April 8, 2000
VF BUYS NORTH FACE FOR $155.4M
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amNorth Face -- outerwear maker to the Hip Hop and hiker nations -- was bought by VF Corp. yesterday, the day after the money-losing company said it might file for...
TOMMY'S IN TROUBLE: STOCK TUMBLES 32% AFTER PROFIT WARNING
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amPanicked investors stampeded out of Tommy Hilfiger stock yesterday, after the apparel company said next year's profits would be 30 to 40 percent lower than this year's. The company also...
NASDAQ BOUNCES BACK UP 178
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amTech stocks came roaring back yesterday, ending a very rocky week on a very positive note. The tech-packed Nasdaq composite index had its biggest one-day gain since January, climbing 178.89,...
WACHNER CLOSES IN ON CALVIN'S CARCASS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amShe's baaack. Warnaco's Linda Wachner has upped her bid for Calvin Klein to $850 million and is back in the running, sources told The Post. Wachner declined to comment. But...
OLD-TIME RADIO LIVES ON IN KEILLOR'S LAKE WOBEGON
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAS shows go, the one playing Town Hall tonight isn't heavy on the visuals: There's just a band, a sound-effects guy and a bunch of people -- one in red...
THANKS A $BILLION HOLLYWOOD REMAKE PUSHES UP THE PRICE OF SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
April 8, 2000 | 4:00am'THE Six Million Dollar Man," a once-hot '70s sci-fi show, is coming back as a potential box-office blockbuster. This time, instead of the serious secret agent theme that made the...
TURNER LOOSE
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAT the first of two sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden last night, the incomparable Tina Turner's opening song "I Wanna Take You Higher" was the battle cry of the...
NO DOUBT KNOCKOUT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amNO doubt, sex sells, but if it's smart 'n' sexy you can also feel good about buying. It was easy to feel good about the Southern California quartet No Doubt...
CLIMBING REALLY ROCKS!
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amFace it - are there any kids you know who don't like to climb? Luckily, New York City has plenty of places that offer them peak experiences - plus the...
SUPER MOVIES FROM 'ROUND THE WORLD
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amIn case you needed a reason to see the BAMkids Film Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next weekend, here are three: Babar, Vincent van Gogh and Pele. And...
STOX NET QUEEN A KING'S RANSOM
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amQueen Elizabeth II bagged a cool $1.4 million yesterday on an obscure Internet investment. The queen of England made her windfall after spending $160,000 for a small stake in a...
COP SCAPEGOAT VOWS TO DRAG DA INTO COURT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amFORMER Police Lt. Patricia Feerick yesterday fired the first salvo in a battle that could turn out to be Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's worst nightmare. Feerick strode confidently into...
JOCELYNE'S GEM BOX GETTING A FACELIFT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amJocelyne Wildenstein is "simplifying her look" -- but not with plastic surgery this time. After her long, messy divorce, she's selling off some jewels -- a little more than $1...
TAXI FLEETS ARE DRIVEN TO 'TIP' LIBERALS 27G
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amMAYOR Giuliani and the taxi industry may be at each other's throats, but that didn't stop fleet owners from pumping $27,250 into the coffers of the Liberal Party, controlled by...
FOOD FADDISTS' SALAD DAZE DOCS WARN VEGANS OF MAJOR HEALTH HAZARDS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amFor years, we've heard about the virtues of vegetarianism -- namely that it reduces the risk of cancer and heart disease. But a new, alarming finding calls the benefits of...
NEW DAMAGE AWARDS MAY HELP $TUB OUT BIG TOBACCO
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amA Miami jury yesterday ordered Big Tobacco to pay $12.7 million to three smokers, opening the door to a billion-dollar verdict that cigarette makers say could bankrupt them. The jury...
POLS: FEDS MUST TARGET RUDY IN COP SHOOTINGS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amTwo New York politicians called on the Justice Department yesterday to investigate Mayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir, saying they "defamed and blamed" the victims of police shootings. The...
FIREFIGHTERS DELIVER LITTLE SQUIRT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amFive fabulous firefighters turned into big-time baby doctors as they rushed to the rescue of a pregnant Brooklyn woman who went into labor on the sidewalk. Melissa Santos, 22, was...
NEW EAST SIDE TERROR: WOMAN CHOKED, ROBBED
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amA 40-year-old woman was robbed and nearly strangled in her Upper East Side building early yesterday -- the fourth vicious assault on a female in the area in as many...
CUBAN EXILES AT ODDS OVER STRATEGY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI -- A new tug-of-war emerged in the Elian Gonzalez case yesterday as one Cuban exile group pushed for civil-disobedience protests and others called for calm. The Democracy Movement had...
BUSH ISN'T GIVING RUDY THE TIME OF DAY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amHe's slumping in the polls -- but Mayor Giuliani can forget about getting any help from his party's presidential candidate in his Senate race against First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton....
LIPOSUCTION IS TRAINERS' RX TO PUMP OUT FAT: MAG
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amA growing number of fitness trainers have a dirty little secret -- they're turning to liposuction to stay fit. Plastic surgeons throughout the city say more and more of their...
COPS PUT FACE ON SICKO STALKING QNS. MOMS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amPolice released a sketch yesterday of the scar-faced attacker who has been terrorizing mothers in Queens by pointing a gun at their tots' heads while demanding money and jewelry. The...
FEDS: WE'LL TAKE ELIAN NEXT WEEK HIS DAD'S WAITED TOO LONG: RENO
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amThe feds will take steps next week to reclaim Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives -- and the little boy's father will be free to take him home to Cuba...
HARD-LINERS PULLING
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN as the Miami relatives say Elian Gonzalez's father is controlled by Fidel Castro, it is becoming increasingly clear that they are controlled by another government. That government is called...
BOARD OF ED WANTS LEVY DECISION NOW
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amBoard of Education officials are pressuring interim Schools Chancellor Harold Levy to decide by next week whether he wants the full-time position. Levy's answer should come no later than next...
HURTIN' NETS OFFICIALLY COUNTED OUT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amHeat103 Nets85 Darn, just when Orlando looks vulnerable. What everyone has known was coming seemingly for eons arrived in humiliating fashion last night as the Nets, undermanned and overwhelmed, were...
KILLER SHOT DEAD IN SLEEPY HOLLOW
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amA crazed gunman was dead last night after carrying out a vow to "kill three guys" by slaying two men and critically wounding a third at a bakery in bucolic...
NEWBORN IS SAFE AFTER HOSP KIDNAPPING
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAngelique Lawrence couldn't have a baby of her own -- so she snatched one from a Brooklyn hospital yesterday to impress her friends and family, police said. Lawrence, 17, may...
LIVERY CAB DRIVER SLAIN; 6TH THIS YEAR
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amA livery cab driver was killed during an apparent robbery in Brooklyn early this morning -- becoming at least the sixth slain in New York City since January, police said....
COP IN HOT WATER OVER ETHNIC 'SLUR'
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAn NYPD precinct commander has lost his post for his role in a conversation that included a racially insensitive story about the highest-ranking Asian in the department, The Post has...
GOP BIG: TEACHERS GROSSLY UNDERPAID
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amThe Legislature's most powerful Republican urged Mayor Giuliani yesterday to renegotiate on the summer school program after complaining that city teachers are "grossly" underpaid. "It's grossly unfair to pay New...
SCIENCE FIRM: WE'VE FOUND GENETIC KEY TO LIFE
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amA Maryland company yesterday said it has completed the first step in its breakthrough effort to unlock the secrets of human genetics. The announcement by Celera Genomics that it has...
RUSSIA SLAPS EUROPEAN PANEL
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amThe Kremlin yesterday blasted the Council of Europe's decision to censure Russia over the Chechen war but said the tensions wouldn't destroy the nation's new relationship with the West. The...
BAFFERT EYES SANTA ANITA DERBY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amEvery racing fan knows that trainer Bob Baffert won back-to-back Kentucky Derbys in 1997-98 with Silver Charm and Real Quiet, and that it would have been three in a row...
FLEURY AT HEAD OF SLACKERS' CLUB
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amLife at the Ranger Country Club: Since Dave Checketts appealed to the team's pride in a March 22 address at Rye, the Blue$hirt$ have played six games. They've lost five...
DEVILS JUST AREN'T REGULAR GUYS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amThey have become pragmatists, these Devils whose regular-season collapse ends today. They have concluded out of necessity that the 82-game schedule means nothing, nor does their nosedive, if they win...
FLAMINGO ON TAP AT GULFSTREAM
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAn evenly matched field of 11 has been entered in the Grade 3 Flamingo Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The distance of the race is one mile and an eighth and...
PAULSON HAS SPIRIT OF 76
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Dennis Paulson enjoyed his moment in the Georgia sun on Thursday as the first-round leader. Yesterday, reality struck the 37-year-old journeyman golfer as he gave it all back....
GROWLING BEAR MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Jack Nicklaus never wanted any part of ceremony. That much was obvious Thursday evening when he marched right out to the range to hit practice balls after his...
THERE'S NO FAT IN DUVAL'S GAME
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- David Duval planned to lift weights after leaving Augusta National yesterday evening. After that, maybe he'd run a mile or two before dinner, "to get the blood flowing,"...
WOBBLY WOODS PUTS THE BLAME ON PUTTER
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Tiger Woods probably won't win the 64th Masters. It was tough enough just making the cut. Woods, the heavy favorite to win his second Green Jacket this weekend,...
CHARGE! DUVAL CATCHES FIRE SHOOTS 7-UNDER 65 TO GRAB 1-SHOT LEAD
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Shortly before teeing it up at this week's Masters, David Duval scoffed when he was asked about the rivalry between he and Tiger Woods. "I don't deserve to...
MICKELSON'S BIG PUTT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amAUGUSTA -- Phil Mickelson came so close. About one more inch would have done it. That's how close he came to making a birdie putt on the 18th hole yesterday...
ONE MORE HERNANDEZ ON THE WAY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amWhile Cuban right-hander Adrian Hernandez is claiming he has signed a four-year deal with the Yankees, sources said yesterday the 26-year-old isn't a member of the defending World Champions. Hernandez,...
DON'T LOOK FOR STARKS ON ROSTER
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amORLANDO -- With Chris Dudley and John Wallace out till Friday, the Knicks had internal discussions about bringing back John Starks. But that's not happening, according to Jeff Van Gundy,...
ARMANDO GETS REY OF RELIEF
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amArmando Benitez picked up his second save of the season in the Mets' 2-1 victory last night at Shea Stadium, but he gave a lot of the credit to Rey...
ACHIN' HAMILTON MAY BE DONE
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amDarryl Hamilton didn't just make a trip to the disabled list yesterday, his career is in jeopardy because of a chronic left big toe problem. The injury has manifested itself...
FABULOUS REED, INDEED MET RIGHTY'S GEM SMOTHERS DODGERS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amMets2 Dodgers1 Rick Reed is one of those guys who is just another face in the crowd, a quiet man. Except when he's on the mound. Reed then becomes a...
A-ROD HELPING '3 SHORTSTOPS' MAKE HISTORY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE -- We can send the cover from this month's GQ and a tape of this first week at Safeco Field. Just put them in a time capsule now to...
EWING'S 28 MAKE MAGIC DISAPPEAR
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amORLANDO -- Slowly but surely this is becoming Patrick Ewing's team. Back on Feb. 1, Ewing embarrassed himself and played his season's worst game, looking like a dinosaur against Orlando's...
NO SAFE HAVEN FOR ANDY
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE -- Andy Pettitte under the Florida palm trees was a lot better than the Andy Pettitte who worked the Pacific Northwest last night. Unfortunately for the Yankees and Pettitte,...
TOP IS A FLOP SO FAR
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Going into last night's game against the Mariners at Safeco Field, the Bombers were wheezing a bit at the top of the order, where Chuck Knoblauch...
GREEN IS A GRATEFUL DODGER
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amShawn Green has a lot on his shoulders. He has a huge contract, and was instantly inserted into the lineup as the Dodgers' cleanup batter. More than anything else, however,...
BANGED-UP NETS LIMPING TO THE WIRE
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amElimination from the playoffs - at least the official, no more mathematical possibilities elimination - stared the Nets in the face last night. At least what Nets there were. In...
VAN GUNDY GETS TIRED OF A TIRING COMPLAINT
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES ORLANDO - Jeff Van Gundy has grown tired of hearing that the second game on back-to-back nights is physically treacherous. Van Gundy was asked before last night's game...
HOUSTON, SPREWELL HIT SKIDS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amORLANDO - Don't look now, but Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell have hit a scoring funk going into last night's game here. In Thursday's win over the Wizards, the Knicks...
HEY, RICKEY, SIT DOWN: HENDERSON ON BENCH AGAINST DODGERS
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amRickey Henderson, who didn't have the energy to slide into second base Thursday night, found himself sitting on the bench last night. More importantly, Darryl Hamilton was placed on the...
JORGE'S TAKING CHARGE
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Twenty-six innings into a 162-game schedule doesn't come close to providing enough data to judge a player. What it does do is provide a version of what's developing....
OF COURSE IT'S STILL EARLY, BUT SIGNS ARE THERE
April 8, 2000 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Shane Spencer topped the Yankees in homers, Tino Martinez in triples and Clay Bellinger was tied with Bernie Williams for the team RBI lead. It is a reminder...