January 12, 1999
PROVEN TRACK RECORD LEADS BACK TO FIDELITY FUNDS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amFOR the Jets and Fidelity Investments, it's comeback time. Gang Green and the mutual fund company are on a similar path to victory. The Jets are headed for the AFC...
FEDS: FRIENDS PAY LESS FOR WINDOWS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. charges friendly computer makers less for its Windows operating software than it does less-friendly PC makers, which are penalized with higher charges for the same product,...
STREET FEELS FARLEY READY TO UNLOAD FTL
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amFlamboyant Fruit of the Loom CEO Bill Farley may finally be ready to shed his ailing underwear company. From Wall Street to Seventh Avenue, there's a new round of speculation...
EXECUTIVE EDITOR IS TOSSED AT GEORGE
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amTURNOVER AT TOP Dis-gorging editors.Elizabeth "Biz" Mitchell quit as No. 2 editor at John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine. The departure comes less than a week after Media Ink reported...
PUBLIC ENEMY ON ITS OWN AFTER SPLIT-UP WITH DEF JAM
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amLegendary rap band Public Enemy is venturing into cyberspace solo. The band, featuring Chuck D and Flavor Flav, has put a new single excusively on the web after severing ties...
OVITZ REELS IN POLLACK: DIRECTOR SIGNS WITH SUPER AGENCY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amDirector Sidney Pollack is the latest Hollywood powerhouse to sign with Artists Management Group, the new super talent agency that is being assembled by Michael Ovitz and partners, The Post...
BLUSH IS OFF REVLON; FIRES UP TO 1,200, TAKES $80M CHARGE
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amRevlon has blamed weak economies in Asia, Latin America and Russia for some of its problems. Billionaire Ron Perelman is blotting out up to 1,200 jobs at cosmetics giant Revlon....
A FEW GOOD MEN & WOMEN COME TO THEIR SENSES
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amONE cheer for the U.S. Senate. Even if their 100-0 compromise for a bipartisan impeachment process falls apart over calling live witnesses, at least they did something useful after a...
U.S. BOMBS IRAQ MISSILE SITES AS KUWAIT GOES ON FULL ALERT
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amDefense Secretary William Cohen said Washington was ready to act militarily if Iraq threatened Kuwait.U.S. jets bombed two Iraqi air-defense batteries and Kuwait put part of its military on full...
ONE CENT STAMP ACT DRAWING SRO CROWDS TO POS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amLast-minute buyers were going postal yesterday waiting in massive lines for the new 33-cent stamps. "It's outrageous, but I need the stamps," Josie Almont complained at the Rockefeller Center post...
GIULIANI TO GARDENERS: WEED IT AND WEEP
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amBig Apple gardeners may soon have to find a new place to grow their rutabagas if a plan to rescind community-garden rights is implemented. The Giuliani administration is auctioning off...
RABBI INDICTED IN WIFE'S SLAY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe philandering founder of one of the largest temple congregations in southern New Jersey - charged last September with plotting his wife's murder - was indicted yesterday for the 1994...
BILL WOULD PROTECT ABORTION WORKERS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - The state's top Democrats unveiled legislation yesterday to safeguard access to abortion clinics and to protect doctors in the wake of the shocking sniper killing of a Buffalo...
RESTAURANTS DOING BETTER SINCE SMOKE CLEARED: STUDY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00am"Our data indicate that the restaurant and hotel business in New York City is alive and well and smoke-free."ANDREW HYLAND, ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE The city's 4-year-old anti-smoking law has...
TOUGH NEW PERELMAN JUDGE: DO IT MY WAY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00am"I don't know why I've been blessed with this case, but it will go forward by my rules."JUSTICE FRANKLIN WEISSBERGThe Ron Perelman-Patricia Duff custody fight got knocked around all over...
CLINTON, ARGENTINE PREZ SKIP THE PRESS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00am"[Clinton's] lawyers probably want him to stay quiet."DEMOCRATIC STRATEGISTWASHINGTON - President Clinton - ducking the press amid impeachment proceedings - canceled plans yesterday for a press conference with Argentine President...
RUDY VOWS NO TICKER-TAPE DELAY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amIf the Jets pull off a Super victory, Canyon of Heroes, here they come - for the first time ever. Mayor Giuliani yesterday said the city would gladly throw a...
GOP: BILL STAINS AMERICAN HONOR ; HIS LAWYERS CALL CHARGES 'A MYTH'
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - House prosecutors accused President Clinton of "undermining" the presidency yesterday, as his lawyers denied he lied, and demanded the Senate dismiss the impeachment case. Three days before the...
COURT STRIPS SEX CLUBS OF LAST LEGAL THREADS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amA failed plea for porn pushers / Editorial: Page 32 A city law aimed at ridding neighborhoods of strip clubs and porn shops cleared its final hurdle yesterday when the...
A TEST ONLY TELLS YOU WHERE YOU ARE - SO RELAX
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amI would overcome my idiocy and sell Old Spice after-shave lotion to gangsters. BOBBY "Pretty Boy" Walker was an extremely good student and was thinking quite soundly until the machine...
BELEAGUERED BIBI VOWS TO LOOSEN GRIP ON ECONOMY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amMeanwhile, former Prime Minister Shimon Peres startled many Israelis by endorsing Palestinian statehood. JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to ease controls on Israel's economy yesterday - as his...
VAN DRIVER ARRESTED IN FATAL CRASH
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe tragic crash ignited a tug-of-war between Giuliani and the City Council over van licensing.The 18-year-old "dollar" van driver involved in a fatal Brooklyn crash was arrested yesterday for illegally...
DAD AND SON TO COP PLEA IN 'JR.' CASE
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amA father-and-son team charged in the John A. "Junior" Gotti case are expected to plead guilty to racketeering, gambling and extortion charges in White Plains federal court today, sources told...
'PUFFY' SHARES RAP IN STAMPEDE
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amRap artists Sean "Puffy" Combs and Heavy D are equally responsible with City College for the 1991 stampede at a charity basketball game that killed nine and injured dozens more,...
IT'S SHEAR MADNESS! 'KRAMER' HEADS INTO A BRAND-NEW ROLE
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amHere's "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards as you've never seen him before - with his trademark Kramer hairdo gone, gone, gone! Richards shaved it all off to play Micawber in a...
WHY VINNY'S DAD WON'T SEE GAME
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amVinny Testaverde's father says he won't be able to watch this Sunday's crucial Jets-Broncos championship game - because it could kill him. Sixty-six-year-old Al Testaverde's heart condition prevents him from...
COURT ALLOWS LESSER PLEA IN BRUTAL SLAY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amA court decision throwing out a section of the death-penalty law yesterday allowed a killer to plead guilty to second-degree murder in a grisly slaying. Michael Hale - who bludgeoned...
SPORTING-GOODS SALES SKYROCKET WITH SOARING JETS ; VINNY AND KEYSHAWN JERSEYS HOT
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amJets jerseys are flying off the shelves as excited fans prepare for Sunday's battle with Denver. "The stuff is blowing out of the store," said Carlton Murray, sales manager at...
DYING SCORES BOUNCER TRIED TO I.D. KILLER: COP
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amThe mortally wounded young bouncer shot in a Scores double-murder struggled to tell a cop the killer's name, but was choking on his blood, the cop testified yesterday. "I asked...
'OLD GLORY' PUTS ITS BETS ON NEW JETS ; GANG GREEN CAN GO ALL THE WAY, '69 CHAMPS SAY
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amThis team can go all the way. That's the feeling of the fabled 1968 Jets - the only Jet team to win the Super Bowl when they beat the Baltimore...
FOURTH-GRADERS SET TO TACKLE PART ONE OF READING EXAM
January 12, 1999 | 5:00am"I'd bet anything on the fourth-graders of the city of New York that you'll do just fine."SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR RUDY CREW Fourth-graders were revved up for the new state reading test...
PILOT DIES IN N.J. CRASH
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amA fiery crash killed the pilot of a small two-engine airplane that slammed smack into the coupling between two railroad cars in a Kearny, N.J., Conrail yard, officials said. An...
DENVER-BOUND FANS: WE'RE TAKING OFF ON MILE-HIGH MISSION
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amFrenzied fans last night urged fellow fanatics to join their Jet set and fly to Denver this weekend to root their hometown heroes on. "I'm trying to find tickets, but...
MICK'S PREGNANT PAL IS LOOKING JUST SWELL
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amSexy underwear model Luciana Giminez Morad showed an Australian photographer the pregnant belly that's breaking up Mick Jagger's marriage. The picture of 29-year-old Giminez Morad's tummy runs today on the...
ELTON JOHN CLAIMS $32M RIP-OFF
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amRock superstar Elton John claims $32 million is missing from his business empire, and reportedly is going to court to get it back. John discovered the shortfall after parting with...
RACHEL & ROD'S SECRET VISITS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amRocker Rod Stewart's estranged wife, Rachel Hunter, says she's fighting to save their marriage - with secret daily meetings. "I've been seeing Rod a lot. We're just working things through,"...
JORDAN CALLING IT QUITS
January 12, 1999 | 5:00amHis last jump shot won yet another glorious championship. In the end, it turns out, that was good enough for Michael Jordan. The man who brought fans to their feet,...