February 24, 1999
BIG BOARD'S NEW MATH: 12 ½ HOURS WILL EQUAL 30 MINS.
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amDICK Grasso was learning more than he let on as he spent time with top New York pols like Rudy Guiliani last year. The head of the New York Stock...
SUMNER TESTS VIACOM'S 'NET VIABILITY
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amSumner Redstone is creating a new Internet division at Viacom - and he may sell all or part of the new company to the public. The Viacom chief unveiled his...
BICKERING BARRON'S EDITOR QUITS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amWelling left to write a research publication at Weeden & Co. the brokerage house. A top editor at Barron's, who created a furor by participating in a semi-public attack on...
CONDE NAST EDITORS GANG-HIRE LENSMAN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amA trio of Conde Nast top editors - Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair, GQ's Art Cooper and David Remnick of The New Yorker - have joined forces to keep legendary...
CRAMER TAKING IPO TO THESTREET
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amJames Cramer is taking TheStreet.com public - and could make a killing on his initial $3.3 million spent for its launch. Cramer and his co-founder, New Republic owner Martin Peretz,...
'NET'S A NO-NO IN N.Y. - EARTHWEB CHIEF WARNS CITY FIRMS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amJACK Hidary, the multi-millionaire founder of EarthWeb, is sounding the alert. New York City is risking its status as the world's business capital because its major corporations are too slow...
SAYING CHEESE? THERE'S NO REASON TO MISS THE GOAT
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S something about chevre. Trying to say the word recalls Ben Stiller's dilemma when being introduced to quarterback Brett Favre in the Cameron Diaz movie "There's Something About Mary" -...
TV TICKER
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amJane air "Upfront Tonight" correspondent Jane Wells has an exclusive interview tonight with Gilbert Andrews - who was imprisoned in Mexico and is suing the American Red Cross for $34.2...
TEQUILA HANGOVER
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHE fascination that so many have with Jimmy Buffett is very much like the allure of a poverty-stricken island country that depends on tourism for its fortunes. Although Buffett's Margaritaville...
KNOCK-YOUR-SOCKS-OFF MEXICAN FARE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHE toy logo isn't the only thing that rocks at the Rocking Horse Cafe Mexicano. The dishes coming out of chef Sue Torres' open kitchen are mixes of the highest...
2 YEARS AFTER THEY WON OUR HEARTS... 'DHARMA & GREG:' STILL GOOD KARMA
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: WE fell deeply, madly and - it turns out - truly in love with "Dharma & Greg" when it debuted in fall of 1997. We adored everything about it,...
BUCHANAN DUCKS OUT OF 'CROSSFIRE'
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPAT Buchanan is taking a leave from CNN's "Crossfire" while he mulls another run for President. The conservative Republican - a former speechwriter for President Nixon who also worked in...
EBERT REMEMBERS SISKEL
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: PRODUCTION began yesterday in Chicago on this weekend's special edition of "Siskel & Ebert" saluting the late Gene Siskel. And Buena Vista Television, the Disney-owned syndicator, confirmed that the...
TABLOID TACKLES TV - 'ENQUIRER' TO BOW THIS FALL
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amNATIONAL Enquirer" has been given the go-ahead for a five-nights-a-week TV show starting next fall based on the popular supermarket tabloid. "We define what tabloid is," said Mike Walker, the...
'DATELINE' LOADS UP EXPLOSIVE 'CLINTON RAPED ME' INTERVIEW
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amNBC's "Dateline" tonight will finally air its much-delayed interview with Juanita Broaddrick - the Arkansas nursing-home owner who claims Bill Clinton raped her in 1978. NBC News correspondent Lisa Myers...
40 YEARS OF RECORDING INDUSTRY'S AWARD GAFFES, LAUGHS AND SHAFTS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amSINCE 1958, the record industry's biggest stars in front of the mike and behind the scenes have gathered annually to honor the accomplishments of the previous year. You can count...
DEAR DAVID BOULEY,
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPlease attend to your Bakery Restaurant. It was missing your golden touch the other night. Our long evening was pleasant enough. But ''pleasant enough'' doesn't cut it. Not when the...
THE POST PREDICTS WHO WILL WIN THE GRAMMYS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHere are Post music critic Dan Aquilante's picks for Grammy Awards in the major categories: Album of the year: ''The Globe Sessions,'' Sheryl Crow; ''Version 2.0,'' Garbage; ''The Miseducation of...
LAURYN'S MOMENT - AT 23, NEW JERSEY'S LAURYN HILL IS UP FOR A WHOPPING 10 AWARDS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amWithout question, at tonight's Grammy Awards show, all eyes will be trained on one person: Lauryn Hill. The petite singer - a native of South Orange, N.J., and one-third of...
GEN. POWELL ENLISTS WALL ST. BIGS INTO HS MENTOR PROGRAM
February 24, 1999 | 5:00am"They offer an incredible resource. You have qualified people willing to give of their time and talent." GEN. COLIN POWELL Gen. Colin Powell yesterday announced the launching of an army...
CITY COUNCIL'S NEW BREED WON'T LET THE KILLING BE SWEPT UNDER RUG
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHE barrage of 41 police bullets on Wheeler Avenue in The Bronx is starting to echo at the City Council. The killing of Amadou Diallo is stirring the usually dormant...
DA'S HUBBY CHARGED IN TAX FRAUD
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe feds yesterday charged the husband of Westchester DA Jeanine Pirro with tax fraud for hiding more than $1 million by declaring everything from luxury cars to vacation cruises as...
POL SAYS HE'LL SUE IF STATE TRIES TO HOLD UP PAYCHECK
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - A prominent state assemblyman yesterday said he'll go to court to challenge a new state law withholding lawmakers' pay if a budget isn't passed by April 1. Assembly...
CASTRATION THREAT WAS JUST A JOKE: SEX TEACHER
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amCradle-robbing teacher Mary Kay Letourneau said she was only joking when she threatened to castrate her teen lover if he dated other women. The jailed Seattle teacher - convicted of...
DIPLOMATS FINALLY CHARMED 'THE SNAKE'
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe political leader of the Kosovo rebels who agreed to a peace deal after a tense daylong holdout goes by the nom de guerre "The Snake" and is little known...
MARRIAGE POSES AGE-OLD PROBLEM
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amA 114-year-old Egyptian farmer plans to marry his neighbors' 17-year-old daughter. But his 80-year-old son objects. Mohammad Fayez admits that his father, Fayez Sultan Mohammad, ''is fit,'' but says that...
HORSE RACE WEB-CASTS AT STARTING GATE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Horse-racing fans could soon be watching the action right on their computers, The Post has learned. The New York Racing Association, which runs the Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga...
JUST A PIECE OF PEACE AS SUMMIT ON KOSOVO ENDS; PIECE OF PEACE IN KOSOVO TALKS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amExhausted Western mediators reached a limited peace accord for Kosovo yesterday as their summit conference broke up after 17 days of intense negotiations. Officials said they had reached a breakthrough...
MORE COPS - BUT FEWER ON THE BEAT
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe number of uniformed cops assigned to local precincts dropped by more than 1,000 over the last two years - just as NYPD staffing hit a record of 40,210, a...
IT'S BIDDER BEWARE AS SCAMMERS FLOCK TO ONLINE AUCTIONS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amCyber-scammers are turning Internet auction sites into buyer-beware zones - with consumer complaints of fraud skyrocketing in the last two years, a watchdog group says. The number of consumers who...
BANK HOLDS ITSELF TO ACCOUNT FOR CITIGOOF
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe Citi that never sleeps must have been taking a nap. Some Citibank customers just received their monthly statements with some eye-opening notices - including an incorrect one that was...
BRONSON FAN LEAVES HER FAMILY HEIR SICK - WILLS 300G ESTATE TO HER FAVORITE STAR
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amAudrey Jean Knauer had a death wish for Charles Bronson. The Kentucky woman left an estate worth about $300,000 to the macho movie star, whom she never even met. Now...
HERBAL RX COULD MAKE IT HARD TO CONCEIVE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHigh doses of several very popular herbs - St. John's wort, echinacea and gingko biloba - may have a bad effect on human fertility, a new study says. The study,...
STARR MIGHT BE FINAL INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe law "creates dangerous incentives for zealotry." SEN. CHRISTOPHER DODD WASHINGTON - Congress today begins debating whether it ever wants another Kenneth Starr. Prompted partly by complaints that Starr has...
COMMISH AIRS DOUBTS ABOUT DIALLO-SLAY COPS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir says there is "no reason" to expect that four cops would fire 41 shots at unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo. "Forty-one shots, on its face, seem...
'AWESOME' HILLARY POLLS POL PALS ON SENATE BID
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday burned up the phone lines to New York supporters of her possible Senate candidacy, as a new poll showed her lead over...
JURY MAKES QUICK WORK OF GRINNING 'DRAG' KILLER
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amA Texas jury yesterday quickly convicted a bloodthirsty white supremacist of chaining a black man to a pickup truck and dragging him to his death in the backwoods of Texas....
DRIVERS COMING IN DROVES - 16 MILLION MORE CARS JAM APPLE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amIt's traffic boomtown in the Big Apple. Sixteen million more vehicles jammed through the city's toll crossings in 1998, Port Authority and MTA vehicle-counts show. And the city estimates traffic...
ALBANIANS HERE WANT 'COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE'
February 24, 1999 | 5:00am"If there isn't complete independence, then what has all the fighting been for?" TONY LULGJURAJ The city's Albanians greeted yesterday's partial peace accord on Kosovo by asking: Was this worth...
PACT NEAR ON SPRINKLER LAW
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration and the City Council yesterday said they're on common ground on a law calling for sprinklers in new buildings - but still don't agree on them in...
WHAT A MILLION TAX-FREE BUCKS CAN BUY
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHere are some of the personal items that Albert Pirro Jr. charged to his businesses, according to a federal indictment: *Two Mercedes Benz cars leased for his wife and mother-in-law...
MONICA: I ALMOST KILLED MYSELF BECAUSE OF TRIPP
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky reveals in one of her blockbuster interviews that Sexgate taper Linda Tripp's betrayal drove her to the brink of suicide. "She sees Linda Tripp as contributing to the...
TOP COP PLEDGES LAW AND ORDER AT HELL HIGH
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir vowed to crack down on crime and rowdiness at Lafayette HS yesterday as a beefed-up security force patrolled the Bensonhurst school to restore order. Guards are...
I'LL FIGHT RUDY'S UNFAIR CAR GRAB: DWI SUSPECT
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amA Staten Island man whose car was seized in Mayor Giuliani's drunken-driving crackdown vowed yesterday to fight City Hall because, he claims, he had only one beer before getting behind...
SAFIR: NO LOGIC TO 41 SHOTS FIRED AT AMADOU
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir says there is "no reason" to expect four cops would fire 41 shots at unarmed Africanimmigrant Amadou Diallo. "Forty-one shots, on its face, seem excessive, absolutely,"...
U.S. FEARS SERB FORCES ARE POISED TO STORM KOSOVO - U.S. FEARS SERBS WILL STORM SERBIA
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amEarlier, Serbia agreed to give limited self-rule to the ethnic Albanians. Serbia amassed a huge military force on the Kosovo border last night, just hours after Western mediators ended a...
EX-CON IS NABBED IN TEACHER'S '95 MURDER
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amBronx detectives last night arrested an ex-con for the murder of a beloved city schoolteacher four years ago, cracking the case after a conscience-stricken witness finally agreed to talk. Jack...
WHITE COP SHOOTS UNARMED BLACK SUSPECT
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amAn unarmed black man reaching for a cell phone was shot and seriously wounded by a uniformed white cop in Queens last night, police said. The incident, starkly similar to...
THE POST HONORS:
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amDID YOU KNOW? Robert Maynard (1937-1993) was the first African-American to direct the editorial operations of a general-circulation metropolitan daily newspaper, the Oakland Tribune, in California. He made history again...
GRANT GETTING SALUTE AT MSG
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amBefore the start of this season, his senior year at St. John's, Tyrone Grant went back to where it all began for him - P.S. 219 in Brooklyn. He looked...
HARVEY TO MISS MONTH OR MORE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amOh, the Rangers' Achy Breaky Heart(beat). He's missed 21 games already with a variety of injuries, and now Todd Harvey is poised to miss at least another month-to-five weeks' worth...
ROLLIN' ROLSTON DEVILS' PRIME BAIT FOR DEAL
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHe's going to give it a shot, no matter what his team looks like in 1999. The Post has learned GM Lou Lamoriello has decided his Devils are good enough...
JETER'S DREAM LIFE KEEPS GETTING BETTER; TOP '98? JETER WILL FIND A WAY
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - The winning streak includes stardom and starlets, World Series and serious cash, happiness and, well, more happiness. "Derek Jeter is on top of the world," David Cone said....
PICABO SETS HER SIGHTS ON SALT LAKE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHER body bears the scars from 11 years of hurtling her body down a mountain at speeds unimaginable to the average skier, but the big smile is still there. Even...
EMBREE ON BOMBERS' WISH LIST
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - Add Alan Embree to the list of left-handed relievers the Yankees have an interest in to replace Graeme Lloyd. The Yankees planned to contact the Giants...
STRAW COULD BE LEFT OUT
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - If Darryl Strawberry's bat is his ticket to playing time in left field, the stick was screaming "Play Me" yesterday during batting practice. Hitting at Legends Field against...
JOE TO YANKS: DON'T REST ON '98 LAURELS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Other managers have used the forum to sprain their elbows patting themselves on the back. Some take the opportunity to show their players who is the boss. There...
STRAHAN CERTAIN COLLINS WILL START
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHe has heard the announcement, that Kent Graham is the starting quarterback and Kerry Collins is the backup, but Michael Strahan isn't buying into the company line. The Giants' Pro...
NEW NYRA HEARING IRKS GALVIN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York Racing Association - battling a $30 million lawsuit by veterinarian Dr. Michael Galvin - yesterday told Galvin that a new hearing into his alleged ''tubing'' of a...
METS RING IN THE OLD - BOBBY BO & RICKEY HIT TOWN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Flash, experience, excitement, age, name recognition, championship rings and question marks all arrived at the Mets spring training camp yesterday in the form of Rickey Henderson...
FRANCO'S ROOTING FOR DUNCAN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Of all the high-profile moves Steve Phillips made during the offseason, it was a very low-profile one that gave John Franco a special feeling. Phillips signed...
GOTTA BELIEVE BONILLA II WON'T BE A BAD RERUN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Call me a sucker, a sap, a spring training optimist warped by sunburn. Call me what you want, but I actually believe this whole Bobby Bonilla...
HOUSTON ON Y2K DREAM TEAM; EXCLUSIVE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks guard Allan Houston is one of nine NBA players who have been selected to represent the United States in the 2000 Olympics, The Post has learned. Lakers center Shaquille...
KNIGHTS MAKE BIG PUSH
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amGeoff Billet and Rob Hodgson have different games and different backgrounds, but the two Rutgers seniors came to New Brunswick in 1995 with the same athletic goal - to build...
KNICKS CAN'T LET WORM CRAWL OFF TO LA-LA LAND
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHEY STOLE our Dodgers. They lured away Al Davis. They even took the movie business out of Astoria, where it was doing perfectly fine, and moved it to a field...
IT PAINS POTVIN TO MISS LEAFS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amIf the stars were aligned for Felix "The Cat" Potvin this season, he'd be in a goalie groove, just waiting to pounce tomorrow on the Maple Leafs, the franchise that...
SAM BACK - BUT RONY'S SHELVED
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amIt took 10 games, but Net coach John Calipari finally had his starting unit together last night. Of course, he didn't have Rony Seikaly, the guy who was projected to...
HOUSTON, NO PROBLEM - ALLAN'S HOT HAND HAS KNICKS RIDING HIGH
February 24, 1999 | 5:00am"This is what has gotten me here, shooting the basketball and just trying to get everybody else involved." ALLAN HOUSTON So far it's been big talk, no action for the...
SPREWELL TO RETURN AS 6TH MAN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES There was a welcome sight for the Knicks last night at the Garden. Latrell Sprewell was shooting 18-footers before the Knicks took on the Nets in the Battle...
NETS STUCK IN SLOW LANE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amSOMEONE on the Nets decided it was a good idea to hold their shoot-around before last night's Knicks game at their practice facility in New Jersey, then board a bus...
IT'S KERRY OBVIOUS TO STRAHAN; STRAHAN CAN'T SEE GRAHAM WINNING JOB
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amHe has heard the announcement, that Kent Graham is the starting quarterback and Kerry Collins is the backup, but Michael Strahan isn't buying into the company line. The Giants' Pro...
COLLINS ASKS FANS TO GIVE HIM CHANCE
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amKERRY Collins sat along celebrity row last night at the Garden, looking a bit out of place sandwiched between Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates and rap star Jay Z. If not...
NET SHOOTING STATS LEAVE CALIPARI COLD
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Calipari studied the final stat sheet and looked as if he wanted to hide. Or die. Or both. There in beautiful black and white was the Nets' shooting percentage,...
EWING'S REVENGE - PATRICK THUMPS UNION FOE JAYSON AS KNICKS PREVAIL; KNICKS TOPPLE NETS
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 82 Nets 74 This is what the Nets are good at - talking big and making excuses. The Knicks put the Nets in their place at the Garden last...
FOOT WOES PUT RONY ON SHELF
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amIt took 10 games, but the Nets finally had their starting unit together last night. Of course, with this being the Nets, something had to go wrong. So they didn't...
KNIGHTMARE CONTINUES
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amGeorgetown 57 Rutgers53 PISCATAWAY - The ball rolled around the cylinder, spinning quickly and wildly like Rutgers' tumbling season. And when Rob Hodgson's last-ditch 3-pointer rattled out it may have...
FOR DISAPPOINTING NETS, IT'S GETTING LATE EARLY
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amTWO points - that's one more than Jayson Williams scored, incidentally - to take home with you in the aftermath of last night's Knicks victory over the Nets at the...
SPREE WILL RETURN AS SIXTH MAN
February 24, 1999 | 5:00amThere was a welcome sight for the Knicks last night at the Garden. Latrell Sprewell was shooting 18-footers before the Knicks beat the Nets 82-74. The stress fracture in his...