January 16, 1999
ABBY SAYS BRAZIL NOT REAL THREAT
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amTake it from Abby Joseph Cohen: Brazil is not worth worrying about. The market strategist from Goldman Sachs said yesterday that she doesn't expect Brazil's devaluation will have much effect...
ABC ENDS LOCKOUT OF UNION
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amTHE lockout of NABET workers at ABC is over. After 10 weeks on the picket line, NABET members who work at ABC are getting ready to return to their jobs...
'VIRUS' AIN'T SO BAD: WE'VE SEEN WORSE, SO WHY WOULDN'T THEY LET CRITICS REVIEW THE NEW HORROR FLICK?
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: 'Virus" comes off as completely predictable and largely fright-free, but not as bad as you might expect from the fact that Universal refused to screen it in advance for...
ONLY TRUE-BLUE JETS FANS BLEED GREEN ; FRIENDLY TURF WAR ON CROWDED BANDWAGON
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amMore Jets news in SportsMemo to all fair-weather Jet fans from the team's long-suffering supporters: Get off our bandwagon! While most longtime Jet fans enjoy seeing the city awash in...
FDA TO PROBE DIABETES-DRUG DEATHS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe FDA yesterday ordered a safety review of the controversial diabetes drug Rezulin, which has been linked to 32 liver-failure deaths in the United States and Japan. The agency's committee...
FAN-CY DISTINCTION
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amNew Jet Fan vs. Old Jet Fan 1 - CATEGORY 2 - Favorite souvenir jersey 3 - Willing to put up with 4 - Best-known fan 5 - Fondest memory...
U.S. SWEETENS ITS OFFER TO SADDAM
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amWants trade sanctions lifted.The United States offered Iraq another olive branch yesterday, saying it will speed Baghdad's acquisition of spare parts for its ailing oil industry. The overture follows an...
'IT WOULD BE AWESOME'
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amNEW YORK - Jet fans were flying high yesterday over a new proposal to lure Gang Green from New Jersey with a deluxe, state-of-the-art domed stadium on Manhattan's West Side....
1ST PAY HIKES IN FOUR YEARS DUE FOR TOP ELECTED POLS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amTOP city elected officials could soon hit the jackpot because Mayor Giuliani is appointing another commission to study salary raises - and every previous panel has recommended pay hikes. "I...
3 MORE COPS EYED IN THEFT OPERATION
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amThree more cops - including a sergeant - were stripped of their guns and badges on charges of ripping off Midtown peddlers of money and merchandise, sources told The Post....
BILL ESCAPES HEAT BY COMING TO N.Y.
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amAs lawmakers in Washington attacked him, President Clinton received a warm welcome from minority business leaders in New York yesterday. Clinton announced a series of tax-credit and loan programs to...
JUDGE SAYS TOPLESS SHOW MUST GO ON
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amStrippers at David Letterman's favorite topless club can continue to flashdance, a Manhattan judge has ruled. In a decision released yesterday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Braun denied a request...
RUDY SAYS DOME COULD MAKE $$ WITHOUT A TEAM
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday claimed his proposal for a state-of-the-art domed stadium on Manhattan's West Side could work even if he can't lure a pro football team to move in. On...
TRASHING RUDY ; VA. GOV RIPS GIULIANI OVER GARBAGE PLAN
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amVirginia's governor yesterday blasted Mayor Giuliani for talking trash by saying the state for lovers is "obligated" to take New York City's mountains of garbage. Virginia won't become New York's...
FORECAST: CALM AFTER THE STORM
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amT.G.I.O. - yes, it's over. The two-day goulash of snow, sleet, freezing rain, icy slush and thunder has given way to a rain- and snow-free weekend. All the walkers, riders,...
COURT TO LET HINCKLEY LEAVE PSYCH HOSP ON DAY PASS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amWould-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. has won his battle to leave his Washington mental hospital and make day trips to see friends and family members. A Washington appeals court...
PLEA FROM SLAIN COP'S BOY, 7, NETS LIFE FOR KILLER
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge sentenced a defiant cop-killer to life in prison without parole yesterday after the slain officer's son begged him to "send the bad man to jail for his...
HALL WANTS TO ROLL STONE IN $50M DIVORCE
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amRocker Mick Jagger's fed-up wife Jerry Hall has finally slapped the wrinkly womanizer with divorce papers - and wants $50 million worth of satisfaction. The tart-tongued Texan has endured the...
DENVER-BOUND LOYALISTS WEATHER THE STORMS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - For Jet players and fans who fought snow, sleet and canceled flights to get to Denver yesterday, the ordeal seemed like a symbol of the team's long trip...
AMA BOOTS EDITOR OVER SEX SURVEY
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe American Medical Association axed the editor of its magazine yesterday for publishing a study saying 60 percent of college students agree with President Clinton that oral sex isn't real...
BRIBE PR0BE HITS 0LYMPIC PR0P0RTI0NS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe International Olympic Committee will hold an emergency meeting in March to vote on booting corrupt members and tightening procedures for picking hosts of the Winter and Summer Games. Stung...
SENATE MAY CALL SEXGATE WITNESSES ; SOME DEMS SAID WILLING TO BUDGE
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Momentum is building for witnesses - such as Monica Lewinsky - to take the stand in President Clinton's Senate impeachment trial, some senators said yesterday. And a top...
BOOK RELEASE PLAYS OFF JORDAN EXIT
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO - Random House rushed a new bio of Michael Jordan into Windy City bookstores yesterday, hoping to take advantage of the hype over his retirement from basketball. "Playing for...
OL' DIRTY BASTARD IS NABBED IN B'KLYN SHOOTOUT: COPS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amWu Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard was arrested last night after gunplay with cops who stopped his truck in Brooklyn, authorities said. The brash 29-year-old Brooklyn star, whose real...
GAEL FORCE JABS JASPERS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amIona 77 Manhattan 61 As an NBA player, Jeff Ruland was always first-team all-Nasty. It was 1984, Michael Jordan's rookie year, and the Bulls were opening their season against Ruland's...
LOWER E. SIDE STREET COLLAPSES
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amAn investigation is underway to pinpoint whether an icy two-day winter blast may have triggered a giant sinkhole at a Lower East Side complex. An estimated 2,000-3,000 square feet of...
STORM PUTS AQUEDUCT ON ICE
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amAqueduct canceled early yesterday morning for the second straight day because of the wicked ice storm that socked the area. It was the fourth time in the last nine scheduled...
RULAND, IONA HOPING ROLL CONTINUES
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amIona coach Jeff Ruland remembers initiating Michael Jordan into the NBA. It was Jordan's rookie year, 1984, and the Bulls were opening their season against Ruland's Washington Bullets. A 6-foot-11...
GARDEN HASN'T BEEN FRIENDLY
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amWayne Gretzky has seen it from both sides now. "I've played as an opponent against the Rangers at the Garden, and I've played here for the Rangers, and there's no...
FREAKSHOW ON PAY-PER-CHEW
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - He has become what he always wanted to be. A freak in a sideshow. The carnival geek who bites the heads off of live chickens for a...
DEVILS GIVE DANEYKO NIGHT IN THE SUN
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amIt was a measure of just how important the Devil brass felt Ken Daneyko Night was. For the first time in five years, they allowed the press to ride their...
KEITH, KERRY WENT TO BAT FOR NETS TO KEEP JAYSON
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amAin't leverage great? And if you're a Net, say a free agent Net like Jayson Williams, there's no greater leverage than having a franchise player, say Keith Van Horn, on...
SEIKALY WANTS TO STAY A JERSEY GUY
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amRony Seikaly wants to stay a Net. Desperately. But league sources insist coach Larry Brown in Philadelphia wants to make him a Sixer. Desperately. Especially if other moves don't pan...
RUTGERS-STORM JUST TOO TOUGH TO MAKE CALL
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amFor those who like unpredictable basketball, tonight's St. John's-Rutgers tilt at the Garden is a natural. They have split their last four games, with each win-ning on the other's home...
CHRIS RIDING RUMOR MILLS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amIf there is a trade rumor out there, Chris Mills is mentioned. The Knick forward's name is thrown into every trade package from Latrell Sprewell to Clarence Weatherspoon to George...
SMITH, 'STAR' WILL BE WINNING COMBINATION
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amW HEN Steve Cauthen first arrived at Aqueduct as a fresh-faced 16-year-old apprentice in early December of 1976, it took about three weeks for him to score his first stakes...
KEYSHAWN HAS THE RICE STUFF
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES DENVER - Some of the talk from the Broncos yesterday was about stopping Keyshawn Johnson, who was a force in the Jets' playoff win over the Jaguars last...
IT'S A NO-WIN SITUATION ; JETS HAVE NO CHANCE TO BEAT MIGHTY BRONCS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Maybe if this was two years ago, the Jets could win this game. Maybe if the Broncos still had that two-ton oil drum filled with choke on their...
COLLINSWORTH: JETS AREN'T ON BRONCOS' MILE HIGH LEVEL
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Cris Collinsworth sounded as if the Jets had as much chance of beating Denver tomorrow as passengers had of boarding their flights on time yesterday at chaotic LaGuardia...
TEAM TUNA HITS TOWN WITH LIPS ALL ZIPPED
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - They walked in stone-faced and all business. Autograph seekers were shooed away like annoying gnats and television cameras - usually athlete magnets - were ignored as if they...
PARCELLS: MY GUYS BELONG IN TITLE GAME
January 16, 1999 | 5:00am"I don't think there's another team sitting out there that can make a case and say, 'Hey, we should be there instead of the Jets.'"BILL PARCELLS DENVER - Bill Parcells...
NETS MAY GET CLIPPED IN KEEPING DOUGLAS
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe Nets may have to go to Plan B on the backup point guard scene. Their first choice, Sherman Douglas, could end up driving for a Ford. And any notion...
PEPPER: WORRY ABOUT ELWAY
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - So much for the theory that the Jets will put eight guys up in the box against Terrell Davis tomorrow and make 37-year-old John Elway beat them. Pepper...
ONE MORE TEST FOR TESTAVERDE
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - The biggest game of Vinny Testaverde's life, the reward for the most brilliant season in his 12-year career was less than 48 hours away, and still the doubters...
IT'S NOT ARTISTIC, BUT THEY'LL TAKE IT
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 3 Lightning 1 The Devils gave Ken Daneyko a painting of himself. It was about the only art seen last night. Looking sick, weary and disinterested, but less so...
BLUESHIRTS CAN'T MUSTER GAME EFFORT
January 16, 1999 | 5:00amFor a team with so many veterans, the Rangers aren't especially mature in their approach to the game. You'd think that by this point in the season, with points so...