April 18, 2001
KODAK, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ADD TO LAYOFF WOES
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amBroad layoffs at giants such as Kodak and Texas Instruments are turning 2001 into the mother of all job-loss years. Texas Instruments is ready to trim 2,000 from its payroll,...
L'OREAL MAY BE HUNTING FOR LARGER SPACE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amCOSMETIC giant L'Oreal may be planning a makeover. The company is checking out its real estate options now that its lease is coming due and could be looking for as...
NEWEST FASHION TREND: NAIL COLOR & CELL PHONE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amFinally, women will be able to match their nail polish to their cell phones. Hard Candy, a trendy cosmetic line, is working with Motorola to develop a line of interchangeable...
WEILL SLAMS SUCCESSION CONTEST HELD BY GE'S WELCH
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amCitigroup Chairman Sandy Weill thinks he knows a thing or two Jack Welch doesn't. Asked about succession planning at the company's annual meeting yesterday, Weill took what could be seen...
HIRE SEEN AS PRECURSOR TO TAKEOVER
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amWhile Yahoo! execs continue to deny the company is up for sale - many on Wall Street still consider a takeover likely. And hiring a media veteran like Terry Semel...
YAHOO! REELS IN CEO ; PUTS HOLLYWOOD BIG SHOT TERRY SEMEL IN TOP SLOT
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amYahoo! went to Hollywood and named former studio exec Terry Semel as its new chairman and CEO. Semel, the former co-chairman of Warner Brothers, the film and music arm of...
MPAA TIGHTENING SCREWS ON GNUTELLA FOR FILM PIRACY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amNapster-clone Gnutella is feeling the heat at last. The Motion Picture Association of America and Excite@Home are threatening bootleggers who use the network to view movies for free. Emboldened by...
ACTIVISTS SHOO HUNTINGDON TOWARD NYSE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amHuntingdon Life Sciences, under siege by animal rights activists, is considering chucking the London Stock Exchange to list with New York Stock Exchange. If Huntingdon quits London and moves to...
WINSTAR FOR SALE: CONTACTS CABLE GIANTS IN BID TO UNLOAD ASSETS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amWinstar Communications Inc., scrambling to secure its future after defaulting on its senior debt, is approaching several major cable companies about buying some or all of its assets, a source...
ALL EYES ON INTEL ; NASDAQ SURVIVED CISCO; IS THIS THE BOTTOM?
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amWall Street's hunt for a market bottom could get a big boost today if Intel shares hold up - otherwise, watch out below. Some investors said yesterday they were seeing...
INSIDE SURVIVORS GET COOL WELCOME
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amLIKE the Allies liberating Paris, the bedraggled survivors from Inside are marching into the Primedia empire behind their new general - Steve Brill. Today Powerful Media is vacating its former...
WEB SMUT SHUTS SPRINGER SITE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE producers of "The Jerry Springer Show" pulled the plug on its online bulletin boards to crack-down on Web surfers who used words to emulate the bawdy bashing typically seen...
RHEA THE NEW ROSIE? TEEN WITCH STAR READY FOR SWITCH
April 18, 2001 | 4:00am'SABRINA, the Teenage Witch" star Caroline Rhea has become the favorite to replace Rosie O'Donnell next year - and is meeting with Warner Bros. execs later this week to discuss...
P.J. CLARKE'S LAST CALL? ; ON THE SIDE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amP. J. Clarke's is where Buddy Holly proposed marriage; where Aristotle Onassis asked Lee Radziwill her advice before getting hitched to her sister, Jackie Kennedy; and where regular patron Frank...
SHE'S PRETTY! WHO KNEW? CUTE COMIC SEDARIS STOPS AT NOTHING FOR YUKS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amAMY Sedaris adores playing the homely - the homelier, the better.In Comedy Central's late "Strangers With Candy" she was slutty, rumpled-looking Jerri Blank, a former prostitute who returns to high...
TRADING LAPTOP FOR LAP DANCE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE CENTER OF THE WORLD "Last Tango" in Las Vegas has its moments - but not enough of them.Running time: 86 minutes. Not rated (explicit sexuality, nudity, profanity). At the...
MARRAKECH EXPRESSED AT SAGO
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amSAGO (WITH BELLY DANCER) ½ (WITHOUT) 19 CLINTON ST. (BETWEEN HOUSTON & STANTON) (212) 614-8817 IT'S Thursday night at Sago and prospective diners are being shooed away at the door....
THE STARR REPORT
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amAdd NPR to Smiley's list of suitors National Public Radio has approached Tavis Smiley about doing a daily, one-hour radio show for its 600 stations nationwide, sources say. Smiley, a...
'BLAST!' REALLY TAKES OFF
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amBLAST! 1/2The Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway, at 53rd Street. (212) 239-6200. TO say that "Blast!" is a blast, is not unlike saying a noise is a noise - and indeed...
AIRPORT SPA IS LANDING AT JFK
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amIT'S one of those things you can't believe nobody thought of before: a day spa at the airport. No more slurping from paper coffee cups as you struggle to get...
A MEDLEY OF INDIA'S HITS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTAMARIND ½ 41-43 E. 22D ST. (212) 674-7400 TAMARIND is the Indian restaurant New York has long craved. It serves inventive, crisply executed regional classics at modest prices, in a...
B'WAY READY TO BIALYSTOCK & BLOOM
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amBROADWAY is battling a bad case of the blues right now and is in desperate need of a headline-grabbing hit. Enter, with fanfare, "The Producers," which opens tomorrow night at...
ROCK BOTTOM: SPINAL TAP, OF ALL GROUPS, TO INVADE CARNEGIE HALL
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amIS Carnegie Hall ready for Spinal Tap? Spinal Tap, the English hard-mock band with a mega cult following, will realize every musician's dream when they play Carnegie Hall on June...
NO CRACK SEEN IN WRITERS' BLOCK
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHE dispute between Tinseltown's writers and producers went into round two yesterday. Almost two months after talks collapsed, the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood producers returned to the bargaining...
BLOOMBERG TALKS WITH EX-TOP COP
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral wannabe Michael Bloomberg has been consulting with former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, but that doesn't guarantee Kelly would return to run the NYPD. Bloomberg, who has not formally declared...
W'STONE BRIDGE WEIGHT LOSS A WAIT GAIN FOR DRIVERS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Bronx-Whitestone Bridge is going on a diet - and that probably means one big, fat traffic headache for drivers. Beginning this fall, the bridge will undergo a lengthy, $287...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM APRIL 18, 1923
April 18, 2001 | 4:00am"The biggest crowd that has ever seen a baseball game in New York was in the new Yankee Stadium at 1:30 this afternoon, an hour and a half after the...
AFTER FIVE YEARS, NBC FINALLY HAS ANOTHER HIT
April 18, 2001 | 4:00am'WEAKEST Link" is NBC's strongest weapon, easily whipping its competition in its debut and notching NBC's best time-slot numbers in nearly five years. "Link" nabbed 15.1 million viewers from 8...
'WEAKEST' HOSTESS WILL NEVER BE MEEKEST LINK
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amANNE ROBINSON, the hard-hearted hostess of "Weakest Link," is one of the most hated women in England - and soon, perhaps, in the United States as well. But she doesn't...
QNS. BOY HELD IN 'WRESTLE' SLAY CASE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amA 14-year-old Queens boy was hit with a manslaughter rap yesterday for squeezing the life out of his wrestling-obsessed 10-year-old stepbrother with a bear hug, authorities said. "He came up...
ST. JOHN'S WORT MAY BE HERB-AN LEGEND
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amSt. John's Wort, the popular herb touted as a natural alternative to prescription antidepressants, is ineffective, a new study suggests. The study's researchers, in an article published in this week's...
IT TAKES MORE THAN MEL BROOKS' JOKES TO STOP A HITLER
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amMEL Brooks is coming to the Great White Way: The musical adaptation of his 1968 film "The Producers," which opens tomorrow night, promises to be one of Broadway's biggest hits...
ISRAEL EASES OFF AS COLIN ISSUES REBUKE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amIsrael called off its fiercest reprisals yet against the Arabs last night as the Bush administration delivered its first criticism of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's get-tough policies. During a 24-hour...
DINKINS & REV. AL RIP RUDY OVER BAEZ POLICE-PANEL BID
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Mayor David Dinkins and the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday blasted Mayor Giuliani for blocking the appointment of police-brutality activist Iris Baez to an NYPD oversight board. Baez, whose son...
W. CHOPPER LEAVES 'EM BLOWN AWAY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amGusts from a helicopter practicing a landing at Central Connecticut State University in preparation for President Bush's visit today blew over a section of bleachers, sending a student to the...
SIAMESE TWINS' MOM: RESPECT GOD'S WISHES
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amSiamese-twins mom Mayda Marrero says the death of her daughters has been "devastating, but we feel at peace that all that could have been done was done." "One must have...
A BIT OF LIQUOR IS GOOD FOR THE TICKER, SAY 2 NEW STUDIES
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amA drink a day may be healthy for your heart, according to two new studies. Moderate drinkers are more likely to survive a heart attack than nondrinkers, and less apt...
43 KIDS LEAVE 'SLAVE' VESSEL
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amForty-three children were removed from a suspected slave ship in the African country of Benin, but authorities could not say last night whether they were among the scores of kids...
DUELING DIVAS VIE FOR VIRGIN TERRITORY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amCurvy crooner Janet Jackson is reportedly furious at Virgin Records for signing rival sexy songbird Mariah Carey for a record $23.5 million per album - while she pulls in a...
KNICK PLAYER MAY TESTIFY VS. NBA PAL IN BIZARRE ALIMONY CASE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amKnicks point guard Mark Jackson may be forced to testify against his former Indiana Pacer teammate Reggie Miller in a post-divorce proceeding, if Miller's ex gets her way. The basketball...
AWOL ALLIES FORCE VALLONE DELAY ON BID TO OVERRIDE RUDY VETO
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amCity Council Speaker Peter Vallone yesterday was forced to abruptly postpone plans to override Mayor Giuliani's veto of a campaign-finance bill after some council members pulled a disappearing act on...
BOOT THE BOARD, SAYS NEW SCHOOL'S KERREY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe New School University's new chief, former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, says the Board of Education should be abolished because the city public schools are doing an "unacceptable" job. "It...
MOB KIN DUPED L.I. POLICE FOR YEARS ; NEIGHBOR: HE HID IN KINKY SEX LAIR
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amLong Island cops were repeatedly called to the "flophouse" hideout of alleged slay fugitive Carmine Galante amid neighbors' allegations of violent, kinky sex there in the past year - but...
NOT SO FAST ON GOVERNORS ISLAND SALE, FEDS SAY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe federal government isn't ready to turn the land over to New York, as state and city officials had been hoping. "It's an issue that we want to study and...
BEEP EXPECTS HAMER TO QUIT SOON
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amManhattan Borough President Virginia Fields said yesterday she's hopeful that she'll be able convince turncoat school-board member Irving Hamer to agree to resign his post "very soon." "Dr. Hamer and...
SHARON DIDN'T BACK DOWN TO U.S.
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amANALYSIS JERUSALEM - Israel had planned all along to withdraw from the Gaza Strip last night after sending Yasser Arafat a message. But a general's inexplicable comments to reporters led...
W. GETS LEAD OUT ON TOXIC WATCH
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush, who has been under fire from environmentalists, yesterday backed his predecessor's plan to make industry disclose potentially toxic lead use. The latest move came a day after Bush...
CRAZY KID TAKES AFTER HIS RAGING UNCLE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amCARMINE GALANTE, the old man, always looked more like a grandfather than a godfather - but under that cuddly bald head raged a man whose temper made O.J. Simpson look...
SMILE LIVES ON FOR VICTIM'S MOM
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amBilly Manolis's smile beams from photos hanging inside his family's Brooklyn home - a warmth that stokes an indelible memory for his still-grieving mom and dad. "See the smile?" Maria...
AL'S $$ MAN PLEADS GUILTY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amA Republican fund-raiser pleaded guilty yesterday in Brooklyn federal court to lying to FBI agents in 1997 when they were investigating foreign campaign contributions to former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato. Yung...
FOOT-MOUTH LIKELY TO TROT HERE: EXPERT
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The chances are "quite great" that foot-and-mouth disease will hit the United States, and the feds - including the CIA - are bracing for it, the director of...
CASEY $LAMS A HOMER ON EBAY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amYankee fans voted with their wallets yesterday to pick the MVP of memorabilia - and when the last bid was fired over the Internet, the most popular Bronx Bomber was...
DON'T ALLOW 'NEW MATH' TO MULTIPLY, REGENT SAYS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amA top state education official yesterday threw cold water on efforts to impose the controversial "New Math" program throughout the city. "This seems to be a very dangerous time to...
FERRER PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS IN BID FOR STATION
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer threw his weight behind demands that a Second Avenue subway include a station at 116th Street - despite preliminary plans that would have the line skip...
HERO COPS BRING NEWBORN BACK TO LIFE IN CPR DRAMA
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTwo quick-acting cops revived a lifeless newborn girl, performing CPR after she was born two-months premature yesterday in the bathroom of a Queens medical clinic. The harrowing drama unfolded at...
U.S. TO CHINA: WE WANT OUR PLANE BACK
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amPresident Bush's team is demanding that China return the downed U.S. reconnaissance plane - pronto - when the two nations meet today in a bid to ease tensions after China...
GOV'T INKS LEASE FOR BILL'S OFFICE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe federal government finally signed a $354,000-a- year lease yesterday for Bill Clinton's office in Harlem, officials said. The U.S. General Services Administration inked the 10-year lease for the top...
RICKY MAY TAKE STAB AT ZORRO
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amPop icon Ricky Martin may soon be swashbuckling on the London stage as the legendary Mexican swordsman Zorro, a British newspaper reports today. The Sun reports that Martin was in...
DRUG SUSPECT HELD IN ROAD-RAGE SLAY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amA Staten Island man in police custody on a drug case was charged yesterday in the vicious road-rage slaying of an ailing trucker who'd tried to be a peacemaker in...
HUGE DROP IN PROFITS ROCKS CITY HOSPITALS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amALBANY - Profits for hospitals in the city plummeted a combined $80 million in 1999, with an alarming 38 percent ending the year in the red, according to new statistics...
FDNY PUTS DIALLO COP BID ON HOLD
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Fire Department said last night it's put the brakes on plans to hire Edward McMellon, one of four cops involved in the 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo. The...
GERMAN HOT LINE TARGETS NEO-NAZIS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amGermany yesterday hooked up a nationwide help hot line to tempt neo-Nazis into quitting extremism. It's part of an incentive package that could include financial aid and courtroom leniency for...
ELLIS IS. ROOTS IN CYBERSPACE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amIt's not hard to dig up your family tree. Learning about your roots is now as easy as typing your name. Thanks to a computerized database of the 22 million...
BLOOMBERG TALKING WITH EX-TOP COP
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amMayoral wannabe Michael Bloomberg has been consulting with former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, but that doesn't guarantee Kelly would return to run the NYPD. Bloomberg has met several times with...
YANKS LODGE COMPLAINT ABOUT UMP'S TRAP CALL
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Armed with a videotape that proved umpire Tim Tschida blew a call Sunday in Boston and cost the Yankees a run in a 5-4 loss to...
KEISLER CAN'T CUT IT: ROOKIE LOSES CONTROL IN LOSS TO JAYS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amBlue Jays 6 Yankees 5 TORONTO - Randy Keisler stood at his locker and repeatedly spoke about a desperate need to lock in better if the Yankees trust him enough...
NOTHIN' COULD BE FINER THAN TO SHUT OUT CAROLINA
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amNHL PLAYOFFS RALEIGH - Now we know what that big zero on the Hurricanes' jersey means. That's what they score, and that's what they've won, and if the Devils can...
HOLY MACKEREL! IT MUST BE SPRING
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amI AM certainly no meteorologist, but I can tell you with some certainty that the warm spring weather is on the way. And how do I know this? They've started...
THOMAS NOT WORRIED ABOUT LOOMING PICK
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amNo one can accuse Dave Thomas of obsessing about Saturday's NFL Draft. It is no surprise the Giants are in the market to add one, possibly two cornerbacks and no...
IS VICTORY IN THE 'WIND'?
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amLeading up to the mile and aquarter Kentucky Derby, the$64,000 question always is, "whocan get the distance?" In the weeksleading up to this year's Derby onMay 5, we'll look at...
MOSS GROWS FAST ON JETS ; SANTANA'S QUICK TO SING GANG GREEN'S PRAISES
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe pendulum swings tantalizingly in each direction and it won't stop until sometime early Saturday afternoon. One moment the draft prognosticators have Santana Moss staring the Jets in the face...
UNKNOWN BUT NOT UNDRAFTED
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amEagles fans didn't know whether to cheer or boo when their team took a linebacker by the name of Jeremiah Trotter out of Stephen F. Austin in the third round...
AS SEASON DRAWS TO CLOSE, GOTHAM GUNS FIRING BLANKS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Glen Rice has lost his stroke the past two games. Allan Houston has lost his relevance in the fourth quarter. And Latrell Sprewell has lost his unselfish nature...
HOLY CROSS SCORER HAS SHOT TO IMPRESS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amFor most players, the Wheelchair Classic is just another all-star game in a long line of post-season competitions. For others, it means quite a bit more. One of those who...
DEDRIC WARD AGREES TO $2M DEAL WITH MIAMI
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amEven though the Jets made contact with WR Dedric Ward in recent days, indicating that they might have some interest in re-signing him after this weekend's NFL Draft, it appears...
BOSS WON'T PRESS FOR BERNIE'S RETURN
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - After three days of not hearing from Bernie Williams, Joe Torre finally had a phone conversation with his All-Star center fielder Monday night, when Williams reached Torre on...
NO PLACE LIKE HOMECOURT ; STRUGGLING KNICKS GUNNING FOR WIN TO GO 4TH IN PLAYOFFS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amIncredibly, the Knicks enter their regular-season finale tonight against Detroit in serious danger of losing homecourt in the first round. That's the most damning indictment of the post-Patrick Knicks. After...
WILLIAMS MAY RETURN
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amKeith Van Horn confirmed last night that Jayson Williams, the former All-Star center who retired last summer after failed attempts to rehabilitate his ravaged right knee, is considering a comeback....
AMAZIN'S QUENCH THIRST WITH SERVING OF HOT TODDY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTodd Zeile walked to the plate shortly after 7 o'clock last night at Shea Stadium and, before he could fix his eyes on Expos' pitcher Chris Peters for his first...
NETS, SCOTT GO OUT ON SOUR NOTE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amBulls 100 Nets 94 Let us all take a moment to give heartfelt thanks. It is over. The season that gave you Milt Palacio as a household name, the season...
RUSCH WEARS WINNER'S LOOK
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amHE came to the Mets in a magnifying-glass trade. The print under the heading "transactions" was so small it was easy to miss. The Mets traded Dan Murray for Glendon...
PIAZZA HITS IN THIRD SPOT IN LATEST LINEUP SHUFFLE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES The last two nights, the Mets' lineup had a different look and not just last night's edition that included Desi Relaford at second base instead of the struggling...
RUSCH TO EXCELLENCE: GLENDON HANDCUFFS MONTREAL; ZEILE HRS
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amMets 4 Expos 0 Life is getting a bit more normal for the Mets. As far as they are concerned, this 2001 season is the Great Arms Race. And last...
MOGILNY NOT LIVING IN PAST
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH-Is there any question now why Wayne Gretzky all but begged Neil Smith to get Alexander Mogilny from Vancouver throughout 1996-97, the Great One's first season on Broadway? Is there...
DEVS' CAPT. CRUNCH RAISES MORE 'CANE
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 3 Devils 4 Hurricanes 0 RALEIGH - This is now Scott Stevens' Series, this one that can become a sweep of Stanley Cup record proportions tonight. It has become...
MET HITTERS NOT OUT OF WOOD YET
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTHIRTEEN games into the season, it's time to take a one-question quiz to determine the depth of your knowledge of Mets statistics. How many Mets went into last night's game...
OH, WHAT A RELIEF! AS MET BATTERS STRUGGLE, PITCHERS CARRY THE BURDEN
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amCall it anything you want, but as far as the Mets are concerned, this 2001 season is the Great Arms Race. Before last night's game against the Expos at frigid...
DEVILS WANT TO TAKE IT EASY
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH - There is always a degree of urgency in the playoffs, even when it's the first round, even when it's the first seed facing the eighth, even when the...
BOSS OK WITH BERNIE ABSENCE: SUPPORTS CENTER FIELDER'S DECISION TO BE WITH DAD
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amTORONTO - After three days of not hearing from Bernie Williams, Joe Torre finally had a phone conversation with his All-Star center fielder and cleanup hitter Monday night, when Williams...
ARNOTT HAS 900G REASON TO SUCCEED
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amRALEIGH - Barely into the playoffs, the Devils' top offensive center is already halfway towards a $900,000 payday. Sitting out the first 19 games of the season earned Jason Arnott...
SCOTT: NETS WERE DOOMED AT START
April 18, 2001 | 4:00amThe Nets repeatedly showed just how bad they could be - take a gander at that spiffy record that was worse than anything Butch Beard's teams managed, worse than Don...