March 21, 2000
HOT-TEMPERED COP WILL FUEL ANTI-POLICE ACTIVISTS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE latest NYPD shooting of an unarmed man was not a tragedy born of dark shadows and irreversible, split-second mistakes, like the death of Amadou Diallo. And it was not...
RIVALS HAIL WACO TEST RESULTS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amBoth sides claimed vindication yesterday after Sunday's $1 million re-enactment of the deadly 1993 Waco siege. The three-hour replay at Fort Hood, Texas, was supposed to prove or disprove allegations...
ROYALS UPROOT DIANA’S GARDEN
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amA secret garden kept by Princess Diana at Kensington Palace has been torn down on orders from the royal family, it was revealed last night. Princess Michael of Kent ordered...
FEDS BUST ‘H. RAP’ FOLLOWING SHOOTOUT
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amA former Black Panther leader wanted for killing an Atlanta deputy sheriff was captured near Montgomery, Ala. last night, after a shootout with police and federal agents. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin...
BRING EDMONDS TO THE BRONX ; YANKEES MUST DEAL SORIANO TO ANGELS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Mickey Rivers and Willie Randolph are having a catch on Legends Field, alongside Goose Gossage and Donnie Baseball. Nothing wrong with the past in Yankee land. A few...
BRING EDMONDS TO THE BRONX:CALIFORNIA KID WOULD FIT NICELY IN NEW YORK
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amSCOTTSDALE -- Do whatever it takes, George. The Yankees cannot let Jim Edmonds get away. The desert wind whipped through the valley here yesterday, down Camelback Mountain into Scottsdale Stadium,...
BIG EAST SIDE POWER PLAY OVER CON ED
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amIF you're nostalgic for the rugged West Side land-use battles of the '80s, get ready for the Great East Side War of the '00s. The looming struggle over Con Ed's...
COACH’S STAR PUPILS: ACTING TEACHER HAS 2 STUDENTS UP FOR OSCARS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amYOU can't be a great actor unless you're willing to suffer, says acting coach Larry Moss, who guided the previously little-known Hilary Swank and Michael Clarke Duncan through wrenching --...
CD ROUNDUP: SONGSMITH PATTI GETS ‘GUNG HO’
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amPATTI SMITH "Gung Ho" Arista The classic standoff between Patti Smith and the listener is in full force on her towering album "Gung Ho" -- a collection that will stand...
KEYSHAWN’S A NO-SHOW
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amHas the first official salvo been fired from the Keyshawn Johnson camp to the Jets? From the preliminary look of things, the answer is a resounding yes. Johnson was not...
HORRIFIC NEW FIND AS UGANDA TOLL NEARS 600
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amAs the death toll in the Uganda cult fire soared to almost 600 yesterday, investigators announced another grisly find -- the bodies of 330 more cult members dumped into a...
HIGH COURT TO DECIDE ON RAPIST’S FORCED AFTERCARE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether a convicted rapist can be committed to a mental hospital -- even after he's served his sentence. The case involves...
MCCAIN BACK AT WORK AND BATTLING FOR GOP
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Vanquished GOP presidential candidate John McCain makes a campaign-finance reform speech on the Senate floor today while preparing to endorse the man who beat him. McCain, in his...
COPS NOMINATE PAIR AS CHIEF SUSPECTS IN THEFT OF OSCARS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- The Oscar for most publicized but least successful heist in Hollywood goes to -- The Insiders. Cops nabbed two shipping-company employees for allegedly pulling an inside job...
BX. WOMAN HELD FOR HIGH CRIMES
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx woman was in a New Mexico lock-up last night after hitting the co-pilot of an America West jetliner in a booze-fueled attack, the FBI said. Denise Laverne Brown,...
HILL: RUDY FORMS GREAT ‘DIVIDE’ – SAYS HIZZONER POLARIZES CITY IN POLICE SLAY
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton last night thrust herself into the maelstrom over the police shooting of Patrick Dorismond -- skewering rival Mayor Giuliani for "dividing the city" by taking sides in...
PREGNANCY IS ‘2ND’ NATURE FOR MADONNA
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amYes, Madonna is carrying Baby No. 2 -- and no, she will not be marrying Father No. 2. The Material Mom announced yesterday that she's three-months pregnant by her boyfriend,...
SHE’S BIDDING TO WOO SCHUMER BLOC
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's aides hope her fiery speech in Harlem last night makes her more attractive to moderate whites who want a senator able to defuse racial tensions. They insisted...
HORRORS IN INDIA AS BILL & CHELSEA VISIT
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amAs President Clinton met with leaders in South Asia hoping to defuse tensions between nuclear powers India and Pakistan, gunmen in the volatile province of Kashmir, claimed by both countries,...
NARCS SCORE 666G BUST IN WASH. HTS.
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amNarcotics cops stopped a car for reckless driving in Manhattan - and discovered $666,465 in cash, drugs and two men with warrants out for their arrest in two states, police...
4 KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN TEXAS CARWASH BLOOD BATH
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amFour Texas carwash attendants were shot to death and two others critically wounded yesterday morning in what police believe was a robbery. An employee arriving for work at the Mi-T-Fine...
$10M NCAA PRIZE GOING UNCLAIMED
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amNo college basketball fan is going to take home the $10 million grand prize offered in an on-line fantasy sports site's contest, although an amazing 56 people made it to...
WHY BOXERS AREN’T SAFE IN N.Y. ; GATTI WEIGH-IN LATEST DUBIOUS MOVE BY NYSAC
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amToday, in the second installment of a three-part investigative series on the New York State Athletic Commission, Post columnists Wallace Matthews and Jack Newfield examine the commission's failure to protect...
MANAGER WORRIED GRANT WON’T GET A FAIR SHAKE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe night of April 29 should be the culmination of a dream for unbeaten heavyweight Michael Grant. On that night he will get a shot at Lennox Lewis' undisputed heavyweight...
ROAD GETS TOUGHER ; KNICKS WILL TRY TO SHAKE SHAQ HANGOVER IN INDY
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amINDIANAPOLIS -- There is one good thing about facing the top-seeded Pacers in Indiana so soon after getting humbled by the Lakers. A Knicks' victory tonight at Conseco Field House...
CAROLINA DOUBTERS TARRED AND FEATHERED
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amThose who delighted in The Great Fall might as well avert their eyes this weekend when the South Regional moves to Austin. For those eager to usher in the decline...
REGGIE MAKES PITCH TO EDMONDS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Reggie Jackson stopped by Angels camp yesterday in Arizona to firm up the club honoring him Opening Day when the Yankees visit Anaheim. And the Yankees' consultant found...
CLEMENS AS SICK AS BOMBER BATS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amPirates 5 Yankees 1 TAMPA -- Roger Clemens' stomach was so bad last night that he experienced dry heaves. And it had nothing to do with watching the sickly Yankee...
IVILLAGE SIGNS LEASE, AT LAST
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amiVillage has a new home. The Internet site for women has quickly signed a lease for 106,000- square feet at 500-512 Seventh Ave. The deal comes as a relief to...
NOTORIOUS PARTNER JUMPS TO ‘NET DEAL
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amPuff Daddy's partner in Notorious Entertainment has jumped off the sinking ship. Notorious CEO David Anthony has launched SynSato, an Internet incubator that focuses solely on multi-media content and broadband...
DOW, NASDAQ PART WAYS; FED TO MEET
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amFears of the Fed kept financial stocks faltering yesterday, even as other blue-chip names climbed higher. Despite the downturning bank stocks, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 85.01 to 10,680.24...
CHRIS-CRAFT DROPS UPN
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amIt's not clear what UPN will become if Viacom-CBS is allowed to keep it -- but pro-wrestling may very well play a big role. Viacom will now lobby for the...
THE GOING WAS GOOD FOR GOLIN
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amMark Golin seemed to be taking his demise at Details in stride yesterday. Asked how his staff was reacting, he responded, "They are running around buck naked, yelling and screaming....
‘LAW’ STAR SUING EBAY
March 21, 2000 | 5:00am"Law and Order" star Jerry Orbach is headed to federal court -- and this time, it's personal. The actor, who plays a wizened New York detective on the hit NBC...
THE STARR REPORT
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amBarb's battlin' barbsBarbara Walters and Colorado Gov. Bill Owens mixed it up on yesterday's "Good Morning America" during a verbal free-for-all. Walters, subbing for vacationing Diane Sawyer, was discussing her...
TRAVELER’S UPDATE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amLake breaking news Alitalia's Italiatour just brought out new all-inclusive packages from JFK or Newark to the spectacular lakes of Northern Italy. The getaways include round-trip airfare on Alitalia, seven...
A PEROT PLAN FOR BUSH
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amGEORGE W. Bush finds himself in a bit of a bind -- not much of one, but a bind nonetheless -- when it comes to Al Gore's challenge for continuous...
DETAILS PUT DOWN BY CONDE NAST – IT’S LATEST MEN’S MAG TO GO UNDER
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amDetails, the beleaguered men's magazine, is going out feet first at the Conde Nast wing of the Newhouse empire. But unlike a slew of young men's titles that have suspended...
MCCARTHY DEFEATS TRUMAN
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amFairchild Chairman and Editorial Director Patrick McCarthy appears to be the new rising star in the Newhouse empire, now that S.I. Newhouse, Jr. has put him in charge of trying...
BIDDING ON CLIENTS; SOTHEBY’S WOOS STEINBERG WITH $14M DEAL
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amWhile Christie's and Sotheby's fight their price-fixing scandals at the Justice Department, they're also slugging it out with each other to keep high-profile clients like Saul Steinberg on board. Steinberg,...
MISS AMERICA TAKES ON HEPATITIS C
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing glamorous about hepatitis C -- except that it's become Miss America 2000's pet cause. "When I heard that 8 to 10 percent of veterans before 1992 were [likely...
TALE OF 3 CITIES – JAISALMER, JAIPUR AND JODHPUR ARE A TRIO OF INDIA’S COLORFUL GEMS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTO travel down the road that leads from the 14th-century fort to the 15th-century royal cemetery to the 20th-century City Palace in Jodhpur, India, is to travel through the past...
MTV COMIC GREEN SAYS HE HAS CANCER
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amMTV funnyman Tom Green stopped the laughter last night as he revealed that he has cancer. The 28-year-old comic told "Entertainment Tonight" that he's undergoing surgery at an undisclosed hospital,...
BUS WITH TOT ABOARD LEAVES MOM IN DUST
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amA 2-year-old girl got the ride of her life when her mom stepped off a bus to buy a soda and chips at the Port Authority Terminal -- only to...
TEENS IN LINE ALL NIGHT TO BE ‘N SYNC
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amForget March Madness -- it was 'N Sync mania yesterday in the Big Apple. Nearly 1000 screaming teenage girls, equipped with sleeping bags and CD players blaring the music of...
WRIST-SLAP FOR WOMAN WHO FATALLY BEAT GRANNY
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amA woman who fatally beat her invalid grandmother with a broomstick -- in an argument over housecleaning -- could get as little as no jail time after a judge ruled...
POTHEADS RISK LUNG DISEASE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amEvidence is mounting on the evils of smoking - tobacco and marijuana. Doctors in Scotland, reporting in the journal Thorax, which went on newsstands today, said longtime marijuana smokers may...
VETS SEE PARAPLEGIC’S CURE AS BIG STEP
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amWheelchair-bound war veterans and accident victims yesterday hailed the miracle surgery that's allowed a paralyzed man to walk again. "This is something that paraplegics have been begging for for years,"...
NIEDERMAYER EXPECTS A SUSPENSION
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amClearly contrite while pleading guilty, Scott Niedermayer awaits the worst today, at the worst possible time for the Devils. The Devils' top-scoring defenseman expects, almost assuredly correctly, that he will...
NO NEEDLE FOR HAMILTON
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amMets 4 Indians 2 MET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE -- Darryl Hamilton, who left Sunday's rain-soaked game because his left big toe and left knee were achy, isn't planning on...
PACERS EXPECT TO SEE BIG THINGS FROM VG’S GUARDS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS -- Pacers coach Larry Bird fully expects to see the Knicks use their controversial "Big Backcourt" a lot tonight at Conseco Field House, although Jeff Van Gundy...
ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR HALL ; BATTERED PIRATES FORGE AHEAD AGAINST THE ODDS, OBSTACLES
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amForget the fact that Seton Hall is one of the Big East's best ballhandling teams; ignore the fact that it's one of the league's top 3-point shooting clubs. What the...
THE IN-VINCE-IBLE MAN: KING CARTER CARRYING RAPTORS UP NBA LADDER
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amVINCE Carter breezed through the Rockets' defense Sunday on his game-winning dunk as if Shandon Anderson was back in Utah and Charles Barkley was still there. Immediately afterward, Rod Thorn...
WATSON DECLARES HE’S ON SCHEDULE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA - Ignoring the one toss that cleared a bullpen fence, Allen Watson had a productive workout yesterday and firmly believes he is on schedule for Opening Day. "I am...
PARENTS SWAP VIEWS ON SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amParents and educators sounded off yesterday at the first public hearing in the search for a permanent chancellor -- clashing on issues from vouchers to the preferred background for the...
THIRD-PERIOD WOES ARE LOOMING LARGE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTopic for today: third periods and why the Rangers aren't very good in them. Beginning January 27 when the Maple Leafs scored a power-play goal with one minute remaining in...
WILLES GETS TIMES MIRROR
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amMark Willes will walk away from his Times Mirror empire a very rich professor. The 58-year-old chairman, pushed from the newspaper company he ran for five years, will pocket a...
THE RETURN EXCHANGE: SPY OR SERVICE?
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amHERE'S a company that has popped up to fill a pressing need -- handling Internet returns. The Return Exchange wants to help e-tailers who have bungled their return policy in...
YES, CANCUN CAN – FOR THE TYPE A TOURIST, THIS MEXICAN RESORT TOWN IS A PERFECT FIT
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amFOR a first-time visitor, Cancun's lure begins with a casual glance out the plane window at a ripe-tomato-red sun shimmering down to water an amazing lapis blue. At that moment,...
THE NEW UPN COP DRAMA FROM LEVINSON AND FONTANA ; ‘THE BEAT’ HAS RHYTHM OF STREETS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00am"The Beat" Tonight at 9 on WWOR/Ch.9 IF "The Blair Witch Project" married "NYPD Blue," their baby would be "The Beat," UPN's new cop series premiering tonight. It's got the...
BYE, BYE BOO BOO!; CARTOON LEGENDS GET ERASED AT SHRINKING HANNA-BARBERA STUDIO
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTHE golden age of Hanna-Barbera cartoons is drawing to a close. Once the largest animation studio in the world, and home to favorites like "Yogi Bear" and "The Flintstones," H-B...
JOHN PAUL HEALING OLD WOUNDS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amJERUSALEM.AS RECENTLY as 1964, Israelis felt humiliated when Pope Paul VI visited the Jewish state and didn't deign to mention the country's name. "Now let me tell you about this...
CHINA THROWS OLIVE BRANCH BACK IN FACE OF TAIWAN PREZ-ELECT
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amChinese President Jiang Zemin bluntly rejected a proposal from Taiwan's president-elect for a "peace summit" yesterday -- raising new fears of a military showdown in the Taiwan Strait. Ending China's...
PUTIN: NO WAY I CAN LOSE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amActing President Vladimir Putin is so confident of victory in Sunday's Russian presidential election that he's stopped campaigning. The tough-guy, ex-KGB spymaster says he has enough publicity -- so he...
FERTILE FORTYSOMETHINGS ARE POPPING UP ALL OVA
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amMidlife motherhood is all the rage in Hollywood -- and in maternity wards around the country. The maternal pop star Madonna, who yesterday announced she is pregnant with her second...
VIRUS BUGGED 2,000 – AND THAT’S JUST IN QUEENS, CITY’S SKEETER STUDY SAYS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amNearly 2,000 people in northern Queens may have been infected with the deadly, mosquito-borne West Nile virus last summer, health officials said yesterday. The city's health commissioner, Dr. Neal Cohen,...
TA GETS EMBROILED IN OIL BY RUNAWAY DIESEL-FUEL COSTS
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe Transit Authority is getting rocked by millions in extra fuel costs -- the price the agency pays for diesel has soared from 45 cents a gallon to $1.95 in...
M’SOFT PROBED FOR POL DINNER
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- A state commission is investigating a dinner Microsoft hosted for state lawmakers and staffers of Mayor Giuliani. The dinner, which took place at a New York City steakhouse...
MSG THREATENS TO EJECT TEAMS WHILE NEW ARENA IS BUILT
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe Knicks, Rangers and Liberty as well as the cat, dog and horse shows could be homeless for a couple of years if Madison Square Garden brass decide to build...
QNS. PIZZA BANDIT WOUNDS WORKER
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amA masked robber last shot and critically wounded an employee of a Queens pizzeria who tried to capture him after he held up the place, police said. The thug walked...
SORRY, CHARLIE: HAYES RELEASED
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Mets GM Steve Phillips and manager Bobby Valentine think that Charlie Hayes is good enough to be a major leaguer, just not a Met. "I think...
NO. 5 SPOT IS RUSCH JOB ; GLENDON LOOKS LIKE STARTER
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- If Bill Pulsipher doesn't pitch very well tonight against the Dodgers, then Glendon Rusch -- using yesterday's five-plus-inning, one-earned-run performance as the final boost -- is...
HARD WORK PAYS OFF FOR HODGE
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amDo you want to know how good Julius Hodge is? Just ask him. "I'm the best junior in the city," Hodge said. "I think I proved I was one of...
BOBBY V SPEAKS IN RIDDLES
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The bottomless repertoire of smiles, grimaces and facial tics is in mid-season form. Bobby Valentine is ready to play ball. Everything is intact: The smile that...
TORRE OPENS DOOR FOR MENDOZA
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amTAMPA -- Nine days ago Joe Torre said he preferred to have Ed Yarnall be his fifth starter so that Torre would have the versatile Ramiro Mendoza available to work...
KEYSHAWN NO-SHOW AT START OF JET PROGRAM
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amHas the first official salvo been fired from the Keyshawn Johnson camp to the Jets? From the preliminary look of things, the answer is a resounding yes. Johnson was not...
SCHOOL HAILS ‘SHOOTING GALLERY’ MAG ARTIST
March 21, 2000 | 5:00amThe New Yorker magazine cover showing a smiling cop aiming at human shooting-gallery targets -- which enraged the mayor and police commissioner -- has won the artist a Hunter College...