February 14, 1999
RALLY FOR TECHNOLOGY STOCKS IS NOT OVER YET
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S been quite a wild week for the Nasdaq composite index. The technology-packed average was victim of a persistent sell-off in the first three days of the week, only to...
JONBENET DETECTIVE'S MEMOIR DUE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE detective who resigned in protest from the JonBenet Ramsey murder case has inked a book deal with St. Martin's Press. Author Steve Thomas, who was one of the lead...
SLATE CHALKS SUBSCRIBER FEES UP TO EXPERIENCE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amBILL Gates isn't down with 'Net culture. Microsoft seriously misread the surfing world when it decided, after much delaying, to charge for its Slate webzine last March. The Internet audience...
USES FOR A TV SET - OTHER THAN VIEWING
February 14, 1999 | 5:00am1.FISHBOWL: Most fishbowls don't have much more than pale blue gravel and maybe a diver with a helmet that blows bubbles. So try filling a Trinitron with tropical fish. Just...
GOING DUTCH AT THE MOVIES
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amLISTEN up, Woody Allen. A talented young actress named Nadja Hupscher has entrusted Cine File with an important message for you. Here goes: 'Let's talk! I know that hundreds and...
PICTURE PREVIEW: SUMMER BETTER THAN OTHERS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amWITH Oscar nominations having been announced this week and the weather warming up a bit, one couldn't help but think about those big summer blockbusters. Now, with the exception of...
'SALESMAN' IS STILL A SELLER
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amFIFTY or so years is a difficult time for a play - a time that sorts out the sheep from the goats, the men from the boys, the classics from...
TABLE HOPPER
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- DESPITE ITS VERY RELAXED ATMOSPHERE, BOXERS HAS BEEN THE SITE OF SEVERAL DRAMAS SINCE IT OPNED ITS DOORS 10 YEARS AGO. FOR FIVE WEEKS, ROBERT DENIRO AND JESSICA LANGE...
MEALS & DEALS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSRTACT- IN A CITY WHERE A MAJOR GRIPE IF RESTAURANT-GOERS IS POOR SERVICE, ITS ALL THE MORE GRATIFYING TO FIND A PLACE THAT IS NOT SO GRACIOUS, BUT ALSO UNPRETENTIOUSLY...
REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS, THE BLONDE , BLUE-EYED BEAUTY OFTEN DESCRIBED AS THE "GIRL NEXT DOOR"- AND WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD THAT BE? HAS GONE FROM POSING IN THE PAGES OF THE...
JAILBIRD GOTTI'S GOT NEW PEN PAL
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Gotti has another pen pal, a businessman who sells "portable gyms" and tried to send one to the Dapper Don, The Post has learned. The imprisoned Gambino crime-family boss...
ARREST LED TO COUPLE'S PERP-ETUAL HAPPINESS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amThirteen years ago, Police Officer Steve Costa slapped cuffs on Eileen Hunt's wrists. Today she's wearing his wedding ring. Their off-beat romance began on a Wednesday night in May 1986,...
U.S.: N. KOREANS RUNNING $100M DRUG RING
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Stalinist government of North Korea is running a massive worldwide drug-smuggling operation that funnels almost $100 million a year into its nuclear-weapons program. U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement...
NEW ORDER LOOMS IN MIDEAST ; AGING ARAB BIGS WILL BE GONE SOON
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe death of Jordan's King Hussein has driven home a grim political reality - the always uncertain Middle East is now ruled by aging and ailing leaders who may not...
BIN LADEN'S DISAPPEARING ACT ; TERRORIST, FAMILY MISSING
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amOsama bin Laden was reported missing yesterday - a few days after the United States threatened to bomb Afghanistan if the wealthy terrorist was not handed over. Spokesmen for Afghanistan's...
HE'S RUSSIAN TOWARDS THE TOP ; VADIM CHASING ROOKIES
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amQuietly, the Devils' other rookie is closing the point gap on the league-leading freshmen. Vadim Sharifijanov, who doesn't speak unless spoken to, boldly admits he wants to be No. 1....
BUBBA'S BACK IN HIS CORNER AFTER WINNING A ROUND
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - No parade, no fireworks, no party - not even a chilly round of golf. President Clinton spent his first post-impeachment-trial day yesterday in privacy at the White House,...
PLENTY OF OTHER CITIES ALREADY USE 'EM
February 14, 1999 | 5:00am"We train to fire two or three shots at a minimum, and on average, we now see about three rounds fired per incident. Before it was close to four or...
RECLUSIVE JAZZ PIANIST FOUND DEAD
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amResidents of the quiet, tree-lined Queens neighborhood where nationally acclaimed jazz pianist Jaki Byard lived most of his life say they rarely saw Byard and knew little of his musical...
JUDGE'S CURE FOR 'SICK' AIRLINE PILOTS: $10M FINE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00am"A minor labor dispute has been transformed into ... a shakedown."JUDGE JOE KENDALLA furious federal judge yesterday found the American Airlines pilots' union in contempt for ignoring his back-to work...
COMMISH ORDERS MORE VICIOUS BULLETS ; MAKES SWITCH TO HOLLOW POINTS IN AFTERMATH OF SLAY
February 14, 1999 | 5:00am"The use of the bullets in this city is totally insensitive at a time when the whole world is watching."REV. AL SHARPTON Police Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday said he's ordered...
NATION OF GUINEA MOURNS DIALLO
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amCONAKRY, Guinea - Government officials and thousands of Guinean citizens are expected to meet the coffin of their slain countryman, Amadou Diallo, when it arrives in the capital tomorrow. The...
POPE TO VISIT ROMANIA
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amPope John Paul II will travel to Romania in his first visit to a predominantly Orthodox Christian country, the Vatican said yesterday. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the date hadn't...
LULUS FROM LA-LA LAND
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe Tinseltown gossip mill is rife with tales about celebrities' bizarre demands. Here are some of them: JOHN TRAVOLTA The former Sweathog arrived on the Savannah, Ga., set of his...
SMOKING CURE IS NO LIE; 'BRAINWASH' SERUM AIDS ADDICTS, PHOBICS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amSodium pentothal - the infamous "truth serum" once used to brainwash soldiers and spies - has become a high-powered weapon against addictions and phobias in the hands of a Westchester...
TRIMMING THE TINSEL IN TINSELTOWN ; STUDIOS CUTTING BACK ON 'OUT OF CONTROL' CELEB PERKS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amIt's a bad time to be a superstar. Movie studios, faced with skyrocketing production costs, are tightening their belts when it comes to celebrity "perk packages" - the private jets,...
ITALY'S MAYORS FIND ROLE MODEL IN RUDY
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's record on fighting crime and his campaign to improve the city's quality of life have made him a leading candidate for national office - in Italy. Giuliani's name...
DMV TO TRY OUT NEW ENTERTAINMENT VEHICLE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amDrivers waiting to renew their licenses at the Department of Motor Vehicles can kick back and watch some TV. DMV-TV, that is. The DMV will install 27-inch television monitors -...
TERRORIST THREATS PUT GOV'T ON GUARD
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. WARNINGS from Israeli intelligence of renewed attacks by Palestinian terrorists in the near future are being taken very seriously by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Major Gen. Amos Malka,...
SCHOOLS 'LOSING' STUDENTS, BUT NOT TEACHERS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amSome high schools lost, overnight, 25 percent of their official enrollment, the teachers union says. THE Board of Education, caught by The Post vastly inflating the number of kids who...
I CONFESS: TREATMENT HELPED ME QUIT CIGS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amScience gave us sodium pentothal. War and Hollywood turned it into "truth serum," and executioners turned it into a way of death. No wonder people think this stuff is evil,...
HELL, NO, WE SHOULDN'T GO INTO SNAKE PIT
February 14, 1999 | 5:00am"Bosnia will be a walk in the sunshine compared to Kosovo. Didn't we learn from Vietnam that you don't get into someone else's family squabbles?"COL. DAVID HACKWORTH THE first shot...
CASE PROMPTS PROBE INTO UNIT'S GUN USE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amPolice brass will scrutinize all recent shootings by the Street Crime Unit, the plainclothes division involved in the Amadou Diallo shooting, sources said. Police officials want to learn how to...
LIBYA SAYS DEAL'S DONE FOR PAN AM BOMB TRIAL
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amKhadafy's gov't asked the U.N. to lift economic sanctions because of the apparent progress.A trial in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing may finally take place now that the Libyan government...
THRONGS TO SEE OFF VICTIM'S BODY ; ANGRY SUPPORTERS PLAN MOTORCADE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amEscorted by a motorcade of outraged New Yorkers, the parents of police-shooting victim Amadou Diallo will leave New York today to bring their son's bullet-riddled body home to West Africa...
PREZ: I'LL COMMIT TROOPS TO KOSOVO ; WILL SEND PEACEKEEPERS IF WARRING SIDES CUT DEAL
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton told Americans yesterday he's ready to send troops to war-torn Kosovo, but only if a peace deal is reached. Negotiations between ethnic Albanians and Serbian delegates remained at...
IN A WAY, 'BLESSED CHILD' MET HIS DESTINY
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amAS Kadiadou Diallo prepares to return to Guinea with the remains of her son - who was gunned down by cops 10 days ago - she reflects on all the...
MAGIC IS BACK AS REY & FONZY REUNITE ON DPS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amTO see the future of the Mets' middle infield, you have to set your Way Back Machine to Binghamton, N.Y., in the summer of 1994. That was where and when...
N.Y.S. DEER HUNTING BY THE NUMBERS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amIF YOU were a successful deer hunter last season, you were one of tens of thousands who helped produce a record season in New York State. New York hunters harvested...
GROIN STRAIN PUTS POTVIN ON SHELF
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amBUFFALO - As if things couldn't get any worse for Islanders goalie Felix Potvin, the embattled netminder suffered a strained groin late in Friday night's 2-1 loss to Nashville. Potvin,...
CHARLIE Y LOVES LIFE ITALIAN STYLE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amAFTER 26 years living outside the U.S., Charlie Yelverton, now 50, speaks to you across telephone wires on the other side of the world, in an Italian town called Varese....
MUCKLER TRYING TO STAY POSITIVE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amWith his team deteriorating fast, John Muckler realizes he must boost his players' morale if they are going to have any chance to make the playoffs. In 12th place in...
HALL HANGS TOUGH WITHOUT HOLLOWAY
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amUConn53 Seton Hall48 You wonder whose insides hurt the most. The players of Seton Hall who pushed the No. 2 team in the nation so far to the edge it...
3D ABOUT READY TO PUT ON SHOW
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amKnick forward Dennis Scott has tattoos on each shoulder, one for each of his parents. He has another one on his right arm, a newer one he's keeping under wraps....
CAL'S CREW NEEDS TO GET HEALTHY IN HURRY
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - At the Heat. Home for Detroit then Houston. At Cleveland. At Indiana. At the Knicks. Back at the Meadowlands for Portland. With that seven-game array in a 10-day...
TOP 10 QUESTIONS AS SPRING DAWNS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amPITCHERS and catchers begin reporting to spring training in the middle of the week, so it's time to examine 10 pressing questions hanging in the Florida and Arizona air. *1Will...
HITCHCOCK MAKING HIS STARS PSYCHO
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amA number of team leaders sought a summit meeting last week with Ken Hitchcock in which the players strongly expressed exasperation with the coach's relentless badgering both from behind the...
MODERN NBA? WE'LL PASS GAME'S A BORING BRAND OF 1-ON-1
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amNOT that we're surprised, but post-lockout NBA basketball looks exactly like the pre-lockout version. The game has "evolved" into "eight-man clearout." Eight guys loiter somewhere far from the basket watching...
THORNE TO RETURN TO METCASTS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe Mets officially announced yesterday the signing of Gary Thorne to a multi-year deal to serve as their play-by-play announcer on Ch. 11's 50-game schedule. Meanwhile, The Post has learned...
BOXING NEEDS OSCAR SPORT BETTING ITS FUTURE ON 'GOLDEN BOY'
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Boxing pushed all of its chips up to the line last night, betting its future on a roll of the dice named Oscar De La Hoya. We...
BRIDGMOHAN'S HOPES ARE RIDING ON ECLIPSE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amHorse racing's Oscars, the Eclipse Awards honoring last year's best horses, jockeys and trainer, won't be announced till Tuesday, but at least one award is a foregone conclusion. When they...
MACHINE TO TOWER WINS
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amMachine to Tower, at 25-1 the longest shot on the board despite winning his last two starts at the Big A by daylight, proved much the best in yesterday's Whirlaway...
AS THE WORM TURNS... RODMAN STORY STILL A SOAP OPERA
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amSHOULD Dennis Rodman finally favor us with his follicles and actually sign with the Lakers in time for today's nationally televised NBA production involving the Pacers, it's imperative for his...
NOT GREAT, BUT THEY'LL TAKE IT ; DEVILS BRAKE SKID DESPITE MISTAKES
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amDevils6 Hurricanes4 All it does is count. This was the Devils' worst performance of this dismal homestand, but against a goalie who hardly made a tough save and a Carolina...
CZERKAWSKI SHOWS FIRST SIGN OF LIFE
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amIsles2 Sabres2 BUFFALO - If one Islander had not responded to the Bill Stewart coaching change, it was finesse right wing Mariusz Czerkawski. Until last night. Czerkawski, who quickly found...
JOHNNIES TY IT TOGETHER ; GRANT REBOUNDS FROM INJURY, LEADS STORM PAST 'NOVA
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's82 Villanova75 This was the St. John's team that Villanova coach Steve Lappas feared. "I told our guys, 'This team isn't like any other we've played this year,'" he...
OSCAR THE INVINCIBLE DE LA HOYA DEFENDS TITLE IN SPLIT DECISION
February 14, 1999 | 5:00amLAS VEGAS - Oscar De La Hoya ain't pretty no more. He's beautiful. There was nothing pretty about the way the Golden Boy beat Ike Quartey last night to retain...