April 16, 2001
TED RIPS LEVIN'S LEADERSHIP OF AOL TW
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amTed Turner blasts away at Gerald Levin in a new interview, saying the AOL Time Warner head is a lousy boss who canned him by telephone. In this week's issue...
D-DAY FOR WINSTAR : $74M BOND PAYMENT MAY BREAK THE BANK
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amToday may be the day of reckoning for Winstar Communications. The battered telecom company, which has seen its stock plunge 99 percent from its all-time high, must make good on...
ROSIE'S 600,000 READERS STRONG
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amROSIE O'Donnell's new magazine, Rosie - which put 1.3 million copies on newsstands - is estimated to have sold some 600,000 so far. With nearly two weeks before it goes...
EVERYTHING TOULOUSE: UNDER THE SPELL OF 'MOULIN ROUGE,' LIFE CANCAN BE A CABARET
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE low life and high glamour of late-19th-century Paris is the inspiration for this season's hottest new look - bordello chic. The style - show-stopping gowns in sumptuous red, black...
THE STARR REPORT
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amOdds are that one of 'em will win 'S2' Intertops.com, which has been tracking "Survivor 2" as the only "S2" online betting site, has updated its odds now that Amber...
SET TO SOAR AT MERCURY ; PICTURE THIS: MEKONS IN N.Y.
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amANYTHING can happen at a Mekons show, particularly this week, when all the Mekons hold a fly-in at the Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St., at Essex Street; [212] 260-4700)...
IMPROBABLY, 'MILLIONAIRE' STRIKES AGAIN
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amBERNIE Cullen, a wise-cracking grad student from Chicago, is the latest edition to the quiz show millionaires club. Cullen was seen on last night's edition of "Who Wants to be...
A DARK HELLO TO 'GOOD-BYE' GIRL
April 16, 2001 | 4:00am"Weakest Link" Tonight at 8 p.m., tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. and Wednesday night at 10 p.m. on NBC/Ch. 4 WHO'S the weakest link on "Weakest Link"? Anne Robinson, that's...
THE SORRY STATE OF APOLOGIES
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHE recent incident in the skies over China reminded me of the many relationships I've had - which have also crashed and burned. And like the situation with China, in...
TICK! TICK! TICK! A TIME BOMB LAWSUIT IS ARE WE TOO JADED TO CARE?
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amIT was while staying at Borneo's luxurious Magellan Sutera Hotel that ex-"Survivor" Stacy Stillman first snapped. Some time shortly after being booted out of the most famous game show in...
SPARKLING FINGERS
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amTIRED of waiting for him to put a diamond on your finger? You can put one - or two or three - on each of your own fingers with Defile's...
GATES' WARRIORS TAKE BYTE OUT OF SOFTWARE CRIME
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amMicrosoft honcho Bill Gates is quietly engaged in a global war against big-time international gangs that are taking over the booming business of counterfeiting computer software. For the high-tech pirates,...
THE OLYMPICS MAY BRIDGE AGE GAP BY 2006
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amONE future Olympian wobbled in on her cane. Another possible medalist shuffled along with a walker. And a third athlete needed to get her air from an oxygen tank at...
DEMS MUST DO 'BALANCING ACT'
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThey may be running hard against each other, but each of the four Democrats trying to become the next mayor has one wary eye on the man they're trying to...
N.Y. TO NEXT MAYOR: GO THE GIULIANI WAY ; POLL BOLSTERS HIS POLICIES
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amEXCLUSIVE New Yorkers want the city's next mayor to stay the course on many of Mayor Giuliani's signature policies, an exclusive Post poll shows. Fifty-eight percent said they want the...
HIS CONTROVERSIAL ART PANEL IS A GONER NO MATTER WHO MOVES INTO THE MANSION
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amWhile many New Yorkers want the next mayor to continue most of Mayor Giuliani's policies, two symbols of his time are almost certain to go. Giuliani's four Democratic wannabe successors...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM APRIL 16, 1928
April 16, 2001 | 4:00am"A New York soccer club, the Nationals, won the title of national champions for the first time since the competition was started 15 years ago, by defeating the Chicago Bricklayers...
MCCALL DRAWS SHARPTON'S IRE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amSTATE Comptroller Carl McCall's effort to become the first African-American governor in New York history has again run into trouble from the Rev. Al Sharpton. Marjorie Fields Harris, Sharpton's chief-of-staff,...
CITY AGENCY'S PSYCH DRUGS IMPERIL FOSTER KIDS
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amERLINE KIDD doesn't want her 8-year-old daughter to end up like a boy named Cecil Reed - a corpse at the city morgue. Kidd fears for the life of her...
MAKE THIS WORK IN THEIR BEST INTEREST - AND OURS
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amIF CHINESE leaders meeting with our representatives on Wednesday have any doubt about U.S. resolve, they should dwell on yesterday's words of hero Lt. Shane Osborne. "Give me a week...
$LUMP HITS CITY HOTELS, MUSEUMS
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe nation's slowing economy has hit New York at its hotels and museums. Attendance is down at landmark museums, and hotel rooms are suddenly easier to find. After years of...
BUSH HEARS PRAYER OF THANKS IN TEXAS
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Bush and his family yesterday joined in a dawn church service, where a fellow Texan said a prayer for the newly returned 24-member spy-plane crew. Bush, who...
DIALLO MOM PLEADS TO FDNY COMMISH: DON'T HIRE THAT COP
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe mother of Amadou Diallo said yesterday she would make a direct appeal to the fire commissioner, urging him not to hire one of the four police officers who killed...
PRAYERS & PARADE MARK APPLE EASTER
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amNew York's Christians joined their brethren worldwide yesterday celebrating the faith's most sacred holiday - Easter. "The Lord expects you to be his witness out on Fifth Avenue in New...
RAP RIVAL SLAMS 'PUFFY' FROM SLAMMER
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amImprisoned impresario Marion "Suge" Knight is rapping Sean "Puffy" Combs, saying the bad-boy mogul wasn't convicted of gun charges because no one fears him. "They don't send a nigga who's...
U.S. MULLING DEVELOPMENT OF BABY NUKE TO HIT SADDAM
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe United States is considering building a new, low-yield nuclear weapon that can penetrate underground bunkers or heavily fortified command centers, The Washington Post reported yesterday. The "mini-nuke" would feature...
ISRAELIS BOMB SYRIAN SOLDIERS ; HIT LEB RADAR SITE AS TERRORISM RETORT
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's air force bombed a radar station in Lebanon early today, leaving at least three Syrian soldiers dead and five wounded, security forces said. It was the first...
U.S. CARRIER CHINA-BOUND ; WARSHIP MAY AID FUTURE SPY FLIGHTS ; AIRCRAFT CARRIER IS CHINA-BOUND
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amA U.S. aircraft carrier is steaming toward the Chinese coast, where it could launch fighter jets to protect U.S. reconnaissance flights when the spy planes take to the air again....
PUNK ICON JOEY RAMONE DIES AT 49
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amRock pioneer Joey Ramone, who ripped open the punk-music floodgates as the lead singer of the legendary Ramones, died yesterday after a battle with lymphatic cancer. He was 49. The...
TRAGIC SUB SKIPPER: CIVILANS A FACTOR
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe skipper of the American nuclear submarine that accidentally rammed and sank a Japanese training boat now believes the presence of civilians on the sub played a role in the...
POLS' PLANE TALK HEATS UP: THEY WARN: GIVE IT BACK... OR ELSE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amSeveral lawmakers warned of payback yesterday if China does not hand back the captured American spy plane. The tough talk came as a Wednesday meeting between United States and Chinese...
ANSWER MAN; IVERSON DISMISSES THE KNICKS ON AND OFF THE COURT
April 16, 2001 | 4:00am76ers 89 Knicks 82 PHILADELPHIA - After he had gunned them down again, Allen Iverson was asked if the Knicks represented the Sixers' most difficult challenge in coming out of...
ALFONZO'S WORSENS
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Mets are refusing to hit the panic button after another offensively challenged performance yesterday in their 3-1 loss to the Reds at Shea. Against emergency starter Jim Brower (1-0),...
WHO CAN BEAT POINT GIVEN?
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amThe Kentucky Derby has been won by a single favorite in its last 21 runnings: Fusaichi Pegasus, who last year snapped a losing streak dating back to Spectacular Bid in...
HOUSTON STRUGGLES WITH HIS JUMPER
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - As Latrell Sprewell lit up the Sixers in the fourth quarter, scoring four straight baskets, racing to the hole, making pull-up jumper after pull-up jumper during...
YANKS LAY AN EASTER EGG ; BULLPEN, BLUNDERS AND BAD LUCK LEAD TO SOX HOLIDAY PARTY
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amRed Sox 5 Yankees 4 BOSTON - When the Yankees leave footprints in the Fenway Park dew this morning to take part in the asinine tradition of playing a game...
OCHOA ENJOYS AMAZIN' TRIPLE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amAlex Ochoa loves to play the Mets. A former Met prospect and a touted "five-tool" blue chip who played for the Met organization in 1995, came into his own as...
CHOATE PULLS A CHUCKIE ; RANDY'S WILD OUTING REMINISCENT OF KNOBBY
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - In a game described by Derek Jeter as "flat ugly," there was one unsightly element that exceeded all others. More than the Jeter caught stealing that wasn't. More...
DIKEMBE GETS DEFENSIVE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Out of the basketball wasteland in Atlanta, 7-2 center Dikembe Mutombo is proud to say he believes the Sixers got what it takes to win a title. "We...
TORRE, CASHMAN WAITING TO HEAR FROM BERNIE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amBOSTON - No organization understands the need for players to be with their families in difficult times better than the Yankees. George Steinbrenner, one of the most demanding bosses in...
STEVENS SPRINGS INTO ATTACK MODE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amTHERE is nothing about Scott Stevens' personality or game that would remind anyone of a flower. And yet, like the tulip or daffodil, there is the captain, blooming every spring....
O'DONNELL ENJOYING HIS WILD RIDE
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amAt the time of his trade from Minnesota to the Devils early last month, Sean O'Donnell almost couldn't believe his luck. Besides reuniting with Larry Robinson, who had coached him...
COLEMAN: DUQUETTE'S OLIVE BRANCH A STRETCH
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Dan Duquette, the Red Sox GM who ordered Michael Coleman benched during his minor-league days because he wouldn't take a psychological exam, sauntered over to the...
REDS WARY OF GOING HOME
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES After yesterday's 3-1 win, the Reds left town with a three-game sweep at Shea, their first since May 31-June 2, 1999, but don't think the Reds will be...
GETTING A TASTE OF LIFE WITHOUT CAMBY
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Within 2:14, Latrell Sprewell hit a driving lay-up, a jumper, a pull-up, another lay-up off a Kurt Thomas pick, and what had been a 10-point lead suddenly was...
SO FAR, A COMPLETE MISMATCH
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 2 Devils 2 Hurricanes 0 It's been like a spirited practice, and at the end yesterday, target practice. Now, the Stanley Cup champs will be disappointed with anything less...
SWAGGER MISSING FROM METS' GAME
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amWHERE'S THE hitting? That's the obvious question everyone is asking at Shea. A more appropriate question might be, where is the arrogance? The Mets are a lifeless bunch right now...
PRESSING METS FLOP IN CLUTCH AGAIN AS REDS ROLL
April 16, 2001 | 4:00amReds 3 Mets 1 There were no answers in the Met clubhouse yesterday afternoon, just as there had been no offense out on the field. After the Amazin's had suffered...