February 7, 1999
DEE DEE SHOPS WHITE HOUSE MEMOIR
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amPRESIDENT Clinton may be nearing the end of his impeachment trial in the Senate, but apparently books trying to cash in on his trials and tribulations are just beginning. Former...
COMEBACK COMING FOR VALUE STOCKS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amWITH the previously-hot technology stocks in a slump, investors are taking another look at value. While growth stocks continued to outperform value securities so far this year, the spread between...
ALLEY CATS ASK, 'HOW MANY PORTALS IS TOO MANY?'
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amONE of the more interesting debates at the the New York Media Association's annual "State of New York New Media" panel Thursday night at the Fashion Institute of Technology turned...
HELP FOR THE TAILED & AILED HOSPITAL TO OFFER PET CANCER CARE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amW HEN their pets developed cancer last year, New Yorkers Ann Israel and Susanne Brown had to go all the way to Boston for veterinary care. That's because no New...
'YOU'RE A GOOD MAN' ISN'T VERY GOOD
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amI knew Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown was my friend. And you are no Charlie Brown. I felt saying something like that to the glossy, Broadway-styled new version of "You're a...
A NEW SITCOM 'ABOUT NOTHING' STARTS THIS FALL - BUT THIS ONE IS SET IN LOS ANGELES. 'IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW' IS... SEINFELD IN LA LA LAND
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amABC's new sitcom, 'It's like, you know'' sounds suspi ciously familiar at first. The show revolves around a group of single, neurotic, 30-ish friends. The plots consist of . ....
ROCKY START TO KOSOVO TALKS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amABTRACT- KOSOVO PEACE TALKS WERE NEARLY NIXED YESTERDAY AFTER SERB FORCES STOPPED ALBANIAN REBELS FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY, SAYING THEY WOULD NOT NEGOTIATE WITH :TERRORRISTS"
N.Y. SENATE RACE WOULD GIVE HILLARY A RUN FOR HER MONEY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe Hillary Dream has top New York Democrats floating on air - but the reality of a Hillary Clinton Senate candidacy may not be as rosy. No doubt, she would...
SEXGATE'S DIRTY DOZEN ; OF BIG LOSERS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amHEREBY declare the impeachment show over. For 13 dreadful months, with the exception of Sen. Joe Lieberman and Rep. Peter King, we have endured a circus of zeroes and bozos,...
DYING LEADER PROVED TO BE FRIEND IN DEED
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amAMMAN, JORDAN. KING HUSSEIN has been Israel's greatest Arab friend for nearly 40 years. For most of that time, the friendship was secret. It was hush-hush because Hussein couldn't risk...
GOV & RUDY'S RIP-ROARIN' LADY AIDES; 'TOUGH' ONLY SCRATCHES THE SURFACE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amOne is feisty, foul-mouthed and dedicated to her boss - once shoving aside the aide of a political opponent while charging across the street to keep demonstrators at bay. The...
YOU'RE SICK; -AND THEY'RE TIRED ; HOSP HORROR STORIES FROM EXHAUSTED DOCS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amArea hospitals routinely violate the law and endanger patients by forcing medical interns and residents to work 36-hour shifts and 100-plus-hour weeks, a group of the doctors charge. A slew...
I CAN'T STOMACH HIS ARROGANCE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amI HAVE seen a 16-year-old girl near the Chinese border give birth to a baby in a paddy field and pick rice 10 hours later. Not long ago, I interviewed...
CORRECTION OFFICER CHARGED IN DEATH CRASH
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amA Rikers Island correction officer has been indicted on charges of murder and vehicular manslaughter for a New Year's Eve car crash that killed three Long Island students, sources told...
TOY FIRMS MORE THAN GAME FOR HIT; DESPERATE AT FAIR FOR NEXT BIG STAR
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amToy makers are always praying for the next Cabbage Patch Kid, Tickle Me Elmo or Mutant Ninja Turtle. But at this year's 96th American International Toy Fair, which opens tomorrow,...
NICOLE'S DEAD RINGER; O.J.'S NEW LADY A MIRROR IMAGE OF SLAIN WIFE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00am"There is nothing suspect in my mind ... or I wouldn't be dating him."CHRISTIE PRODY, O.J.'S GIRLFRIEND A blond, 23-year-old woman who looks a heck of lot like Nicole Brown...
KING'S BITE LEFT FIGHTER BROKE: SUIT
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amMike Tyson earned $200 million in the ring in the past decade - and now he says it's all gone. The broke boxer now owes millions to the IRS and...
WIFE INSISTS WORLD DOESN'T KNOW HER HUBBY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amMonica Tyson is no Robin Givens. A curvy, high-cheekboned beauty, the former Monica Turner looks the part of a champ's wife. But she's also a doctor from a solid middle-class...
SCAM COSTS VICTIM A FORTUNE: COPS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe woman scammed out of $500,000 by an Upper West Side fortune teller is virtually penniless and can't pay her rent, police said yesterday. Patricia Miller, 47 - known as...
WHY WERE SO MANY BULLETS FIRED?
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amIT IS easy to see why some people are calling the shooting death of Amadou Diallo by cops a "massacre." Surveying the vestibule of the two-story Bronx apartment building where...
KING HUSSEIN'S SON SWORN IN AS JORDAN LEADER
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amAMMAN, Jordan - Rule of the small desert kingdom of Jordan passed from father to son yesterday as Crown Prince Abdullah officially took over as head of state while King...
MATURE MONICA PLAYS TO FULL HOUSE ; EX-INTERN AT HEART OF SEXGATE BARES STORY VIA VIDEO
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky, looking composed, mature and maybe a tad sexy, spoke to the world yesterday for the first time, talking openly on videotape of her once-secret affair with...
VIDEO-VIXEN LEWINSKY MAKES REEL IMPRESSION ; EX-INTERN AT HEART OF SEXGATE BARES STORY VIA TAPE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky, looking composed, mature and maybe a tad sexy, spoke to the world yesterday for the first time, talking openly on videotape of her once-secret affair with...
JOURNALIST PINS 'SMEAR' TACTICS ON BLUMENTHAL
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A journalist who has called for President Clinton's impeachment touched off a new Sexgate firestorm yesterday by charging that presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal tried to smear Monica Lewinsky...
COPS WILLING TO TALK: LAWYER : DA PREPS FOR GRAND JURY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe cops who killed an unarmed immigrant in a flurry of 41 bullets are so confident their actions were justified, they're willing to testify before a grand jury, their lawyer...
COPS WILLING TO TALK : LAWYER ; DA PREPS FOR GRAND JURY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe cops who killed an unarmed immigrant in a flurry of 41 bullets are so confident their actions were justified, they're willing to testify before a grand jury, their lawyer...
IRON MIKE'S LAWYERS MULL PRISON APPEAL
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amMike Tyson traded in his $1,000 threads for a light-green jail jumpsuit and spent his first day in Cell Block 2 yesterday as his lawyers pondered an appeal of his...
NEW BUDGET AIRLINE IS EN ROUTE TO JFK
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amA new airline offering cut-rate fares to at least one upstate New York city and three other destinations will be coming to Kennedy Airport this summer. Tentatively called New Air,...
WOULD-BE WATCHERS TURNES OFF BY SAGA
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- SEXGATE SIREN MONICA LEWINSKY'S VIDEOTAPE DEPOSITION ON HER AFFAIR WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON WAS ANYTHING BUT MUST SEE TV FOR NEW YORKERS YESTERDAY.
RUDY & GEORGE AGREE... ON REAGAN
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT-- MAYOR GIULIANI YESTERDAY DOWNPLAYED HIS HOTTER-BY-THE-MINUTE FEUD WITH GOV. PATAKI, AS SOURCES SAID STATE REPUBLICAN OFFICALS ARE TRYING TO BROKER PEACE TALKS BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.
SOMTIMES MERCY IS AN ARBITRARY INJUSTICE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- POPE JOHN PAUL ll MADE A TELLING ARGUMENT - PERHAPS UNWITTINGLY- AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY DURING HIS RECENT TRIP TO ST.LOUIS. THE PONTIFF CONVINCED MISSOURI GOV. MEL CARNAHAN TO...
QUESTIONS ; FIVE FOR THE YANKEES
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- YOGI BERRA RETURNED TO THE YANKEE FAMILY THIS OFFSEASON, WHICH WAS JUST RIGHT. NEARLY EVERYONE ELSSE TAHT MATTERED DID AS WELL.
FRANCO: '99 METS WON'T MIRROR '92
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Mets spent, spent, spent during the winter for the right to throw big names on the marquee. Predictions of a strong season followed. The year? Take your pick, either...
BOOTSY GOT GOOD DEAL FROM FAMILY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00am"I had to put my hands on [the drug dealer] a little and tell him, 'That's my family you're messing with. That's my blood. And that's not for Bootsy.'" JOSEPH...
CHECKETTS WANTS IT ALL - SAYS RANGERS CAN CONTEND WHILE REBUILDING
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - The debate is no longer about whether the Rangers should sacrifice even a piece of their future for a potential upgrade for the moment. The team, admirable though...
FEBRUARY HEAT WAVE - TO SPREE, IMAGE ISN'T EVERYTHING; SPREWELL POLISHES UP TARNISHED IMAGE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00am"I may play aggressive, but when it comes to refereeing and coaching and things like that, I'm totally respectful with those guys." LATRELL SPREWELL Latrell Sprewell, celebrated coach choker, is...
BAD BLOOD RUNS DEEP
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amPAT Riley and the Heat come to the Garden today, renewing a rivalry that even Latrell Sprewell understands is not just another game. "These teams really don't like each other,"...
DUCKS UNLIMITED RAPS PREDATOR STUDY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amTHE NORTH American duck population isn't likely to achieve consistent, long term growth unless predators like the fox, raccoon and skunk are managed while hens are nesting. That's the conclusion...
DEVILS HOPE SIX-PACK CURES HOME WOES
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amTheir record-tying road winning streak was small solace last night when the Devils opened their longest homestand of the season last night when the Leafs came to town. Confronted with...
RANGERS FINDING MAC'S THE MAN
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amRANGERS at BRUINS Today 3:00 - Ch. 5 WEVD (1050 AM) BOSTON - He is tied for 18th among active NHL players with 379 career goals, got more than 40...
'D' QUESTIONS REMAIN ; BERARD, MCCABE WONDER WHERE ISLES ARE HEADED
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amDefensemen Bryan Berard and Bryan McCabe were back in the area this weekend, arriving as ex-Islanders with their new Canadian clubs. In interviews with The Post yesterday, each expressed bewilderment...
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - 2-GAME TRIP JUST WHAT STRUGGLING STORM NEED
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - Team turmoil picked the perfect time to get out of Dodge. After having lost two straight and three of their last four, the squabbling Red Storm took to...
KITTLES JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES ATLANTA - Kerry Kittles was definitely perky; any more so and he would have been working in a costume at Disney World. You might have thought that the...
ONLY TIME CAN HEAL NETS' ILLS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00am"I just wish we were healthy so I could see, 'Where are we with the best in the conference?'" JOHN CALIPARI ATLANTA - Entering last night's season opener here against...
SHEIKH NOMINATES 8 TO '99 TRIPLE CROWN
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amThey'll be serving falafel with the mint juleps at Churchill Downs this Kentucky Derby as Godolphin Stable, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum of Dubai, has nominated eight...
'FLAMINGO' HAS HER WAY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amFlamingo Way, a longshot despite winning two races in a row over the Aqueduct inner dirt track, made it three in a row yesterday with a game score in the...
THE TRUTH IS, MIKE'S WHERE HE BELONGS
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amMike Tyson is scared to death of having to live by the rules the rest of us have to follow as a matter of course. SO TODAY, not only is...
RICE NOT ON LAKER MENU - L.A. ALMOST DID DEAL FOR HORNETS' TOP GUN
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amGLEN RICE was so close to becoming a Laker last Monday for Elden Campbell and Eddie Jones that the Hornets prohibited B.J. Armstrong and J.R. Reid (throw-ins for salary-cap purposes)...
VAN HOPES FOR MORE VS. MIAMI; VAN TRIES TO GET KNICKS ALL FIRED UP TO PLAY HEAT
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy admitted yesterday he was one teed-off coach. The Knicks are 0-1 and the hated Heat will be staring them in the face today at the Garden in...
RANGERS FIND MAC'S THE MAN ; MACLEAN OPENS EYES WITH OFFENSIVE SURGE
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - He is tied for 18th among active NHL players with 379 career goals, got more than 40 three times, and has always been a go-to, big-game scorer. Always....
BERARD, MCCABE STILL WONDER WHY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amCANUCKS at ISLANDERS Today 2:00 - No TV WJWR (620 AM) Defensemen Bryan Berard and Bryan McCabe were back in the area this weekend, arriving as ex-Islanders with their new...
ST. JOHN'S STORMS OUT OF PITT - GRAY TAKES ADVANTAGE OF RARE CHANCE TO PLAY
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's 88 Pitt 60 PITTSBURGH - St. John's needed a game like this in the worst way. It needed not just to win, but to blister an opponent. It...
HAWKS BEAT UP NETS - IT'S WAR AS TEAMS MEET AGAIN TONIGHT
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amHawks 111 Nets 106 ATLANTA - Literally and figuratively, the Nets went down with a fight last night. Yes, this was a war and while none were killed there were...
DOUG DEAL LOOKS LIKE A DUD
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amMaple Leafs 3 Devils 2 This loss was the perfect illustration of the Devils' big problem, whether to deal more youth for another old star like Theo Fleury. Their popgun...
KNICKS SET TO RUMBLE WITH MIAMI
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amThere is no better and bitter way to tip-off a home season. The Knicks and the Heat get to duke it out at the Garden today, following last spring's angry...
MURDOCK, SAM JOIN WOUNDED
February 7, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES ATLANTA - If you thought the Nets were banged up before, get a look at them now. They entered their season-opener last night with Kerry Kittles on the...