January 22, 1999
SURPLUS! WHAT SURPLUS? THERE IS NO SURPLUS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE is no federal budget surplus. I'll say it again. There is no budget surplus. Before you even get to the issue of whether the "budget surplus" should be given...
M'SOFT JUDGE CHALLENGES A KEY WITNESS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"Why must you always assume that a monopolist maximizes the price?"JUDGE JACKSON WASHINGTON - The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial sent shockwaves throughout the courtroom yesterday when he bluntly...
WITHOUT A 'NET; ONLINE STOCKS TAKE PLUNGE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe formerly high-flying Internet stocks are sinking fast. As Wall Street professionals let their disdain for the ridiculously high valuations of most Internet stocks more public, individual investors who've been...
EVANGELIST ON BOARD ; ASHLEY TAPS PAT ROBERTSON
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amLaura Ashley may finally be looking for help in the right place - evangelist Pat Robertson is the floundering retailer's newest board member. Robertson's appointment to the non-executive position follows...
E-BROKER IS RESTRICTING SOME MARGIN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amInternet mania continues to worry the online brokerage industry, which has taken a series of steps to limit retail customers from actively trading highly volatile Internet stocks. Most recently, Waterhouse...
BAHRENBURG MOTORS OUT OF PETERSEN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amClaeys Bahrenburg is the first casualty of British publishing giant Emap's $1.5 billion takeover of Petersen Cos. Bahrenburg resigned as vice chairman of the publisher of such titles as Motor...
STOP THE MUSIC!; SEAGRAM TUNES OUT 500 AT MUSIC GROUP
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"There's nothing left of PolyGram. It's really sad."UNIVERSAL EMPLOYEE Call it the day the music died. Seagram chief Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his music boss Doug Morris fired some 500...
HIGH-TECH FIRM SUES SCHULHOF
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amPerennially unemployed mogul Mickey Schulhof was fired yesterday as chairman of a European Internet company for allegedly working as a consultant for and investing in its main rivals. Schulhof also...
ALAS, THIS IS NOT 'SPINAL TAP'
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amYOU don't have to be over 40 to enjoy "Still Crazy," but ... well, actually you do. This flaccid but pleasantly tolerable British comedy about the regrouping of a fictional...
SLEAZY SICKOS POPULATE GRITTY 'PARADISE'
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTO say director Larry Clark loves to romanticize the low life is like saying Woody Allen has a fondness for Manhattan. In ''Another Day in Paradise,'' his comparatively mild follow-up...
'OLYMPIC GLORY' OFFERS A RARE VIEW OF THE GAMES
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHE breathtaking large-format film ''Olympic Glory'' was shot at the 1997 Winter games in Nagano, Japan, and is essential viewing for Olympic buffs and winter sports fans. Seeing the world's...
DANCE REVIEW: MIXED 'VIBES' ABOUT TORONTO TROUPE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO is the third-largest theater town in the English-speaking world, and its dance activity is appropriately lively. And swinging around merrily in all that activity is the 31-year-old Toronto Dance...
'CHILDREN' IS JUST HEAVENLY
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amO NE wonderful movie after another comes out of Iran despite, or perhaps because of, the restrictions placed on artistic expression by the ruling Mullahs. Very often these films are...
GREAT SCOTS! A TOUCH OF THE POET
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amDOES it seem a wee bit late for a chorus of ''Auld Lang Syne''? Not to the Scots. Monday is Robert Burns' birthday, an occasion for eating, drinking and music...
ZAHN DROPS ANCHOR AT FOX
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am'Paula is one of the few women in the business who's been given the chance to anchor a dinnertime newscast' - Zahn's agent Richard Leibner FORMER CBS wakeup-show host Paula...
THEATER REVIEW: BEST FRIENDS YET
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am'HE said I've lost my sense of humor?'' screams Judd Hirsch in an incredulous rage. It's one of the classically funny moments in ''Art,'' the successful comedy of friendship by...
MCLAUGHLIN TALKS HIS WAY TO MSNBC PRIME TIME LINEUP
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amMOTOR-mouthed political pundit John McLaughlin will anchor a new nightly, prime-time show on MSNBC. MSNBC is expected to announce today that McLaughlin, host of "The McLaughlin Group," will host a...
NO OK FOR BRIT REVIVAL
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amACTORS Equity has rejected a bid to bring the entire British cast of the acclaimed Royal National Theater's revival of "Oklahoma!" to Broadway in the fall. The decision threatens to...
ONE YEAR OF MONICA TV
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Clinton scandal will be remembered as the story that killed network news. It demonstrated that there's simply nothing that the news divisions at ABC, CBS or NBC can do...
HATS OFF TO MATT - WHERE WOULD BILL BE WITHOUT HIM?
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTWELVE months later, Matt Drudge remains humble. "Sure, it's been a year on the high seas, but who knew this story would lead to tricks and treats?" said Drudge, who...
FOR LOACH, HAPPINESS IS A THING CALLED 'JOE'
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amDIRECTOR Ken Loach has a deserved reputation for put ting out well-made but gloomy movies about working-class life - gritty social realism interspersed with Marxist lectures - that do well...
STRUM & DUMBER
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am'SIX-String Samurai'' is a witless, lead-footed attempt to apply the Quentin Tarantino spirit to the post-apocalyptic 'Mad Max'' genre. Its student makers have sufficient technical skill to put together a...
LITTLE MOVIES WITH A LOTTA HEART
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am''PLAYING by Heart'' is an unfortunately generic title that doesn't begin to suggest the quirky pleasures in this minor, but observant and brilliantly acted comedy-drama. The original title, 'Dancing About...
SEEDS OF SOUTHERN ROCK
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amCatch her in the rind: Lucinda Williams is NOT out of her gourd LUCINDA WILLIAMS has never sold a lot of albums, but she has always been a critics' sweetheart....
PARKS BOSS, IN FOWL MOOD, VOWS: THEIR GOOSE IS COOKED!
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amVictory may be just a scarecrow away. The Parks Department is slowly gaining the upper hand in the wild goose chase in Sheep Meadow. "As we go into day two...
NOW SLAMS COMMISH FOR QUESTIONING ABUSE CLAIMS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amAdvocates for battered women yesterday called on a city commissioner to apologize for saying some women falsely claim to be domestic-abuse victims to get subsidized housing. "It is an understatement...
YUGOSLAVIA BLINKS AFTER U.S. ENVOY DEFIES EXPULSION ORDER
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe U.S. won a short war of nerves with Yugoslavia today when Belgrade backed down on its threat to expel a top American peace monitor who has become the key...
D'AMATO SAYS GOV. PATAKI MAY LAND GOP VEEP SLOT
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato yesterday predicted that Gov. Pataki won't seek the GOP nomination for president next year and instead will try to snare a vice presidential...
STERN HAS A BUDDING IDEA: TREES ALL OVER
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amYou've heard politicians promising a chicken in every pot, but how about a tree in every yard? That's what Parks Commissioner Henry Stern will pledge today in his annual State...
L.I. FRIENDLY'S HIT WITH BIAS SUIT
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTwo black men have filed a $12 million bias suit claiming a waitress at a Long Island Friendly's restaurant refused to serve them but waited on whites who arrived after...
BIZMAN NAMED TO ARTS POST
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday named a Lincoln Center supporter as the state's arts czar. Pataki named businessman Richard Schwartz to serve as chairman of the state Council on the...
RUDY INVITING MSG TO RUN CITY SPORTS COMPLEX
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday upped the ante in his West Side "sports corridor" plan - saying a private company like Cablevision should run the whole thing. Giuliani last week proposed building...
CNN TAKES HEAT FOR FARRAKHAN'S ANTI-RACISM SPOT
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe Anti-Defamation League has slammed CNN for using Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as a spokesman against racism. "It's like getting a thief to preach about how wrong stealing...
HEAD OF TEST-DRUG PANEL BACKED 'NO CONSENT' IN 1992
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - The Columbia University psychiatrist tapped to head the state task force on human experiments has long supported using patients incapable of consenting, The Post has learned. Dr. Herbert...
EXPERTS: $3 DIET RISK TO TODDLERS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe $3-a-day diet of junk food billionaire papa Ron Perelman is dishing out to his 4-year-old isn't healthy and might shorten her life, nutrition experts say. Perelman - in the...
CITY REAL-ESTATE VALUE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amReal estate here is on a roll. The city's Finance Department says the market value of taxable property jumped 6.17 percent, to $330.6 billion, over last year, according to preliminary...
PANHANDLE SCAMMER HASN'T GOT A LEG TO STAND ON: COPS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amA panhandler caught by a Post photographer scamming kindhearted folks by using crutches he doesn't need has been nabbed by cops who watched him pulling the same trick, authorities said....
MAYOR QUICKLY HOPS ON BOARD 2ND AVE. SUBWAY BANDWAGON
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday threw his political muscle behind building a Second Avenue subway line. "We're supporting a Manhattan East Side access program, namely a new Second Avenue subway line," Deputy...
22% OF PREGNANCIES ABORTED
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amMore than one out of every five pregnancies around the world end in abortion, a new study says. Of the estimated 210 million pregnancies worldwide each year, about 38 percent...
MAD DASH FROM TERROR LANDS KOSOVO CLAN IN BRONX ; ESCAPE AMID SERBIAN BOMBS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"Everyone was running in the streets. There were bombs exploding and sniper fire all around us."XHEVAT LULAJ THE frightening thud of mortar fire was the cue to run. Cradling his...
UNGRATEFUL EX SHOULD THANK HER LUCKY $TARS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amI WAS brought up to detest communism, and my parents did a pretty good job. But when you look at this Perelman-Duff sewer fight, it's little wonder people want to...
MORE 'CHANGE' COMING FOR METERS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amIf you're driving in Manhattan, you'd better load up on quarters - lots of them. As promised last year, the city has begun recalibrating parking meters to reduce the time...
L.I. JAIL GUARDS PROBED IN TWO BRUTAL BEATINGS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amOne Nassau County Jail inmate was beaten to death and a second critically hurt - allegedly at the hands of corrections officers at the Long Island lockup, officials said yesterday....
N0 W0RM IN THE APPLE AS KNICKS NIX R0DMAN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"What you're hearing is a wild rumor."KNICKS G.M. ERNIE GRUNFELD It looks like The Worm isn't coming to the Big Apple. The Knicks yesterday threw cold water on mounting speculation...
PREZ AND DEMS KEEP OPEN MIND ON GOP TAX-CUT PUSH
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton's spokesman yesterday left the door open a crack to tax cuts - and some key Democrats said they're willing to consider the Republican call for cutting...
'GRAND' DAD RON: I SPEND 1G A DAY ON MY DAUGHTER
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amRon Perelman denied he's New York's cheapest billionaire, testifying yesterday he spends "in excess of $1,000 a day" to support his 4-year-old daughter, Caleigh. A day earlier, the Revlon boss...
FRESHMAN CHUCK SPEAKING OUT LIKE A SENATE VETERAN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"Schumer didn't have to do this, but there are a lot of TV cameras over in the Senate. Maybe he couldn't resist."DEMOCRATIC AIDE WASHINGTON - In a clubhouse where seniority...
GOP STANDS PAT, DESPITE ROBERTSON
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Republican senators said yesterday they plan to go forward with the impeachment trial despite the OK from Pat Robertson to drop it. The Christian Coalition founder jolted his...
LIFE'S NOT ROSIE FOR TONY AWARDS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe O'Donnell resignation comes at a time when behind-the-scenes squabbling on Broadway is threatening to scuttle this year's awards altogether.Everything's not coming up Rosie at this year's Tony Awards. Citing...
DRUNK DRIVERS CAN KISS CARS GOODBYE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amDrunk drivers, beware! The NYPD is adopting the "revolutionary" new tactic of confiscating drunk drivers' vehicles when they are arrested. And the department will keep the cars when the drivers...
KEY SENATORS MAY TIP HANDS AS Q&A PART OF THE TRIAL BEGINS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The impeachment trial moves into a critical phase today as senators who have sat in silence finally get to ask questions - but only through Chief Supreme Court...
ACTRESS SUSAN STRASBERG LOSES BATTLE WITH CANCER ; ACTING COACH'S DAUGHTER WAS 60
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amSusan Strasberg - who stepped out of the shadow of her legendary acting-coach dad, Lee Strasberg, to become a first-rate theater and film star - died yesterday at the age...
BOARD OF ED SLAMMED FOR HIRING CREEPY SUBSTITUTES
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe Board of Education repeatedly hires sleazy substitute teachers who try to seduce students, give them booze and dope and even show them photos of mutilated bodies, an investigator charged...
YUSUF'S DAD MEETS WITH KILLER MOB'S RINGLEADER
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe father of Yusuf Hawkins yesterday met face-to-face with the ringleader of the mob that killed his son in a Bensonhurst racial attack - the first time they've seen each...
QUAYLE SAYS HE'S IN THE RUNNING FOR WHITE HOUSE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Vice President Dan Quayle said yesterday he wants to be America's next top potato. "I want to be president," Quayle, 51, said on CNN's "Larry King Live." He said...
JUST ANOTHER THUG IN CHECKETTS' GARDEN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amFIRST-TIME caller, long-time listener. I've got two points to make about this Latrell Sprewell thing, then I'm going to hang up and let you guys kick it around. 1.) Starting...
A GOOD TIME TO GO 'WILD'
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amSELDOM do all the pieces of the handicapping puzzle fall into place as well as they do for Wild Imagination in today's eighth race at Aqueduct. Post position. Pace. Speed...
FLU LEAVES DEVILS IN WEAKENED STATE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amINGLEWOOD - An ounce of prevention didn't help. While some of their shortcomings were being exposed by speedy teams in the past three weeks, the Devils were also being decimated...
OH, DEER: WINTER SPELLS TROUBLE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amAS snow depths increase and temperatures get colder in the upstate woodlands of New York, regional wildlife personnel prepare to venture into deer wintering areas. Recognizing the importance of deer...
SWAP SHOP IS OPEN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe fun's just begun in Jordan-less NBA FOR a while there I thought the NBA and the Players' Association were never going to complete the details of the new Collective...
BOOMER IS KEY BOMBER ; TORRE: WELLS MUST STAY GREAT IN '99
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amSince he has the same cast that copped a World Series title and won a staggering 125 games, Joe Torre doesn't know what the tone of his first spring training...
RANGERS NOW EYING ZYUZIN ; HOPE TO LAND SHARK D
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTheir assets no longer frozen in anticipation of a trade for Pavel Bure, the Rangers have expressed interest in constructing a deal for San Jose defenseman Andrei Zyuzin, The Post...
JOE: EXPECT PLATOON IN LEFT
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amA lot can happen between January and April, but if you are establishing a line as to how the Yankees' left field situation will shake out, install the entry of...
ARTEST'S AAU TEAM DARED TO BE GREAT
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTHEY weren't just the princes of the city. They were the kings of the country. The best AAU team possibly ever assembled. When the Riverside Church Hawks that played together...
WILLIS: GIVE SPREE A BREAK
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amThe bottom line is talent. And Latrell Sprewell has plenty of that. So a Hall of Fame player who came to symbolize the New York Knicks saw no problem with...
GILL SAYS HE'S ALL BUSINESS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amFor nearly seven months, Kendall Gill got a view of life beyond basketball. He trained. He invested. He saw a future in fitness centers. "When I get up in the...
JAYSON PROMISES TO SHARE THE WEALTH
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amA notorious fast driver, Jayson Williams was not taking any chances yesterday. At least not on his way to sign a $100.1 million contract yesterday at the Nets' practice facility...
MURDOCK'S IN RIGHT JERSEY
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amNot even a Net for a day, New Jersey native Eric Murdock has already heard from some old friends. "I got a couple requests for some season tickets," Murdock said...
BOTTOM-LINE BOSS ; CHECKETTS MAKES IT CLEAR: WINNING'S THE ONLY THING
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"At the final hour, I just said I really owe it to the fans of New York and the New York Knicks to try to do everything I can to...
GM MILBURY FIRES COACH MIKE: ISLES' BOSS RETREATS TO EXECUTIVE SUITES
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Mike Milbury hosted "a long lunch" at his home with Islanders president David Seldin, co-owners Steven Gluckstern and Ed Milstein Wednesday afternoon to discuss his future as head...
STARKS BIDS FANS FAREWELL WITH CLASS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amIn a classy move, John Starks faxed The Post a letter (left) with a simple goodbye message to the fans. Thank you. Yesterday, Starks' trade to Golden State became official....
JONES PLEADS GUILTY
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amFormer LIU star guard Charles Jones pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct yesterday and was sentenced to a conditional discharge with the understanding that he will perform 30 days of community...
KNICK BRASS SELLS OUT FOR SELLOUTS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amSprewell has an anger problem deeper than the scratches on Carlesimo's neck, maybe even deeper than the people who run the Knicks have sunk to sign a guy with a...
ISLES' NEW COACH NO-NONSENSE GUY
January 22, 1999 | 5:00am"He's a new voice."MIKE MILBURY PITTSBURGH - The Islanders have won a game for their new coach, but they haven't seen the real Bill Stewart. Not yet. Stewart, the AHL...
NETS ARE NOW HAPPY CAMPERS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amSomething had to be wrong. Here were throngs of media types. More importantly, here were players, talented players who can run up and down a court without falling down or...
HUNT BEGINS FOR SHARKS' ZYUZIN
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amTheir assets no longer frozen in anticipation of a trade for Pavel Bure, the Rangers have expressed interest in constructing a deal for San Jose defenseman Andrei Zyuzin, The Post...
BLUESHIRTS BROKEN AT THE BREAK
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amPanthers 2 Rangers 1 The wheels, such as they are, have fallen off. The Rangers head into the All-Star break a team desperately in need of rest, rejuvenation and reconstruction....
ISLES WIN ONE FOR NEW BOSS
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Hail to the new chief. The Islanders are a team again. Bill Stewart's Islanders. The Isles did so much right last night after doing so much wrong for...
DEVILS SURVIVE FORUM FINALE
January 22, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 3 Kings 2 INGLEWOOD - It goes down in the books as a success, this 2-1 California trip the Devils completed last night. But they shouldn't celebrate much. The...