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June 15, 2001

XEROX AXES SMALL COPIERS, 1,500 JOBS

The words Xerox and copier are almost interchangeable - but not for the smaller personal copiers anymore. Xerox is discontinuing both its personal copier and its desktop inkjet printer operations,...

PAIR OF B2B METAL SITES MELT DOWN

Online metal marketplaces are showing serious signs of fatigue. The latest to halt business is MetalSite.com, an online marketplace which facilitated trading in steel. Company spokesman Doug Schuster said MetalSite...

THE REALTORS VOTE ; BLOOMBERG BEST FOR UPPING PRICES

WHILE Rudy Giuliani and Donna Hanover's own housing issues continue to fester, realtors are already thinking ahead to the next administration and the possible effect the next mayor will have...

LAST CHAPTER OF JACK'S BIO IS UNWRITTEN

Jack Welch's autobiography, "Straight From the Gut," is going right down to the wire, but Warner Books claims it will meet its deadline and get 1.5 million copies to bookstores...

WELCH'S EXIT IS MARRED BY MARIO: HONEYWELL DEAL, HIS CROWN JEWEL, HITS EU ROADBLOCK

Jack Welch's ride into the sunset was seriously disrupted yesterday as the business legend's planned $41 billion merger with Honeywell was all but killed by notorious European trust buster Mario...

ALL PAIN, NO GAIN: STOCKS PLUMMET; MORE DAMAGE COMING

Stocks plummeted again yesterday - and bad news from fiber-optics firm JDS Uniphase after the bell yesterday could send techs down again today. Bad earnings news flooded Wall Street yesterday,...

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES WAITS IN THE WINGS

Fortunately for Honeywell, another suitor is waiting in the wings if its planned GE merger caves as expected. United Technologies, left at the altar by Honeywell in favor of GE,...

BUSH IN LAST-DITCH DRIVE TO SAVE DEAL

Armed with pasta, beef and a variety of carrots and sticks, President Bush is eyeing a private deal with Europeans in a last-ditch effort to salvage the GE-Honeywell merger. Trade...

BURY THIS: ANGELINA JOLIE JIGGLES HER WAY THROUGH A STONE-DEAD SCRIPT

LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER Rating: 1 star You, Lady Croft, are no Indiana Jones Running Time: 101 minutes Rated PG-13 'LARA CROFT: Tomb Raider," with Angelina Jolie sporting a fake...

STARRY, STARRY NIGHT AT ABT

AMERICAN BALLET THEATERMetropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000. Through June 23. 'TCHAIKOVSKY Spectacular" - That's the label American Ballet Theater has tagged to a program series at the...

BOUQUET TO BLUEGRASS

SONGCATCHER Engaging if fanciful story of 1900s female professor discovering music and love in Appalachia.Running Time: 112 minutes. PG-13 (sexuality, bare breasts). At the First & 62nd and the Quad....

YOU GOT MALE: THE SECRET LIFE OF 'GAY HOLLYWOOD'... THE RUSH TO BE OUT IN H'WOOD, WHICH BEGAN WITH DAVID GEFFEN, ISN'T AS BIG A RUSH AS IT SEEMS

"MSNBC Reports: Gay Hollywood Comes Out" Monday on MSNBC at 10 p.m. HERE'S an old joke. One guy says to another guy, "Nice out tonight," and the other guy replies,...

'ADVENTURES' A BIT OF A YAWN

BD+>ADVENTURES OF FELIX Earnest but boring French comedy-drama.Running time: 95 minutes. Not rated (violence, sex). At the Quad and the Chelsea. 'ADVENTURES of Felix" is a gay road picture that's...

FLAT AS A COUNTRY TWANG

"Down From the Mountain" Rating: half a star IF bluegrass were as static and dull as this concert film indicates, Nashville would have hustled all the hillbillies back to the...

KAFKA'S TORTURED IN 'PENAL COLONY'

IN THE PENAL COLONYClassic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th St., (212) 677-4210. Through July 14. 'IN the Penal Colony" is Kafka's wonderful tale about a visitor who arrives at a...

TOP MINISERIES PRODUCER PLANS MOVIE ON OKLAHOMA BOMB HORROR AND WANTS... 'ER' DOC TO BE MCVEIGH

THE story behind Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is bound for TV. CBS has optioned the rights to turn the book, "American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing"...

STARR REPORT

Barker's 'Price' for Harvard: $500,000 "The Price Is Right" host Bob Barker has donated $500,000 to Harvard Law School to establish the "Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of...

SPIKE TO DIRECT 'RENT'?

THE movie version of "Rent" is starting to come together, and Spike Lee may land in the director's chair.An enormous fan of Jonathan Larson's hit musical - he's seen it...

DARK SIDE OF JAY; HE TAKES A DIM VIEW OF POWER CRISIS

JAY Leno doesn't want to appear fuelish, so his producers are cutting back the power to create an "Unplugged" edition of his "Tonight Show." The show, scheduled for next Thursday...

YO 'BIG BRO'! CBS LOGS ON TILL 2004

CBS has laid the groundwork for at least three more years of "Big Brother. " The network owns the domain names for "Big Brother" Web sites through 2004, an Internet...

ABC YA LATER TO 'REGULAR' MONDAY 'MILLIONAIRE'

ABC has pulled an about-face - and will move gimmicky episodes of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" from Thursday to Monday this fall to compete directly with NBC's "Weakest...

1 PARK, 2 SHAKESPEARES

THE New York Shakespeare Festival - which officially opens its 46th season of Shakespeare in Central Park on Sunday with "Measure for Measure" starring Billy Crudup - is not the...

'RUSSIAN DOLL' DOESN'T STACK UP

RUSSIAN DOLL Formulaic comic romance from Australia.Running time: 88 minutes. Rated R (sexuality, language). At the Angelika, Mercer and Houston streets. SOMETHING about the Aussie setting and the quirky distinctiveness...

MANDY MOORE MATURE" 'CANDY' STAR'S STILL SWEET, BUT SHE'S SHIFTING GEARS

IT may be hard to believe, but Mandy Moore, the kid who dished the saccharine "Candy" a couple of years ago, ain't a baby anymore.The 17-year-old singer, who grew up...

CAMBODIANS IRKED OVER MOVIE'S PORTRAYAL

CAMBODIANS are fuming over their portrayal in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" as straw hat-wearing Vietnamese peasants who toil away in paddy fields. Cambodian officials tried to explain that black pajamas...

'PUFFY' PAL FACING FEDERAL GUN RAP

A Sean "Puffy" Combs protégé was hit with federal gun-possession charges yesterday after allegedly pulling a pistol on a car that cut off his Range Rover near the Brooklyn Bridge....

INTERN-AL AFFAIR? YES, HER FOLKS SAY

Missing intern Chandra Levy's parents dropped a bombshell yesterday - backing up a claim that their daughter was having an affair with Rep. Gary Condit. And in another dramatic development,...

PUFFY LOSES, BUT WINS STYLE POINTS

Rap big-turned-clothing designer Sean "Puffy" Combs yesterday got shut out at the American Fashion Awards for the second year in a row - despite high expectations he'd snag the fashion...

MESSAGE: W. WON'T FIGHT FOR A STRONG DEFENSE

THE president is in Europe trying to make a case for a missile-defense system. But it's not clear today why he's bothering - since there's now no reason to believe...

'SUICIDE' IN A LOCKED TRUNK

A despondent Long Island dad is believed to have died in a bizarre suicide by locking himself in a car trunk to bring on a diabetic coma, cops said. The...

MAGIC'S MULLS RUN AT POLITICS

Magic Johnson says his next slam dunk may be in politics - as mayor of Los Angeles. "I've been asked to run about two or three times," the 41-year-old basketball...

DI'S BRO PLEADS: LET WILLS BE HIS OWN MAN

The still-heartbroken brother of Princess Diana has urged the world: Please don't think of Prince William as a carbon copy of his mom. "What I really hope is that people...

NEW YORK POST FROM JUNE 15, 1994

"IT'S OURS!" - That was The Post's front-page headline about the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years. "We're going to celebrate this like we've...

CANCEL A CHILDHOOD JOY

SORRY kids, the circus is canceled. Thank the animal-rights zealots. The circus brings some of childhood's greatest thrills. Ringling Brothers, the Big Apple, Cirque de Soleil, it doesn't matter: All...

ISRAEL COLONEL SLAIN BY 'DOUBLE' CROSSER

A Palestinian double agent shot and killed his Israeli handler yesterday in the most serious blow to the U.S.-brokered Mideast cease-fire. But officials in Jerusalem stopped short of saying the...

RIKERS GUARDS HALT CHARITY SWIM IN SEARCH SCREW-UP

Correction officers, searching for an escaped prisoner, sprang into action yesterday when they spotted one man in the water and another on a motorized raft off Rikers Island - and...

RAPIST-WED JUDGE: I SAVED HIM FROM GAYS

ALBANY - The upstate judge who allowed a rapist to marry his victim's mother said yesterday that he weds "scores" of convicts each year to help them avoid gay experiences...

LIVERY CABS REGAIN INSURANCE

The state Insurance Department has ordered a company to renew more than 2,000 livery-cab policies it improperly yanked. Sureco National Insurance Co. - which agreed to the order - had...

'ROCKY' TIMES FOR GRIFTER

A globetrotting grifter who pretended to be a Rockefeller was indicted yesterday in New York on new charges of swindling a woman out of $100,000. Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad...

DOGFIGHT OVER PILFERED POOCH

A photographer who invited a dog-napping real-estate agent to his home still has the apartments he wanted to sell - but he's missing his beloved toy poodle named Zuki. The...

THE DEVIL MADE BISHOP 'I DO' IT: VATICAN EXORCIST

The Vatican's chief exorcist says he wants to drive the devil out of the rebel Catholic archbishop who shocked the church by getting married last month. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo "has...

GOV SEEKS STIFFER LAWS FOR DEADLY ASSAULTS

Gov. Pataki, citing the tragic death of a rabbi who was punched in the face at a Manhattan parking lot, is proposing a tough new law for certain assaults, The...

25G REWARD FOR STOLEN CHAGALL

A $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the recovery of a rare, $1 million Chagall oil painting stolen from Manhattan's Jewish Museum last Friday. The 8-inch-by-10-inch painting,...

CAMPAIGN FINANCE BIG RAPS MIKE OVER TV AD

The head of the city's Campaign Finance Board yesterday slammed GOP candidate Michael Bloomberg, charging the billionaire's attacks on the public-finance program are inaccurate and politically foolish. The Rev. Joseph...

DUBYA'S DAY IN EUROPE

Day 3 of President Bush's First Official Trip to Europe: * Where he was yesterday: Goteborg, Sweden, for European Union summit. * Quote of the Day: "I believe the stronger...

VITAMIN C MAY LEAD TO 'BIG C': DOCS

Gulping massive doses of vitamin C to fight off colds and the flu may increase your risk of cancer. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania believe large quantities of the...

MADONNA FANS SET TO SWAP SEX FOR TIX

How's this for uber-sleazy? A German online magazine is offering Madonna fans a ticket for a sold-out concert in Berlin next week - in return for having sex with one...

LOOSE BRUCE, THE ENABLING DAD

SHE told her dad she was in Manhattan, studying for Regents exams. Instead, she took off for Queens to drink alcohol with friends. At a house her mother has forbade...

COME CLEAN, CONGRESSMAN --- OR YOU'LL BE WASHED UP

TO ERR is human, to forgive is divine, to tell a lie to the press is congenital idiocy. Particularly if you're a Democrat. We pray that Chandra Levy is holed...

FEDS' HERBAL REMEDY: BANISH CYBER 'CURES'

WASHINGTON - The feds yesterday cracked down on six Internet marketers who peddled herbs, shark cartilage and electric "zappers" to supposedly cure AIDS and cancer. The firms agreed to stop...

SCHOOL EXPELS PESTERING DAD

A persistent parent has been booted from his kid's school and threatened with jail for demanding that officials make it safer and better, parent leaders said yesterday. Unlike other parents,...

RUBY RIDGE G-MAN WON'T FACE TRIAL

The FBI sniper who fatally shot the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver won't be tried after all, an Idaho prosecutor said yesterday. Last week, a sharply divided federal appeals...

BLAME THE TESTS

ALBANY The last week of school was a rough one for the state's new, tougher graduation standards. * A group of upstate vocational-school district superintendents urged state education leaders to...

SHARED GRIEF AT TENANT-SLAY HEARING

First, they sobbed silently on opposite sides of the courtroom: Denise Jones because her ex-boyfriend had been brutally killed and dismembered, Bilaal Abdul Aziz because his son was accused of...

THAT'S RICH! POLS BARE A 'WEALTH' OF INCOME

WASHINGTON - Rep. Amo Houghton of New York, Sen. Jon Corzine from New Jersey and Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin are among the richest members of Congress, according to financial-disclosure...

ED. BILL OK'D AMID SCOUT FLAP

WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday OK'd a wide-ranging education bill, but not before agreeing to punish public schools that bar anti-gay Boy Scout troops from their buildings. The Boy Scout...

GOP BLASTS BUSH OVER VIEQUES HALT

President Bush is now facing a Republican rebellion over his order to halt Vieques combat training as key conservatives yesterday charged he "sold out" the military. That means critics on...

JUDI: MY GIRL IS OUT OF CONTROL

Mayor Giuliani's girlfriend is begging for help for her troubled 16-year-old daughter, afraid the teen - already anorexic and struggling in school - is spinning out of control right under...

HIS FORTUNES WERE SINKING

Kevin Ingram, the alleged money-launderer in an international arms smuggling scandal, is a Wall Street dynamo who rubbed shoulders with some of the financial world's most elite movers and shakers....

BIZ BIG BUSTED IN ARMS-SALE RING

A Wall Street hotshot and three other men have been busted in a spy-novel tale of arms smuggling and money laundering aimed at putting high-tech Stinger missiles in terrorists' hands....

'D'OH!' RISES: IT'S IN THE DICTIONARY

D'oh! It's official: the addictive catch-phrase made famous by Homer Simpson is now part of the English language. "D'oh!" has been included in the latest online edition of the Oxford...

L.I. WOMAN FOUND SLAIN

The bound body of a Bohemia woman was found yesterday near a Long Island Rail Road station a day after her mother reported her missing, police said. Deborah Banoff, 29,...

JUSTICE DEPT. MULLING DEAL FOR FBI 'SPY'

The Justice Department has told accused spy Robert Hanssen it will not seek to have him executed if he cooperates with authorities as part of a proposed plea deal in...

BUBBA EYES BIG BUCKS

For rent: former U.S president who'll do weddings, parties, golf games anything to pay back his $4 million legal debt. Not having much luck getting work in the United States,...

PROBE FINDS FIRE MENACE IN SCHOOLS

An investigation of city schools found fire hazards ranging from padlocked exit doors to faulty fire-alarm systems, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi said yesterday. Hevesi said his office audited 31 schools...

KILLER PRINCE'S FINAL WORDS TO GIRLFRIEND

Nepalese Crown Prince Dipendra uttered the words "we'll talk tomorrow" to his girlfriend before he put on combat fatigues and went on his killer rampage, gunning down the royal family,...

ILLEGAL VOTER VOTED DOWN

The state's highest court won't let one Brooklyn political gadfly drop his infamous title as the only person other than Susan B. Anthony to be convicted of illegal voting in...

JUSTICE WON'T RIDE SUBWAY

YANKEE NOTES It doesn't look like Joe Torre will have David Justice available for the Subway Series this weekend at Shea Stadium. Justice suffered a left groin injury last night...

SHANE CELEBRATES RETURN IN BIG WAY

After tearing his right ACL last July, it took Yankee outfielder Shane Spencer one long, painful year to return to the major leagues. It took him just one short, glorious...

AMAZIN'S TRUDGE HOME: ORIOLES END METS' MINI WIN STREAK

Orioles 5 Mets 2 BALTIMORE - They knew what they lost last night. They could've gone into the Subway Series with their first four-game winning streak and series sweep of...

OFFSHORE & INSHORE, ACTION IS SURE THING

BLUE and mako sharks taken this past week marked the beginning of the offshore season for metro area anglers, while those working inshore continue to find a never-ending supply of...

HEY, DOUG, ANALYZE THIS! COLLINS' INSIGHTS NOT TOO INSIGHTFUL

AS DOUG Collins, perhaps as early as tonight, wraps up his TV career for the foreseeable future and returns to coach an NBA team, his legacy as NBC's lead NBA...

FETISOV RUSHIN' INTO HOCKEY HALL

His pioneering role in hockey is now certified. Slava Fetisov was voted yesterday to become the first native Russian NHL player to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame. "This is...

WEIS MAKES POWER PLAY

French center Frederic Weis' response to the Knicks' recent invitation to join them at July's summer league was clear: Offer me a contract or trade my rights to a team...

SORRY, SORIANO, YOU'RE THE BAIT

THIS Subway Series feels like neither a review of last October nor a preview of the one to come. It feels like two plodding teams trying to make us remember...

IRWIN'S FOLLOWING BEAR'S FOOTPRINTS

TULSA - Hale Irwin meant no disrespect to Tiger Woods as much as he was paying tribute to Jack Nicklaus. Still, it sounded like a puncture in Woods' air of...

DWECK CALLS IT QUITS

Vaughn Dweck spent 11 years building Theodore Roosevelt's basketball program. Two years ago, the Roughriders won the PSAL 'B' title. Last season, they moved up to the 'A' Division, went...

TIGER HAS SOME CATCHING UP TO DO

TULSA - Tiger Woods was only halfway through the first-round of the 101st U.S. Open when play was suspended for the day because of a thunderstorm. But if his first...

GAME 5 MAY BE BROWN'S LAST IN PHILLY

FINALS NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But especially when Larry Brown is involved, you simply never know. So should the favored Lakers prevail tonight in Game...

OLD MAN IRWIN GIVES 'EM HALE: FIRES 3-UNDER PAR 67 AS TIGER STRUGGLES AT RAIN-SOAKED OPEN

TULSA - First, it was raining Hale in yesterday's opening round of the 101st U.S. Open. And then there was hail. Before the tornado warnings and violent electrical storm halted...

LAKERS LOCK THE DOOR ; GAME 5 JUST A FORMALITY - SIXERS ARE DONE

The NFL has a better chance of going back to Los Angeles than the 76ers do. PHILADELPHIA - While David Stern's law of the land decrees there must be a...

THE FAT LADY IS TUNING UP; PHILLY FACES THE IMPOSSIBLE

PHILADELPHIA - The Lakers are on the verge of a championship. The Sixers are on the brink of extinction. No matter how you look at it, the NBA Finals can...

UMPS' BOSS AGREES: HR WAS FOUL

YANK NOTES Right place. Wrong call. That was Ralph Nelson's assessment of Mark Smith's 12th-inning home run off Ramiro Mendoza to left field that lifted the Expos to a 2-1...

THIS BATTLE FOR BIG APPLE MAY END UP BEING REVIVAL MEETING

BALTIMORE - Maybe, just maybe, after 11 weeks of flat lines on their heart monitors and flat out lyin' about remaining in contention, the Mets finally are getting mad. But...

NICKLAUS JOINS SON'S GALLERY

OPEN NOTES TULSA - Jack Nicklaus was at the 101st U.S. Open yesterday, not as player, but as a spectator. Nicklaus was among the opening-day gallery, following his son Gary...

SHORT-HITTING ROBERTS MIGHT GO THE DISTANCE

TULSA - Loren Roberts is one of the shortest hitters on the PGA Tour, yet he tackled treacherous Southern Hills with much more ease than many of his bigger-hitting peers...

CONCERN OVER FONZIE'S BACK STILL IN PICTURE

MET NOTES BALTIMORE - Edgardo Alfonzo's mysterious back will be checked out by a specialist today. Yesterday, before the Mets' 5-2 loss to the Orioles, Alfonzo returned to New York...

BATTLE OF NY-NY IS STILL A THRILLA: YANKEES-METS WILL HAVE APPLE POPPIN'

RIGHT NOW, it seems only Bragging rights are at stake this weekend. Who was right about Darren? The Mets who released him or the Yankees who picked him up? At...

BATTLE OF NY - NY IS STILL A TRILLA: PIAZZA IGNORES ZIM JAB

BALTIMORE - Mike Piazza dismissed the latest verbal Subway Series shots. In Esquire, Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer unloaded on Piazza, criticizing the catcher for saying Roger Clemens threw at...

FRANCO: SUBWAY COULD BE SPRINGBOARD AGAIN

BALTIMORE - Maybe the Subway Series can be a springboard to turn around their season. This is what the Mets hope, especially after falling 5-2 to the Orioles last night...

BATTLE OF NY -NY IS STILL A THRILLA: SHEA, HEY, DEREK TIPS HIS CAP TO FANS

Bang the drum as loud as you can. But don't expect the three-game Subway Series that begins tonight at Shea Stadium to deliver anywhere near the same amount of juice...

KEISLER'S COMEBACK: YANK BATS ASSURE LEFTY'S FIRST VICTORY

Yankees 9 Expos 6 Provided with a second chance to show the Yankees he can offer back-of-the-rotation help, Randy Keisler walked the walk two months after he foolishly talked undiluted...

KEISLER'S COMEBACK : YANK BATS ASSURE LEFTY'S FIRST VICTORY

Yankees 9 Expos 6 When Randy Keisler was banished to the minors in April, he talked the talk, firing verbal grenades at Joe Torre and the Yankees for giving up...

SHINJO GIVES AMAZIN'S HOPE

BALTIMORE - When the Mets trailed the Orioles 6-0 Wednesday night, Todd Pratt looked up at the out of town scoreboard in Camden Yards and saw that the Phillies were...

KEISLER'S 2ND CHANCE: BOMBERS NEED LEFTY TO BOOST AILING STAFF

Looking to put together their first significant streak of the season, the Yankees handed the ball to Randy Keisler last night against the Expos on the eve of Subway Series...

UMPS' VP: HR WAS FOUL

YANKEE NOTES Right place. Wrong call. That was Ralph Nelson's assessment of Mark Smith's 12th-inning home run off Ramiro Mendoza to left field that lifted the Expos to a 2-1...

SHEA GHOSTS CAN'T HURT SHANE

It's a good thing Yankee left fielder Shane Spencer isn't superstitious, or he could see tonight's return to Shea as a bad omen. It was at Shea last July 9...