August 26, 2000
RAZORFISH FLOPS; SHARES SINK ON NEWS THAT PREZ JUMPS SHIP
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amTrendy Alley Web firm Razorfish got slapped around yesterday on news that its president has abruptly resigned to "spend time with his family." Michael Pehl, a legacy player from last...
ONE HELLUVA RIDE - AC/DC SHAKES FANS ALL NIGHT LONG
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amAC/DC is a group of world-class metal mongers, showmen supreme - but mostly little boys with enough money to turn fantasy rock-hard. And that's exactly what they did at the...
THREE CHEERS FOR THE POMPOM CROWD
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amRECOMMENDED, WITH RESERVATIONS "BRING IT ON" (PG-13): Torrance (Kirsten Dunst of "The Virgin Suicides") has made it to the top of the heap: She's the head cheerleader at San Diego's...
WHAT'S COOL FOR SCHOOL
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT will the kids in the hall be wearing this fall? Think leather, pleather, animal prints - and that perennial crowd pleaser, denim. worn separately or together, they're the hottest...
AND DON'T FORGET ...
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amGOING to school is heavy going. Literally. With more books and gear to lug than ever, backpacks and organizers are a must. And this year, the look is high tech....
UBER MODEL - MAN, IT SURE WAS ROUGH
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amGerman supermodel Claudia Schiffer celebrated her 30th birthday yesterday - confessing she has a hard time meeting men. "Turning 30 doesn't bother me at all. I'm happy that I'm not...
DID 50G DONATION OPEN DOORS FOR DEVELOPER?
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA MAJOR developer contributed $50,000 to Mayor Giuliani's Senate campaign just as city officials were starting to select a builder for the $727 million stock-exchange tower. John Zuccotti, chairman of...
POLICE ID EAST RIVER REMAINS AS TEEN MOM
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe woman whose dismembered remains were found in luggage floating in the East River last week has been identified as a teen mom from The Bronx, police said yesterday. Lisa...
EX-TOP COP BRATTON EYES GOP MAYORAL RUN
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amFormer Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said yesterday he is "leaning very strongly" toward running for mayor next year on the Republican line. "I'm confident that in a Republican primary, that...
HOSP COPS IN PROTEST TO KEEP JOBS
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amMore than 100 protesters demonstrated outside Bellevue Hospital yesterday, rallying against the city's plan to replace the municipal-hospital police force with private guards. Health and Hospitals Corporation cops, joined by...
JUDGE PLAYS GOD IN BID TO SAVE A TWIN
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA British judge - ruling in a heartbreaking case he said posed a "horrendous scenario" - said yesterday that Siamese twin baby girls should be separated even though one will...
CITY PUT SQUEEZE ON TRAGIC COUPLE EVEN AFTER DEATH
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe city Buildings Department sent a notice to a couple a day after they were killed in a blast that leveled their Brooklyn building, demanding they clean up the rubble...
RUDY RIPS REV. AL-RENO MEETING ON NYPD
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday blasted Attorney General Janet Reno for meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the White House, where a federal probe of the NYPD was discussed. "I think...
GOING TO BAT FOR TOMMY B'KLYN POL JOINS FIGHT AGAINST BOY'S CANCER
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe FDA should perform a "miracle" for a bright-eyed 5-year-old boy battling brain cancer, a Brooklyn lawmaker said yesterday - seeking approval for use of a controversial experimental drug. "The...
CYBER-HOAX SENDS TECH STOCK INTO TAILSPIN
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA phony press release broadcast by business news services sent a data-storage equipment maker's stock prices plummeting 62 percent before the scam was detected. The release said the Emulex Corp.,...
WIFE-BEATER EXEC HIT WITH 8 YEARS
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan judge sentenced a former securities executive to eight years in prison yesterday after his wife described in court how he'd beaten her with a dumbbell in front of...
PREZ ADDS A MUBARAK POWWOW TO AFRICA TRIP
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - President Clinton yesterday unexpectedly added a stopover in Cairo to his Africa trip next week to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak - and try to rescue the...
'WEEPING' VIRGIN MARY BRINGS NEW 'MIRACLES'
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA young Texas couple has been besieged by hordes of religious tourists after reporting that a statue of the Virgin Mary cries blood - and performs miracles to whomever touches...
SUMMER-SCHOOL REPORT GIVES CITY AN 'F'
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amThis year's summer-school program bombed - with kids jammed into overcrowded classes and even placed in wrong courses, a report released yesterday charged. "There were kids sitting on the window...
BUSH BEATS UP ON CASTRO IN MIAMI
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The ghost of Elian Gonzalez came back to haunt Al Gore yesterday - as GOP rival George W. Bush brought a Miami crowd to its feet by vowing...
TEACHER BIG HINTS STRIKE'S AN OPTION - UNION COULD WALK AFTER PACT EXPIRES
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amThe head of the city teachers union yesterday refused to rule out a strike to try to win better pay for its 78,000 members. "We can't rule anything out to...
ESPOSITO SWORN IN AS TOP NYPD CHIEF
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik presided at his first promotion ceremony yesterday, the swearing-in of Joseph Esposito as chief of department - the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD. Mayor Giuliani...
NAVY PROBES ALLEGED 'TAILHOOK 2' GROPING
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Navy said yesterday it's investigating "inappropriate conduct" by service members at the Tailhook convention held last week in Nevada - nine years after an embarrassing harassment scandal....
ANOTHER STREET WALKER LEAVES BIZ SITE
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amAnother top executive has walked from TheStreet.com. Even last week's $7.5 million cash injection from Vulcan Ventures, Paul Allen's investment fund, and Go2Net, an Internet application provider, couldn't persuade managing...
ARTIST WHO PUT THE 'LOVE' IN DONALD DUCK DIES
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amCarl Barks, the comic-book artist who will forever be remembered for transforming Disney's irascible Donald Duck on the printed page, died yesterday in his Oregon home of leukemia. He was...
EX-WIFE OF PENNILESS HEIR: HE'S THE FRAUD!
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA woman who chewed up her elderly husband's $10 million fortune and then spat him out is now hanging him out to dry on fraud charges, the man's family claims....
WISCONSIN TO PETA: MOO-VE YOUR ADS
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Wisconsin billboard company is yanking People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals advertisements that feature Mayor Giuliani and the ghoulish slogan "Got Prostate Cancer?" French Advertising told the animal...
RICK: HILL DISTORTS MY TAX PLAN RIPS 'CAMPAIGN OF FEAR'
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amRick Lazio charged yesterday that Senate rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is deliberately distorting his tax-cutting plan because her campaign rests solely on spreading fears about him. "They're in fantasyland!" Lazio...
NEW SPRAY BLITZ AFTER MORE FALL ILL
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amTwo more elderly women have been hospitalized with the potentially deadly West Nile virus - the fourth and fifth cases this year - prompting the city to step up its...
COPS: POT-SMOKING TEEN TORCHED TRAGIC B'KLYN STABLE
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA pot-smoking teenager who lit up a clump of hay for kicks set off the Brooklyn stable inferno that killed 21 horses in June, police said last night. High-school dropout...
LA GUARDIA COPS NAIL KNIFE LADY
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens woman wielding a 14-inch kitchen knife menaced terrified passengers and ticket agents last night at La Guardia Airport, police said. Linda Melville, 50, of Long Island City, was...
KID KILLED IN FORKLIFT MISHAP
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA 13-year-old boy playing on a Bronx construction site was killed last night when one of his friends ran him over with a forklift, police said. Cops said the boy...
HOSP STOPS SHRINK'S BID TO AMPUTATE
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA Scottish hospital yesterday barred a surgeon from amputating the leg of a New York City psychoanalyst who has fantasized about having the perfectly healthy limb removed for years. Gregg...
COPS THWART OLYMPICS NUKE TERROR PLOT
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amNew Zealand police have foiled a possible terrorist plot by Afghan refugees to blow up a nuclear reactor in Sydney, Australia, during the Olympics next month, authorities said last night....
DODI'S DAD TO RELEASE FINAL-HOUR DI VIDEO
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amDodi Fayed's father said yesterday he would reveal new information - including a videotape of Princess Diana's final minutes - next week on the eve of the third anniversary of...
RAP AGAINST HARRELSON GOES TO POT
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amActor Woody Harrelson is off the hook on a marijuana-possession charge stemming from efforts to legalize the plant in Kentucky, his lawyer said yesterday. A jury took less than 30...
LOBSTERMEN SUE PESTICIDE MAKERS
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amA group of Long Island and Connecticut fishermen are suing the pesticide companies whose sprays were used to kill West Nile virus-carrying bugs last year for $125 million - saying...
TROJANS' PALMER TAKES SMARTER, SAFER APPROACH
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amTo this day, no one can understand what was going on in quarterback Carson Palmer's head last year when, late in the first half of the third game of the...
MUTOMBO IN N.Y., BEST LAYD' PLANS
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amDikembe Mutombo, Vin Baker and Glen Rice up front, Latrell Sprewell and Charlie Ward in the backcourt. That's what the Knicks' 'Master Plan' was, The Post has learned. That's what...
TIME FOR HEALING TO BEGIN
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amOne of the intriguing elements to the Patrick Ewing soap opera is how he will repair his once grand relationship with Jeff Van Gundy. According to a source familiar with...
'SPOON: WE'LL BE AROUND SUNDAY
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amHOUSTON - In the same raucous building, in the same must-win situation, the Liberty managed to triumph last season. And all it took was a miraculous half-court bank-shot by Teresa...
TORRE HOPES RAMIRO'S READY BY OCTOBER
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - There have been times when even some members of the Yankee organization have arched an eyebrow when it came to Joe Torre's faith in Ramiro Mendoza. As far...
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM SOME FRIENDS BIG BLUE COULD BE THINKING PLAYOFFS
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amTHE preseason mercifully ended last night for the Giants, 24-17 losers to the Ravens, and no one I know can picture Paul Tagliabue handing the Lombardi Trophy to Wellington Mara...
ANOTHER GAME, ANOTHER LOSS - GIANTS BLOW FINAL TUNEUP
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amThank goodness. Thank goodness this particular preseason is finished, dead and buried, a thing of the past for the Giants. They believe they got plenty out of their four games,...
CONE FALLS SHORT AGAIN
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Thirty years ago the Bay Area was the home office for bad trips. Last night at the Coliseum, the Yankees started a three-game stay in the East Bay...
BERNIE SET FOR RETURN TO LINEUP
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Bernie Williams played catch with Lee Mazzilli, took fly balls from the Yankee coach before the game and swung a bat in the outfield. That was followed by...
KEEPING RAMIRO WAS RIGHT MOVE
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amOAKLAND - There have been times when even some members of the Yankees' organization have arched an eyebrow when it came to Joe Torre's faith in Ramiro Mendoza. As far...
YOUNG POWELL TOO RICH FOR YANKS' BLOOD
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Never shy when it comes to spending money on talent, the Yankees have removed themselves from the Landon Powell Sweepstakes since the asking price of $3...
GARNES: GIANT DEFENSE HAS TO GET BETTER
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES One side of him wants to take the field and compete as if there's a great deal at stake, while the other side realizes what the deal is...
IKE LIKES FAST LANE - WR SET FOR SEASON
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amHe bounces around training camp or the locker room wearing replica jerseys of some of the NBA's top players - Jalen Rose, Latrell Sprewell and his favorite, Gary Payton. He...
FONZIE PLAYS DESPITE PAIN IN THE NECK
August 26, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES During his first at-bat last night, Edgardo Alfonzo was straining his neck a little bit. He tested it by stretching it over his shoulder. It must have helped,...