September 12, 1999
MAYBE IT'S THE WATER SUPPLY
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amWANT the inside track on the next hot media deal? Easy, just watch the movers and shakers entering and leaving Trump International Hotel & Towers. "That building is a hotbed...
NYSE AT THIRD AND LONG
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amARE you ready for some football? Are you ready for some stocks? Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long, former football greats who now call games for Fox Sports, have been tapped...
WE SHOULD ALL HAVE SUCH WORRIES
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amWARREN Buffett is managing money too well for his own good. According to postings to a popular chat room on the Motley Fool investment site, Buffett is in danger of...
HOW TO GET YOUR POCKET PICKED ONLINE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS is the most disturbing book of the year. No, really, it is. New York writer Douglas Rushkoff's "Coercion: Why We Listen To What 'They' Say" is the first post-web...
PHILLIPS TEES OFF ON A NEW COURSE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amFore! Robb Report owner Daniel Phillips - publisher to the rich and famous - just plunked down several million dollars to buy Luxury Golf Homes from magazine entrepreneur Alan Levine....
JETT'S AT CRUISING SPEED THE ROCKER IS ALSO A ROCK IMPRESARIO
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I see these guys today being lauded for coming up with these vanity label deals - but Joan's been doing it since 1980."KENNY LAGUNA, co-founder, Blackheart Everyone knows Joan Jett...
VERY BOLD COWARD
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe productions are wild and charming, totally uninhibited and refreshingly free of the drawing-room comedy style of acting and staging in which the plays were originally conceived. LONDON - Midway...
VINTAGE PICTURES FOR ALL THIS FALL
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amIf it's September, it must be time for the New York Film Festival, the premier film event which unspools Sept. 24-Oct. 10 at Lincoln Center. But that prestigious fest is...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE MONICA
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amSometimes one name is all you need - just ask Madonna. Or, for that matter, Monica, the teen singing sensation who burned up the Billboard R&B Singles chart with two...
TABLE HOPPER: STEAK AU POIVRE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amSteak au Poivre 1160 First Ave. (between 63rd and 64th streets) (212) 758-3518 Imagine having Tony Bennett as the house deejay. At Steak au Poivre, the crooner personally picked the...
ANTI-GAY PROTESTERS RUN INTO STONEWALL
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am"They were chanting anti-gay messages."WILLIAMSON A handful of anti-gay protesters lined up outside the historic Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village yesterday only to be drowned out by nearly 1,000 neighborhood...
HERE'S LOOKING AT Y2K!
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amIt's New York. It's Fashion Week. The frenzy that sweeps through Midtown twice a year is once more upon us, beginning today in large white tents in Bryant Park This...
BETSEY BREAKS THE MOLD: DESIGNER JOHNSON TO PUT REAL WOMEN ON THE RUNWAY
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Betsey Johnson's shows are always unusual. Last season she broke with everyone else and went with a vampy, Gothic look. Tomorrow's Spring 2000 fashion show will be no exception....
PREVIEW 2000: THE ULTIMATE FALL TV GUIDE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: NEW SEASON MUSTS "Action" "Once and Again" "Now and Again" "Roswell" "Freaks and Geeks" "Malcolm in the Middle" "Family Law" "Love & Money" "Wasteland" NEW SEASON BUSTS "Snoops" "Manchester...
MEALS & DEALS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amFor a quick fix, enjoy a refreshing veggie mix at Tossed, which, as its name suggests, is all about salads. The eatery's selection is far more comprehensive that that found...
SPEC-TACULAR
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amWhy shell out thousands of dollars for a big-screen TV with Surround Sound when a simple pair of shades can offer the same full-color, big-screen, high-fidelity sights and sounds? There's...
CANCER MAY DASH L.I. BISHOP CHANCES
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amBishop James McHugh was once considered a possible successor to John Cardinal O'Connor, but now the two men find themselves linked in another way - sickness. McHugh, the leader of...
FUND-RAISER FOR HERO COP'S FAMILY
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amNew York's Finest are banding together to help the widow and young sons of a Staten Island officer who died saving the lives of three cops in February - six...
EX-SPY: USSR SET BOMBS ; TO CRIPPLE APPLE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amCold War Soviet spies secretly buried explosives all over America and Europe, and had devised an elaborate system to knock out electrical power to all of New York state, an...
DEMS HOTTER THAN GOP TO GRAB PBS DONOR LISTS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amDemocratic groups aggressively pursued the donor lists of public television and radio stations, a watchdog says. Republicans didn't go after the lists in the same way, said Kenneth Konz, inspector...
A POOR LITTLE RICH KID :REVLON RON'S GIRL NEEDS LOVE, NOT LOOT
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amFOR the sake of Ronald Perelman, I hope in the 700 days of sharing a marital bed with Patricia Duff he didn't do too much sleeping. After 700 days with...
COPS ON ALERT FOR HOLIDAY HATE CRIMES
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amRosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and start of the 10 holiest days in the Jewish calendar, also has the NYPD on heightened alert in some neighborhoods because of recent...
VICTIM OF L.I. MOB ATTACK HAILS FOURTH ARREST
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am"Whatever we must do to make sure you get justice, we will do that."REV. AL SHARPTON A 24-year-old black man who was chased and beaten by a white mob at...
POTTER'S FIELD 'ERROR' DOESN'T SATISFY GRIEVING MOM
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am"So far as I can see the only 'new' technology [used to ID son's body] is my phone call."ARNITA FOWLERThe anguished mom of a college freshman missing for four years...
I DEFEND MY HOMELAND :WILLIAM MORALES TALKS TO THE POST
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am"It's the prisoners' decision, and I have to respect that."WILLIAM MORALES HAVANA. WILLIAM Morales says he is still a revolutionary, a rebel of conscience who will continue to struggle for...
LOTT SAYS NO DEAL ON TAX CUTS, BLASTS $PENDING
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott borrowed some of President Clinton's doomsday rhetoric and announced yesterday that there will be no deal on tax cuts because "we've been through...
ALWAYS RADICAL, CHIC ARE NOW INCOMPETENT
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amOH, those radical-chic afternoons aren't what they used to be. However well yesterday's "Day of Art" in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal went down elsewhere in the city (and across the...
WACO CORONER WANTS 2ND LOOK ; DID FBI BULLETS KILL DAVIDIANS?
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A Texas coroner says he wants to re-examine evidence in the deaths of 23 Branch Davidians to see if they were shot by government agents from outside the...
PRINCESS TRIED TO BUY BACK LOVE NOTES: PAL
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amA terrified Princess Diana reportedly offered ex-lover James Hewitt $200,000 for the steamy love letters she wrote him. Simone Simons, the princess' therapist and close friend, said Hewitt repeatedly fooled...
THE KING'S DAUGHTER HAS FOUND NEW PRINCE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amIt looks like Lisa Marie Presley has a new love in her life, almost three years after she told her husband Michael Jackson to "beat it." The 31-year-old daughter of...
FAST-TRACK TEST
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe train operator's test will be given to non-Transit Authority employees on Jan. 8. Candidates can obtain and fill out applications between Oct. 6th and 26th at the Department of...
DIALLO MOM IS LIVID OVER SUIT PLANNED WITHOUT HER
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amDream Team lawyers are almost done drafting a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city on behalf of the Amadou Diallo estate - over the furious objections of Diallo's mother, Kadiatou. "I...
MORE ENCEPHALITIS CASES AS CITY LAUNCHES BUG BLITZ
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amOfficials beefed up their arsenal in the war on mosquitoes yesterday, staying on course to coat the whole city with insecticide as the number of suspected encephalitis cases climbed to...
COPS: 4 SLAYINGS ARE 'QUIRK'
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amFour people were murdered - and 10 others shot or stabbed - during a nine-hour period that ended early yesterday, cops said. A police spokesman said the slayings, recorded from...
PUERTO RICANS CHEER 6 RETURNING FALNERS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amChanting, flag-waving supporters jubilantly welcomed six freed Puerto Rican nationalists when they arrived in San Juan yesterday - teary-eyed and overwhelmed with joy. "Bienvenidos a casa!" - "Welcome home!" -...
GOVERNMENT TIMELINE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am1773: In what became known as the Boston Tea Party, colonists dump tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation. 1776: The Declaration of Independence is approved by Congress, proclaiming...
FATHER OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amBorn into a wealthy Virginia family, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) studied law for five years and spent much of his young adulthood building his beloved home, Monticello. A man of great...
SOON WE'LL E-LECT CYBERPOLS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe U.S. federal government in the 21st century will look a whole lot like today's. That's the word from political prognosticators like Joseph Lepgold, professor of government at Georgetown University....
THOUGHTS TURN TO WHO FOLLOWS O'CONNOR
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe news that John Cardinal O'Connor, the dynamic leader of the city's 2.3 million Catholics, underwent surgery for a brain tumor, has renewed speculation about who will be the next...
T.A. OPEN TO 'OUTSIDE' MOTORMEN
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Transit Authority is looking for a few good men and women to keep its trains on track. For the first time ever, the TA is offering non-employees an opportunity...
BILL READY TO PUT U.S. FORCES INTO EAST TIMOR
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton offered today to provide U.S. personnel "in a limited way" for an international peacekeeping force in East Timor. Clinton, supported by U.N. Security Council members, demanded that a...
FIRST LADY COMES SECOND TO RUDY: POLL
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has nosed ahead of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in their likely race for the U.S. Senate, according to an exclusive Post poll. The survey by John Zogby...
BUFF WHO STOLE TRAIN HAS LOST DRIVING AMBITION
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amKERON THOMAS - Buff who stole train has lost driving ambition Keron Thomas - the Brooklyn high school kid who shocked the city by hijacking an A train six years...
HBO MUSCLES IN TO MAKE EMMYS A REAL PRIZE FIGHT
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amTonight's Emmy Awards show pits wiseguys against cops, doctors against lawyers and "Friends" against lovers - if that's what you call the serpentine stunners from "Sex and the City." But...
NEW YEAR BRINGING NEW HOPE FOR PEACE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.THE Jews of Israel are hopeful as they begin the Hebrew New Year this weekend - hopeful about peace. A Gallup Poll published in the daily Maariv found 56 percent...
GUNS AREN'T ONLY DANGER TO OFFICERS, AS 12 WITH HIV ATTEST
September 12, 1999 | 4:00am"We're telling them, 'Let someone else finish up the paperwork. Just head to the hospital for medication.'"POLICE CHIEF OF PERSONNEL MICHAEL MARKMAN Police work has long been associated with the...
RIGID DEVILS JUST KEEP LOU-SING
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amHockey is a game to be played. It is a life to be enjoyed. With the Devils, it is all business almost all of the time. With the Devils, it...
ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS MISFIRE BADLY AGAIN
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amT HE time has come for outdoors enthusiasts, both hunters and anglers, to put up or shut up. It's not animals rights activists we should be worrying about. (Ask not...
RED-ZONE WOES DOOM CRUSADERS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amIona Prep 28 Stepinac 7 Archbishop Stepinac got plenty of yards in yesterday's game against Iona Prep. Unfortunately, none of them came at the right time. "I guess we didn't...
STRUGGLING HIDEKI HAS RUN OUT OF GAS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amHE'S spent. He's cashed. He's played. There is no more fire in his joints and this is no time for Hideki Irabu to be starting baseball games, in a pennant...
AGASSI AND MARTIN SET UP ALL-AMERICAN FINAL
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThere was no all-Williams final on the women's side but there will be an all-American final to the men. And probably an All-American rout. Surging Andre Agassi easily survived what...
EUROPEAN IMPORT SET TO RULE GARDEN CITY
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amD AHLIA. Trillion. April Run. All Along. Miesque. Each of these champion U.S. turf fillies had something in common: They all flew here from France. Not every French filly who...
CHARGING BOSOX OUTSLUG BOMBERS TO PULL WITHIN 4½
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amLook deep in their eyes and you can't locate fear. Listen to them talk and you don't hear their hearts pounding a river of panic. Yet, the Yan-kees are smart...
MARTINEZ FOR MVP? IT'S OK WITH JOE
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amDerek Jeter is on everybody's MVP ballot and figures to finish in the top three of the voting. Yet, if Red Sox right-hander Pedro Martinez wins what promises to be...
PROUD DAD RIPS HINGIS, DAVENPORT
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amSmoking a Cuban victory cigar following Serena's U.S. Open title victory, Richard Williams was in rare form outside Ashe Stadium last night. He called the loser Martina Hingis "scared" and...
1950: CCNY WINS NIT AND NCAA TOURNAMENTS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amCC RIDERS They were oblivious to the history they were making, naive about their remarkable accomplishment. The 1950 CCNY basketball team completed a Hoop Dream of a season that no...
NO. 22: 1957 DODGERS AND GIANTS LEAVE NEW YORK : SAY IT AIN'T GO
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe one-block open cavity in Brooklyn's chest seems impossibly tiny today to have once held its heart. Bedford Street onto Sullivan, onto McKeever, onto Montgomery, back onto Bedford, can be...
DAD'S ERRORS SPOIL DAY: BIG-MOUTH RICHARD WILLIAMS UPSTAGES SERENA
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amMARTINA Hingis, her peerless shot-making ability muted by two sets of Serena Williams' powerful serve and devastating backhand, went into survival mode. Hingis went to the canned goods stocked on...
SISTER SLEDGEHAMMER: SERENA SLAYS MARTINA FOR 1ST WILLIAMS SLAM
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amSerena Williams did yesterday what her older sister Venus couldn't to do here two years ago at the U.S. Open: Beat Martina Hingis in the finals and then get an...
TRENT FACING $9M QUESTION AS BUCS' QB
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Any discussion of how good the Buccaneers are or are not usually contains a sentence that begins with "If Trent Dilfer ..." The enigmatic quarterback, whose improvementwas a...
THROW PRESEASON OUT THE WINDOW: BIG BLUE OFFENSE FACES RUGGED TEST IN TAMPA
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amTAMPA - He does not know any better, other than what he's heard. He has not experienced the numbing succession of botched plays, series and games or the seemingly endless...
NO WAY AMAZIN'S WOULD DEAL PIAZZA BACK TO LA
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - In a bizarre, fantasy-land appeal that acknowledges a big mistake, the Dodgers have twice asked the Mets if they would trade Mike Piazza back to them. Obviously,...
PIAZZA CLOSING IN ON HUNDLEY MARK FOR CATCHER HRS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES LOS ANGELES - It is one of the last things the Mets are thinking about right now, but after hitting his 35th home run last night, Mike Piazza...
IT'S A LONG, LONGHORN NIGHT - KNIGHTS CAN'T KEEP SIMMS OUT OF GAME
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amPISCATAWAY - Chris Simms has heard the name-calling and the ribbing before. He says it goes with being the son of a Super Bowl winning-quarterback. So he was expected it...
'NOLES HOLD ON TO TOP GA. TECH
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amTALLAHASSEE - This was no football game. This was a highlight reel on fast-forward, a video game gone haywire. But Florida State's Bobby Bowden has been in the business too...
POUND L.A., MOVE WITHIN 3 OF BRAVES
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amMets 6 Dodgers 2 LOS ANGELES - The Mets aren't sure whether to look up at the Braves or back at the Reds, but as long as they can look...
YANK-INDIAN RACE COULDA BEEN EPIC
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amHOW quickly we forget. How quickly we've been conditioned by Major League Baseball and a dutiful media to forget. While changing circumstances make duplication of baseball seasons over the last...
LET'S PAINT MVP PICTURE BY NUMBERS
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amCrunching the numbers in MVP races IMAGINE the outrage if a New York ballplayer carrying a first-place team had 50 more runs scored and a higher on-base percentage and slugging...
FOR GRAHAM & DILFER, IT'S TIME TO STAKE A CLAIM OR GRAB A CLIPBOARD
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amTAMPA - We know that a quarterback get too much of the credit when a team wins and too much blame when it loses. Performing in the face of such...
NOW THEY'RE THE HUNTED
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amJets 'start over' as AFC favorites Today they start over for real. "Start over" has been the Parcells' catch-word theme to this 1999 training game. There have been lectures, team...
JONES CAN'T WAIT FOR HIS FIRST HIT
September 12, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Marvin Jones likes to hit running backs, receivers and quarterbacks. He likes to hit them hard. He's a good guy, always smiling, always up for a good chat...