January 26, 1999
UNIONS JOIN FORCES FOR NEGOTIATIONS WITH DISNEY
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amFor the first time, big labor is going after Michael Eisner in an attempt to loosen his heavy hand on workers toiling in the Disney empire. Among weapons will be...
CARVER AXES CEO; UNCOVERS $5M IN LOSSES
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amNew York City's largest African-American managed bank booted its chief executive officer, Thomas Clark, yesterday morning after the board discovered big financial losses. Carver Bancorp Inc., the holding company for...
STEER CLEAR OF BIG BROKERS' FUNDS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amIF it comes from a big brokerage, chances are it's a faulty fund. The big brokerage houses just can't seem to get the knack of managing retail mutual funds to...
REICHL GALLOPING TO RUN GOURMET
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amIn yet another stunning editor shift at Conde Nast, New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl has been tapped as the new editor in chief of Gourmet. The 51-year-old critic,...
PEACOCK WANTS TO CAST A WIDER 'NET
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amA spinoff of its Internet access would allow NBC to cash in on red hot Internet stocks while creating a rich currency for acquisitions. NBC is reportedly closing in on...
BLOODBATH HITS HOLT
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amPublisher cuts jobs, book list Henry Holt's new President and Publisher James Sterling is wielding a mighty ax as he tries to bring the money-losing publisher of Thomas Pynchon and...
NEWS CORP., YAHOO! IN CROSS-MARKETING DEAL
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amNews Corp. and Internet giant Yahoo! have scored a major new cross-marketing program designed to increase both companies' brand names. The new cross-media and marketing deal will kick off Super...
DOBBS SHAKES UP CNNFN FRONT OFFICE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amCNNfn shakes up its front office CNNfn remains far behind its main rival, CNBC, in distribution to U.S. homes. There's a new power at CNN business news. David Bohrman, who...
M'SOFT DOES A SPLIT ; 2ND 2-FOR-1 DEAL IN YEAR FOR BILLFOLD
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe incredible Microsoft money machine took another big step yesterday with a stock split. The computer giant said it's splitting its stock two-for-one - for the second time in a...
FBI READY TO POUNCE ON EBAY OVER FAKES
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amFederal authorities are ready to go after Wall Street darling eBay for allegedly allowing sports collectors to be ripped off with phony junk on the Internet, The Post has learned....
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amLauding Lauderdale* Spirit Airlines, celebrating its 10th anniversary, will inaugurate daily nonstop flights to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from LaGuardia and Islip Airports on Feb. 5. To promote the new service,...
SHAE JONES ISN'T AFRAID TO TALK THE 'TALK'
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am*TALK SHOW Shae Jones M3 Records Nearly 30 years after Aretha Franklin retooled Otis Redding's "Respect," newcomer Shae Jones has found 14 new ways to spell the word on her...
TAKE HEART, VALENTINES
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amVALENTINE'S Day is just around the corner, and many hotels and resorts are already fully booked. For those looking to escape the city to celebrate in a romantic setting, here's...
THE DEIN OF HEAVY METAL
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amHE'S had fame, fortune and an internationally successful dance production. But, right now, Australian choreographer Dein Perry has opening-night jitters. ''This is our first drop into the U.S.A.,'' the 38-year-old...
THIS 'GIRL' GROUP SWINGS IN THE RING
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"Inside Story: Fight Like a Girl" Tonight at 9 on A&E WITH one boxer nicknamed "The Wildcat" and the other known as "The Kitten," the match was bound to be...
TV TICKER
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amBET on it Black Entertainment Television's Tavis Smiley chats with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on Thursday's "BET Tonight" (11 p.m.-midnight). Smiley was part of an African-American delegation invited to Cuba...
THEATER REVIEW ; IT MAY BE 40, BUT, STILL, 'MAJORITY' RULES
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am'A Majority of One,'' a November-November romance between a Jewish widow from Brooklyn and a Japanese widower from Tokyo, was the product of a more relaxed and leisurely - a...
CH.11 STEALS METS ; CH.9 A BIG LOSER AGAIN AFTER AIRING AMAZIN'S FOR 27 YEARS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amCHANNEL 11 - for nearly 50 years the TV home of the Yankees until it lost the Bombers to Ch.5 last fall - has agreed to carry the Mets, industry...
DAMMIT, JANET! FEST LOVES YOU
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - In 1997, Janet McTeer conquered Broadway with her riveting, Tony-winning performance as Nora in 'A Doll's House.'' In 1999, she's making Sundance her own with a...
HIGH COURT KOS PLAN TO ADJUST 2000 CENSUS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amAt issue was whether the government could use sampling to estimate how many people were missed. The Supreme Court yesterday shot down a Clinton-administration plan to adjust the upcoming 2000...
LIKUD NOMINATES BIBI TO RUN AGAIN
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu passed the first test in a difficult re-election bid yesterday as he easily won renomination by his Likud Party. Netanyahu's only challenger, former mentor...
U.S. MISSILE STRIKE KILLS 11 CIVILIANS, IRAQI OFFICIALS SAY
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amIraq claimed that at least 11 of its citizens, including women and children, were killed and dozens injured when U.S. jets fired on suspected missile sites yesterday. U.S. officials said...
LT: I'M A HALL OF A GUY EX-GIANT: LEGAL WOES SHOULDN'T SACK ME
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - A defiant Lawrence Taylor yesterday refused to apologize for living his life on the edge - and said he deserves to be named to the Football Hall of...
METROCARD MACHINES MAKE TOKEN DEBUT
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amStraphangers said good riddance to subway-station booth lines by flocking to the new MetroCard vending machines yesterday. The machines were a big hit with riders passing through the two congested...
NOT THE FIRST BLOT ON NAME OF GAMES' EX-FASCIST CHIEF
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amIOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch's history of fascism, support for repressive leaders and haughty administrative style have tarnished a financially successful stewardship of the Olympic Games. But the man at...
DEFIANT MADDOX MISSES COURT'S APOLOGY DEADLINE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amTawana Brawley adviser Alton Maddox ignored yesterday's court-imposed deadline to apologize to an opposing lawyer for calling him a "bald-faced racist." Instead, Maddox, joined by fellow Brawley adviser Al Sharpton,...
MORE CITIES WILL SUE GUN-MAKERS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amMore cities across the nation plan to file lawsuits against gun manufacturers today as the campaign to hold the industry liable for firearms violence intensifies. Officials in Bridgeport, Conn., and...
JAPANESE PLIED OLYMPIC BIGS WITH GEISHA GIRLS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amJapanese officials yesterday acknowledged "excesses" - including providing geisha girls - during bidding for the 1998 Winter Games, as the Olympic bribery probe widened. Nagano Mayor Tasuku Tsukada conceded that...
IT'S CLASS WARFARE!; HIZZONER JABS PATAKI OVER SCHOOLS PROBE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"I don't understand the whole basis and background for [Pataki's investigation], maybe because the governor didn't talk to me in advance about it."MAYOR GIULIANI The school wars went nuclear yesterday,...
TRIAL IS DELAYED AFTER DUFF CANS ANOTHER COUNSEL
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe Patricia Duff-Ron Perelman custody battle was postponed again yesterday after the stunning socialite changed lawyers for the 18th time in the 2-year-old case. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Franklin Weissberg...
PIONEER KY. DOCTORS GIVE THAT MAN A HAND; JERSEY GUY GET 1ST U.S. TRANSPLANT
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amAmerica's first transplanted hand showed encouraging signs of life yesterday after it was attached to a New Jersey paramedic, but doctors say the real test is yet to come. Matthew...
SECRET DELIBERATIONS DO IN-JURY TO PUBLIC
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amTHE most draconian, cruelest sentence of this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of sex, lies and videotape has been visited upon the august chamber of the magnificent Senate. How dare anyone...
DNA TESTS COULD LINK DAD TO SONS' MURDER SITE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amCops found what they think may be the murder weapon - a lightweight craft tool with a hammer-like head combined with an ax-like blade. Investigators took blood and hair samples...
GOP'S GETTING COLD FEET OVER DATE WITH MONICA
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky's date with the U.S. Senate is in doubt as more and more senators back away from a plan to call her as a witness in President...
POPE'S VISIT 'LIKE JESUS COMING TO ST. LOUIS'
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Feverish excitement gripped the Gateway City today as it prepared to roll out the red carpet for Pope John Paul II. The frail, 78-year-old pontiff was set...
BILL BRADLEY'S WINNING WAY COMES THROUGH IN N.H.
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"He sounds like he means what he says. The questions he asks, it sounds like he cares."KELLY LAMONTAGNE MANCHESTER, N.H. - It was Bill Bradley's first day out on the...
CREW CALLS INQUIRY EXCUSE TO CUT FUNDS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew said last night that Gov. Pataki will use the Moreland Commission probe of the SCA as an excuse to cut funding to city schools when he...
LIVINGSTON ST. APOLOGISTS ARE AFRAID OF CHANGE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amIN 1997, fewer than 20 percent of third-graders in New York City's public schools read at grade level. In 1998, third- and sixth-grade reading scores fell even lower. In 1989,...
HEREIN 'LIES' THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE HOPING THEY'LL DO
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amThere's a good reason why President Clinton won't even let his hair-splitting lawyers answer the 10 latest Sexgate questions from Senate Republicans - they'd have to admit he's a liar....
REMEDIAL CLASSES CUT AGAIN BY CUNY
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amCity University trustees made sure to cross the t's and dot the i's yesterday when they OK'd - for the second time - a plan to eliminate remedial reading and...
LOTT DEAL MAY AVOID BOOTING BUBBA; SENATE WEIGHS FINDING PREZ LIED, BUT NOT CONVICTING
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Top Senate Republican Trent Lott floated the idea yesterday of letting senators vote to find that President Clinton lied under oath and obstructed justice - but leave him...
HIGH COURT KOS PLAN TO ADJUST CENSUS TALLY
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe Supreme Court yesterday shot down a Clinton-administration plan to adjust the upcoming 2000 census to make up for an undercount of minorities. In rejecting a move that would have...
CITY MUST REVAMP WELFARE PROCESS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amNew York City was ordered last night to ease its welfare-application process by a federal judge who said helping the needy quickly is sometimes more important than getting them jobs....
DELANY SISTER DIES AT 109
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amSadie Delany, who with her sister co-authored a best-selling memoir of black life in the 20th century, died in Mount Vernon yesterday at 109. Delany and her sister, Bessie, who...
GUUS WHO WAS MADE TO FEEL REAL FOOLISH?
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amLONDON - The four-striker option is an idea that many an ambitious coach has dreamed of but few sane ones have dared attempt. Guus Hiddink of Real Madrid was foolish...
VAN HORN DOUBTFUL FOR KNICKS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Keith Van Horn did not practice again yesterday, due to his stomach ailment. The 23-year-old power forward did not even make it out to the Net headquarters in...
MELLOW YELLER ENTERING 3RD YEAR, CAL'S CALMING DOWN
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"[Calipari] is a lot more laid-back. He is not as excited as he was last year. Hopefully, it can stay like that. It makes it a lot better for the...
DEVILS FACE KEY TEST
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amHis contract is finally signed, Ken Daneyko says. Now he figures Lou Lamoriello will make a trade-deadline deal to bolster a bid for the Stanley Cup. ''We've got a great...
SPITFIRE & BRIMSTONE ; ROMANOWSKI A HATED FOE BUT GREAT TEAMMATE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - To love Bill Romanowski is to be his teammate watching him knock out an opposing quarterback or crunch a running back and separate him from the football as...
ISLES, LINDEN TAKE AIM AT BRUINS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amThe Bruins last visited Nassau Coliseum a month ago tonight. That was also the last time Trevor Linden scored a goal. While Linden - in a 13-game drought - will...
RED STORM HAVE FINAL FOUR LOOK
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"You're talking about them on the level of a team that could go to the Final Four. The first thing that strikes you about their team as you watch them...
NUMBER 99 STILL THE ONE AND ONLY
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - And then there was the time 15 years ago in March of 1984 when the Devils signed a young centerman by the name of John Jo-hannson out of...
SALARY FACEOFF NO SWEAT FOR JETER
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amAttach salary arbitration to the list of baseball events that don't intimidate Derek Jeter. The man who refuses to back down on high inside pitches and loves the World Series...
VETERANS STEADY FLEDGLING FALCS ; ROBINSON, BENNETT ARE TOUGH OLD BIRDS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The game was tight and Michael Booker, a second-year cornerback, was getting tighter. Staring him down was Cris Carter, the Vikings' dangerous receiver, and Booker was starting to...
HEALTH PROFESSIONS STAR HAS RIGHT RX
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amKristine Fox watched for years as her older brother suffered with leukemia. His frequent trips to the hospital and his painful nights at home left a devastating impression on her....
CAMBY HASN'T YET IMPRESSED HIS TEAMMATES
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES When New York traded for Toronto's Marcus Camby, one member of the Raptors organization predicted that center Patrick Ewing would choke the enigmatic big man. While that hasn't...
VAN STANDS BY PAT CHIDES MEDIA FOR RIPPING EWING
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy has heard and read all the theories about Patrick Ewing. Ewing will have to take a back seat for the Knicks this year; Ewing has been an...
BRONCS PRAISE GRIFF'S WORK
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"What makes Howard special? He's kind of like a little, short offensive lineman. That's what he does. He runs into people."DENVER GUARD MARK SCHLERETH ON FULLBACK HOWARD GRIFFITH MIAMI -...
MIKE'S OPEN WITH BRONCS ; PLAYERS LOVE SHANAHAN, EVEN THOUGH HE BUGS 'EM
January 26, 1999 | 5:00am"[Mike Shanahan] has a different way of disciplining. He is stern when he needs to be, is lenient when it calls for it."LINEBACKER JOHN MOBLEY MIAMI - The dirty, low-down...
BIG-TIME BARGAIN HAWKS KEEP HENDERSON AT THEIR PRICE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amAFTER the Kings decided to squander 10 million a season on Vlade Divac, eating an acid hole in their budget, vastly improved Corliss Williamson was left out in the free...
CASE OF SUPER AMNESIA ; REEVES BLOCKS OUT HIS FIRST THREE TRIPS
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL NOTEBOOK MIAMI - Asking Dan Reeves to think back on his three previous Super Bowls as head coach of the Broncos is like asking someone to recount the...
DENVER'S ATWATER MAKES DIFFERENCE
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - It's become obvious that Broncos' hard-hitting strong safety Steve Atwater saves his finest performances for the big stage. For example, in last year's Super Bowl, Atwater recorded six...
FALCS' BUCHANAN REFUSES TO BE INTIMIDATED
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Ask Ray Buchanan how good the Broncos receivers are and he'll say "A wide receiver will be only as good as I let him be." Tell Ray Buchanan...
ANKLE SPRAIN SIDELINES SEIKALY
January 26, 1999 | 5:00amAfter trying to track down a loose ball, center Rony Seikaly writhed in pain yesterday on the Nets Practice Facility floor. He held his lower leg, acting as if he...