January 4, 1999
STEADY AS SHE GOES; GROWTH SIGNS STILL GOOD, DOUBTS ASIDE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amMost top Wall Street strategists expect corporate profits to decline next year, suggesting tough times ahead for U.S. stocks. Take, for example, Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist, Charles Clough. He...
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE YEAR IN MEDIA: STAY TUNED
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S hard to plan for the future - especially in the media biz. Who would have guessed last year that AT&T would announce a deal to acquire TCI (besides maybe...
TV TICKER
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amOff the air Each local TV station will be off the air for a few minutes tonight between the hours of 2 to 5 a.m. Why? It's all part of...
BETTER 'LATE' THAN NEVER ; BIG AL'S OFF THE BENCH - AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00am"Lateline" Wednesday at 9 on WNBC/Ch. 4 Returning this week is the show that is everything "Sports Night" would like to be and never will. Which is to say that...
IT'S TIME FOR STORES TO RESORT TO CRUISE WEAR
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amResort has long been most successful for big-name, big-dollar designers because their faithful clientele are the kind of women who have the extra cash to take mid-winter jaunts to Borneo...
MILLER'S TRAGEDY IS THE BIG DADDY OF FAMILY PLAYS'SALESMAN' TURNS 50
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amNEXT month, a new production, coming from Chicago, of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" will open on Broadway on the 50th anniversary - to the day - of its...
FANCIFUL FLICKS FOR '99
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWITH 1998 top 10 lists in mothballs, here are the top 10 movies I'd like to see in 1999:*"HURLYGURLY": Penny Marshall, Carrie Fisher and Rosie O'Donnell recline on Marshall's Hollywood...
CHIEF JUSTICE CARRIES AWESOME TRIAL BURDEN
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Shortly after the new Senate convenes on Jan. 6, William Rehnquist, chief justice of the Supreme Court, will be summoned to take a short solemn walk across the...
THE MESS THAT RUDY WON'T TOUCH
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amCould it be that Rudy Giuliani is afraid of the public-school establishment? R UDY Giuliani enters the sixth year of his remarkable mayoralty toting a record any term-limited pol with...
PA HIRES BIG-NAME LOBBYISTS IN 200G AIRPORT-RAIL PUSH
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amThe Port Authority is paying powerful lobbyists big bucks to sweet-talk the city into approving its controversial $1.5 billion rail link to JFK Airport. The PA tapped the megamillion-dollar lobbying...
ANDY WANTS CLINTON, GORE BLESSING TO RUN - EXCLUSIVE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amHOUSING Secretary Andrew Cuomo said yesterday he'll seek the approval of President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore before deciding to run for the Senate in New York. Cuomo told...
'BIRDBRAIN' MAY BE JESSE'S NEXT NICKNAME
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amHASTINGS, Minn. IT'S always such a letdown to discover the emperor has no clothes. It's even worse when you find out that the emperor is just Ross Perot with a...
GOP MYSTERY MAN GOES PUBLIC; GURU WASHES HANDS OF ELECTION DISASTER - EXCLUSIVE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Secretive Republican campaign guru Arthur Finkelstein - who hasn't talked publicly about politics in years - is trying to distance himself from the state GOP's November disaster at...
SURVIVOR OF CULKIN FIRE A CRUSADER
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amA NEAR-DEATH experience can transform anybody. It has transformed Jerome Rose, 60. The classical pianist survived the Dec. 23 high-rise fire at 124 W. 60th St. that started in a...
FATAL BOMBING IN PAKISTAN IS CLOSE CALL FOR COUNTRY'S PM
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amThe prime minister of Pakistan narrowly escaped death yesterday when an assassin's bomb destroyed a bridge on the road to his parents' house just before he reached it. Three people...
CLINTON'S WRITERS MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO BLOW IT
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amFOR those who think impeachment is a faulty fruit, let's lift our minds upward to something more lofty - the president's State of the Union address on Jan. 19. And...
BIN LADEN, SADDAM TEAM FOR TERROR; WILL TARGET U.S. AND BRIT INTERESTS: REPORT
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein is joining forces with Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden to launch a joint terror counterstrike against the United States and Britain, a new report says. Feeling the sting...
DIG THEY MUST IN BURIED MIDWEST
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amMidwesterners this morning are digging out from a killer blizzard that stranded thousands of travelers, kept schools closed, and killed dozens. Saturday's snowstorm was the worst to hit Chicago in...
'THE BODY' WILL KEEP HIS HEAD; HE'LL SKIP INAUGURAL ANTICS, DESPITE PLEDGE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amST. PAUL, MINN. - Let's get ready to goverrrrrrnnn! Jesse Ventura - former Navy SEAL, former pro wrestler, former talk-radio host and former suburban mayor - officially becomes Minnesota's 38th...
L.I. MOTORIST NEARLY DROWNS IN ; FLOODED UNDERPASS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00am"This wave came, and the car started floating like a boat. I started to panic."JAMIE FRISELL A terrified Long Island woman made a chilling escape from her fast-sinking automobile yesterday...
HILLARY TO MAKE MOVE ON N.Y. SENATE SEAT: DEM BIG
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Sometime next year, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will leave the White House and take up residency in New York - where she'll run for U.S. senator, a...
CLINTON PUSHES 1G TAX CREDIT TO HELP CARE FOR ELDERLY PARENTS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton wants Congress to approve a new $1,000 tax credit, making it easier for Americans to afford health-care costs for their elderly parents. The plan, which Clinton...
5 SLAIN IN MAFIA RUBOUT IN SICILY
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amMob gunmen blew away five men in a bloody massacre in Sicily over the weekend - marking a fearsome new battle for control of drug trafficking, authorities said. The victims...
STATE 0F DISUNI0N T0 DELAY PREZ TALK?; MORE POLS URGE BILL: POSTPONE ADDRESS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - More senators yesterday called on President Clinton to delay his Jan. 19 State of the Union Address if the pending impeachment trial lasts more than a week. Warning...
BIBI'S EX-AIDE FORMS NEW PARTY TO 'HELP' MENTOR
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - A key ally of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu launched a new political party yesterday to rally Russian-speaking immigrants around the embattled prime minister. But no one's sure if...
CITY COUNCIL AND RUDY CLASH ON SPRINKLERS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amIn the aftermath of two tragic blazes last month, Mayor Giuliani and the City Council will start off the new year with competing efforts to make fire sprinklers mandatory in...
VICTIM'S MOM: DWI SUSPECT A 'MURDERER'
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amChoking back tears yesterday, Tammy Mack said the driver who killed her son and two of his pals in a New Year's Eve crash should "rot in jail." "He should...
ICY RAINS PUT SKIDS ON TRAVEL; CAR CRASHES & PLANE DELAYS PLAGUE CITY
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWindswept rain and sleet socked the city yesterday, triggering massive chain-reaction pileups on ice-slicked and waterlogged roads, and causing huge headaches for air travelers. The 2.37 inches of rain that...
WOMAN, 32, IS PUSHED TO HER DEATH IN SUBWAY HORROR
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amA young woman was decapitated by the wheels of an onrushing subway train last night after she was knocked off the platform by a troubled man who "just had the...
FLASHBACK TO TERROR OF DAYS GONE BY
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amThe horrific slaying of a young woman in a Manhattan subway station yesterday is every rider's worst nightmare - but increasingly rare in the city's safer transit system. In June...
LIDDY SET TO QUIT AS RED CROSS PRESIDENT
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amElizabeth Dole, the magnetic wife of failed presidential candidate Bob Dole, is quitting the top post at the American Red Cross today - the first step on the road to...
'BIRDBRAIN' MAY BE JESSE'S NEW NAME
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Hastings, Minn. It's always such a letdown to discover the emperor has no clothes. It's even worse when you find out that the emperor is just Ross Perot with...
WOMAN KILLED IN SUBWAY NIGHTMARE; PUSHED FROM PLATFORM BY MAN WHO HAD 'URGE'
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amA young woman was decapitated by an onrushing subway train last night after she was shoved onto the tracks by a troubled man who "just had the urge to push...
VICTIM 'ALWAYS HAD A SMILE,' SAYS FRIEND
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amKendra Webdale loved life. The 32-year-old record-company receptionist, who was pushed to her death in a Midtown subway station yesterday, was a great listener who shared her joy with everyone,...
COPS: MAN OUT 200G IN CON
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amAn elderly Queens man was conned out of more than $200,000 by an unscrupulous pair of scam artists who told him he was investing in the restoration of Yankee Stadium,...
ATTACK BRINGS BACK HORROR MEMORIES FOR 1979 VICTIM
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amThe horrifying death of a Manhattan straphanger brought back frightening memories for Renee Katz, who lived a subway nightmare of her own nearly 20 years ago. "This is so horrible....
STRAPHANGERS' WORST FEAR
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amStraphangers were terrified last night by a woman's grisly death in front of an oncoming train - and said they travel underground fearful they may be the next victim pushed....
EVERY STRAPHANGER HAS IMAGINED TERROR
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amStraphangers were terrified last night by a woman being shoved to her death in front of an oncoming train - and said they travel underground fearful they may be the...
PERSISTENT YOUNG SOARS AS AN EAGLE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Niagara senior Alvin Young was a freshman at Bishop Loughlin, he was cut from the basketball team. When he tried out as a sophomore, he was cut again. The...
MILBURY'S STILL BEHIND BENCH
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amAlthough he continued to harshly heap blame on the head coach for the Islanders' massive 3-12-2 hemorrhage, GM/coach Mike Milbury said yesterday he doesn't plan to step aside temporarily from...
NEW BEAST OF THE EAST - IT'S IN THE CARDS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amTHE wild-card Cardinals may not make it any further in the NFC playoffs, their surprising season expected to come to a crashing halt Sunday against the Vikings in Minnesota. But...
KEITH IN SILENT MAJORITY ; JACKSON COULD'VE DONE MORE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amIN 1994, just after a team of NBA All-Stars preened, taunted and bullied their way to a gold medal at the World Championships in Toronto, Keith Jackson, speaking to a...
ROAD-WEARY BLUESHIRTS FINALLY HOME
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amSHARKSatRANGERSTonight7:30 - MSGWFAN (660 AM) The Rangers couldn't avoid a blizzard in the Midwest, but they managed to escape a tough four-game road trip with a 3-1-0 record before returning...
DEVS' TAMPER CLAIM WILL COST BLUES
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amIf it takes two to tamper, Scott Stevens says he wasn't dancing. Curiously, the Devils' captain also says the NHL never asked him about it. "The Blues never contacted me,...
IT'S ALL UP TO OUTZEN ; FSU HOPES REST WITH QB
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amTEMPE - Quarterback Marcus Outzen has been living a two-month drea, but the alarm clock will go off tonight. It will shatter Outzen's revelry and jar the Florida State Seminoles....
SIGNING HALEY PAID INSTANT DIVIDEND
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - No one was expecting anything sensational when Charles Haley was dusted off from retirement and signed this week to resuscitate the dormant 49ers pass rush. With one...
RE-PETE NOT CERTAIN
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Embattled Pete Carroll said yesterday he expects to return as coach of Bob Kraft's Patriots. "I plan on being a part of it next season," Carroll said after...
'MIQUE A CROSSOVER STAR
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amA FIRST-name star. That's what women's basketball needed all along and now the game has it in Chamique Holdsclaw, known affectionately as Chamique, or 'Mique for short. Kind of like...
IT'S CAT SCRATCH FEVER FOR JETS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amJags comin' to town after KO of Pats "Obviously the Jets are a very good football team and they're playing extremely well. But before you start on the Parcells-Coughlin deal...
JAGS' LAGEMAN HAPPY FOR JETS
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Jeff Lageman bled for the Jets in his six seasons in New York. When he finally escaped for new beginnings in Jacksonville after 61 losses, only 36 wins...
YOUNG'S LATE TD THROW IS SWEET REVENGE FOR SF
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - These may be aging former champions and they certainly showed signs of vulnerability yesterday as they met for the first time in an NFC wild card playoff...
BRUNELL PLAY CALL PROVES 'HANDY'
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amAFC NOTES JACKSONVILLE - The game turned on a simple hand signal and an intriguing showdown between two of the game's best players. It turned what had been a mild...
BRUNELL GETS BETTER ; SHAKES OFF RUST JUST IN TIME
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - Mark Brunell was rusty against the Patriots yesterday after missing three games with a high left ankle sprain, but expects to be closer to his old self Sunday...
YOUNG TD PASS WITH 0:03 TO GO STUNS FAVRE & CO.
January 4, 1999 | 5:00am"I had a rough day ... I didn't want to come into a big game and choke up. I knew I had to make a big play."49ER WR TERRELL OWENS...
EXPECT A PERFECT TENN.
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amWhy 12-0 Vols will win title Expect Vols to cop title TEMPE - Quarterback Marcus Outzen has been living a two-month dream, but the alarm clock will go off tonight....
IS HOLMGREN PACKIN' UP? ; GB COACH WON'T SAY, BUT REGGIE WHITE IS DONE
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - The questions had to be asked, and when they were, Mike Holmgren was ready. Was this Holmgren's final game as coach of the Packers? "Right now, I'm...
OFFICIALS NO-FUMBLE CALL LOOKS ALL WRONG
January 4, 1999 | 5:00amSAN FRANCISCO - It is only fitting that one of the most thrilling playoff games in memory came to an end not only with a dramatic touchdown pass and catch,...