January 1, 2000
YELTSIN SHOCKS RUSSIA AND THE WORLD WITH RESIGNATION
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amBoris Yeltsin, the grandfather of Russia's stormy transition from communism to democracy, stunned his nation yesterday by announcing his resignation and begging forgiveness for his many mistakes. In a shocking...
THE BEST TABLOID STORY NEVER WRITTEN
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amAnyone who could wage war on a constant basis, give two Popes a nervous breakdown, marry and behead wives and courtiers, has my vote of being the best tabloid story.WARS,...
B’KLYN SLAY GIVES CITY DUBIOUS DISTINCTION
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe city's last apparent murder victim of the millennium was a 24-year-old man gunned down at a Brooklyn club -- cementing New York's claim to the highest number of homicides...
YI GO, GIRL! 1ST N.Y. STAR IS BORN ON S.I.
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amSix-pound, 13-ounce Rebekah Yi was born one second after midnight on Staten Island. Happy New Yi! Baby Rebekah Yi of Staten Island today claimed the title of the city's first...
KNICK DUO HOPING TO BE STAR-STRUCK
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe "Odd Couple" just may have an All-Star showing in Oakland. Allan Houston, the coach's son, and Latrell Sprewell, the coach choker, may well find themselves on the court together...
SPREE’S CLEANED UP HIS ACT ; TEAM-MAN LATRELL GIVES JEFF NO GRIEF
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe fan behind the Knick bench Thursday night at Washington's MCI Center screamed "Devil" at Latrell Sprewell all night long. Must have had the wrong guy. Sprewell, since making it...
INTERBOROUGH ‘CAP ON TAP AT THE BIG A
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amIn the previous century, the Interborough Handicap at Aqueduct showcased the talents of such sterling distaff sprinters as Affectionately, Ta Wee and Gladiolus, each of which won the six-furlong dash...
A ‘BREATHLESS’ LOOK AT 100 YEARS OF MOVIEMAKING
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amCOMPILING any "best of" movie is a crapshoot, especially when dealing with a century worth of films. So many movies, so little space. One critic's masterpiece might not even make...
‘CASABLANCA’ IS NO. 1
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amYOU can no more say that 20 movies are the best ever than you can name the best books ever written or the best music ever recorded. Does best mean...
‘TERROR CELL’ PHONE LINK HELPED FBI PROBERS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe cell phones of two suspected terrorists helped the feds target dozens of people nationwide for questioning about possible Y2K attacks on U.S. soil, sources told The Post. FBI agents...
THERE’S NO SONGWRITER LIKE IRVING BERLIN
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amMANY of the most enduring songs of the 20th century were born on a New York stage. Here's a look at the Broadway composers and lyricists who created the American...
BASEBALL’S TOP 25
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amJoel Sherman has reported on Major League Baseball since 1984 and began covering the Yankees for The Post in 1989. He's been one of our baseball columnists since 1996. 1....
ARMY OF COPS KEEPS THE REVELERS IN LINE
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amNew Year's revelers took few liberties with the extraordinary security around the "Crossroads of the World" last night -- and those who did were quickly arrested. With an "air force"...
HIJACK ORDEAL ENDS AMID TEARS & CHEERS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amMore than 150 exhausted passengers and crew, many trembling or sobbing, walked off their hijacked jet to freedom yesterday after India released three jailed Kashmir militants and ended the hostages'...
BIG APPLE IS THE CORE OF THE EARTH
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe Big Apple was batting 2000 today -- after a millennium-mad million-plus brought down the Times Square ball and greeted the new year with a joyous roar heard around the...
NOT SO FAST CAPTURES ROBB
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amNot So Fast received a perfect stalking trip from Octavio Vergara and then drew away in the stretch for a 11/2-length victory over Flora'spersonalboy in the $56,350 Alex M. Robb...
HOKIE COACH IS FIRED UP UNTIL JAN.6
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amNEW ORLEANS -- Have you made a New Year's resolution? Lose weight? Quit smoking? Virginia Tech running backs coach Billy Hite has chosen the latter. He'll give up his cancer...
OUR SPORTS LOVE AFFAIR – WHY2K?
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amYou look at the state of professional sports at the Turn of the Millenium and you wonder, "How can it get any worse?" You've got inferior athletes pulling down exorbitant...
BOXING TOP 25
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amWallace Matthews has covered boxing since 1983. The former president of the Boxing Writers' Association joined The Post in 1994. 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Joe Louis 3. Sugar Ray Robinson...
$100M LOTTO NUMBERS ARE . . .
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amIt will be a very happy New Year for some lucky person holding the winning ticket for the biggest lottery payoff in New York state history. Lottery officials in Times...
SANIT WORKERS BEAR HEAVY LOAD FOR SAFETY
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN Howard Jones went to work yesterday, he didn't know he was about to become a human shield. Armed with a 69,000-pound Sanitation Department salt-spreading truck filled with sand, Jones...
WELLINGTON HAS NO PLANS TO WALK AWAY
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amIf the coming of the new millennium is a time for reflection, that sentiment has been lost on Wellington Mara. When asked if his longevity is a source of pride,...
JETS AIM TO STOP GALLOWAY GLENN EYES REDEMPTION
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amIf one person was more dismayed than anyone else by the return of Joey Galloway after his lengthy contract holdout, it was Jets CB Aaron Glenn. "I wish he had...
THE LAST ROUNDUP? ; JINTS’ JOBS ON LINE IN DALLAS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amEverything is moving toward an ending, even though the Giants do have a slight chance to keep alive their mostly dysfunctional season and gain an improbable playoff berth. The final...
CRIME OF THE CENTURY: HOW PETER UEBERROTH AND BASEBALL’S MONEY-HUNGRY OWNERS ROBBED OUR CHILDREN OF THE NATIONAL PASTIME
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amWHEN DID it all change for the worse? When, this century, did sports declare that it was heartless, that it wasn't just a business -- sports has always been a...
BASKETBALL’S TOP 25
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amFred Kerber, who has been both the Knicks' and Nets' beat writer for The Post, is in his 17th season covering the NBA 1. Michael Jordan 2. David Stern 3....
THE COMEBACK KID – FUNDS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amMutual funds made a comeback in 1999, but there was nobody around to notice. More than 56 percent of mutual funds beat the market averages last year, at a time...
LEGENDS OF DANCE — STEP BY STEP
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amTHINK of it -- finding only 20 men and women who made dance really dance over the past millennium. But then, dance wasn't really up and swinging 1,000 years ago....
MOVIE MEGA-MEN
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amCREATING a list of the greatest screen actors is a necessarily arbitrary exercise: Some of those ranked below are movie stars rather than outstanding actors, though a few are both....
THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amTHOSE bells ringing in the new millennium may have sounded the death knell for us couch potatoes. No more sitting back and being passively entertained by studio sameness and record-label...
DIAL H FOR HITCHCOCK
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amCHOOSING the greatest film directors of the 20th Century is an awesome responsibility. Is anybody really qualified to say that Hitchcock was more creative than Fellini, or that Welles outranks...
GEORGE’S STABBER IN PSYCHO LOCKUP
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amThe mad stabber who tried to kill George Harrison was ordered held in a medium-security psychiatric hospital yesterday for tests and treatment. Sporting a puffy black eye and bloodstained face,...
BRIGHTON BEACH SAW IT COMING
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amRussians in Brighton Beach were hardly surprised that Boris Yeltsin stepped down yesterday -- they expected it. "We knew for three or four months that it was going to happen...
BILL & HILL LEAD STARRY NIGHT IN D.C.
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amPresident Clinton and wife Hillary yesterday led a star-studded millennium bash on the National Mall in Washington, hosted an extrava-gant White House dinner party and filled a time capsule to...
STEINBRENNER OWNS SLAY-RAMPAGE HOTEL
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amA man working as a Tampa hotel housekeeper was charged yesterday with killing four co-workers in a shooting rampage before fatally gunning down a fifth person in an attempted getaway....
IT’S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE HAYES PLAYS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amSafety Chris Hayes, who has been plagued throughout the season with an injured shin and missed last week's game, is expected to play tomorrow. "Hayes looks ready to go," Bill...
Y2K FEARS FORCE LONG WEEKEND
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amNew Year's in Dallas? Ushering in the new millennium in Dallas? It may not be the first choice for the Giants, but it's what transpired last night. The Giants left...
RODMAN TO SIGN WITH SUNS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amYou can't keep a good man down. Or, apparently, a bizarre one either. Dennis Rodman, the tattooed and turbulent seven-time rebounding champ, is about to undergo another NBA resurrection and...
LOU: START SEASON WITH ROUND-ROBIN
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amBOSTON -- The reception, this time, has been enthusiastic. Several GMs have already endorsed the idea of a Round-Robin of Rivals, the regular-season local tournament suggested here for the holidays....
IT WAS A VINTAGE YEAR : WALL ST. CLOSES OUT 1999 WITH A BANG
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amWhat an amazing year, decade and century it was for Wall Street! U.S. financial markets closed out the millennium on an upbeat note -- with singing on the floor of...
RECORDING’S TOP PLAYERS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amIT all started with an American who had a knack for creating what wasn't. His name was Tom Edison, and in 1877 he made a gadget -- the Edison cylinder...
IT DOESN’T GET BETTER THAN WILL
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amAS millennia go, the past one was a pretty good one for the theater. Some of the big names were actors; others were directors and teachers. But the play's the...
OUR LADIES CHOICE
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amLIKE my list of actors, this necessarily subjective ranking of the greatest movie actresses includes figures whose significance has more to do with star quality -- glamour, sex appeal, screen...
‘CASABLANCA’ IS NO.1
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amAny list of the century's greatest films has to be somewhat arbitrary. Twenty slots doesn't leave room for D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd or W.C....
HOCKEY’S TOP 25
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amLarry Brooks, this week named as No. 84 by The Hockey News in its ranking of The 100 Most Powerful and Influential People in Hockey, began covering the sport for...
GREAT WHITE WAY VIA POST REVIEWS
January 1, 2000 | 5:00amSINCE stage productions are ephemeral, it is impossible to compare shows from different eras. Unlike movies, which can be viewed over and over and debated endlessly, theater doesn't allow for...