November 21, 2000
BARNEYS NEEDS A LEADER - COMPETITORS ARE STEALING CUSTOMERS
IT has been nearly four months since Barneys CEO Allen Questrom announced that his work in Dodge was done. Barneys was saved, and he would be riding on. Yet, the...
FIGHT BREWS ON THE WATERFRONT - MUSEUM, HOTEL EYE E. RIVER BERTH
A PROPOSAL to convert a 1950s ocean liner into a floating hotel might scuttle the Guggenheim Museum's quest to drop anchor in the East River waters off Wall Street. Not...
RELATED COS. HAVE A TUNNEL VISION IN MURRAY HILL
The developer of the Time Warner Center is teaming up with a real estate family to create a $151.5 million rental building near a Midtown Tunnel exit, The Post has...
TIFFANY'S SHOWROOM ADDING CARATS
Though serving breakfast at Tiffany's isn't in the plans, expanded retail selling space is. The flagship store at the tony corner where Fifth Avenue meets 57th Street at the base...
MP3.COM HITS 'PAUSE' - SONY, WARNER DEMANDS COULD PUT CO. ON ROPES
The party tunes over at MP3.com have suddenly stopped. Just days after MP3.com Chairman Michael Robertson broke out the bubbly to celebrate his surprise $53.4 million agreement with Universal Music...
TW CAVES, LETS EARTHLINK IN ON CABLE SYSTEM
Time Warner has caved in to Earthlink in negotiating high-speed Internet access to Time Warner's cable systems. Although the terms of the deal struck yesterday are confidential, Earthlink CEO Garry...
EBAY IS FLATTENED - GIANT-SLAYER ANALYST RIPS SALES, SCOLDS EXECS
Holly "The Giant Slayer" Becker has stomped on yet another Web behemoth - this time, eBay. Wall Street's rising star of doomsday forecasts panned eBay yesterday over prospects of slowing...
MESSIER'S MESSY SEAGRAM DEAL ALMOST FIZZLED
Vivendi Chairman Jean-Marie Messier said his talks with Seagram almost broke down in the 11th hour because the Bronfman family was refusing to offer their commitment to the deal. The...
EIRE WE GO - 2 ADULTS & A TOT HIT THE WINDING ROADS OF IRELAND
NO sooner did we sit down for dinner at a chic Dublin restaurant than my daughter chose to conduct a full-scale meltdown. At 20 months old, Eliza had handled the...
ONLY THE BIRD SHOULD GET STUFFED - YOU CAN ENJOY THE THANKSGIVING FEAST WITHOUT EATING LIKE A BEAST
MOST people pick up their forks on Thanksgiving and hardly put them down again until New Year's. No wonder so many make it their first resolution to lose weight. But...
CLAN REDEFINES ITS TURF
WU-TANG CLAN "The W" () Loud Records Home-town hip-hop ensemble Wu-Tang Clan again polishes its distinct New York hard-core style to a high gloss for its third disc, "The W."...
A POET WHO PLAYS WITH FIRE
ONE of the supreme English poets and playwrights makes his entry swinging on a rope, nude and dripping wet. This sets the tone for this energetic version of the career...
REUNITED AUSSIE DUO NO LONGER BETWEEN GIGS
THE Go-Betweens' Robert Forster and Grant McLennan are enjoying their second coming. The Aussie duo recorded its first album back in 1981, but dissolved the band in 1989, after watching...
THE STARR REPORT
Mom becomes first Brit 'Millionaire'Judith Keppel, a 58-year-old mother of two from London, became the first person to win the million-pound grand prize on the British version of "Who Wants...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
Birds fly north As Montreal settles into winter, the Museum of Fine Arts is heating up with "Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences." The show explores the conscious and subconscious connections...
AIR'S GONE OUT OF THE PARADE ... SAYS LINDA (THE POST'S GRINCH) STASI
WHEN I was a kid, Thanksgiving was a huge event at my house. Actually, come to think of it, it still is. But since the cooking switched over to me...
'JUDGE JUDY' BIG BUCKS COURT FIGHT
THE man who "discovered" Judge Judy Sheindlin is taking her show to court."Judge Judy" creator and executive producer Peter Brennan has slapped the show's production company, Big Ticket Television, two...
FOX NEWSMAN ARRESTED IN FLA.
FOX News Channel said yesterday it is probing the arrest of anchor Shepard Smith, accused of hitting a reporter with his car in a dispute over a parking space in...
BE QUICK IF YOU WANT TO SEE KRAMER'S NEW SHOW
MICHAEL Richards is finding that life after "Seinfeld" and wacky Cosmo Kramer is a tough act to follow. "The Michael Richards Show," in which Richards plays unorthodox L.A. private eye...
Fall of a ladder climber -- society crosses a Sotheby's wife off the A-list
Judy Taubman's rise into the stratosphere of high society is the stuff of legend. The glamorous spouse of embattled ex-Sotheby's boss Alfred Taubman went from being a poor Israeli beauty-pageant...
JUDGE NIXES FLA. REVOTE - CLAIMS HE CANNOT ORDER NEW ELECTION IN PALM BEACH CO.
Workers in three Florida counties labored over controversial hand recounts yesterday - as a judge said he didn't have the power to order a new election in Palm Beach, home...
RUDY IS 'TIRED' OF RADIATION
An upbeat Mayor Rudolph Giuliani yesterday said the radiation treatment he receives for his prostate cancer has been leaving him "a little tired," but said the procedure has been going...
PARENTS BLAST 'RACIST' TOY
A hot-selling learning toy is teaching kids their ABCs - and how to be racist, some outraged parents say. Alphabert, a computerized speaking keyboard, spits out words that begin with...
PERUVIAN POLS SCRAMBLE AFTER FUJIMORI STEPS DOWN
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori resigned yesterday in a letter to his congress, and officials said he intended to remain "indefinitely" in Japanese exile. Fujimori, 62, said he was ending his...
YAHOO! FACES 'NAZI'-SALES FINE
A Paris court ruled yesterday that Yahoo! can be fined nearly $13,000 a day if it continues to allow French Web surfers to buy Nazi memorabilia online. The landmark decision...
VIOLENCE FLARES AT 3 MANHATTAN HOT SPOTS
Violence erupted at several Manhattan nightclubs early yesterday, including the controversial Tunnel hot spot, police said. Two people were slashed and a third was bruised at the Tunnel when a...
Q & A ON THE FLORIDA FIASCO'S LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
(MD+BO)Q: Where are we?(MD-BO) A: Everyone is waiting for the Florida Supreme Court to rule on whether hand counts can continue in three heavily Democratic counties where Al Gore hopes...
CON SUES OVER ARREST IN SCUFFLE THAT KILLED COP
A career criminal acquitted in the Bronx case of a cop who crashed into a mirror during a scuffle and bled to death has filed suit, claiming his civil rights...
GI BALLOTS HAVE POWELL UP IN ARMS
Retired Gen. Colin Powell - who could be secretary of state in a Bush administration - said he is "troubled" by the disqualification of hundreds of Florida's overseas military ballots....
DEATH OPTION POSTPONED IN WENDY'S CASE
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown yesterday joined with a defense motion to extend this week's deadline for a death-penalty decision in the Wendy's massacre - to consider the mental capacity...
MAGICIAN'S NEXT STUNT IS CHILLING
Magician David Blaine, who amazed people last year when he was buried alive for seven days, is set for his most dangerous stunt ever - being encased in ice for...
PERU PREZ RESIGNS
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned yesterday in a letter to his congress, and officials said he intended to remain "indefinitely" in Japanese exile. Fujimori, 62, said he was ending his...
ACTRESS PUTS HER ADDICTION BATTLE ONLINE
Pill-addicted star Melanie Griffith is keeping a diary of her battle to beat a dependency on painkillers - and sharing it with her fans on the Internet. The sexy blond...
NAZIS' VICTIMS BATTLE EACH OTHER IN PLEA FOR SWISS $$
Holocaust-survivor groups fought among themselves yesterday at a dramatic, emotionally charged hearing on the fairness of a proposed plan to distribute a $1.25 billion Swiss bank settlement. Pleas to give...
LITTLE-KNOWN BUREAUCRAT MAY HAVE FINAL SAY
As the presidential drama unfolds in Florida, the man with the keys to the White House is counting down his days in office. Not Bill Clinton, but David Barram, director...
ACCIDENTS CLAIM LIVES OF 2 WOMEN
A 40-year-old Queens woman was killed by a hit-and-run school-minibus driver, and a 49-year-old Manhattan woman died when she was hit by a truck in a separate accident, police said...
PROSECUTORS REST PAN AM CASE AFTER UNUSUAL WITNESS
Prosecutors wrapped up their case yesterday against two accused Lockerbie bombers with the unusual step of calling Pierre Salinger to the stand - where he insisted the defendants had nothing...
LAWYER BUSTED IN STOCKS BRIBE
A former prosecutor was busted yesterday for trying to bribe a paralegal at a top Manhattan law firm for insider-stock information, officials said. Robert Schuster, a former assistant district attorney...
WIFE: CLINTON LAWYER DIED OF HEART ATTACK
WASHINGTON - Ex-White House counsel Charles Ruff, who saved President Clinton's neck on Sexgate, has died after an apparent heart attack, his wife said yesterday. Sue Ruff said it appeared...
GORE, BUSH KEEP COOL AMID FIGHT - THEY GRIN IN PUBLIC & RETREAT TO PRIVACY
Al Gore hunkered down at the veep's residence, glued to the TV yesterday, while George W. Bush "kept an eye" on the Florida Supreme Court hearing from his office in...
WEB SITE MAKES GOP ELECTORS VULNERABLE TO 'NET NUTS
WHILE all eyes are on Tallahassee, Susan Estes is at home in Wichita, Kan., quietly nursing her newborn and preparing to cast her Electoral College ballot next month for George...
RENO EXPRESSES WACO DOUBTS
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told kids in Brooklyn's Red Hook yesterday that "in a way, I'll never know what the right thing to do was" in ending the Branch...
POLITICAL DRAMA WASHES SOAPS OFF SCHEDULES
Fictional soap operas gave way to the real-life saga of the Florida vote recount yesterday as CBS, ABC and NBC preempted their afternoon programs for three hours. The three broadcast...
THE PARTY OF 'FAIRNESS' VS. THE PARTY OF LAW
THE arguments yesterday before the Florida Supreme Court, and the questions and answers that flew back and forth between the seven judges and the lawyers, revealed the oceanic gulf separating...
LIGHTS! CAMERA! AUCTION! H'WOOD ON BLOCK
If you're bugs about Leonardo DiCaprio, here's a chance to own the caterpillar he ate in "The Beach." And if Harrison Ford hits your spot, why not have his "Indiana...
HS OFFICIALS LET THUGS OFF HOOK: STANCIK
Brooklyn Tech HS officials failed to report two armed robberies to police, allowing four assailants to escape prosecution, Schools Investigator Ed Stancik charged yesterday. When cops learned about one of...
VOICE FROM GRAVE HAUNTS GRID STAR AT MURDER TRIAL
On the first day of his trial in the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, football star Rae Carruth covered his face with his hands as he listened to a 911...
BRAVEST SAY FAREWELL TO BX. FIREMAN WITH 'HEART' FOR HIS DUTY
Hero Bronx firefighter Kenneth Kerr - "Special K" to his friends and colleagues - was mourned yesterday as "the heart of Engine Co. 90." More than 5,000 firefighters tuned out...
VOTE-TOSSING GORE BACKERS ARE LAWBREAKERS
WEST PALM BEACH. THE Flori-duh Democratic machine fired the first shot, declaring war on our military - and is now in cowardly retreat. "These people don't only bend the law,...
SEX FIEND STALKING KIDS INSIDE QUEENS GRADE SCHOOL: COPS
A depraved sex attacker sneaked into a Queens school through an unlocked door and molested six small children - days after administrators shrugged off a report of a strikingly similar...
OUR HEROES ARE NOW LEFT FIGHTING MAD
Angry U.S. service personnel abroad and their frustrated kin back home in Florida lashed out yesterday at election maneuvering that's keeping hundreds of military votes from counting. "You've got to...
FLA. HIGH COURT'S DECISION IS ON THE WAY
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The court battle that could make George W. Bush or Al Gore the next president wrapped up yesterday - with mixed clues on how the judges might...
BRICK-TRIAL LAWYERS MAY SUBPOENA TV NEWSMAN
Lawyers for accused brickman Paris Drake are threatening to subpoena WCBS-TV reporter Pablo Guzman - hoping he'll take the stand if they need to discredit an important prosecution witness. But...
NEXT: A RECOUNT OF THE RECOUNT - MIAMI-DADE ELECTION OFFICIAL FINDS IT FISHY THAT GORE LOST VOTES
Election officials in Miami ordered a re-recount of ballots in two precincts where Al Gore lost votes in a hand count yesterday - sparking charges of bias from angry Republicans....
FLA. DEM: COUNT MILITARY VOTES - ATT'Y GENERAL SAYS FORGET TECHNICALITIES
Florida's attorney general yesterday broke with his own candidate - Democrat Al Gore - and said overseas military ballots should be counted in the presidential election, even if they arrived...
NETS CAN LIVE OR DIE IN L.A.
LOS ANGELES - The Clippers are young and athletic and mistake prone playing a nothing to lose style. They seemed like the perfect team for the Nets to start their...
HUSTLING KENYON GETS REPRIEVE FROM COACH SCOTT
NET NOTES LOS ANGELES - When he sees something he doesn't like, Byron Scott says so. And the opposite is true. When his Nets do something right, Scott is the...
THIS HEISMAN SHOULD GO TO WEINKE
THE Heisman Trophy might have been decided Saturday. At least it was in Bobby Bowden's eyes. And mine. Bowden's quarterback Chris Weinke unhooked the intravenous drip that had been his...
JETS SQUIRM OFF HOOK
JET REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: C Vinny Testaverde (13-of-28, 102 yards, 2 INTs) wasn't prolific, but he did enough to win. His first INT was his arm being hit as he threw....
LEAVING THE MADNESS BEHIND - RED STORM SEARCHING FOR CALM IN 2000-01
There was no madness on midnight this year at St. John's. Not like a year ago, when Jay Z and Dr. Dre and executives from Roc-a-Fella records and runners and...
CALL THEM 'F TROOP'
GIANT REPORT CARDQUARTERBACKS: D Nice numbers (29 of 51, career-high 350 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT) for Kerry Collins, but completely deceptive. He got 271 passing yards after trailing 28-0,...
FASSEL PONDERS 'SPECIAL' CHANGES
As he looked back and tried to determine the reason for last year's terrible late-season meltdown, Jim Fassel quickly assessed that the Giants were too battered, too decimated to compete....
A GIANT CORRECTION
Upon further review, this columnist badly erred in yesterday's Post when I bashed Giants' RB Tiki Barber for slowing down at the five-yard line to do a "check-me-out" demonstration -...
A BIG QUESTION MART - CURTIS, JETS WARY ABOUT INJURY
The Jets saved their season Sunday. Now comes survival. Gang Green bravely regained a sense of control to their season and their role in this crowded AFC playoff race by...
MR. SMITH GOES TO DETROIT
MENTALLY exhausted by prolonged litigation, the threat of additional appeals and the thought of being obstructed from returning to real-life NBA competition for another four to six weeks, maybe indefinitely,...
MAYNARD REGRETS REMARKS
GIANT NOTES A day after he blasted teammates for acting unprofessionally in meetings and not caring enough out on the field, punter Brad Maynard yesterday refrained from adding fuel to...
FRANCO CUTS CARDS; TURK WAITS
While John Franco scaled down his potential employers, Turk Wendell is expected to wait until after Thanksgiving before making his free-agent decision. Franco has pared his list from five teams...
GROH'S HELPERS SILENT HEROES
JET NOTES Under the still-intact Bill Parcells rule that the Jets' assistant coaches not be allowed to speak to reporters, it's difficult for Al Groh's helpers to receive any kind...
RANGERS GETTING VAL-UE
Try getting a lot of attention when you play on a line with Mark Messier and Adam Graves. You'll probably have an easier time selling "I Love Florida" T-shirts on...
TRYING TO LIFT THE CURSE - BOSOX PLANNING TO LURE MUSSINA AND NEAGLE AWAY FROM BOMBERS
Add another chapter to the nastiest rivalry in baseball. If Mike Mussina is prepared to split Baltimore, the Yankees and Red Sox are ready with truckloads of money to seduce...
CONE JUST LOOKING FOR A FINAL CHANCE
YANKEE NOTES David Cone is convinced if given another chance by the Yankees, he can erase the nightmare of last year when the border line Hall of Famer went 4-14...
DEVS HAVE REASON TO GIVE THANKS
It was Party Time in Devilville yesterday. The Stanley Cup champs now have more reason for Thanksgiving while they're in California. "It feels like training camp is finally over," Bobby...
IT'S GOOD NEWS-VLAD NEWS
The Rangers got good news yesterday when Vladimir Malakhov was diagnosed with a sprained anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee - not a season-ending tear, as had been feared....
FASSEL FAREWELL? - GIANTS COACH OUT DOOR IF BIG BLUE FLOPS AGAIN
FATEFULLY, perhaps even conveniently, the Lions have called the question of whether Jim Fassel really has the answers. For reasons that became painfully apparent again on Sunday, the one-year contract...
SOMETHING'S AFOOT WITH HOBBLIN' CAMBY
An MRI has revealed no serious damage to Marcus Camby's left ankle. Except Camby probably already knew that considering he claims the pain is in his left foot. Why the...
VAN HORN & KITTLES STAYING INVOLVED WHILE IDLE
NET NOTES LOS ANGELES - The Nets had to look no farther than the end of their bench, or directly behind it, to be reminded that even though it's going...
NOT THE SAME OLD NETS - ADVERSITY? NO PROBLEM
Nets 86 - Clippers 85 LOS ANGELES - So much for superstitions and game-day routines. Because of a bizarre circumstance in which they were affected by a police shootout near...