July 13, 2000
GE IS DEAL'S $1.4B SURPRISE WINNER
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe quiet, behind-the-scenes winner of yesterday's landmark $16 billion merger deal between UBS and PaineWebber was highly unlikely: General Electric. It turns out that GE is the biggest shareholder of...
STREET SAYS, 'THANK YOU, PAINEWEBBER' : MERGER SENDS SHARES HIGHER
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amShares of PaineWebber - and most other brokerage and asset-management stocks - rocketed yesterday after the company confirmed it had agreed to be acquired by UBS. The brokerage company shot...
PUPPET PAPA LEAVING PETS FOR START-UP
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe genius behind the Pets.com sock puppet is moving on. John Hommeyer, vice president of marketing at the online pet supply retailer, quit yesterday to join an undisclosed start-up with...
AND THE WINNER IS ... ; 2 LEFT IN $7M BIDDING WAR FOR WELCH BIO
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHarperCollins and Warner Books have both bid $7 million for publishing rights to Jack Welch's biography - and one of them is to be chosen as early as today after...
LIVING LARGE AT THE LODGE : MOGULS MIX BUSINESS WITH BIKES, BOOKS AND SHOPPING
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amSUN VALLEY, Idaho - There was no sleeping late yesterday for most of the moguls attending Herb Allen's 18th annual mogulfest in Sun Valley. The invited guests slowly poured into...
GUCCI SETS ASIDE $4B FOR LUXURY SPENDING
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amGucci's stylish pockets are deeper than they appear to be. While the fashion house has $2 billion set aside to beef up its fledgling luxury-goods group, the company may spend...
TV GUIDE-GEMSTAR DEAL FINALLY CLOSES
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amAfter nearly nine months of government scrutiny, TV Guide and Gemstar finally cleared antitrust hurdles from the Justice Department and formally merged in a deal valued at $15 billion. "We're...
MIKE MYERS ISN'T LAUGHING - MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR LAWSUITS AND BITTER ACCUSATIONS DERAIL HIS COMEDY FEATURE 'DIETER'
July 13, 2000 | 4:00am'DIETER" is dead. The Mike Myers comedy about a fictional German avant-garde talk-show host and his monkey sidekick appears to be a casualty of the raging battle between the star...
IT'S NO RAVE FOR DAVE
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amDAVE MATTHEWS WITHOUT the boost of a radio hit or a new album, Dave Matthews is the undisputed king of summer concerts for the third straight year. But at his...
THE STARR REPORT
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amStossel stays put John Stosselhas halted plans for his anticipated ABC Daytime/Buena Vista talk show. "He did the pilot, but right now would rather pay more attention to '20/20,'" said...
HIGHLIGHTS OF LINCOLN CENTER FEST
July 13, 2000 | 4:00am' HERE'S a list of what's happening at the fest: * THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING: The Russian invasion continues with the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg in Lev Dodin's...
RUN TO REALITY : FULL MENU OF 'SURVIVOR' CLONES COMING
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amIF imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, "Survivor" and "Big Brother" should be flattered - very flattered. Powered by the smash ratings success of "reality TV," scores of imitator...
CBS GOES BATS OVER RIVAL'S RATS : 'GMA' SEND-UP OF 'SURVIVOR' BRINGS QUICK THREAT OF LAWSUIT
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amCBS sicced its lawyers on ABC after "Good Morning America" parodied CBS's hit show "Survivor" last Thursday and Friday. CBS lawyers called ABC last Friday, complaining that ABC didn't have...
DOG BITES PANTS, JAY IN SITCOM BIZ
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWATCH out, Dave - Jay Leno's Big Dog is getting ready to take a bite out of your Worldwide Pants. Leno, whose NBC "Tonight Show" trounces David Letterman's CBS "Late...
CENTER OF ATTENTION: ARTS FESTIVAL AIMS TO PLEASE 'EM ALL
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWHAT was it they said in "A Chorus Line"?"Suicide in Buffalo is redundant." Using that logic, you might conclude that a festival in New York City is equally redundant. Every...
SCORE ROCKS, IN SPITE OF 'WISHING'
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amIN SPITE OF WISHING AND WANTINGChoreographer Wim Vanderkeybus' Ultima Vez, Lincoln Center Festival 2000, at the La Guardia Concert Hall.TO sleep, perchance to dream - that and words, words, words...
BANGED-UP BIKER LIAM ON THE MEND
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHeartthrob actor Liam Neeson was in stable condition yesterday with a broken pelvis after his motorcycle collided with a deer near his Upstate home, his publicist said. "Liam's going to...
GUARD TO REP. KENNEDY: SHOVE YOUR 25G
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe airport security guard who says Rep. Patrick Kennedy assaulted her has rejected his $25,000 offer to settle. The Rhode Island Democrat made the offer to Della Patton last week...
TEST: ANTI-AIDS GEL HIKED WOMEN'S RISK
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amResearchers yesterday reported a disappointing defeat in the battle against AIDS - a spermicide for women actually worsens their risk, they said. The spermicide - called nonoxynol-9 - didn't protect...
A COOL MILLION NOT IN THE BAG - M&M'S ALMOST $WEET FOR CON
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amA Utah jailbird could almost taste being an M&M's millionaire - but saw his dream melt away yesterday. Brian McCluskey, 27, finishing up a one-year sentence for misdemeanor drug possession,...
NEW TWIST IN DRUG-COLONEL CASE
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe chauffeur for the heroin-smuggling wife of a narcotics-fighting U.S. Army colonel in Colombia is accusing the federal government of covering up for drug traffickers "in their own ranks." Jorge...
SCIENTISTS FLOCKING TO FIGHT WEST NILE VIRUS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe deadly West Nile virus is back in the metro area - but its re-emergence has proved as mysterious as its first appearance last year. As of last night, still...
VOLPE 'TAKING HIS MEDICINE' ; 'PROUD' LOUIMA-COP POP: 'HE TOOK RESPONSIBILITY'
July 13, 2000 | 4:00am'IF THE door of my son's jail cell was opened tomorrow, if the walls of the prison fell down, he would say, 'I have to stay here.'" Talking is Robert...
HS CRASH DUO TO BE BURIED TOMORROW
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe Long Island priest and student who died Sunday in a school-trip crash in Arizona will be laid to rest tomorrow after a joint funeral Mass. Brother Lawrence Zarzycki, 38,...
IT'S A WHOLE LOTTA SQUABBLIN' GOIN' ON
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe Godfathers of Rock are touring the world together - but offstage, they're bitter enemies, concert promoters say. Little Richard, 65, Chuck Berry, 74, and Jerry Lee Lewis, 65, have...
'STAR WARS' SEQUEL COUNTS ON 'DRACULA'
July 13, 2000 | 4:00am"Count Dracula" has joined the cast of the next "Star Wars" flick. Horror star Christopher Lee - who portrayed the famed vampire in eight movies - will play a "charismatic...
NEW DNA TEST BACKS TEXAS DEATH ROW CON'S GUILT
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amA new DNA test still points at Texas Death Row killer Ricky McGinn as guilty in a case where George W. Bush ordered a temporary reprieve to allow his "full...
NEW LAW GETS TOUGH WITH HACK ATTACKERS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki, citing the murder of 11 livery cab drivers this year, signed into law yesterday tougher penalties for attacks on all cabbies. The new legislation adds three...
TA'S GLASS ACT WILL SPARE NEW SUBWAY CARS FROM SCRATCHITI
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe Transit Authority has drawn a line in the glass when it comes to protecting its new generation of subway cars from scratchiti. Windows on the new, $1.4 million subway...
CLINTON CAMP BLAMES PRESS FOR ; HER JEWISH-VOTE WOES
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's campaign staff blames "inaccurate, misleading" press coverage for frustrating the first lady's attempts to win over Jewish voters, according to a memo obtained by The Post. Outlining...
AFGHANISTAN BOOTS BUSTED U.S. GRANNY
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amAfghanistan's ruling Taliban militia expelled a 72-year-old American grandmother yesterday, accusing her of using her humanitarian work as a cover to spy on the government and spread anti-Islamic propaganda. In...
CUBAN ASSEMBLY RIPS U.S. LAW FOR FUELING EXODUS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amCuban Communist lawmakers yesterday blasted a U.S. law they claim encourages their citizens to migrate illegally to the United States on unsafe boats - putting their lives and those of...
BLAST RUBBLE YIELDS FIRST TWO BODIES - SIGNS POINT TO GAS, FIRE COMMISH SAYS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHope gave way to heartbreak yesterday when firefighters racing against time unearthed two bodies from the mountain of rubble left by a suspected gas explosion in Brooklyn. Weary rescue workers...
BUSH REJECTS A PERLE OF WISDOM
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amRepublican George W. Bush says he'd be happy to see Vice President Al Gore play a positive role at the Mideast summit - flatly rejecting an adviser's warning to Israel...
HILLARY RIPS REGULATORS, CON ED FOR HIGH RATES
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton bashed Con Edison and state regulators yesterday for approving a deal this month that she said could raise electric bills by 30 percent this summer. "Con Ed...
COPS: IOWA MOM 'WAS IN LOT OF PAIN'
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amA despondent mom and her three kids all drowned after the mother drove her truck into the Missouri River, preliminary autopsy results showed yesterday. "We are confident that this was...
MARINE'S PRINCESS BRIDE IN ASYLUM BID
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amA love-struck U.S. Marine and his princess bride want an immigration judge to write the fairy-tale ending to their forbidden romance. Pfc. Lance Johnson, 25, and newlywed wife Meriam Khalifa,...
COPS URGING SLAB-BASHER TO SURRENDER
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amInvestigators hunting the disheveled attacker who wielded a concrete slab against Tiffany Goldberg appealed yesterday for him to surrender. Police involved in the manhunt believe they eventually will find the...
GEE, 3 IS A CROWD FOR THIS MET TEAM
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe minor-league Mets are a major-league disaster. The city poured $6 million into a temporary home for the Mets' Class-A ball club, the Queens Kings - but the fledgling farm...
NOISY FANS A BLOW TO SCHOOLS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amIt's bad enough not having air conditioning. Now summer-school students and teachers are rebelling against noisy fans that sound like aircraft and disrupt classes. The 6-foot industrial fans are so...
W. SEEKS TO SADDLE VEEP WITH HILL ; BUSH SEEKS TO SADDLE VEEP AL WITH HILLARY
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amALL of a sudden, George W. Bush's team is trying to tie Hillary Clinton around Veep Al Gore's neck like a lead weight. "We're very proud to stand with Rick...
TOMBOY DREW NOW TOM'S GIRL
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amDrew Barrymore - who's boasted that she's slept with as many women as men - is ready to go straight with MTV shock comic Tom Green. Barrymore, 25, and Green,...
VICTIM'S PAL: 'MY LIFE IS DESTROYED'
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amJulian Jackson's gaze never wandered from the macabre scene unfolding before his eyes. As the hours ticked by, the 78-year-old retired lawyer watched in mute horror as rescuers crawled like...
'BIG BROTHER' WATCHERS WATCHING A KILLER
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amNobody on "Big Brother" knows it - but they're cooped up with a killer. Contestant George Boswell accidentally shot and killed a hunting companion 12 years ago, his wife, Terese,...
GORE STIRS NAACP BIGS WITH FIERY ATTACK ON BUSH
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amA pumped-up, Scripture-quoting Al Gore yesterday ripped into George W. Bush on everything from the Confederate flag to racial profiling yesterday to a roaring reception from the NAACP. Gore's attack...
HOUSE OKS AN END TO MARRIAGE TAX PENALTY
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans, backed by 48 Democrats, yesterday voted to give married couples a $1,450 break at tax time, repealing a quirky law that makes it costlier to be married...
WITNESS-SLAY ROB CASE FIZZLES
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was acquitted yesterday of robbery charges because the key witness against him - the pizza delivery man he allegedly held up - was beheaded before he could...
NEIGHBORHOOD CRIES FOR ALTRUISTIC VICTIMS ; NEIGHBORHOOD CRIES FOR VICTIMS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe blast that leveled two Brooklyn row houses has left neighbors with a pain in their hearts for the three victims they described yesterday as "beautiful and fun-loving people" who...
DANCER SLAIN, BEAU'S HANDS NAILED
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amQueens cops yesterday found a 23-year-old exotic dancer slain in her bedroom - and her boyfriend in another room with his hands nailed to a wooden two-by-four, authorities said. Investigators...
FEDS SNARE LOCAL DUO IN NASA WEB HACK
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amTwo New York-area teens apparently outwitted a bunch of rocket scientists - breaking into NASA's computer systems in separate hack attacks, officials said yesterday. One of the suspects, Raymond "Rolex"...
THREE BODIES FOUND IN BLAST RUBBLE: SIGNS POINT TO GAS, FIRE COMMISH SAYS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHope gave way to heartbreak yesterday when firefighters racing against time unearthed the bodies of three people from the mountain of rubble left by a suspected gas explosion in Brooklyn....
HORROR TAINTS MIRACLE OF WENDY'S SURVIVOR
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWendy's massacre survivor JaQuione Johnson has made a miraculous recovery - he can walk, but is still mentally trapped in a nightmare of grief and terror, his family says. In...
ECHOES OF RODNEY IN PHILLY COP BEATING
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amPhiladelphia cops were videotaped yesterday beating and kicking a suspected carjacker who had stolen a police car and fired a gun at the officers who chased him. Thomas Jones, 30,...
PENNINGTON OKS JETS' 5-YEAR DEAL
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amTwo days ago, during a day-long meeting with reporters at the Jets' Weeb Ewbank Hall facility, Mike Tannenbaum, the team's contract negotiator, joked about being sleep-deprived from a spring and...
GARBU IS ALL ALONE AT THE WIRE
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amYesterday's feature at Belmont Park was an allowance race on turf for a $65,000 purse, but its five-horse field featured three classy veterans that, over the past few years, ranked...
HE'S A REAL NOWHERE MAN :KNICKS HAVE NO IDEA WHEN WEIS WILL SHOW FOR CAMP AND LEAGUE
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amFAIRFIELD, Conn. - At least Frederic Weis now has something in common with Latrell Sprewell. The 7-2 French phantom was a no-show yesterday. Maybe the Knicks' unsigned '99 first-round pick...
LAZIO LANDS CRESPO IN $54M DEAL
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amLONDON - The first big trade of the summer has just gone through - and it's a world record-breaker. Hernan Crespo has switched from Parma to Lazio in exchange for...
BEWARE BADGETT'S BABIES
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe first stop on the journey to find the best 2-year-olds in New York led us to the Bill Badgett barn on the Belmont Park backstretch. Last year in New...
CAPT. MAC: I MIGHT PLAY IN DAVIS CUP
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHow bad are things for the U.S. Davis Cup team? Well, 41-year-old John McEnroe is warming up in the pen and just might see some action when the Stars and...
GROH: I'M JUST GONNA BE ME
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe controversy of Bill Parcells' departure has been grudgingly accepted and digested. The shock of Bill Belichick's stunning refusal to take over for Parcells and his subsequent legal-team-aided escape to...
GRANT BEGINS HIS RECRUITING VISIT
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amFAIRFIELD, Conn. - Midway through the Knicks' first summer-league workout at Fairfield University, Knicks GM Scott Layden and coach Jeff Van Gundy bolted out of the gym and headed for...
INFECTION FOR RED BULLET
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amRed Bullet, a well-beaten third as the odds-on favorite in last Sunday's Dwyer Stakes making his first start since winning the Preakness, is suffering from an infection of unknown cause...
YANKEES SHOW THEY AIN'T KIDDIN' AROUND : DEAL YOUTH FOR NEAGLE IN RISKY PUSH TO WIN NOW
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amEmbrace today and worry about tomorrow when it comes. That defines the bold move made by the Yankees yesterday when they acquired lefty starter Denny Neagle and a minor-league outfielder...
WORKING MOM'S HERO INKSTER NO. 1 WITH FAMILY
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amJuli Inkster was helping to raise the American flag at the 1998 Solheim Cup matches when her daughter Hayley, who was 8 at the time, looked up at her and...
CONE'S JOB SAFE, BUT DOC'S SPOT IN JEOPARDY
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amDon't interpret yesterday's Yankee developments as a sign the Bombers are giving up on David Cone. Denny Neagle entering the rotation doesn't mean that Cone - despite his dreadful numbers...
LPGA MULLS NEW MAJOR
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amThe JAL Big Apple Classic is in for some changes after this year and one could be of major importance. LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw acknowledged yesterday that the tournament could...
LEFT FIELDER NEXT ON CASHMAN'S LIST
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amDoes Brian Cashman ever sleep? Having added Denny Neagle to bolster a questionable pitching rotation, the Yankee GM immediately set his sights on seeing if he could upgrade left field....
BOMBERS TOPS IN SUBWAY SWAP-FEST, TOO
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amIT WAS difficult to tell the Mets from the Yankees when they met in June for the first Subway Series of the new century. They had the same strengths, similar...
HENSON SHOCKED BY TRADE TO REDS
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWhen deals for Juan Gonzalez and Sammy Sosa fell apart, Drew Henson didn't necessarily believe he wasn't going to be dealt, but the stud prospect thought there was a chance...
GRANT CAN FIND SWEET PICKIN'S IN APPLE
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amNBC's Steve Jones has seen virtually every game Brian Grant has played for Portland. But the Blazer broadcaster of 20 years has never seen the dreadlocked power forward as unhappy...
MESS ON CENTER STAGE TODAY : CAPTAIN'S COMEBACK PARTY FOLLOWS CORONATION OF LOW
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amHard to imagine that the introduction of the Rangers coaching staff could already be yesterday's news, but when today's news features Mark Messier's historic return to Broadway, well, that's exactly...
CHECKETTS: I'LL MEND FENCES WITH MESSIER
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWhile Neil Smith made the call to excommunicate Mark Messier three years ago, it was Garden president Dave Checketts, and not the then-GM, who in July of 1997 publicly questioned...
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT TIME : LOW MUST BRING OUT BLUESHIRTS' PASSION
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amWALT Kyle, 12 years free of his own cancer, is part of the three-man team of doctors introduced yesterday to eradicate it from the Ranger locker room. Surgery, however, is...
METS SET SIGHTS ON EAST TITLE : PIAZZA RETURN, ARMS CRITICAL TO 2ND HALF
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - It's on. The Braves' trade for right-handed starter Andy Ashby yesterday is a clear indication Atlanta thinks the Mets are a serious threat for the National League East...
FOR PAYTON NOMAR, IT'S A GA. TECH REUNION
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amBOSTON - Jay Payton fimally has arrived - and just in time to see his former Georgia Tech teammate, Nomar Garciaparra. "I'm looking forward to seeing my boy, Nomar, over...
STREAKIN' LIBS TALKING TITLE
July 13, 2000 | 4:00amLiberty84 Sting70 Only a few weeks ago, the Liberty were in disarray. Players were still learning the plays, defense was slacking, Sue Wicks was upset over being benched, the locker...