January 6, 2001
THE FIRM FACES OFF: TARGETED MUSIC MANAGERS SUE SILLERMAN
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amBob Sillerman's new life as a talent manager was put on ice yesterday when his first major acquisition unraveled and he was sued on charges of fraud and breach of...
BEATLES RULE FAVE-ALBUM LIST : ‘REVOLVER’ BLOWS AWAY FIELD AT NO. 1
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amWe love them, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Beatles' critically acclaimed 1966 album "Revolver," released the same month the band made its last U.S. concert appearance, has been crowned the greatest...
BRITAIN’S DR. DEATH MAY HAVE TAKEN 297 LIVES
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amBritain's Dr. Death - a serial killer who preyed on elderly women - murdered almost 300 patients during his 24 years as a doctor, officials said yesterday. Harold Shipman is...
HARD MEASURE AS H.S. EJECTS BOY FOR RULER
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amAn outraged Brooklyn mother is demanding answers after her 16-year-old son was booted from class for carrying a "dangerous" weapon - a school-issued metal ruler. Denise McDonald, a 10-year veteran...
HOPES GROW DIM AS FRESH FIGHTING FLARES IN MIDEAST
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A senior Israeli envoy handed President Clinton a six-page response to the U.S. peace plan yesterday as the lull in West Bank and Gaza Strip violence ended with...
BILL MUM ON RISK OF BEING INDICTED
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday refused to say if President Clinton is worried that Sexgate prosecutor Robert Ray will try to indict him after he leaves office in two...
‘SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY’ TO HEAVEN
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amLes Brown, whose Band of Renown took returning World War II GIs and their gals on a "Sentimental Journey," has died of lung cancer at age 88. Brown's band wasn't...
WARD IS CLOSE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amWhile it is a longshot Charlie Ward will be available for tomorrow night's game against Washington, there is a good chance the Knicks' starting point guard will finally make his...
AT LONG LAST, VAN HORN DONS HIS NETS JERSEY
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amFinally, Keith Van Horn will make his season debut for the Nets tonight. Not since Yinka Dare's initial NBA assist has there been a more anticipated event around the Meadowlands....
GARRETT’S CONTENT WITH BACKUP ROLE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amStrange existence, indeed. The Giants were thrilled when they signed Jason Garrett as their backup quarterback. Garrett has not thrown a single pass all season, and yet in tomorrow's playoff...
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE LINEMEN
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Some of the most interesting matchups tomorrow when the Giants and Eagles meet at Giants Stadium include Eagles CB Troy Vincent vs. WR Amani Toomer and the Eagle...
GROH AT HOME WITH CAVALIER ATTITUDE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - "Have youseen the lawn yet? The Jefferson lawn?When you see that, you'll see that's whatthis is all about." It was when I first caught eyes with Al...
RANGERS SKIDDING, WITH NO END IN SIGHT
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThis really is pretty much where we came into the movie. It was Nov. 29, 16 games ago, and the Rangers were actually two games over .500 at 13-11 after...
ALARM AS MORE CITY TEACHERS OPT OUT
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amMore city teachers are saying bye to public-school classrooms. The Board of Education says the number of teachers filing for retirement this school year, 565 from September through December, is...
COUPLE KILLED CLIENTS TO SELL THEIR ; BODY PARTS: UZBEK COPS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amA husband and wife who ran a discount travel agency in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan had come up with a new kind of capitalist venture - they murdered...
TWEED REHAB ‘STEPS’ INTO A TRAFFIC FUROR
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amTHE $89 million restoration of the Tweed Courthouse behind City Hall will return one of the city's most notorious buildings to its 19th-century glory. But it also will eliminate a...
SLAIN WRITER FACED QUIZ OVER MISSING WOMAN
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amJust days before she was murdered, New York state cops wanted to quiz mob author Susan Berman about the 1982 disappearance of a Manhattan real-estate scion's wife, The Post has...
PATAKI BOOSTS PA PARK PLAN IN SLAP AT GIULIANI
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe governor's press release contains not a single mention of the mayor - even though the city is providing $65 million for the project. Gov. Pataki yesterday gave a public...
‘STIFFED’ SLANDER VICTIM SUES REV. AL
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe former prosecutor who won a defamation suit against the Rev. Al Sharpton says the activist is stiffing him on a $60,000 court judgment - and he wants a judge...
REPRIEVE FOR GOOF-PRONE NEUROSURGEON
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A former Staten Island University Hospital chief neurosurgeon who botched several operations is getting his medical license back - but that's no guarantee he has a future as...
BUSH MAY VOID BILL’S FINAL EXEC ORDERS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amAUSTIN - Aides yesterday vowed President-elect George W. Bush will review - and possibly undo - all the 11th-hour executive orders by "busy beaver" President Clinton that could bind his...
GRIFFINITE WON’T BE DOWN FOR BIG A ‘COUNT’
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amUnbridled's Song was among the most brilliant racehorses of our time. Winner of the 1995 Breeders' Cup Juvenile making just his third start, as a 3-year-old the big gray son...
REVIVED STORM LOOKIN’ TO MAKE STATEMENT
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amTwo short weeks ago, St. John's was under .500 and struggling through a three-game losing streak, while Connecticut had upset highly-touted Arizona and was riding an eight-game winning streak toward...
SAINTS MUST COME UP BIG VS. VIKE WRS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - The traps are everywhere when you get to this time of the postseason. There is an information overload and sometimes the most obvious mismatches are overlooked. So much...
ALL HALLOWS STUNS RAVENS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amH.S. HOOPS All Hallows73 St. Ray's66 Last year, no one paid much attention to St. Raymond's. It wasn't until the Ravens had knocked off many of the favorites in the...
KHASHOGGI IS BEHIND BID FOR INTERNET SITE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe man behind the latest bid for Internet site Fashionmall.com is none other than Adnan Khashoggi. The Saudi arms dealer is the principal behind a Bermuda-based holding company, Ultimate Holdings,...
NBC SAYS IT HAS WRIGHT STUFF FOR RAINBOW
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amNBC is not going down without a fight. While Barry Diller enters into the final stages of his negotiations to buy Cablevision's Rainbow Media Group, NBC Chairman Bob Wright has...
DOC DENIES HE BARED POPE’S PARKINSON’S
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amAn Italian surgeon denied that he said Pope John Paul II had Parkinson's disease - but the journalists who interviewed him said they had his quotes on tape. The magazine...
LAZIO FIRES BACK OVER DEBT LAWSUIT
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amA top fund-raiser for Mayor Giuliani did a lousy job for Rick Lazio, sending out Senate campaign mailings so late that potential donors didn't get them until after Election Day,...
TRIAL FOR N.J. TROOPERS : PAIR INDICTED AGAIN IN ‘RACE-PROFILING’ SHOOTING
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amTwo New Jersey state cops who ignited a racial-profiling maelstrom are once again facing a criminal trial in the April 1998 shooting of three minority motorists on the turnpike. A...
BIG BLUE TIX RED HOT : E-SCALPERS $KIRT ANTI-GOUGING LAWS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00am3>Dreams of hoisting another Super Bowl trophy 10 years after their last one - and in the same city - are driving Giants fans into a frenzy over tomorrow's battle...
RELENTLESS OL’ MAN WINTER HAS NEW FLURRY OF ACTIVITY DUE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amFlaked-out city folk can anticipate a few more flurries this weekend on top of yesterday's one-to-two-inch snowfall. "Looks like New Yorkers have welcomed back Ol' Man Winter, and he'll be...
GOP WILL SHARE REINS WITH DEMS IN SENATE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Reluctant Senate Republican leaders yesterday agreed to share power with the Democrats, a move that could jeopardize President Bush's agenda. Despite protests from conservatives, the Senate - split...
RUDY SCORES WITH BIGGER PLAN TO FIX SCHOOL FIELDS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani will be playing Dr. Field-Good Monday when he announces a $100 million commitment to restore every high school ballfield in three years as part of his final State...
COPS-AND-ROBBER FINALE IN THEFT OF 116 ‘MOVIE’ GUNS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amNormally, the guns from Center Firearms wind up on the big screen, in films like "The Godfather" or "A Few Good Men." But in the past six months, police said...
BX. GIRL, 14, DIES AS GUN GOES OFF
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amA 14-year-old Bronx girl was fatally shot last night while a group of teenagers was playing with a gun, cops said. The young victim was shot in the stomach at...
DEAL COULD PUT SLOBBO’S TRIAL ON HOME TURF
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amOusted Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic could be tried inside Yugoslavia under a deal between the United States, the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal and the new Yugoslavian government, it was revealed...
KNIGHT BLIZZARD BURIES TERRIERS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amHoly Cross81 St. Francis68 The weather outside St. Francis Prep might have been frightful, but no amount of snow in the street could match the blizzard that Holy Cross dumped...
‘BIRDMAN’ HEADS PHILLY FLOCK PLANNING TO CRASH THE PARTY
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amGiant fans will not have the entire stadium to themselves tomorrow after all. Despite the team's all-out effort to keep tickets out of the hands of Eagle fans and keep...
IT’LL BE COLD & WINDY
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe Giants and Eagles can expect temperatures in the low- to mid-30's tomorrow, with maybe a chance of light rain or snow. Channel 2 weatherman Chris Bobinski even made a...
LEASED-OUT LIDS FLIPS FOR CHAP. 11
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amSometimes the best store leases are the ones you never sign. That's the experience of Lids Corp., the 400-store sports cap and hat mall retailer, which has filed for Chapter...
THE ICING ON THE SKATE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThere's no better time than now to hit the ice. And whether you skate indoors or out, it's great to keep moving. Manhattan is home to the most beautiful rinks...
WHAT MADE ‘BLUE’S’ DORKY MASTER STEVE BURNS BEHAVE SO BADLY? THELMA ADAMS EXPLAINS…; CLUELESS; STEVE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amSIX months ago, I met Steve Burns at Nickelodeon. There were already clues that the 27-year-old "Blues Clues" star was uncomfortable in his green-striped rugby shirt. There was that tattoo....
BRAIN DOC REPRIEVED FOR GOOFS IN SURGERY
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - A former Staten Island University Hospital chief neurosurgeon who botched several operations is getting his medical license back - but that's no guarantee for his future as an...
WWII VETS PILOTING RETIRED SHIP HOME
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amA group of U.S. war vets have steered their rusty and rickety World War II ship across the Atlantic - and are just days from arriving in Alabama, where their...
PENNY PINCH TOMORROW WITH STAMPS AT 34 CENTS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amNew Yorkers were taking their licks yesterday, standing on line to buy the new 34-cent stamps that all letters will need tomorrow. "You can protest about the increase, but you...
FUGITIVE KILLERS SPOTTED CASING BANK IN TEXAS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amTwo members of a violent, heavily armed band of Texas fugitives accused of killing a police officer were spotted casing a bank in the Lone Star state, cops said yesterday....
LAURA ‘WINGS’ WAY TO TRADITION
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amAUSTIN - It's back to the future for Laura Bush. The first lady-to-be plans to have her office in the East Wing of the White House, where first ladies have...
MYSTERY PLANE CRASHES INTO HUDSON: WITNESSES
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amTwo people reported seeing a small plane crash into the Hudson River off Manhattan yesterday - but while federal investigators take the report seriously, no wreckage has been found. It's...
JERSEY BOY HOLDS CLASS CAPTIVE
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amAn eighth-grade New Jersey boy terrorized his teacher and classmates yesterday, holding them hostage with a 91/2-inch butcher knife. Prosecutors say the 13-year-old boy brandished the knife in his classroom...
MCKAY MERITS ECLIPSE AWARD
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe NTRA announced that longtime ABC sportscaster and owner/breeder Jim McKay has been named the recipient of the Eclipse Award of Merit, presented in honor of an individual's lifetime achievements...
LANDETA AGAINST THE WIND : EAGLES PUNTER AN EXPERT ON GIANTS STADIUM SWIRL
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - When it comes to wind conditions at Giants Stadium, Eagles punter Sean Landeta has a degree in meteorology. The Giants' punter for eight and a half seasons, Landeta...
CAMBY CAN DO IT ALL SAY HIS NUMBERS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe All-Star ballot lists Marcus Camby as a forward, although the 6-11 Knick has started all season at center as Patrick Ewing's heir apparent. Someone might want to change his...
GIANTS KEEPING FAITH IN LOMAS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe most destructive force on the Eagles' defense will be coming with a furious, relentless rush, every play, and the only impediment between a charging Hugh Douglas and the creation...
BARBER SHOP? TIKI’S BROTHER ON MARKET
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe sight of Tiki Barber sidelined, not in uniform and unable to practice yesterday shook up those inside the Giants' practice bubble, until it was determined that in fact, the...