January 3, 1999
ELVIS LIVES IN TWO-PART BIOGRAPHY
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amELVIS lives. At least that's what Little, Brown predicts for its second volume of a two-part series on Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick that hits January 8 - which happens...
BANK STOCKS SHOULD BOUNCE BACK IN '99
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am"We believe that the banks under our coverage, on average, can post earnings-per-share growth in the low double digits."SALLY POPE DAVIS, Goldman Sachs FOR most of the eight-year bull-market run,...
SOME CYBER-SLANG HAS A VERY SHORT SHELF LIFE
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amE VERY industry has its own jargon, but this cyber-age seems to create and discard words more rapidly than any other. Perhaps because computers and the 'Net are becoming so...
WIN, PLACE AND SHOWS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amIT is that time of the year when critics, normally the most sensible of creatures, are suddenly seized with an irrational desire to make lists. Lemming-like, all across the country...
JERRY SPRINGER'S 'MR. TROUBLE'
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am'I'm never going anywhere on the police department undercover,'' says Steve Wilkos - unless he grows hair. Steve Wilkos, 34, has a tough job to do - forge order out...
MORE LEGAL EAGLES' PAY TOPPING 100G UNDER HYNES
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amCrime doesn't pay - unless you're one of the 80 prosecutors pulling down $100,000 or more a year in Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes' office. City records show that Hynes...
IRS AIMS AT EMPLOYEES WITH STICKY FINGERS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe IRS is overhauling its hiring practices and strengthening taxpayer-check security in the wake of a $4.6 million swindle by a city-based ring of Nigerian scam artists, The Post has...
FEDS: NIGERIAN RINGS SLICKEST YET
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amNigerian crime rings have brought a new level of sophistication to financial fraud, federal law-enforcement sources say. "They are very intelligent, creative, and they keep up with the latest technology,"...
TEEN TOME TARGETS PARENTS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amDo you kiss your kids in front of their friends? How about straightening their hair or tucking in their clothes in public? Dads, 'fess up. Do you get into arguments...
DEM BIGS EYE CHANGE TO CHARTER
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amTwo top New York City Democratic leaders say they're open to changing the mayoral line of succession, The Post has learned. Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman and Queens Democratic leader...
CITY RUNNING TOWARD YEAR 2000 CHAOS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe so-called Y2K problem could mean millennium mayhem.Ten city agencies are in danger of missing Year 2000 computer deadlines, threatening to wreak havoc with everything from keeping track of prisoners...
TA IMMUNE TO MILLENNIUM BUG
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe city subway system is so ancient that its millions of riders needn't worry about being left stranded on its tracks by a millennium computer bomb. The Transit Authority's signal...
AL SHARPTON GOES HOME
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amI N the first of his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on the 1997 Abner Louima case, Mike McAlary called Louima's tale of torture at the hands of cops ''a story that...
FUTURE LOOKS SOLID FOR DI'S 'ROCK' ; U.S. STARS VIE FOR HER EX-BUTLER
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amStars and celebs are tripping over one another to hire Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, who was recently canned from his job with the charity set up in memory...
M0RE LUGGAGE 0N PLANES ; BEING LEFT UP IN THE ERR ; CARRY-ON LIMITS WORSEN PROBLEM
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe skies are getting downright unfriendly for millions of airline passengers whose luggage is lost, stolen, mishandled or mangled every year. Consumer advocates say this traveler's nightmare is only getting...
PRISON UNION SHOCKED BY STUN-BELT CANCELLATION
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amPolitical correctness is keeping the city's court and correction officers from using controversial stun belts to manage violent prisoners, union officials angrily charge. Last fall, the state Correction Department had...
XMAS SCREW-UP OF CONTINENTAL PROPORTIONS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amC ONTINENTAL Airlines boasts about its on-time record. On time, hell - they got me to Detroit early. On Christmas day, yet. Only problem is, my luggage didn't get there...
2 BX. TEENS 'LASERED' US: COPS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amTwo teens were arrested in a Bronx apartment and charged with shining a laser pointer at two cops on the street, police said yesterday. Officer Thomas Nicolosi and Peter Shine,...
SEX-OBSESSED REPUBLICANS TILTING AT WINDMILLS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amBILL CLINTON is not the only one in need of a "renaissance." The Republican Party could do with a healthy dose of it, too. As we jump into another year...
RUDY'S ANTI-IMPEACH SPEECH ; ROCKS GOP LOVE-IN
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX - Mayor Giuliani stunned a room of hard-core GOP activists yesterday, arguing against presidential impeachment and telling conservative true believers to push policy over ideology. For most of the...
THE BIG AD-VENTURA'S ABOUT TO BEGIN IN MINN.
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am"We don't know what to expect, but everyone sees him as a breath of fresh air."JUANITA SORG,MINNESOTA RESIDENT ST. PAUL, Minn. - Jesse Ventura can't wait to officially become Minnesota...
PREZ PROPOSES A $100B HIKE IN MILITARY SPENDING
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -President Clinton yesterday proposed the biggest increase in military spending since the Reagan era, partly in an effort to show he isn't obsessing about his upcoming impeachment trial. White...
VICTIM IN NEW YEAR'S EVE CRASH DIED A HERO
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amOne of three friends killed in a senseless New Year's Eve crash performed an act of heroism with his dying breath - freeing his girlfriend as flames engulfed the car....
PILOT JUST PLANE LUCKY ; L.I. PAIR SURVIVE DRAMATIC CEMETERY CRASH
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amA lucky pilot and his teen-age passenger came within inches of death yesterday when their plane lost power and crashed in a Long Island cemetery - nestling between two rows...
MISSING WOMAN'S 'EX-LOVE' FACED OSTRACISM: REPORT
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe prime suspect in the disappearance of a pregnant Baruch college student faced banishment from his Hindu religious community if they found out he impregnated the woman, a new report...
U.S. MURDER RATE HITS 31-YEAR LOW
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe national murder rate has plummeted to its lowest level in three decades - and officials are predicting it will continue to plunge. New statistics released yesterday by the Justice...
KIN FUMING OVER WIFE'S FUNERAL PLANS FOR HUBBY
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amWHEN William Rivera was shot to death, his family thought they could at least determine his final resting place. Right now, they can't. His wife, Eveth Rivera, wants to have...
BIN LADEN HINTS HE HAD A ROLE IN AFRICA BLASTS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amA boastful Osama bin Laden has reportedly admitted he helped "instigate" the deadly twin U.S. embassy bombings in Africa that killed hundreds last summer. The multimillionaire Saudi exile's remarks to...
GOP VOWS TO K0 MARRIAGE TAX
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A key Republican vowed yesterday to make the end of the "marriage tax penalty" a top priority in the next Congress. Last year, the House passed a bill...
FAMILY RIPS FREEING OF KILLER IN 'LOVE TRIANGLE'
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe family of a slain Bronx man is outraged that his wife - who admitted killing him - has been set free without bail. Eveth Rivera says she shot William...
U.N. PLANE IS SHOT DOWN BY ANGOLA REBELS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amRebel forces in Angola shot down a United Nations chartered cargo plane yesterday - eight days after another U.N. plane crashed in the war zone, officials said. Anti-aircraft fire in...
BILL'S ALL ART WITH CHELSEA AT MUSEUM
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amSome visitors outside the National Gallery waved to the president, who waved back, but no one cheered, bystanders said. WASHINGTON - President Clinton took daughter Chelsea on a tour of...
FLYING HIGH OVER JUST BEING ALIVE
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amGeorge Noeth feels pretty lucky to be alive. The 19-year-old college freshman said he and his uncle were having trouble with the plane they were flying - but they never...
BILL'S 'SON' RISES TO THE TEST: DNA MAY PROVE PATERNITY BY PREZ
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am"It's the stained dress all over again. We've been here before."A SOURCE OF COLUMNIST MATT DRUDGE A 13-year-old Arkansas boy whose mom claims he was fathered during a paid sex...
THIS OLD TALE HAS A NOVEL RING
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe claims that President Clinton fathered a love child while he was Arkansas governor popped up long before Monica Lewinsky and the semen-stained blue dress. And a former prostitute's allegation...
GUN SCARE CAUSES MAJOR PLANE DELAYS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amHundreds of travelers were evacuated from the Delta terminal at La Guardia Airport last night after a security guard thought a passenger was trying to sneak a gun on a...
HOW TO KEEP YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThis is it, folks - the last chance of the 1900s to make your New Year's resolutions come true. And this time, you're going to make it. We've compiled a...
STAFF AT HOME WAS TRAINED TO TEST SPRINKLERS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThree workers at a Brooklyn senior residence where three firefighters died were certified to test the sprinkler system that didn't work during the lethal blaze, officials said yesterday. The news...
BLIZZARD KOS MIDWEST ; SLEET, RAIN, SNOW AND WINDS WHIP ROADS, RUNWAYS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amA massive snow storm lashed the Midwest yesterday with drifts up to 8 feet high, paralyzing Chicago, turning highways into treacherous bands of ice, canceling hundreds of flights and stranding...
TEEN HURT IN BUS ACCIDENT ON ICY GARDEN STATE P'KWY
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amA bus heading for an Atlantic City casino collided with several cars on the ice-slicked Garden State Parkway late last night, leaving a 13-year-old boy in critical condition. The accident...
GO NUTS FOR 'TWIGGY' AT BOAT SHOW
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amIF YOU can get past the excitement of seeing Twiggy the water-skiing squirrel at the New York National Boat Show this week at the Jacob Javits Center, you might find...
BASEBALL PLAYS CRYING GAME
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amWhining over have-not teams is a big waste THERE'S no crying in baseball. Yet, this offseason has been filled with a resounding chorus of "Take Me Out to the Bawl...
MEMO TO METS: GO AFTER RADKE
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amQUIZ - Six switch-hitters bettered 20 homers in 1998. Name them (answer below). *Word is the Twins have put their ace, Brad Radke, on the trade market as part of...
DEPLETED PATRIOTS STILL TALKIN' TOUGH
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - One team is playing its first home playoff game in franchise history and is welcoming its injured starting quarterback into the lineup. The other staggered into the playoffs...
SCARLET KNIGHTS HOPE TO BOUNCE BACK
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amPISCATAWAY - There are losses. And then there are those losses. So while Rutgers was trying to wipe out the memory of one of those gut-kicking defeats, the Scarlet Knights...
THE COLLISION COMES EARLIER
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - Same game, different time. This must be when the NFC starts getting serious about determining its Super Bowl representative, because the Packers and 49ers, as always, are...
MARVIN'S ACHIN' TO HELP ; SORE-KNEED JONES MISSES JETS' BIG RUN
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe long-awaited playoffs have finally arrived for the Jets, even when it looked like they never would. That means the time for the most intense hitting is here, too. And,...
TUNA: COLT LOSS TAUGHT US LESSON
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Bill Parcells called the team's loss in Indianapolis the game that changed the season most dramatically because it learned so much from it. It was the last time...
GOT THOSE TEAM USA BLUES ; LEETCH: NHL SHOULDN'T GO JUST FOR SHOW
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am"It isn't something we should be doing only for marketing purposes, or only if the games are televised live in prime-time."BRIAN LEETCH ST. LOUIS - Brian Leetch, who certainly would...
MORRISON POINTING TO ROOKIE SCORING TITLE
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amKANATA, Ont. - Off such a disappointing start, sitting tied for fourth among all rookie scorers seems something of a small miracle. Give Brendan Morrison this much. He is not...
EX-JETS SOAR IN DESERT ; MOORE, MURRELL LEAD CARDINAL REVIVAL
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am"I haven't been seeking other places to play. I anticipate being back next year and the rest of my career."ROB MOORE IRVING - If they could, they would probably congratulate...
THEY'VE COME A LONG WAY
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am'TIS The Season: The most significant sports story during the Christmas/New Year's period was not about college football bowl games nor NFL playoffs. It was about amateur basketball, specifically women's...
ISLES SCORE ... THEN LOSE AGAIN ; JONSSON GOAL ENDS DROUGHT AT 178:55
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Sharks 4 Islanders 3 The Islanders set a franchise record for scoring futility yesterday in the second period when they went 178:55 without a goal - a disgraceful span...
NO RESPECT AT ALL! NO. 1 VOLS CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE UNDERDOGS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amTEMPE, Ariz. - The Vols are seething. They picked up the papers on Dec. 6, the day after the Bowl Championship Series pairings were announced and did a double take:...
DOOMSDAY LOOMS FOR NBA SEASON
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amDrop-dead date at hand The holiday vacations for the respective negotiating heads in the NBA labor war are over. But the longest vacations in history for NBA players are only...
RANGERS & BLUES WEATHER STORM
January 3, 1999 | 5:00am"Our first objective is to get to .500. After that, we can begin to climb the ladder."JOHN MUCKLER ST. LOUIS - Neither freezing rain, nor snow, nor winter travel advisories...
IT'S NO MAGIC: FISH ; PREVENT MIRACLE ; DOLPHS HOLD ON TO KO BUFFALO
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Everybody was covered and so Doug Flutie waited in a pocket under attack on the play that would decide who survived. He felt danger; all good quarterbacks do....
MILBURY AX HIMSELF A QUESTION ; MAY HAND OFF REINS AS COACH TEMPORARILY
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amIs GM/coach Mike Milbury considering firing himself as head coach? It surely sounded that way following yesterday's 4-3 overtime loss to San Jose that sent the Islanders to their fourth...
IT'S NO MAGIS: FISH PREVENT MIRACLE
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The last remnants of Doug Flutie's magical season were broken pieces of cereal all the floor of the Miami Dolphins' locker room yesterday. Some had been stomped on,...
REED IT AND WEEP! DEION'S NO WILLIS AS 'BOYS GET BOUNCED
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amIRVING - Deion Sanders made the dramatic entrance that all great players make when they've been injured and the crowd is waiting in suspense to see if its hero will...
MARINO'S SUPE DREAM STILL ALIVE AFTER WIN
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - You wondered about some of this game's wild happenings and whether they were connected to Dan Marino, who walked gingerly amid the celebration inside the Dolphins' locker room...
THESE WILL POP IN TODAY'S SLOP
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHE forecast of overnight heavy rain is a public handicapper's curse. Making your picks a day in advance, do you put your faith in the weatherman and concentrate on horses...
THERE'S LIFE AFTER TUNA
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amAdrian shows he's doing just fine, thank you IRVING - If you worried that Adrian Murrell had been banished to the desert to die in oblivion, he would like his...
AN OWN GOAL? DEVILS KANATA BELIEVE IT
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amSenators 6 Devils 0 KANATA, Ont. - Riding an annoying goose-egg, Lyle Odelein wanted to score a goal in the worst way. He succeeded, in the worst way. The Devils'...
HOT JOHNNIES STORM BACK WITH ARTEST
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's 77 Rutgers 73 PISCATAWAY - Maybe it was an 11-day layoff. Maybe Rutgers was that much better at the start. Whatever, the St. John's Red Storm began the...
JUST CALL IT GATOR BOWL FLORIDA CRUSHES SORRY SYRACUSE
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amORANGE BOWL Florida 31 Syracuse 10 MIAMI - The starting quarterback lay on a three-wheel gurney, his left ankle propped up in an air cast, his face contorted in pain....
MACLEAN'S GOAL IS ALL RICHTER NEEDS
January 3, 1999 | 5:00amRangers1Blues0 ST. LOUIS - Just three days ago after the Rangers had defeated the Avalanche, John MacLean was talking about how sometimes in hockey, less is more. If that's the...