January 27, 1999
FOOTBALL'S NEW ZONE: RAVENS NOW AN ISP
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amPSINet wants to bring football fans closer to their favorite team. As part of a strategic commercial partnership, the Internet service provider will host a Baltimore Ravens website as well...
M'SFT EXEC ADMITS BULLY TACTICS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON, D.C. - A top Microsoft executive reluctantly admitted that his company won the browser war with Netscape by bullying computer makers and Internet service providers into limiting distribution and...
FORMER SEC WATCHDOG GOING TO BEAR STEARNS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amBear Stearns is hiring a top securities regulator to head its troubled clearing unit. Richard Lindsey, the Securities and Exchange Commission's market regulation director, will become the No. 2 executive...
LIVENT TO HIRE A DEAL HUNTER
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe most likely buyers of Livent's valuable theaters are Disney and Cablevision. Let the Livent fire sale begin. A bankruptcy court judge yesterday approved Livent's request for permission to hire...
LOSSES BEDEVIL DETAILS; CARUSO COULD BE OUT AS EDITOR
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amDETAILS editor Michael Caruso is on the hot seat. Conde Nast chairman S.I. Newhouse is said to be actively soliciting sage advice from key people around the Conde Nast empire...
TALENT POACHER OVITZ IS MARKED MAN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amOpen warfare has erupted in Hollywood to block deposed Tinseltown king Michael Ovitz from trying to regain his throne. Fighting Ovitz the hardest is big talent agency Creative Artists Agency...
ALTAVISTA'S NEW VIEW ; COMPAQ SET TO SPIN IT OFF, ADD RETAIL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amCompaq will spin off AltaVista, the search engine the computer maker inherited last summer after its $8.4 billion purchase of Digital Equipment. Eckhard Pfeiffer, chief executive of Compaq, and Rod...
MERRILL WORKERS CRY: 'SHOW ME THE MONEY'
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMerrill had axed 3,400 jobs as a response to its poor profit picture late last year. Unlike Bankers Trust, which chose to pay out big bonuses despite its loss last...
CITY BALLET: THREE'S COMPANY
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amDance Review AFTER an opening stanza that was properly Balanchine, Balanchine and nothing but Balanchine, New York City ballet has now moved into a different phase of its remarkable 50th-anniversary...
CALL IT INDIAN CON-FUSION
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amSalient. Zero Stars 'YOUNG people know so little about theater,'' my Broadway-beat colleague Michael lamented at Salient as we sat wondering what black hole had sucked up our missing dessert....
WOMEN KNOW: SIZE MATTERS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amRock Review W HEN you've been hurt and somebody brightly chirps that "every cloud has a silver lining," it's easy to want the well-wisher struck by lightning. Despite a stellar...
SLICE OF VIETNAM ON UPPER WEST SIDE
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMiss Saigon Three Stars IT must have been fate that led us to Miss Saigon that first time, last summer. We'd whiled away some pleasurable hours at the Metropolitan Museum...
TV TICKER
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amGreat Scott! UPN's Monday-night premiere of "Dilbert" scored solid numbers. "Dilbert" notched a 6.4 rating (436,000 households) on WWOR/Ch.9 from 8 to 8:30 p.m., beating the first half-hour of "Melrose...
THE ENEMY WITHIN; 'MR. DEATH' MAKES US FACE OUR EVIL, TOO
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amPARK CITY, Utah - Errol Morris, America's most accomplished documentary filmmaker, has made his first Holocaust film. It's terrific - the kind of picture that keeps you awake at night...
OH, NO! 'CUPID' KO'D
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amABC has clipped "Cupid's" wings. The network pulled the plug on production yesterday after work on the 14th episode was completed in Chicago, where the romantic comedy starring Jeremy Piven...
A GOLDEN GOOSE ... OR EGG?
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWINNING a Golden Globe Award can help a movie or a performer when it comes to Oscar success. But it is no guarantee. Michael Williams-Jones, the former CEO of United...
SAY G'DAY-WATCH: BEACH BABES GO WALKABOUT DOWN UNDER
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Fire up the barbie - "Baywatch" is moving to Australia. The bouncy beachfront action show starring David Hasselhoff is on the verge of relocating to Sydney, Australia next season,...
ESPN PUTS O.J. UP WITH THE GREATEST
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A new ESPN documentary asks and then answers the question of whether O.J. Simpson should be included on a list of the centry's greatest athletes. For ESPN, the answer...
READY FOR A CRANKY 'CAPED CRUSADER'?: NEWEST BATMAN DARKENS KIDS TV
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The latest chapter in the Batman legend features the Dark Knight's alter-ego Bruce Wayne as a bitter, disillusioned old man. He lives in a twisted, futuristic version of Gotham...
KID'S DRUG DEATH SHOULD FINALLY K0 GATIEN'S LICENSE
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amPETER GATIEN has hired a million-dollar dream team of lobbyists, lawyers and public-relations experts to help him keep his liquor license - even though he is a convicted felon. But...
LATEST TWIST IN KOSOVO CRISIS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMedical detectives in Kosovo said yesterday the remains of 45 ethnic Albanians may have been tampered with - and the truth may never be known about their apparent massacre at...
COURT REVIVES TAX CASE AGAINST HUBBELL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated tax-evasion charges against Webster Hubbell, saying it's "reasonable" to assume he got hush money to keep quiet about Whitewater. "The timing, sources...
PREZ LOOSENS REINS ON U.S. JETS OVER IRAQ
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe Clinton administration widened its rules for the cat-and-mouse air war with Saddam Hussein yesterday following a fourth straight day of hostilities in Iraq's "no-fly" zones. National Security Adviser Sandy...
LAWYERS WILL ASK JUDGE: UNGAG MONICA
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky fled the capital yesterday, but her lawyers have a date with a federal judge tomorrow to see if the Sexgate star is allowed to chat with...
SENATE'S AN UP-HILL CLIMB FOR RUDY ; FIRST LADY WINS EASILY IN NEW POLL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Clinton would easily defeat Mayor Giuliani if they were to face off next year in the New York Senate race, a new poll shows. The statewide poll,...
TOP PROBER SAYS TIPS ON CORRUPTION POURING IN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki's new commission probing city schools has heard from dozens of whistle-blowers with information on school-construction problems and "attendance inflation," its chief said yesterday. "Our hot line has been...
PATAKI ORDERS STUDY OF $13B SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY PLAN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki yesterday told transit officials to seriously examine a $13 billion plan to build a Second Avenue subway connecting five new train routes - the system's biggest expansion in...
GOV TO OK MEASLY 2% OF THE SCHOOL BUCKS RUDY WANTS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki fired another salvo in the school wars yesterday, turning thumbs down on Mayor Giuliani's demand for nearly $730 million in delinquent education payments from the state. Pataki aides...
FANS SAY: HALL, YES! TO LT'S FAME CLAIM
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amGiant gridiron great Lawrence Taylor belongs in the Football Hall of Fame, despite drug problems and brushes with the law, Post readers agreed overwhelmingly yesterday. The hefty response came a...
WHY GEORGE AND RUDY FIGHT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amFor the first time ... Mayor Giuliani has been put in the unaccustomed position of defending the status quo against an important and overdue reformist effort. W HY can't Rudy...
NEW CANCER CRISIS FOR KING HUSSEIN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amJordan's King Hussein rushed back to the United States for emergency cancer treatment yesterday amid growing fears his kingdom could be plunged into an era of instability. The exhausted and...
'JUDGE' KOCH IS UPHELD ON APPEAL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amEd Koch may no longer preside over the Big Apple - but he still has the final word in his courtroom. A Staten Island judge ruled yesterday that decisions of...
15 GUN FIRMS CUT FROM SUIT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe judge in a landmark gun trial in Brooklyn yesterday dropped 15 distributors from the case, leaving about 30 manufacturers to face charges they fueled an illegal gun market. Federal...
COLOMBIAN QUAKE MAY CLAIM 2,000; SEARCHERS FIND 'MORE BODIES EVERY MINUTE'
January 27, 1999 | 5:00am"There isn't a point . . . not affected by this horrific tragedy."ALVARO PATINO,MAYOR OF ARMENIA Desperate and weary Colombians pulled hundreds of earthquake victims - and a handful of...
OLYMPIC MESS SPURS CALLS FOR LORD OF RINGS TO RESIGN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amOlympic boss Juan Antonio Samaranch faced mounting pressure to resign yesterday as newspaper editorials worldwide called on him to quit in the wake of the exploding bribery scandal. The fallout...
N.Y. FAMILIES 'WORRIED SICK'
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amColombian New Yorkers were desperately dialing for information about relatives in their quake-shattered homeland yesterday - as a massive relief effort got under way. A persistent busy signal was all...
KEY VOTE TODAY ON CALLING WITNESSES; PROSECUTORS WANT PREZ TO TESTIFY, TOO
January 27, 1999 | 5:00am"If anybody asks, we want it known that we'd like to hear from the president."REP. JAMES ROGANWASHINGTON - President Clinton's impeachment trial reaches a critical point today when senators vote...
PREZ MEETS JOHN PAUL IN ST. LOUIS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amST. LOUIS - Pope John Paul II took the Midwest by storm yesterday as tens of thousands of jubilant followers cheered him at a rally and prayed he'll help President...
SUPER: I SAW BLOOD ON SLAIN BOYS' DAD
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe super of the building where two young brothers were killed told a grand jury yesterday he saw the boys' father with blood on his shoes outside the basement room...
CITY SPENT $8,330 PER STUDENT IN '98
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe Board of Education increased spending by 10 percent last school year, shelling out $9 billion - with millions to spare. Combining general education and special education, the board spent...
BOB DOLE BUYS MONICA'S PAD
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amBob Dole may have the ultimate Sexgate souvenir - the Chicago Tribune says today that he bought the Watergate apartment where Monica Lewinsky had phone sex with President Clinton. Lewinsky...
YOUNG MOMS AT LOWER RISK FOR CANCER
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Women who have children before the age of 27 have a lower risk of breast cancer because babies in the womb release a protective protein, a new study says.
BEATING THE CLAIM GAME
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amOne of the biggest mysteries to handicapping claiming races is the question of who fits best for class. Basically there are three types of horses in a claiming race: 1)...
UNBOTTLED SECRET ; FALCON WR MATHIS TELLS OF HIS BATTLE WITH BOOZE
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Terance Mathis had been waiting for this moment for as long as he can remember. Not getting to the Super Bowl for the first time, though he's ecstatic...
SWEET REPRIEVE FOR SALO ; ISLES COACH STICKS WITH TRADE-BAIT GOALTENDER
January 27, 1999 | 5:00am"All I know is both are here and both will play. Having two No. 1 goalies is great."'ISLES COACH BILL STEWART Tommy Salo has come a long way since the...
'CHARM' HITS GULFSTREAM
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amChampion Silver Charm, the early favorite for Horse of the Year after winning the San Pasqual Handicap at Santa Anita in his 1999 debut, arrived yesterday at Gulfstream Park for...
SKI WINDHAM OFFERS TASTE OF LUGE
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amOUR luge was a Flexible Flyer, and after a snowfall we would find a hill in the neighborhood and put on our own Winter Olympics. Today, the Flyer has been...
KAVANAGH IS MANHATTAN'S MONEY MAN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amBasketball fans who have watched Ken Kavanagh play for Manhattan have called him a money player. But they don't know the half of it. Kavanagh, who leads the Jaspers in...
MARVIN MAKES MOST OF MOMENT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Marvin Washington sat alone on some crates in front of the first-base dugout during Super Bowl XXXIII Media Day at Pro Player Stadium yesterday. The sun beamed on...
UNBOTTLED SECRET: TERANCE & TONY FIND LIFE AFTER JETS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The Jets will be well-represented in the Falcons' offense in Super Bowl XXXIII Sunday. Two of their former receivers, now the Falcons' high-powered tandem of Terance Mathis and...
FALCS TRUST OLD STANDBY ; DEBERG READY IF HE GETS QB CALL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Silence. That is what Steve DeBerg was greeted with on the other end of the phone. He had written a letter to several NFL teams, stating that at...
BABBLING BRONCO'S TALK OF THE TOWN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Media Day is a circus that has more rings than Mean Joe Greene. The barker with the loudest coat, the longest baton was Shannon Sharpe, so naturally we...
SENS MOLDED DIFFERENTLY THAN DEVILS
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThere is one common thread between the Devils and their nemesis. The man who was largely responsible for building the Devils into a perennial contender is now doing the same...
RANGERS MISSING HARVEY'S HEART
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The overall record heading into last night's match here against the Caps was 17-21-7, but with Todd Harvey in the lineup, the Rangers were 15-12-6. Unfortunately for the...
'TIRED' TUNA DECIDES TO SIT OUT PRO BOWL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Bill Parcells yesterday pulled out of coaching in next week's Pro Bowl, citing his health as an issue. By NFL rule, the coaching staffs from the losing AFC...
DOMINICAN FLASH CATCHES YANKS' EYES
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amUsing the same eyes that landed international talents such as Hideki Irabu, Orlando ''El Duque'' Hernandez, Alfonso Soriano and Ricardo Aramboles, the Yankees will be among a bevy of teams...
ST. AGNES TOPS REGIS - FINALLY
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amCHSAA CLASS C St. Agnes 61 Regis 58 For St. Agnes, Regis had always been like the IRS - unbending and unbeatable. The Stags didn't need an accountant to know...
OWNER'S DEATH LEAVES VOID IN FALCONS' FAMILY
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Amid the euphoria and amazement at the Falcons being here as the NFC representative in Super Bowl XXXIII, there is an underlying sadness among those in the franchise...
JAYSON'S DIS-ORDERLY CONDUCT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amIf you don't have pull, push. As in wheelchairs. At least that was how Jayson Williams saw it to get Rony Seikaly moved up on line for X-rays at a...
SEIKALY'S HEALING IN MIAMI, BUT NET BIG MAN FEARS WORST
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amOn his flight down to Miami for treatment on his injured left ankle, Nets' center Rony Seikaly thought he would pass out from the pain. "I was in so much...
ONE TITLE'S NOT ENOUGH FOR TERRELL
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Terrell Davis might have been thinking of Bill Russell with the Celtics, or Michael Jordan, or Terry Bradshaw or Joe Montana or Charles Haley yesterday. "If anybody ever...
MATCHUP WILL BE TALE OF TWO QBS: WIN OR LOSE, ELWAY SHOULD RIDE INTO SUNSET
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - In a lifetime of Football Sundays, it all comes down to just one more Football Sunday for John Elway. One more chance to grab the spotlight, or at...
HE'S JEFF VAN GRUMPY: COACH ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT KNICK EFFORT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe schedule says exhibition game No. 1 tonight against the Nets at the Garden, but Jeff Van Gundy wants much more than an exhibition performance from his Knicks in their...
CAL'S HOT FOR SCOTT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES There is a 12th spot open and John Calipari has indicated his desire to fill it with a swing man, a small forward/shooting guard guy who preferably can...
NETS: KNICKS ARE SOFT NO FEAR WITH OAK IN TORONTO
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWhen the Nets invade the Knicks' territory at the Garden tonight for the first of two pre-season games between the area rivals, the activities should be sloppy, frantic, maybe disorganized....
SPREE & CAMBY TAKE CENTER STAGE
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell can't wait to show people tonight how much he wants to go back to work. Marcus Camby knows he has to prove to everyone but John...
REEVES NEEDS SUPER WIN TO PUT CAPPER ON CAREER
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - There is a simple reason why the Dan Reeves legacy remains incomplete and why what happens Sunday in Super Bowl XXXIII will either elevate him to the highest...
SENATOR POTHOLE REPAIRED ; DEVILS FINALLY ROLL OVER NEMESIS FROM NORTH
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 4 Senators 1 The Devils couldn't laugh last, but they managed a smile. Full revenge was beyond their power. The most they could do was salvage some wounded pride,...
GRITTY RANGERS MAKE CAPITAL GAIN
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amBlueshirts end four-game skid Rangers 4 Capitals 1 WASHINGTON - There's no such thing in the NHL as getting points for style, and that's just fine for the Rangers, who...
STEWART'S ISLES STILL PERFECT ; BEAT BRUINS FOR 2ND STRAIGHT
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amWith each tick of the Bill Stewart era, it becomes painfully apparent how horribly wayward Mike Milbury's leadership had become. This same group under Milbury managed three wins from Nov....
STAGS SHOW JASPERS HOW TO WIN UGLY
January 27, 1999 | 5:00amFairfield 73 Manhattan 70 It was fitting that Manhattan's mistake-filled, foul-plagued loss to Fairfield ended with a blown layup and a missed 3-pointer. A game this ugly couldn't have ended...