June 19, 1999
CAVUTO TURNS DOWN MONEYLINE JOB
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- NEIL CAVUTO IS STAYING PUT AT THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL, DESPITE AN OVERTURE FROM CNN TO TAKE OVER ACHORING "MONEYLINE" NOW THAT LOU DOBBS IS GONE.
TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE, 'ARLISS' : HBO HIT WITH $15M LAWSUIT FOR 'PRICLESS' AD CAMPAIGN
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amMASTERCARD International has slapped HBO with a $15 million lawsuit for copying its "Priceless" ad campaign to promote the cable series "Arliss." Recent print ads for the comedy that appeared...
CH.4 EARLY-EARLY NEWS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amWNBC/Ch.4 is adding a half-hour to its early-morning newscast beginning in September. The show will begin at 5 a.m. instead of its 5:30 a.m. slot. While the prime-time audience for...
A 'NIGHT'MADE FORCRAWLING
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amIT takes a lot of chutzpah to get one of the world's supreme ballet companies literally crawling on its knees. But that was just what George Balanchine did to his...
SELF-HATING JEW, PART TWO
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am(=) THE international furor over screenwriter Frederic Raphael's forthcoming Stanley Kubrick memoir is turning into a real eye-opener. Steven Spielberg is among those friends of the late director shocked over...
WHAT'S NEW AT THE BRONX ZOO
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- THERE'S SOMETHING NEW AND IT'S UP AT THE ZOO - THE BRONX ZOO, WHICH IS ABOUT TO REVEAL AN AFRICAN RAINFOREST IN ALL ITS SPLENDOR. HERE'S A SNEAK PREVIEW...
L.I. CARJACKERS STAB HERO MOM
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amA ''valiant'' Long Island mother was stabbed in her driveway in broad daylight by two men trying to carjack her vehicle with her infant twins inside, police said. Dana Butler,...
CITY TEACHERS' COMMANDMENT: KEEP RELIGION OUT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amThou shalt not put the Ten Commandments in the classroom. That was the reaction of educators in the nation's largest school system, who turned thumbs down on the controversial congressional...
RETURNEES FIND WARMTH AMID RUINS OF HOME
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amCACONIK, Kosovo. WHEN Xheli Raka returned home with his wife and three children after two months in forced exile in Macedonia, he hardly recognized the ancient town where he'd spent...
KOSOVO REBELS RAPED SERB NUN, SAY FRENCH OFFICIALS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - Three days after NATO troops refused a mother superior's pleas for protection, Kosovar rebels looted her monastery and raped a young nun, officials said yesterday. French commandos and...
RUDY LOCKING HORNS AGAIN WITH OLD FOE AL D'AMATO
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amMAYOR Giuliani's tense on-again, off-again relationship with former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is about to hit a new low - maybe permanently. A senior-level administration source told The PostD'Amato is now...
GOV KNOTS A FED LOOPHOLE ON BACKGROUND CHECKS AT SHOW
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday ordered criminal-background checks on all gun buyers before they can take any firearms from today's huge gun show at the state convention center. Pataki's new...
HIZZONER TAKES SWING AT B'KLYN BEEP
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday fired a beanball at Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden - saying he needs his "head examined" for fighting plans for a minor league Mets team in Coney...
PRINCE IS ROYALLY HOOKED EDWARD BARES LOVE FOR SOPHIE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amPrince Edward has issued a stunning pronouncement - he's actually in love with the woman he'll marry today. Edward said his love for Sophie Rhys-Jones, 34, is "the most important...
WON'T BE EASY TO TRY OLD CASE: EXPERTS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amProsecutors will have a hard time convicting a Minnesota housewife of a 1970s radical plot to kill cops with pipe bombs, experts say. Kathleen Ann Soliah, 52, faces life in...
POST FAX POLL: SHE SHOULD DO TIME FOR CRIME
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amPost readers believe Kathleen Soliah should be tried - and convicted - on charges of planting pipe bombs under cop cars 25 years ago as a Symbionese Liberation Army member....
HOLOCAUST POLES SUE TO GET BACK THEIR LAND
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amPolish Holocaust survivors filed a mega-lawsuit in Brooklyn yesterday against Poland to win back billions of dollars of real estate stolen by the Nazis and never returned. "These people were...
PREZ SKIRTS LAW, KEEPS EMBASSY IN TEL AVIV
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton says he won't move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, required by a 1995 law he signed, because of a "national security"...
DEMOTED ENVIRO COP SUES TO KEEP JOB
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amEnvironmental groups say city officials demoted a top environmental-enforcement cop because they believe he gave them information critical of the Giuliani administration. Capt. Ron Gatto of the Department of Environmental...
MCCARTHY'S EMOTIONAL PLEA FALLS SHORT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Few saw Rep. Carolyn McCarthy speak on guns and violence in the wee hours of yesterday morning, but those who did were touched in a way that is...
NEW CLUE ENDS FAMILY'S 26-YEAR AGONY
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amTwenty-six years after a body washed ashore in Brooklyn, the determination of a son who barely remembers his dad and the work of a police tech have brought closure to...
FORTUNE TELLER DENIES POISONING 85-YR.-OLD HUBBY FOR HIS FORTUNE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"She fed him a cocktail of narcotic drugs, including opium, benzodiazepine, and barbiturates."ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY YOUMIN KIM Prosecutors predict a long jail sentence for a raven-haired Gypsy fortune teller who...
DEMS BLOW AWAY GUN-CONTROL BILL LEADERS: IT WAS FAR TOO WEAK
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House Democrats voted en masse yesterday to kill the gun-control bill rather than swallow a watered-down Republican version. Democrats said they'd rather take their case to the people...
SELIG WILL LET STRAW COME BACK IN AUGUST
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"We all love Darryl. Obviously, we want what's best for him. Whether we come together again remains to be seen."YANKEE MANAGER JOE TORRE Disgraced Yankee outfielder Darryl Strawberry could return...
RUSSIA GETS PEACE OF THE ACTION : MOSCOW CUTS DEAL FOR TROOPS TO STAY
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Having the Russians there ... will help us send a message."PRESIDENT CLINTON WASHINGTON - The United States agreed yesterday to let Russian soldiers help keep the peace in Kosovo alongside...
WOE, NEW YORK, WOE FANS PRAY FOR MIRACLE AS KNICKS LIMP BACK TO GARDEN
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amFor Knicks fans, the only good thing about last night's loss to the San Antonio Spurs is that the NBA Finals comes to New York Monday night. "We just got...
COPS NAB TEEN SLAY SUSPECT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amA Manhattan teen who escaped from a Bronx juvenile detention center after being charged with murder was recaptured yesterday living among the homeless in Washington Heights, cops said. Jesus Tolentino,...
PRINCE IS ROYALLY HOOKED : EDWARD BARES LOVE FOR SOPHIE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amPrince Edward has issued a stunning pronouncement - he's actually in love with the woman he'll marry today. Edward said his love for Sophie Rhys-Jones, 34, is "the most important...
THE 'PLEASURE' IS OURS ; HEMPSTEAD UPSET WOULD BE 'BEAUTIFUL'
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amBEAUTIFUL Pleasure, the 4-year-old Maudlin filly who runs in today's Grade 1, $250,000 Hempstead Handicap at Belmont Park, was anointed a ''budding superstar'' almost from the moment she first stepped...
SAVERESE SEES THE FUTURE: I'M READY
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amA fight fan recently stopped Lou Savarese in the street to offer some advice for tonight's 10-round heavyweight bout against Michael Grant. "The guy's telling me, 'You've got to move,...
LAMORIELLO IS POISED TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amAll he needs is a pith helmet. Lou Lamoriello is hunting big game - a franchise forward. While the GM was confirming yesterday that Dave Andreychuk and Bobby Carpenter will...
DUDLEY'S SHOTS ARE REALLY FOUL
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - You probably didn't know this, but for many years the record for most consecutive foul shots made by a high school player in the state of New...
DUDLEY INJURY PAINS KNICKS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The question was asked in earnest, but it was nearly impossible not to at the very least smile or at the very worst add your own punch...
DUNCAN ALWAYS A TALL ORDER KNICKS STICK WITH STRATEGY TO SLOW SPURS' SUPERSTAR
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Even if we double him he's still going to get 20-25 points."JEFF VAN GUNDY SAN ANTONIO - Throughout the playoffs, after each victory is magnified and each loss scrutinized, Jeff...
ZIGGY ABOUT READY TO ZAG TO L.A.
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Islanders won't officially become an expansion team until Monday at the earliest. The Ziggy Palffy-to-L.A. Kings prospects' deal is about 98 percent done but the teams appear reluctant to...
VENUS RISES WITH LIBERTY
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"Losing Rebecca was a big loss for us. But we have to play together as a team and I think that's my focus, trying to fit in."VENUS LACY Venus Lacy...
FRUSTRATED OLAZABAL HITS WALL ... AND PULLS OUT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Office pools all over the world took a major hit yesterday when two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal, a U.S. Open favorite this week, withdrew yesterday. Olazabal, frustrated...
DALY DROPS BACK TO EARTH WITH A THUD
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Thursday, John Daly flew up the leaderboard like a meteor. Yesterday, he fell back to earth. Nonetheless, Daly is compelling theater whether he shoots 65 or 85. It's...
SPURS FLAT ON BOARDS POPOVICH UNHAPPY WITH REBOUNDING
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The beating was thorough, complete, convincing. Well, almost. There was an area of Game 1 that had left Spurs coach Gregg Popovich far removed from satisfied. Rebounding....
SEASON'S SHORT, NOT SWEET LOCKOUT WILL TARNISH '99 NBA CHAMPION
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - At the end of these NBA Finals either the Knicks or the Spurs will be crowned champions and will order the coveted rings to symbolize their achievement....
HEY, BOSS, TAKE STRAW BACK: YOU NEED HIM
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amHE HAS worked his way through the Tampa legal system, copping a no-contest plea to cocaine possession in order to avoid being caught in the red tape that would have...
KNICKS ON VERGE OF GREAT DEFICIT : VAN SAYS 2ND LOSS WOULD BE TWO BAD
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The talk was of greatness before Game 2 last night of the NBA Finals. Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy was asked how his team planned to beat...
LINE ON COOK: NO RUNS AND NO NONSENSE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - The consensus in baseball is that you can't win the World Series without a good and deep bullpen. If that's the case, the Mets certainly are not...
LONGSHOT EXACTA A LITTLE LIGHT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amFans were up in arms after seeing the fifth-race payoffs. Supreme Saint, at 25-1, won the race with 15-1 Peaches N Nectars second and 5-1 Impulse Shopper in third. The...
AMAZIN'S SEND WATSON TO MARINERS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Allen Watson has two tickets to Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday. Anybody want them? Watson won't be able to use...
CONE: I'LL BE FIRST TO SHAKE HIS HAND
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amWith Major League Baseball expected to reinstate Darryl Strawberry on July 22, it's not out of the question that the troubled slugger could be back in Pinstripes by the middle...
PAYNE STILL FEELS STING OF U.S. FLOPS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I do feel good about the way I'm playing."PAYNE STEWART PINEHURST - Payne Stewart has been here before. He's seen this landscape, knows what the view is like. He's breathed...
A.J. PREPARED FOR BIG KNICK CHANGES
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - At first glance, there is a major potential mismatch if the Knicks employ the big backcourt of Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell. What happens with 5-foot-11 San...
KNICKS' BENCH GETTING SHORTER
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Jeff Van Gundy joked that he was looking to put Mirsad Turckan in uniform, considering Chris Dudley's sore right elbow. "I've never seen him play," Van Gundy...
STARS' HATCHER IS ALL HEART & A LOT OF GRIT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - The deepest heart in Texas might be Derian Hatcher's. He is 6-5, 225, has a reach that goes from Galveston to El Paso, making it tough to get...
DEREK'S BAT DROPS TO 3RD
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn what has become a never-ending quest to find a spark to his inconsistent lineup, Joe Torre moved Derek Jeter from second to third last night,against Angel lefty Chuck Finley...
BENITEZ IS A HUGE 'FAN' OF BIG MAC
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amMets6 Cardinals2 ST. LOUIS - The Mets went from working on a combined one-hit shutout to having Mark McGwire at the plate as the potential tying run in the eighth....
JETER'S BAT COMES ALIVE IN THREE-HOLE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn what has become a never-ending quest to find a spark to his inconsistent lineup, Joe Torre moved Derek Jeter from second to third last night against Angel lefty Chuck...
REBECCA'S NOT NEEDED
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amLiberty84 Sparks72 Rebecca Lobo and Patrick Ewing have something in common beside playing at the Garden: After both franchise players suffered season-ending injuries, their teams went on to win three...
PETTITE'S GEM STIFLES ANGELS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amYankees4 Angels1 Andy Pettitte was so good Joe Torre could have hit Willie Randolph second, Don Zimmer third, Chris Chambliss fourth, himself fifth and Jose Cardenal sixth last night against...
WATSON WHEELED TO M'S FOR SUZUKI
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Allen Watson has two tickets to Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday. Anybody want them? Watson won't be able to use...
JOHNSON, CHILDS COME UP EMPTY
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Is there a third scorer in the house? The Knicks did not make that plea over the public address system last night, but perhaps they should have...
MISFIRING KNICKS ARE STIFLED AGAIN TOWERS SCORE 41 AS SPURS GO UP 2-0
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 2 Spurs80 Knicks67 SAN ANTONIO - Like so many other joyful conventioneers who come here, the Knicks arrived in town six days ago believing they would begin the last...
DANDY ANDY PUTS HALO ON ANGELS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amNo matter how much money they make or how many fans scream their names, wear their jerseys and ask for their autographs, baseball players are human. They suffer through the...
THEY HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND IT IS THEM
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Now it comes down to a series of five one-game seasons, and the Knicks had better win four of them. They have lost twice in two games...
SPREE VOW: SPURS WON'T SWEEP US
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - There were brooms in the building before Game 1 and that ghastly word ringing in the ears of the Knicks as they trudged off the Alamodome court....
TIM HITS KNICKS WITH BOARDS DUNCAN'S BIG REBOUNDS GIVE SPURS HUGE LIFT
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amMarcus Camby was arguing the call with the officials when Sean Elliott's shot went awry. And that was all Tim Duncan needed. SAN ANTONIO - You lose focus, even for...
IT'S HOUSTON, SPREE & THE BASKET CASES
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - With four minutes left in the fourth quarter of a game he had played entirely in fifth gear, Latrell Sprewell crashed into the heart of the Spurs...
SHORT SPURT KEY FOR SPURS FOUR QUICK POINTS START KNICK SWOON
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Maybe, just maybe, the Knicks had something here. Maybe, just maybe, they were going to achieve their goal of a split at the Alamodome and be able...
SHOOT, LJ JUST CAN'T GET IT DONE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Pain wasn't the problem for Larry Johnson. His shooting was. The Knick power forward played through the aftereffects of a knee sprain again last night in Game...
ELIE: KNICKS NEED ANOTHER SCORER
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - They combined for 45 of the Knicks' 67 points last night, or 67 percent of the team's total. And that came after Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell...
CAMBY COMES UP SHORT IN TEXAS
June 19, 1999 | 4:00am"The scoring's not there, but the effort's there. I'm on the glass, on the floor, just trying to do the little things to help my team win."MARCUS CAMBY SAN ANTONIO...
AN ALMOST POINTLESS EXERCISE
June 19, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - It was a game entering the fourth quarter. Honest. But San Antonio, which suffered through it's own offensive struggles, turned the Knick offense into an unsolvable jigsaw...