered comets, they actually belong to the journeymen who love the...
AN EYE ON LONDON ; NEW MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amI AM in the Nude. In public. Surrounded by school children.Actually, I'm wearing a blazer and tie, with Rodin's "The Kiss" to my immediate left. I'm standing smack in the...
XFL FACING FOURTH DOWN AND LONG YARDAGE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amTHE XFL's first playoff season seems destined to be its last on a major network. Ratings for the fledgling football league's first post-season game Saturday night drew less than 3...
NEW 'CRIMES' HAS HEART
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCRIMES OF THE HEARTSecond Stage Theater, 307 W. 43rd St. Through May 13. Call (212) 246-4422. IT'S a match made in heaven - director Garry Hynes has an ear and...
BUZZ
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amSend in no clones Given the choice, the vast majority of Americans are against cloning both people and pets. So found the American Museum of Natural History, which recently polled...
HAAAIR'S BRYANT! THERE'S HELL TOUPEE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amSOMETHING has gotten hairy on "The Early Show" and it's not just the morning hour's cut-throat ratings race. Bryant Gumbel returned from vacation earlier this month sporting a beard -...
THE STARR REPORT
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCNBC remembers pal Joey Ramone The death of Ramones lead singer Joey Ramone has had an effect on an unlikely ally: CNBC. Ramone was a loyal CNBC viewer, especially of...
'PROOF' IS IN THE PULITZER
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amDAVID Auburn was sitting in his living room watching an old Robert Mitchum movie on cable when he got the news that would change his life: "Proof," his acclaimed play...
'PRODUCERS' ALREADY PRODUCES AWARD NODS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00am'THE Producers" - the most eagerly awaited musical of the spring theater season - received 10 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations yesterday, including Outstanding Broadway Musical. It will square off...
JOEY, WE MISS YOU
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amEARLY yesterday morning fans gathered at CBGB, the punk rock club on the Bowery, to pay tribute to Joey Ramone, the wiry energetic Ramones lead singer who died Sunday afternoon....
'MNF' LOSES FIGHT WITH NFL, GAINS GIANTS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amABC's bid to keep the flexible end-of-the-season schedule for "Monday Night Football" - allowing them to get the hottest pairings of playoff-bound teams - has been turned down by the...
ALL TIED UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO: 'CHAINS OF LOVE' IS NOT FOR THE PHOBIC
April 17, 2001 | 4:00am"Chains of Love" Tonight at 8 on UPN/Ch. 9 Zero stars 'CHAINS of Love" is another one of those shows that will have you scratching your head and wondering: Why...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amDon't miss Matisse Between 1898 and 1949, the Cone sisters of Baltimore acquired more than 3,000 works of art, including about 500 pieces by Henri Matisse - one of the...
AFTER THE FALL: TORRENT OF DEMAND FOR LADIES' LOVE POTION NIAGARA
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amJust when you thought were getting used to Viagra, the pill - along comes Niagara, the drink. The little blue bottle ringed with red bunnies contains a fizzy cocktail of...
GET MAD, THEN GO AFTER THE BUREAUCRATS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amHERE'S how you become angry: Read up on what many New York public schools are doing to math education, and how permanently crippled our kids will be because of this...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM APRIL 17, 1969
April 17, 2001 | 4:00am"LOS ANGELES- Sirhan Sirhan today was found guilty of first-degree murder in the assassination last June of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan faces possible death in the gas chamber or...
'WEST WING' BIG IN DRUG BUST: COPS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00am"West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin was arrested for possession of psychedelic mushrooms moments before he was supposed to board a plane, cops said. The Emmy-winning scribe was busted Sunday afternoon...
IT'S THE TRAINING, GOVERNOR
April 17, 2001 | 4:00am'Thank God for the training," said Senior Chief Petty Officer Nicholas Mellos upon his return to American continental soil on Saturday. Was George Pataki listening? New York's Republican governor has...
BRONX STAB BOY BACK HOME TO ROUSING CHEERS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe 8-year-old Bronx boy slashed and stabbed after his basketball bounced against a neighbor's door last week returned home yesterday to cheers from family and friends. Richy "Cory" Bermudez, very...
ED. BOARD 'TRAITOR' PRESSURED TO QUIT
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amMANHATTAN Borough President Virginia Fields has asked her appointee, Irving Hamer, to resign from the Board of Education after his surprise vote for Ninfa Segarra, sources at the board and...
BLOOD BROTHERS?
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amSOMETIMES, disparate souls have more in common than appears to be the case. Take, for example, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Rev. Al Sharpton. I worked for Gingrich...
POINT OF NO RETURNS: TAX-TIME ; DALLIERS RACE CLOCK
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amExcuses, excuses. That's what last-minute taxpayers were dishing up yesterday as thousands poured into the main post office on Eighth Avenue to mail their returns. "I've been really busy and...
HIGH COURT NIXES APPEAL FOR SPY AMES
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe U.S. Supreme Court yesterday shot down CIA traitor Aldrich Ames' attempt to void the 1994 guilty plea that landed him in prison for life - after lower courts ruled...
BAD NEWS FOR CHILDREN, GOOD ; NEWS FOR TUTORS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00am"Constructivist" math has been a boon to tutoring services, such as Huntington Learning Services in Union Square, where Alvarez Symonette helps kids with their math skills.Elizabeth LippmanParent and student frustration...
LIVERY-HAIL BAN MAY EASE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amHailing a livery cab in the outer boroughs could become legal if Fernando Mateo gets his way. Mateo, head of a state cabbies union, is pushing a plan called Operation...
LET'S SEE: 2,001-1,957 IS . . .
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe term "New Math" has been around for ages. Educators first introduced what was called "the New Math" in 1957 after the Soviet Union launched the first satellite to orbit...
MADONNA'S UNDIES ON THE BLOCK FOR ONLINE AUCTION
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amAnyone who's ever dreamed of getting up close with Madonna - well, with her sweaty bustier anyway - will get the chance when her lacy underwear and other Material Girl...
CINDY ADAMS' MOTHER DIES
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amJessica Sugar Heller, the mother of The Post's Cindy Adams, has died, and her brokenhearted daughter yesterday spoke through tears about the spirited woman who "gave me every single thing...
NAZI-FLAG GUARD IN SEX-RAP BUST
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - A Luger-toting prison guard who once sparked controversy by flying a Nazi flag at his house - in a case that went to the state's top court -...
HEVESI TO BUSH: FREE POLLARD ; MAKES PLEA FOR ISRAEL SPY
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday called on President Bush to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, a cause close to the heart of many Jewish voters. The mayoral hopeful said Pollard,...
ARE WE OFF OUR ROCKER? RAMONE'S REBEL YELLS INNOCENT IN RETROSPECT
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amIT WAS a time in this city when the scariest thing a musician could do was compel kids to blast their stereos too loud. And his most offensive act was...
RIVALS REBUFF ALAN ON 'ANTI-SEMITIC' EDITORIAL
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amIN A rare moment of hands-on negotiations, Alan Hevesi privately asked his Democratic rivals to join him in attacking an allegedly anti-Semitic editorial in the Amsterdam News. But all three...
U.S.: LET US FIX OUR PLANE ; WANT CHINA TO LET IN REPAIR CREW
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amU.S. diplomats head to Beijing tomorrow to demand China allow mechanics to repair the grounded American spy plane that's at the heart of a dispute so it can be flown...
COP UNION WINS CRUCIAL COURT ROUND AGAINST CITY
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe city police union won a major victory in Albany yesterday when a court upheld the constitutionality of a law requiring that contract disputes with cops go before a state...
'SHYNE' SAYS HE IS SORRY, SORTA
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amRapper Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, the gunman convicted in the Sean "Puffy" Combs trial, apologized to his victims yesterday, but denied responsibility for their "pain." "I didn't cause your pain," Barrow,...
SCHOOLS' 'NEW MATH' = ; TROUBLE FOR CITY KIDS ; SUM-THING IS WRONG: TEACHERS & PARENTS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe Board of Education has quietly overhauled the way math is taught at 628 schools over objections of befuddled parents and top mathematicians, who call the new curriculum dumbed-down "fuzzy"...
JACKO'S THROWING A 'GARDEN' PARTY
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amWacko Jacko is coming backo. Michael Jackson is planning a thriller of a concert for Madison Square Garden - and his first American gig in years will feature a reunion...
SIAMESE TWINS LOSE 5-DAY FIGHT FOR LIFE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe Siamese twins born at a Manhattan hospital last week died of heart failure as their devastated mother cradled them in her arms. Cristal Paola and Paola Cristal - who...
HEVESI STILL THE 3RD MAN ; TRAILS KEY DEM FOES, DESPITE $1M AD BLITZ
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi is stuck in third place in the Democratic mayoral race - despite three weeks of blitzing the airwaves with a $1 million advertising campaign, a Post...
ISRAEL SHELLS GAZA SITES IN REVENGE RAID
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli helicopters and tanks pounded Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip yesterday in retaliation for the mortar shelling of an Israeli town just two miles from the farm...
MOB KIN NABBED IN '99 B'KLYN SLAY
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man named for his slain Mafia-boss uncle was finally nabbed yesterday in the 1999 stabbing death of a popular St. John's student. Carmine Galante, 23, allegedly stabbed Bill...
JUDGE OKS QUEENS POWER GENERATORS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amWork can continue on two controversial power generators in Queens, an appellate court ruled yesterday, just hours after another judge had shut down construction. The plants are being built in...
DEFENSE OPENS IN TERROR TRIAL
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amA Nairobi businessman and a British forensics expert were the first witnesses called yesterday as lawyers for four accused terrorists began presenting defenses to the jury. The four men on...
HUNT WIDENS FOR SHIPLOAD OF SLAVE KIDS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amA massive international effort was under way last night to locate and rescue scores of children believed to be captives aboard a slave ship off the coast of West Africa....
ON AGAIN: JUDGE OKS QNS. POWER GENERATORS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amThe state can keep building two controversial power generators in Queens, a state appellate judge ruled yesterday, just hours after another judge had shut down construction. The New York Power...
RAIN SCRAMBLES EGG-ROLL PLANS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday sent nearly 10,000 dyed Easter eggs to a local food kitchen after the annual Easter Egg Roll was canceled because of rain. "I guess...
MADONNA UNDIES GOING UP FOR BID
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amAnyone who's ever dreamed of getting up close with Madonna - well, with her sweaty bustier anyway - will get the chance when her lacy underwear and other Material Girl...
FAMED ELIAN FOTOG AMONG WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amA frightening exposé on unsafe drugs OK'd by the federal government and a shocking probe into the U.S. immigration service nailed prized Pulitzers for two newspapers yesterday. Breaking-news coverage of...
HEVESI STILL THE 3RD MAN: TRAILS KEY DEM FOES, DESPITE $1M AD BLITZ
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCity Comptroller Alan Hevesi is stuck in third place in the Democratic mayoral race -despite three weeks of blitzing the airwaves with a $1 million advertising campaign, a Post poll...
KNICKS CAN'T SOW ANY SEEDS VS. CAVS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCavaliers 80 Knicks 78 CLEVELAND - It was 15.8 seconds of shame. Latrell Sprewell had Cavaliers rookie 7-foot center Chris Mihm, 1-on-1 on the perimeter, in the final seconds with...
IT'S TIME TO UNRAVEL SORRY NETS
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amGet a scorecard. Or take a picture. Because after tonight's season finale against the Bulls in the Meadowlands, the Nets, as currently constituted, will cease to exist. And for that...
LIBERTY'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amWhen he took the job as Liberty head coach two years ago, Richie Adubato wasn't entirely enthusiastic. "I definitely had some reservations," said Adubato, who entered the WNBA with 19...
MONDAY MORNING BLUES ; SICKLY BATS LEAVE YANKS WOOZY, GIVE SOX THREE OF FOUR
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amRed Sox 4 Yankees 1 BOSTON - In case you missed it, the Dead Bat Society held its inaugural 2001 meeting yesterday in front of a sold-out Fenway Park audience...
JUSTICE: 0-FOR-21 & COUNTING
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - David Justice is three straight outs away from tying the longest slump of his career. Like every cold hitter, Justice takes solace that he has hit...
DEVILS READY IF IT GETS UGLY: STEVENS' HITS KEEP ON COMIN'
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Ted Williams had a mission in life. He wanted to be known as the best damn hitter who ever lived. But Teddy Ballgame might want to step aside....
BOMBERS LEAVE DOOR WIDE OPEN FOR BOSOX
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Red Sox do not bring issues to a season; they bring baggage. Lots and lots of baggage, including eight decades of dirty laundry involving the Yankees. Mostly...
DL NOT AN OPTION FOR BERNIE: CASHMAN
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - Nobody knows when Bernie Williams will rejoin the Yankees. However, the reeling Bombers cannot put their All-Star center fielder and cleanup hitter on the disabled list while he...
EASY TO UNDERESTIMATE NFL DRAFT
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Vick will set the tone in Saturday's NFL Draft. Barring a last-minute blockbuster deal in which the San Diego Chargers trade the top pick in the draft, which they...
DEVILS READY IF IT GETS UGLY ; KNOW 'CANES MAY RESORT TO VIOLENCE
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Content to continue, methodically outscoring and outplaying the Hurricanes, the Devils nonetheless are girded for anything thrown at them. Including punches. "We have enough guys who can take...
ROCKIN' REY SAVES DAY
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amIT pretty much has come down to this for the Mets: Either Rey Ordonez hoists an anemic offense on his back and carries it to the winner's circle, or the...
VG NOT SURE LJ WILL START UPON RETURN
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES CLEVELAND - For the first time since the caveman era, Jeff Van Gundy left open whether Larry Johnson will start at power forward once he becomes healthy. Johnson...
REED REFUSES TO LET THIS ONE GET AWAY
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amRick Reed was standing - no, make that pacing - out on the mound last night. His Mets, who'd been in one of their worst hitting slumps in years, had...
BATS MORE LIKE IT! METS' LUMBER FINALLY WAKES FROM SLUMBER
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amMets 4 Expos 3 When Darryl Hamilton walked to the plate to lead off the bottom of the first, he carried with him a world of baseball pain on his...
MIKE'S BAT STILL HOT
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES On the way to a team-wide slump, you might not have noticed that Mike Piazza is batting .375. That's no slump. Batting in the third spot, Piazza ripped...
WANTED: SLUMP-BUSTER
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amTHE issue of team chemistry surfaced during the Mets' fruitless attempts to trade for disgruntled Dodgers slugger Gary Sheffield. What would Sheffield's personality do to the Mets' team chemistry? Even...
RAINES LOOKING ROCK-SOLID IN 'CONTINUATION'
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amEven by Tim Raines' own lofty standards, what the Expos' outfielder has done is amazing. He has battled and beaten Lupus, a life-threatening disease that sapped his endurance and bloated...
BAT-TLE RAGES ON: AMAZIN'S DESPERATE TO WAKEN LUMBER
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amOptimism reigned supreme last night at Shea Stadium. Perhaps the Mets are just in a state of delusion, considering their .223 team batting average. But here was the good news....
COMMISH SLAPS TURK ON WRIST
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets GM Steve Phillips said last night that Turk Wendell received a letter from the commissioner's office, admonishing him over his recent comments in his feud with Expos...
SPREWELL: EW HAVE GOT TO SEE US NOW
April 17, 2001 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Latrell Sprewell urged Patrick Ewing yesterday to come to the Garden and root on his former team during the playoffs. Ewing's plans after tomorrow are up in the...