February 8, 1999
TRADE TAX-FREE - USE EBAY
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amUSE eBay. Cheat the IRS. That's not exactly how the hot Internet site is advertising itself. But the pros who use the online flea market say that people who sell...
AM EX BRIBERY CHARGED - ANTI-SEMITIC BIAS ALLEGED IN CATALOG
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amA Hasidic jeweler is suing American Express for $125 million, claiming its catalog banned his goods and those of all other diamond district Hasidim after they wouldn't pay alleged bribes...
'NET GETTING WIDER TO CATCH BIG MEDIA'S INTEREST
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amHERE come the Internet deals. Media and telecom giants have turned the corner in their thinking about the Internet, and are in furious competition for the best partners. What convinced...
GARALNICK TO CNNFN POST, SOURCES SAY
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amCNN is about to hire Jeff Garalnick, a veteran network executive, to a high level position at its CNNfn all-business news network. Garalnick will have a high level position at...
NOT B'WAY-BOUND
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amSo far - at least for choreographers - Broadway has been a one-way street. The number of choreographers coming to Broadway from classic ballet or modern-dance is legendary - a...
ROSEANNE BETTER RAISE THE BAR TO SAVE HER TALK SHOW
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amROSEANNE'S talk show is worth saving, even if the odds against it are enormous. Why? Because compared to zookeepers like Jerry Springer and Sally Jessy Raphael, the tough-talking sitcom star...
'SOLDIERS' STORY ILLUMINATES HISTORY OF THE BLACK PRESS; 'SWORDS' TAKES SHARP LOOK AT BLACK JOURNALISM
February 8, 1999 | 5:00am"The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords" Tonight at 10 on WNET/Ch.13 'CORONER'S JURY FINDS SLAIN 'WOMAN' IS MAN." "MOTHER DESERTS BABY." No, those are not headlines from a supermarket tabloid....
STAR SEARCH WITHOUT END - SECOND THOUGHTS AT 'VIEW'
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amRATINGS for "The View" have shot through the roof since the show started searching for a new twentysomething co-host by offering on-air tryouts to four young hopefuls. And this presents...
NAUGHTON TURNS IN A DREAMY PERFORMANCE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amIN his new one-man show, "Street of Dreams," James Naughton says he is an actor, not a singer - which is just more proof that most people don't know the...
'ASHES' SHORT AND LIFELESS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amHAROLD Pinter has become a parody of himself. Not that he wasn't always excessively dependent on a kit of tics and mannerisms used to fabricate his famous air of mystification...
THEY'RE NOT APPLAUDING NOW
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amLast week the ax fell at Polo Ralph Lauren, the substantial ready-to-wear wing of the House that Ralph built. It was announced Wednesday that 250 people from all levels of...
QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS - IN 2001 NEW YORK WILL REDESIGN ITS SMALL CHANGE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Caesar Rodney is coming soon to a pocket near you. What? Never heard of Caesar Rodney? That's exactly the point. Over the next few weeks, Americans are going to...
MTA SEES THE LIGHT ON ADS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amSubway riders will soon see a light at the beginning of the tunnel - and lots of flashy new advertising, too. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has signed a lucrative contract...
GET THE TRUTH, NOT SCAPEGOATS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00am'How many trips down darkened alleys does a young cop need to take, ... how many grotesquely bloodied innocent victims of random crime does he need to pack into ambulances,...
CITY PARKING OUTRAGE - TRAFFIC AGENTS FLOUT OWN LAWS; TRAFFIC AGENTS FLOUT CITY'S PARKING LAWS; EXCLUSIVE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amParking is scarce in Long Island City - but not for city workers. The Post found scores of city employees - many of them traffic agents - brazenly flouting parking...
MUSEUM PEACE? NOT WHILE PHILLY LAUNCHES ART ATTACK
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amWHATEVER happened to "Our city can kick your city's a--"? Philadelphia might want to consider borrowing New York's unofficial motto now that the City of Brotherly Love is poised to...
POPE CONDEMNS HUMAN CLONING
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amPope John Paul - still weak after a bout with the flu - lashed out yesterday against human cloning. Addressing a group of Italian university professors at the Vatican, the...
GOP BIGS' PLEA TO GOV: ZAP ZENIA; EXCLUSIVE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amLEADING New York Republicans want to deliver a tough message to Gov. Pataki: Fire controversial top aide Zenia Mucha or risk political disaster next year. In an extraordinary development connected...
UNIMPEACHABLE ADVICE FOR THE REPUBLICANS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amONE of the most moving tributes to Jordan's dead king was as eloquent as it was simple: "King Hussein's nobility came from his character - not his title." Those words...
WORLDWIDE PRAISE FOR BELOVED RULER
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amWorld leaders mourned the death of King Hussein last night - hailing him as one of the great leaders and peacemakers of the 20th century. President Clinton described the Jordanian...
46 YRS. OF REIGN & SHINE - MONARCH'S SKILL WAS THE KEY TO HIS ENDURANCE; 46 YEARS OF REIGN AND SHINE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amKing Hussein of Jordan was the great survivor of five decades of Mideast upheaval - emerging from obscure beginnings as the teen-age ruler of a tiny desert kingdom to become...
COPS NAB TWINS IN SLAYING OF CABDRIVER
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amTwin brothers from Brooklyn were arrested yesterday and charged with the murder of a livery driver who was found fatally shot in his Lincoln Town Car Saturday. Steven and Carlos...
GIS WON'T GO TO KOSOVO IF WAR RAGES: ALBRIGHT
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amAmerican troops will not be dispatched to Kosovo if fighting between Serb forces and Albanian separatists rages on, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright insisted yesterday. "We are not going...
TOP G0PERS CONCEDE CENSURE MAY BE THEIR LAST SHOT AT PREZ
February 8, 1999 | 5:00am''I may well end up supporting this censure resolution if it's got pretty tough language in it.'' SEN. MITCH McCONNELL (R-Ky.) WASHINGTON - Several key Republican senators said yesterday they'd...
U.S. SAYS IT MAY STRIKE TERRORISTS' 'HOST' COUNTRIES
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. military officials are warning they have broad authority to strike back hard at any nation suspected of being cozy with terrorists. "We may choose to retaliate against...
FEDS PROBE STARR'S TREATMENT OF MONICA; FEDS PROBE STARR'S OFFICE OVER MONICA
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe charge? That staffers in his office acted improperly when they confronted Lewinsky Jan. 16 last year, urging her to sign an immunity agreement while warning her not to call...
'HE'S IRREPLACEABLE,' SAY BROOKLYN'S ARABS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amKing Hussein's death left an "empty space" in the hearts of Jordanian New Yorkers, who say the Middle East will never be the same without the peace-making monarch. "It's a...
RIVALS RUFF AND READY TO BOW-WOW 'EM AT MSG
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amSome will arrive prettied up with bows in their hair, while others have faces that only a breeder could love. But when the 123rd edition of the Westminster Kennel Club...
1,000 DEMAND OFFICERS BE CHARGED IN SHOOTING
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amAngry protesters led by the Rev. Al Sharpton crowded into a Bronx neighborhood yesterday to decry the fatal police shooting of a West African immigrant and demand the cops face...
RUDY REACHES OUT TO VICTIM'S DAD
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani spoke with the father of a Guinean immigrant killed by cops as the Bronx district attorney got ready to convene a grand jury today to investigate the shooting....
TIRED DOCS A RESULT OF STATE CUTS: POL
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amDrastic cuts in state funding have prompted hospital officials to thumb their noses at a law limiting the hours that residents and interns work, a state lawmaker said yesterday. And...
TWINS, PAL NABBED IN SLAYING OF CABDRIVER
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amTwin brothers and their friend, all from Brooklyn, were charged yesterday with murdering a livery driver who was found shot in his Lincoln Town Car Saturday. Steven and Carlos Arriaga,...
THE POST HONORS:
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amDID YOU KNOW? Dwight Gooden won the Cy Young Award - as the National League's best pitcher - just a few days before his 21st birthday, in 1985, as a...
ARTEST FINALLY SEES THE LIGHT - PROMISES TO THINK BEFORE TALKING
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - On the surface there were so many positives to be taken out of St. John's 88-60 demolishing of Pittsburgh Saturday night. The Red Storm snapped their two-game losing...
BRUSHING UP RUSHES BY IN STYMIE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amThird in the Gallant Fox Handicap two starts back and second in the Aqueduct 'Cap last out, longshot Brushing On came flying from dead last at the top of the...
GAELS OUT-FOXED - MARIST'S FAST START LEAVES RULAND FUMING
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amMarist 93 Iona 89 The final score might have been indicative of a well-played game, but Iona head coach Jeff Ruland knew better after his team lost 93-89 to Marist...
SPREE SHOW FLOPS IN BROADWAY DEBUT
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amFOR two preseason games and one regular-season start at Orlando, Latrell Sprewell was better than advertised as a person and a player. Then the Heat came to the Garden yesterday,...
YESSSS! MARV'S BACK HOOPING IT UP ON RADIO
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amAfter the non-stop action of the first few moments of yesterday's Knicks-Heat game, the WFAN play-by-play announcer informed his color analyst that it would be best for him to wait...
HAWKS' MOTTO: THEY ALL COUNT
February 8, 1999 | 5:00am"I think we're just trying to come out night after night and play hard every night." DIKEMBE MUTOMBO Don't judge by the late blows, broken noses and battered bodies. The...
ISLES POSITIVELY AWFUL
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders 3 Canucks 3 Has it come down to this for the Islanders? Being satisfied after blowing a two-goal lead in the third period at home against one of the...
STARTLINGLY BAD KNICKS NOW 0-2 AS HEAT PREVAIL; SLUGGISH KNICKS FALL TO 0-2
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amHeat 83 Knicks 79 Patrick Ewing was zipping up his bag and heading out of the Knick locker room after yesterday's inept 83-79 loss to the hated Heat at the...
LARGE GAME, SMALL EFFORT
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amBruins 3 Rangers 2 BOSTON - After it had ended, after the Rangers had failed again to assert themselves in the playoff chase, one player after another and without exception...
BAFFERT LOADS HIS DERBY GUNS; BAFFERT'S ONE TO BEAT, AGAIN
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amWith the May 1 Kentucky Derby fewer than three months away, questions abound about a confusing 3-year-old picture. Can trainer Bob Baffert win his third Derby in a row? Will...
CASSELL POINTING TO WEDNESDAY
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Sam Cassell said this was the "worst" ankle sprain he ever has endured. But it still won't make him tape up his ankles for games. Among Cassell's trademarks...
EWING: DON'T LOSE FAITH IN OUR GANG
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amWell, Patrick Ewing is in shape. Ewing scored a game-high 24 points in the Knicks' 83-79 loss to the Heat yesterday and pulled down 17 rebounds,the most for him since...
NETS FINALLY GET IT
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S going to take a few weeks to get into the flow, unless, of course, we're talking about the blood coming out of Jayson Williams' nose. Players are as rusty...
POINTLESS BENCH A STARKS REALITY
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES It used to be an easy call for Jeff Van Gundy. When he needed instant offense from the bench he called on No. 3, John Starks. Sometimes Starks...
ALL IN ALL, NOT TWO BAD - SHORT-HANDED NETS GET EVEN WITH HAWKS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amNets 79 Hawks 69 After their season-opening loss in Atlanta, the Nets promised to come back swinging, hitting the Hawks with everything they have - or at least their crutches,...
0 POINTS - BUT JAYSON'S ALL THE DIFFERENCE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amJayson Williams didn't score a single point or dish out a single assist against Atlanta last night. But no Net had a bigger impact on the team's emotional 79-69, home-opening...
HAWKS HAMMER NBA FOR UNFAIR SCHEDULE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe Hawks shot a horrid 29.5 percent and lost 79-69 to the Nets who suited up just nine players last night. But listen to the Hawks tell it, they might...
5-5 BOYKINS COMES UP BIG
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe Nets' offense was (choose one - or all) wretched, stagnant, running in mud, lousy. So Earl Boykins, all 5-5 of him, entered the game in the first quarter and...
ACHIN' NETS LAY HURT ON HAWKS; BANGED-UP NETS KO HAWKS
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amNets 79 Hawks 69 At first glance at the Nets' bench yesterday, you could have mistaken the assembly for either a basketball team or a staff meeting of a law...
UNDERMANNED NETS GET IT
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S going to take a few weeks to get into the flow, unless, of course, we're talking about the blood coming out of Jayson Williams' nose. Players are rusty as...
SAM WON'T TAPE
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Nets guard Sam Cassell said this was the "worst" ankle sprain he ever has endured. But it still won't make him tape his ankles for games. Among Cassell's...
BURRELL SUPPLIES BOOST OFF BENCH
February 8, 1999 | 5:00amScott Burrell had just turned in a 16-point effort, coming off the Nets bench to pump in 5-of-9 shots while hitting several big wing jumpers. But he wanted to talk...