March 28, 1999
COME RAIN OR SUN, HIS PORTFOLIO'S BUILT FOR THE LONG HAUL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amMost weather forecasters are satisfied if they're right with their predictions at least half of the time. But that's not good enough for the best-known and best-loved weatherman in the...
FIDELITY'S 10G 'FREE' FALL PASS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amWANNA go to the World Series? After it's ad campaign featuring Don Rickles and Lily Tomlin failed to attract new investors to its stable of mutual funds, Ned Johnson's Fidelity...
HOW TO SUCCEED A LEGEND ; BRIAN ROBERTS HAS PUT COMCAST OUT FRONT IN THE CABLE WARS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amIT's not always easy being the boss's son. Brian Roberts has been carefully scrutinized and dissected since he was handed the presidency of Comcast Corp. nine years ago by his...
MOUSE SITES PICK UP THE PIECES TO END DIS-ARRAY
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amTOMORROW the Mouse will finally get its house in order - at least on the web. After three years of being scattered throughout cyberspace, Disney is relaunching its website to...
MARK GOLIN'S WILD GOING AWAY PARTY
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amIT looks like S.I. Newhouse has bought off the entire top of the masthead from red-hot Maxim to jump start his faltering Details. Maxim's executive editor Bill Shapiro and creative...
CASHMAN BUTTS IN ON IRABU
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amCLEARWATER - With the regular season set to start in a little over a week, an out-of-focus Hideki Irabu has been hit over the head with a stern challenge. "I...
VIVA 'VIA DOLOROSA'
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amWhat a piece of work is theater!Yet at first, British playwright David Hare's ''Via Dolorosa,'' playing at the Booth Theater, doesn't seem much like a theatrical occasion. Hare wanders onto...
A PAY-FOR-WHO? CONCERT
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amB ACK in '73, when George Harrison, the sensitive Beatle, proposed the Concert for Bangladesh, there was a sense of novelty about drug-addled superstars coming together to save the world...
'MOD SQUAD' DOESN'T SERVE TIME
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amTHE word 'mod'' has fallen completely out of common usage and 'The Mod Squad'' stars Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III and Michael Cole have largely faded into obscurity. So the...
'DREAMLIFE' DREAM GAL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amIf you happened to be walking along East 30th Street around noon this past Tuesday, you might have wondered why a photographer was taking roll after roll of photos of...
FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- TO EARN MONEY FOR A SKI TRIP WITH FRIENDS, A TEEN-AGED FREDERIQUE VAN DER WAL POSED FOR A NEWSPAPER AD IN HER NATIVE HOLLAND . AND FROM THERE, HER...
VERY LONG-RANGE FORECAST: HOT!
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSizzling summers, warm winters and low precipitation - that's the forecast for the next 1,000 years. Over the next century, temperatures in the world will rise 2 to 6 degrees...
HER OT PAYCHECKS ARE TO DIE FOR
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amDeath never takes a holiday - and neither, apparently, does Esther Arrington, an investigator in the Medical Examiner's office who topped the city's overtime list last year. Arrington nearly doubled...
HE CAN'T USE LIFE SAVINGS TO SAVE HIS LIFE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSTANDING in the living room of a friend's Brooklyn apartment, Carlos Ramos lifts his shirt to show a clear tube that goes in and out of his stomach. The tube...
PARK WEST HS: 'PREP SCHOOL FOR PRISON' ; SEX, DRUGS & CRIME RAMPANT
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amPark West High is a school out of control - where sex, drugs and violence sabotage reading, writing and math. No one is safe within its walls - even the...
DIALLO: THE REAL AGENDA
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amWhat happened to Louima isn't horrific enough,say Sharpton and his backers, unless you can tie it directly to Giuliani. Same thing with Amadou Diallo. TO understand part of the reason...
DRUGSTORES $CORING IN BAD-MEDICINE SCAM
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSome New York pharmacies are selling dangerously tainted or out-of-date drugs to unsuspecting consumers - in a scam so worrisome that the city has hired 36 new investigators to deal...
TA UNVEILS ON-TIMELY REPORT
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amHere's a shocker for jaded rush-hour subway commuters: The Transit Authority says train delays are on the decline. The TA reported 17,092 fewer delays last year than in 1997 -...
VICTIM TOOK GREAT PAINS TO GET A TRANSFER
March 28, 1999 | 5:00am"I told him I was going to the bathroom. He smacked me in my face and put me in a chokehold."MICHAEL PADILLA Michael Padilla believes it was a blessing in...
JURY SELECTION IN LOUIMA CASE DUE TOMORROW ; PROCESS HAS CONTROVERSY OF ITS OWN
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amDefense lawyers say publicity surrounding the Diallo shooting may make it impossible to select an impartial jury in the Louima case. One of the nation's most shocking police-brutality cases moves...
ASSAULTED STUDENT'S FUTURE ON HOLD
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amLuz Colon did her best to stay out of trouble, but was brazenly attacked by a fellow student in a stairwell. Luz Colon had her future mapped out - a...
PREZ'S PLOYS COULDN'T STOP THIS FACEOFF
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amAfter months of failed diplomacy and growing violence in Kosovo, it all came down to two adversaries staring each other down at the "White Court" of Belgrade. Surrounded by Rembrandts...
BIG SECURITY CONCERN OVER REAL-LOOKING FAKE FED I.D.
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThe arrest of an armed Long Island man with a realistic U.S. Marshal's badge has authorities worried about the security at federal buildings, The Post has learned. "We want to...
TA 'CRACKS' DOWN ON BROKEN BUSES
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amRepairs are being made on more than 400 city buses - 10 percent of the fleet - after Transit Authority inspectors discovered cracks on their chassis and floors. The cracks...
HAUNTING REMINDER OF ; EUROPE'S PAST
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM.THE European Union's support for Palestinian statehood outraged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Europe should never be careless about the "security and destiny of Israel." "After all, it was...
LOAN-SHARK RAP FOR COP OVER THREATS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amA Brooklyn cop has been hit with loan-sharking charges, authorities said. Officer Robert Balioni three years ago loaned $10,000 to a man he knows, Steven Neyman, and recently began threatening...
IOC SEEKS KING DAVID ; STERN MIGHT BE NEXT OLYMPIC RINGMASTER
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSHOULD NATO be successful in bombing Juan Antonio Samaranch out of his stronghold as IOC president, David Stern may very well get first crack at the post. Sources say the...
LEGENDARY WINS NEWSMAN DIES
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amRadio journalist Doug Edelson, whose quarter-century of political reports for 1010 WINS made him a fixture of the New York news world through six mayors, died Friday. He was 75....
FOLKS FEAR THEY'LL PAY FOR MILO'S MADNESS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amPODGORICA, Yugoslavia W E are about six miles from this city's airport where the military side was banged out by three seaborne missiles at 12:45 yesterday morning. When rockets fall...
BACKING FOR BILL DROPS ALONG WITH MISSILES: POLL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton's approval ratings have dropped to 57 percent, 6 points below their level before the airstrikes were launched against Yugoslavia, Newsweek reports. Clinton's approval ratings once again...
COP STOPPED ON GUN BEEF
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amA controversial Brooklyn cop got into more hot water when he tried to smuggle two guns aboard an American Airlines jet bound for Haiti, authorities said yesterday. Officer Richard Chevalier...
JURY SAW DR. DEATH TAPE SEVERAL TIMES
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amJurors in Dr. Jack Kevorkian's trial watched his haunting death video over and over again before they convicted him of second-degree murder. The tape, which aired on "60 Minutes," showed...
COP-MOTORIST CRITICALLY HURT BY ROCK ; 4 KID SUSPECTS NABBED NEAR L.I. PARKWAY
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amAn NYPD housing sergeant suffered a fractured skull yesterday in a driver's nightmare - he was struck by a 6-pound rock tossed through his windshield by a teen along the...
UNIT WON'T BE THE SAME, FOR BETTER & WORSE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSAY goodbye to the NYPD's Street Crime Unit as we've known it. That's good news for some people: C. Virginia Fields. The thousands stopped and frisked for little, if any,...
KOSOVARS FLEE BURNED HOMES ; ALBANIANS REPORT ATROCITIES BY SERBS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThousands of panic-stricken ethnic Albanian refugees fled their burning villages in war-torn Kosovo yesterday amid more horrific reports of rape, torture and other bloody Serbian atrocities. The exodus came as...
RANGEL RIPS INTO RUDY SAYS 'AWKWARD' MAYOR AVOIDS MINORITY LEADERS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amRep. Charles Rangel said yesterday that Mayor Giuliani refused to meet with the city's black leaders for so long because he feels "awkward" and "embarrassed" around them. The cutting remarks...
YUGO HATREDS HIT HOME IN BIG APPLE ; KOSOVO 'PEACE' MARCH TURNS UGLY
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amHundreds of Serbs and Albanians clashed at a tense Midtown Manhattan demonstration planned as a peace protest yesterday. New Yorkers who came out to protest U.S. airstrikes in Kosovo were...
U.S. STEALTH ; JET DOWNED ; YUGOSLAVS SAY PILOT BAILED OUT
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amAn American radar-dodging stealth fighter was shot down near Belgrade yesterday - the first confirmed allied loss in the 4-day-old attack on Yugoslavia. Yugoslavian air defenses brought down the boomerang-shaped...
LACHLAN MURDOCH WEDS SUPERMODEL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amLachlan Murdoch - chairman and chief executive of News Limited, which owns The New York Post - walked down the aisle with a supermodel bride yesterday in Australia. Murdoch -...
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR IN REUNION WITH HER SAVIOR HUGS & TEARS FOR BRAVE ANGEL AFTER 55 YEARS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amIT took more than 55 years, but Sylvia Gutmann has finally mended her broken heart. The 59-year-old Holocaust survivor journeyed from New York to Paris last week to meet the...
DID SERBS CRACK THE SECRET OF STEALTH?
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThe loss of a Stealth fighter in Yugoslavia raises serious questions about the sophistication of Serbian military technology, and may spell disaster for U.S. air forces. It is unclear whether...
DARING RESCUE SAVES DOWNED U.S. FLIER ; ATROCITIES REPORTED AS KOSOVARS FLEE TORCHED VILLAGES
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThe pilot, who ejected from the doomed craft, was whisked out of the country by a highly trained commando team who snuck into Yugoslavia in sophisticated Blackhawk helicopters. Daring U.S....
A BAD CASE OF 'ATTITUDE' SPORTSCASTS FOLLOW SAME SORRY BLUEPRINT
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amEVERYONE in the sports TV business seems to be working off a copy of the same, vapid plan. Fox Sports News, for example, very much wants to compete with ESPN's...
N.Y. BLACK-BEAR HARVEST ON THE DECLINE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amHUNTERS harvested 597 black bears during New York's 1998 bear-hunting seasons, according to New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC's black-bear specialist, Lou Berchielli, said that while the...
A TRULY UNBELIEVABLE OFFER ; REPORTED BID BY BLUESHIRTS IS NEWS TO LEETCH
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amA RECENT report that "by all accounts," the Rangers last week offered Brian Leetch a multi-year contract worth more than $7 million per, most certainly did not include the most...
BASEBALL'S A GLOVE AFFAIR FOR ORDONEZ ; MET SS CAN NEVER HAVE ; TOO MANY MITTS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amRey Ordonez goes through gloves faster than the Mets go through third basemen. PORT ST. LUCIE - Rey Ordonez walked into the Mets' clubhouse the other day carrying a sideways...
DUKE'S MAGGETTE IS SOMEONE TO SHOUT ABOUT COREY, COREY HALLELUJAH!
March 28, 1999 | 5:00am"With respect to Grant Hill, [Maggette] might end up as the best player ever at Duke."TOM IZZO, MICHIGAN STATE COACH ST. PETERSBURG - The best player in the college nation...
TEAM IS CRUMBLING, BUT LINDGREN HAPPY TO BE ISLE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThat forward Mats Lindgren was thrilled about coming to the moribund Islanders means things must have been really lousy for him in Edmonton. And so it was for the 1993...
LIFE'S A BEACH FOR HUSKY FANS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Hours before they would trek to a sweet, historic place the state and the basketball team had been close enough to touch but never could reach, here,...
OUR ICEMAN HAS SHOT AT GREENLAND GLORY
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amUUMMANNAQ, Greenland - Last October, there was little question in my mind that I'd reached the pinnacle of my golfing existence when I was privileged to walk the hallowed grounds...
RODMAN-RAMBIS FEUD COULD BE BREWING
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amINGLEWOOD - Dennis The Menace is at it again. Dennis Rodman, rebounding fiend, sure would have made life with the Knicks more interesting. The loony Laker started in the team's...
IT'S GO TIME AT THE FORUM EWING, KNICKS AIM TO SHAQ-KLE LAKERS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amINGLEWOOD - This three-game western journey is not only a trip where the Knicks try to find themselves as a team and save Jeff Van Gundy's job in the process...
O'B & CALHOUN OLD FRIENDS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - The road to the Final Four was a long one for Ohio State and Connecticut. The Buckeyes beat St. John's 77-74 to win the South Regional in...
BOBBY V SIDESTEPS CUBA CONTROVERSY
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The Orioles beat the Mets 4-3 yesterday in a game that was moved up to noon so the O's could get to Havana, where they play...
NEW YORK TAKES A DAY OFF
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThere'll be no racing at Aqueduct or betting anywhere in New York today, Palm Sunday. Fans who want to play the $5 million Dubai World Cup, with Silver Charm defending...
THE QUESTIONS REMAIN ; GILMOUR SAYS DEVILS MAY STILL BE HAUNTED
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amDevils4 Blackhawks4 His own season over, the lone playoff answer the Devils had last spring isn't sure his old team has dispelled the lingering questions they'll carry into postseason this...
SALESIAN COLD SPELL ; FLIPS EAGLES
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amWoodmere63 Salesian43 GLENS FALLS - Even if he had worn his clown make-up, Jerry Power couldn't have hidden his frustration yesterday. The Salesian coach had just watched his Eagles shoot...
FRAN'S THE MAN FOR LOBOS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amTHIS is a bittersweet day for yours truly. Part of me is happy that Fran Fraschilla is a college basketball coach again. Another part wishes it was somewhere other than...
JUST NETS' LUCK: VAN HORN HOBBLED
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amThere's not a whole lot of swelling, but it's just really sore."KEITH VAN HORN At last, Keith Van Horn was getting comfortable in the Net offense. All the turmoil of...
ZIMMER LAYS CY BET ON CLEMENS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amCLEARWATER - Don Zimmer has been known to frequent a paramutuel window from time to time in order to kill the dead hours of summer. Armed with the proper informational...
AT LAST, FIGGA MAY CATCH ON
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amCLEARWATER - Don't tell Mike Figga that longshots can't make the winner's circle. Six years ago Figga was one summer away from looking for another line of work. He was...
POTOMAC FEVER CAPTURES CICADA
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amUndefeated Maryland shipper Potomac Fever survived a claim of foul and a long look from the stewards after drifting in the stretch yesterday to score her fourth straight daylight victory,...
GREAT EFFORT JUST ; ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amFlyers3 Rangers1 "We just didn't play our best. At this stage, we have to find a way to win games, no matter what it takes."MIKE RICHTER PHILADELPHIA - All of...
THIS REBUILDING IS GOING NOWHERE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - All the square pegs the Rangers have been trying to jam into round holes were pounded down yesterday by the bigger, stronger Flyers 3-1 yesterday, squashing whatever sliver...
NEIL ASKS COLIE TO SUSPEND LINDROS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Within seconds of the incident in which Eric Lindros responded to a Petr Nedved hook at the shoulders by bringing his stick back and slicing open three separate...
CHEMO, HEAT TAKE TOLL ON STRAW
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amCLEARWATER - Darryl Strawberry asked his chemotherapy-ravaged body to play left field under a blistering sun yesterday at Jack Russell Stadium and the 37-year-old unit wilted a bit. It was...
HUSKIES TURN OSU INTO MUSH ; NO.1 DUKE STANDS BETWEEN UCONN AND NCAA CROWN
March 28, 1999 | 5:00am"I didn't want to end my season on a low."UCONN'S RICHARD HAMILTON ST. PETERSBURG - The Connecticut Huskies walked off the court in Greensboro Coliseum last year - losers to...
JEFF, SPREE GO ONE-ON-ONE ; VAN, LATRELL HOLD PEACEFUL POW-WOW BEFORE LAKER TEST
March 28, 1999 | 5:00am- INGLEWOOD - It was time yesterday for a little coffee talk between Latrell Sprewell and Jeff Van Gundy. The two met for 15 minutes following Knicks practice at UCLA,...
CTK GIRLS RALLY IN 2ND HALF TO WIN 10TH STRAIGHT TITLE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amGLENS FALLS - Christ the King was staggered. Going for their 10th consecutive State Federation Tournament title yesterday, the Royals found themselves in a rare position at halftime: trailing by...
REDD, PENN CAN'T INK WIN
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Two men weren't good enough in the end. Because the two men who had brought Ohio State from the dregs and into a Final Four weren't good...
DOGGED UCONN EARNS FINAL DATE WITH NO. 1 DUKE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00am"I started dreaming about this when I first started coaching."JIM CALHOUN ST. PETERSBURG - The Connecticut Huskies walked off the court in Greensboro Coliseum last year - losers to North...
BUCKEYE GUARDS TURNED MORTAL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Two men weren't good enough in the end. Because the two men who had brought Ohio State from the dregs and into a Final Four weren't good...
MAGGETTE WORKS MAGIC OFF BENCH
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - The best player in the college nation comes off the bench, and he doesn't threaten to transfer or turn pro or bad mouth the coach. The only...
O'BRIEN'S 0-SO-BAD IN DUEL WITH CALHOUN
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSEMIFINAL NOTEBOOK ST. PETERSBURG - The streak goes on. With last night's 64-58 win, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun now has beaten Ohio State and former Boston College coach Jim O'Brien...
EX-SJU PLAYERS HELP HONOR CARNESECCA
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's will begin construction on renovating and expanding Alumni Hall and the new, state-of-the-art structure will be named in honor of former coach Lou Carnesecca, The Post has learned....
UCONN LEADERS REFUSE TO LOSE
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - The entire season, the national championship hopes and dreams of a team and a school and a state that had waited forever for this one shining Final...
WE'VE SEEN THE FUTURE AND, FRANKLY, IT STINKS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSenators7 Islanders3 The Coliseum crowd got its first taste of the post-fire-sale Islanders last night, and unless the fans enjoyed watching the home team allow a touchdown, it tasted like...
YET ANOTHER NIGHT OF PURE 'L' ; SEASON-HIGH .474 CAN'T SAVE NETS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amCavaliers109 Nets99 You know, the Nets keep this up and they're not going to get homecourt advantage in the playoffs. Once again, the Nets gave a spirited effort last night....
RICE ROARS TO REPEAT SALESIAN FALLS
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amGLENS FALLS - With five future Division I players in its starting lineup, and maybe a few eventual pros, Rice boiled this season with as much talent as any New...
AWESOME BRAND PUTS HIS STAMP ON GAME
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - Elton Brand sat on the Duke bench pleading with coach Mike Krzyzweski to put him back in the game. Coach K didn't flinch. Not when Michigan State's...
DUKE SWEATS ONE OUT BLUE DEVILS LOOK ORDINARY IN GAINING FINAL
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amSEMIFINALS Duke68 Mich. St.62 ST. PETERSBURG - The Godzilla of college hoops suddenly looked vulnerable, its weaknesses exposed for the world to see. What was it? Cryptonite? Garlic? A silver...
HUSKIES VS. DEVILS SHOULD BE CLASSIC
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - UConn-Duke. The national championship game America and CBS wanted. "Great team, it's gonna be a great game, they're up-tempo, they got great players, they've been No. 1,...
MAGIC HAILS JORDAN'S RETURN
March 28, 1999 | 5:00amST. PETERSBURG - The only bigger story in basketball than Duke and Connecticut yesterday was Michael Jordan's apparent return to the NBA as a 50-percent owner of the Hornets. Magic...