March 5, 1999
JOBS REPORT COULD PUSH T-BONDS TO 6%
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amHOW high are interest rates going? Today is crucial. While Washington would love for the government statistics to show a lot of job growth in February, that's the last thing...
A-G SPITZER DEDICATES SQUAD OF 'NET COPS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amConcerned that complaints to his office tripled since he first launched an investigation into online brokerages, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has stepped up his inquiry. Spitzer is...
ELEKTRA BOSS RHONE AGREES TO STAY ON
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amTime Warner music chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel have dodged a major bullet by coming to terms with one of their top label chiefs. Sylvia Rhone has tentatively agreed...
FUCHS IN MUSICAL CHAIR PLAY AT EMI
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amFuchs has wandered the media badlands since he was bounced as chief of both Warner Brothers' music group and HBO. Record company EMI, home to superstar Garth Brooks, is getting...
TECH DEAL REBOOTS THE BULLS; DOW SOARS 191
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amBig news in the technology sector brought stocks roaring back to life, driving the Dow Jones industrial average up more than 2 percent for the day. Investors were energized by...
EXODUS OF TOP OUTSIDE EDITORS HAS STAFF REELING
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amOutside is unraveling from the inside. Deputy editor John Tayman and managing editor Adam Horowitz were the latest to turn in their resignations to chairman Lawrence Burke this week. Their...
BARBIE ON THE ROCKS ; BARAD TRIES MATTEL MAKEOVER
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amAmerica's toy queen, Jill Barad, is on the hot seat as she tries to rebuild her sagging Mattel empire into a winner once again. Barad, 47, chairman and CEO of...
DELL'S BIG BLUE PAL ; BOTH FIRMS WIN IN TECH DEAL WITH IBM
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMichael Dell can't do it alone. His Dell Computer Corp., the No. 1 direct seller of PCs, acknowledged yesterday that they will need help to take the company to the...
AN UNHOLY 'SUNDAY'
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Reviews 'SIX Ways to Sunday'' is the kind of cynical, creepy production that makes you feel vaguely nauseated afterwards, as if you've gulped down milk turned sour. We meet...
ALLMAN PLOY ; HE DISTILLS HIS LIFE TO ITS ESSENCE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Allman Brothers, one of rock 'n' roll's longest-lasting and most-loved bands, opened their annual monthlong stay at the Beacon Theater last night. Gregg Allman, clean and sober for more...
TAYLOR ON PLAYFUL TURF WITH 'FIDDLERS GREEN'
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amDance Review GEORGE Balanchine liked to note that his muse had to arrive on union time - and indeed one of the characteristics of major choreographers of dance companies is...
TRASHY 'CRUEL' AN UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review 'CRUEL Intentions" demonstrates the difference between good trash and bad. Writer-director Roger Kumble transposes the French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" into the posh, amoral world of Manhattan private...
TV TICKER
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amLocal heroes Aargh! Some local February sweeps numbers: *WCBS/Ch.2's noon newscast finished first with a 16.2 rating (1.1 million households), an 11 percent increase over Nov. '98 numbers. Ch.2 also...
BEAN CRAVING SOMETHING?
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amFood Line What could be more soul-satisfying on a rainy, windy night than a hearty, slow-cooked cassoulet? WITH nasty weather in the forecast, our thoughts naturally turn to comfort food....
COURAGEOUS CREW MAKES 'BOAT' FLOAT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Reviews 'ROCK the Boat'' is a documentary about a crew of HIV-positive men who sail a racing yacht to Hawaii. It's got the kind of self-congratulatory sentimentality that can...
'SEX' SO LOUSY IT AROUSES ONLY DISBELIEF
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Reviews A truly awful movie, "Relax ... It's Just Sex" has the look and feel of a high-school play. Its script, acting and direction are all so atrocious that...
B'WAY MAY SOON BE UP IN 'ARMS'
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amHEY, guys, let's put on a show - and then move it to Broadway! Plans are afoot to mount the recent "Encores!" concert version of "Babes in Arms" on the...
NBC: MUST-READ TV ; NET TURNING SHOWS INTO BOOKS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amNBC is in talks to create its own book publishing arm, The Post has learned. The network - which is in the midst of an ambitious plan to expand its...
'ANNIE GET YOUR GUN' IS ON TARGET
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review THE revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" has what it takes. Just. It's almost a laboratory demonstration of what a musical needs to be good. It doesn't need...
CRIME CAPERA 'BARREL' OF (WICKED) FUN
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Reviews FRESH, fast and very funny, this rollicking movie joins a spate of hits denoting a welcome transformation in British cinema. (Think "Trainspotting," "Shallow Grave," "Sliding Doors" and "Hilary...
DE NIRO CRACKS WISE GUISE IN COMEDY
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review ''Analyze This'' is pretty thin sauce, but De Niro and Crystal are a treat. 'ANALYZE This'' is a one-joke comedy, but in the hands of Billy Crystal and...
SCRAMBLE TO SUCCEED SISKEL
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE critic Gene Siskel's old theater chair has become one of the most sought-after seats on TV. For now, the show, still called "Siskel & Ebert," will rotate guest co-hosts...
'BOSSES KNEW CONTEST WAS FIXED': OUSTED DJ
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amAXED WKTU DJ Hollywood Hamilton, who was fired this week for rigging an on-air contest so his personal publicist could win a free trip to Mexico, says the station management...
'ALLY HASN'T GOT LEGS'
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Don't expect a long shelf life for "Ally McBeal," says the show's creator, David E. Kelley. Kelley tells the upcoming (March 13) issue of TV Guide that he expects...
PENTAGON STUD DEVISED STRATEGY FOR SOMALIA & BOSNIA OPERATIONS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe "other man" in Monica Lewinsky's life is a handsome, brilliant Pentagon hotshot who earned his stripes in the hot spots of Somalia and Bosnia. Thomas Longstreth, 42, a bachelor...
JORDAN'S NEW KING CLEANS HOUSE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amJordan's King Abdullah swore in a new Cabinet yesterday, booting out all the ministers loyal to his uncle, Prince Hassan, and choosing a prime minister who backs close ties with...
AIDS DRUG MAY REDUCE ODDS OF INFANT INFECTION
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amShort-term treatment with the drug AZT could cut in half the number of HIV-positive mothers transmitting the killer virus to their babies, a new study says. The study, published today...
FED TRANSIT BIGS STUDY 'CRACKING' CITY SUBWAY CARS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe federal government has launched a probe into reports of cracks in a key component of city subway cars. The Federal Transit Administration has asked the Transit Authority for an...
NEW HOPE IN BATTLE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amA new Alzheimer's drug is effective in treating patients with mild and moderate forms of the disease, researchers said today. The first large trial of rivastigmine, a new class of...
MILWAUKEE MODEL STILL CONTROVERSIAL
March 5, 1999 | 5:00am"When you're talking about test scores or graduation rates, the difference is negligible."WISCONSIN STATE SCHOOLS SPOKESMAN The voucher system Mayor Giuliani sees as a model for New York's is by...
COPS PICKET NEW YORKER MAGAZINE OVER CARTOON
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amHundreds of angry off-duty cops picketed outside the offices of The New Yorker magazine yesterday to protest a controversial cover cartoon inspired by the shooting of Amadou Diallo. "We're not...
CYBER-ROMANCE ENDS IN SUICIDE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amA 28-year-old French woman, lured to suburban Detroit by a man who wooed her on the Internet, apparently committed suicide near his home after he had sex with her and...
HER STOCK SOARS, BUT HIS NOSE-DIVES
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Public sympathy for Monica Lewinsky shot up and President Clinton's image nosedived after the ex-intern poured out her broken heart on national TV. An ABC poll after the...
TOP COURT'S EX-JUSTICE BLACKMUN IS DEAD AT 90
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amRetired Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, whose landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion sparked one of the most explosive debates in history, died yesterday. He was 90. Blackmun died in Virginia's...
STATE SHRINKS GET LECTURE TOURS ON DRUG MAKERS' DIME
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amLeading researchers at the state Psychiatric Institute have been hop-scotching the globe on pricey all-expenses-paid lecture tours funded by huge pharmaceutical companies, state records show. The Psychiatric Institute's deputy director,...
'MICK JUMPED 0N ME IN A FLASH'; EX-'70S STAR MACKENZIE TELLS OF ROMP
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amTV bad-girl Mackenzie Phillips says Mick Jagger bedded her as a teen-ager, panting "I have been waiting for this since you were 10 years old!" Phillips, star of the '70s...
GOTTI AND CHIN ON THE MOVE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe feds this week moved reputed mob bosses John Gotti and Vincent "Chin" Gigante out of a Missouri medical prison - and sent them to separate pens in Illinois, The...
MORGENTHAU: DNA IS KEY TO SOLVING 12,000 CRIMES
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amCalling DNA evidence "the fingerprints of the future," Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau yesterday predicted the new technology could solve a backlog of 12,000 cases citywide. "It's the most significant...
SHE RATES HIGH ON BOOB TUBE - NOW IT'S ON TO THE BOOK
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMonica's story made great prime-time television - but it may not be everyone's idea of bedtime reading. The ratings for ABC's two-hour interview with the portly pepperpot went through the...
ARMY KILLS MASSACRE REBELS; MORE HUNTED IN CONGO
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amFifteen of the Hutu rebels who slaughtered eight foreign tourists in Uganda were killed in a Rwandan army ambush, the Ugandan army said yesterday. The Rwandan troops killed the rebels...
LOVER: I PAID FOR MONICA'S ABORTION - DENIES BOOK CLAIM HE ABANDONED HER
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky's secret Pentagon boyfriend is angrily denying her published claim he abandoned her after she became pregnant, one of his pals said yesterday. The pal said Tom Longstreth, now...
HILLARY ROLLS HOME ON WAVE OF CHEERS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ended her two-day blitz of New York City, where she got plenty of publicity for her possible Senate candidacy while dodging all questions about...
BRIDGE WORK MAY BE STADIUM HIT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe bridge that deposits fans at Yankee Stadium's door will undergo a $137 million reconstruction - but not during baseball season. The rehabilitation of the century-old Macomb's Dam Bridge will...
MONICA IN BED WITH HILLARY ; ON 'CONSPIRACY'
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amLONDON - Monica Lewinsky has something else in common with Hillary Clinton - she too believes there is a "right-wing conspiracy" out to get the president. "I do think that...
GOLDEN BOY BRADLEY MAKES BIG $CORE IN JERSEY
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amEx-Knick Bill Bradley netted $1.5 million in his first big fund-raiser last night as he tried to show he's "got game" for his race against Vice President Al Gore for...
SADDAM'S WON NUKE FACE-OFF WITH U.S.: TOP EX-INSPECTOR
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM - Former arms inspector Scott Ritter declared in an interview published today that Saddam Hussein has already won his showdown with the U.N. and U.S. over Iraq's bid to...
OUTRAGE AS SKI-SHEAR ; FLIER GETS OFF
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amHeartsick families of victims in the Italian cable-car disaster screamed in fury yesterday as a military jury found a U.S. Marine pilot innocent of involuntary manslaughter. Marine Capt. Richard Ashby...
SCHOOL CLASH CORNERS GIULIANI
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amANALYSIS Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew's astounding threat to quit if the city implements a schools voucher experiment shoves Mayor Giuliani into one the strangest political corners of his career. If...
HIZZONER, GOV END FEUD IN MEETING
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amGov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani held a top-secret, 90-minute meeting yesterday - the first time they've spoken in person since their bitter battle over schools and budget dollars began two...
WH0LE CREW'S READY T0 QUIT 0VER V0UCHERS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amChancellor Rudy Crew's top aides yesterday threatened to join their boss in quitting over school vouchers - even as Mayor Giuliani tried to cool tempers by saying he doubts Crew...
EX-CON BUSTED PREYING ON ELDERLY BX. WOMEN
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amA vicious parolee targeted 14 elderly Bronx women - all between the ages of 85 and 94 - in a series of push-in robberies in the Parkchester housing complex, police...
CABLEVISION AND METS COULD BE IN SAME DUGOUT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Cablevision and the Mets are talking about creating a partnership - but any deal is a long way off, sources told The Post. If the two sides are able...
WHERE THE ACTION ISN'T: COMPARED TO YANKEELAND, METSVILLE'S A BORE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe Post recently spent five days in Tampa and Port St. Lucie observing the spring-training experience for the Yankees and Mets. The discrepancies between the teams' on- and off-the-field activities...
OUR MAN: FAT'S ALL, FOLKS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amON a scale of one to 10, I turned out to be an 11. After 12 weeks on the Apex Fitness and Nutrition System, I stepped onto the scale last...
HOLIK & CO. SHOW NO MAGIC AT HOME
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe stat is as remarkable as the difference between the Devils' grand record on the road and their mediocre one at home. It is also surely related. The Devils' No....
CAMBY COOL TO HEAT SEAT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Marcus Camby said he has no qualms about sitting against the Heat Tuesday night, but doesn't agree with the notion that he doesn't match up well against the...
ANGRY VAN NOT ON TALKIN' SPREE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - His choice of words could have been better, but Jeff Van Gundy was trying to get a point across to his team and the public yesterday that the...
GRITTY PIRATES FRUSTRATED BY ANOTHER NEAR-MISS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amThe buzzer sounded and Tommy Amaker unleashed a soccer kick of disgust on his way to the obligatory handshake with Jim Calhoun. Seton Hall had scared the daylights out of...
LAWRENCE MAKING A MARK
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders forward Mark Lawrence had the perfect response when asked if he simply wasn't given enough opportunities with the Stars, who faced the Islanders last night. ''Fifteen games in five...
'WE' MISS THE OLD FRANCESA: ONCE VOICE OF FANS IS NOW STUCK ON HIMSELF
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amLATELY, we can't listen to the "Mike and the Mad Dog Show" for more than a few minutes without wondering where the old Mike Francesa went. Francesa's greatest virtues as...
THIS EXPO'S MADE FOR KIDS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amADULTS aren't the only ones to suffer from the winter illness called cabin fever. Children have also been known to suffer from being cooped up in a house for weeks...
HOLD ON! NBA HAS LOST ITS FAST BREAK
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amIF a flimsy notion is repeated often enough, it becomes repeated as fact. Thus the notion that NBA games are now so low-scoring - before and after the lockout -...
ARIEL, MOLLICA ARE PACKING 1-2 PUNCH
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amCALL apprentice rider Ariel Smith and his new agent Drew Mollica two ports in a storm. Both were in troubled waters when they hooked up Saturday to begin what should...
UCONN'S GREAT ESCAPE ; HALL OF AN EFFORT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amQUARTERFINALS UConn 57 Seton Hall 56 All season, Connecticut has found ways to win games. Some were ugly and some were lucky and some - like yesterday's 57-56 Big East...
REDS REFUSE TO RAISE WHITE FLAG ; REDS STILL TRY WHILE SMALL MARKETS CRY
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amSARASOTA - Rather than aligning with baseball officials who seem happiest when running down their sport or small-revenue brethren who use "woe is me" as a national anthem, the Reds...
ROCKET HELPS ORLANDO FIRE CUBAN MISSILES
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - The Rocket has turned into The Instructor. For $8 million, the Yankees thought they were getting a Hall of Fame pitcher in Roger Clemens when they acquired him...
NEIL'S LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD ; RANGERS KEEPING AN EYE ON FUTURE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The Rangers had gone 2-0-1 without Wayne Gretzky and 4-1-1 in their last six games to move back into the hunt for the East's final playoff berth, but...
NOMO NO LONGER PRESSED
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - From his first spring training in 1995, Hideo Nomo had been followed, scrutinized and at times hounded by the Japanese media. But for the first time...
NO WORKOUTS FOR ARMSTEAD
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amAs controversies go, this one does not rate, yet. "Now we're worrying about hold-outs in the off-season," Giants' GM Ernie Accorsi said with a laugh. "It's a long way until...
CATFISH TAKES IT ONE DAY AT A TIME
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Typical spring day in Florida. Sun shining. Not a cloud in sight. The only moisture to be found anywhere is in the eyes of a great Yankee. Jim...
BALANCING ACT ; STORM, RUTGERS PUT POST-SEASON ON LINE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amIt was a game of high-stakes poker, one in which the loser may have had to forfeit the deed to its season. When Rutgers and St. John's met in a...
MCRAE HAS Y2K PROBLEM
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES PORT ST. LUCIE - Brian McRae still hasn't made up his mind about his future. Coming off his best year in which he hit 21 home runs and...
BUCK TRADE WOULD BE TERRELL-BLE FOR NETS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Why would anyone believe the Nets will send Sam Cassell to Milwaukee for Terrell Brandon before the March 11 trading deadline? We know why the Bucks want to...
'CUSE HAS HUSKY APPETITE:ORANGEMEN WHIP 'NOVA, SET SIGHTS ON TOPPLING UCONN
March 5, 1999 | 5:00am"We really didn't want Seton Hall to win; we wanted [UConn] to win."ETAN THOMAS QUARTERFINALS Syracuse 70 Villanova 62 The Syracuse Orangemen sat in the Garden stands yesterday afternoon and...
JAYSON FLIPS TO OTHER SIDE
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES Jayson Williams was asking about helmets if things went wrong last night. See, the give-away to the crowd was a commemorative Williams All-Star coin, depicting the Nets' cen-ter...
BOMBERS STILL LOOK FOR LEFTY
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - While the Yankees insist acquiring a second lefty reliever isn't a must before the regular season begins, that doesn't mean they aren't inquiring about what's available...
POWERFUL HURRICANES END HOYA HEX
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amQUARTERFINALS Miami 65 Georgetown 54 History took a beating last night, which is just fine with a Miami basketball team that is blazing new ground. Ever since joining the Big...
ORANGEMEN ON HUSKIES: BRING 'EM ON
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amQUARTERFINALS Syracuse 70 Villanova 62 The Syracuse Orangemen sat in the Garden stands yesterday afternoon and rooted hard for Connecticut to beat back this surprise challenge from pesky Seton Hall....
ARMSTEAD PASSES ON WORKOUTS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amAs controversies go, this one does not rate, yet. "Now we're worrying about holdouts in the off-season," Giants' GM Ernie Accorsi said with a laugh. "It's a long way until...
KANELL, FALCS REAL CLOSE ON CONTRACT
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amImagine the conversations Dan Reeves and Danny Kanell can have down in Atlanta. Reeves can grumble about the Giants firing him, and Kanell can lament about the Giants releasing him....
STARS WORK OVERTIME TO STOP ISLES
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amIsles see Stars after loss in OT Less than a minute away from earning an impressive tie against the league-leading Stars, the Islanders stopped playing hockey. With several chances to...
RALLYIN' RANGERS TIP CAPS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amRangers 4 Capitals 2 WASHINGTON - There's something happening here, a turn-around in the Ranger season that could not have been predicted two weeks ago when a tired team six...
STORM GETS WISH ; MEETS MIAMI IN SEMIS AFTER ROUTING RUTGERS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amQUARTERFINALS St. John's 77 Rutgers 62 Like two low-pressure systems that converge to form a terrifying show of force, the Red Storm and Hurricanes will collide tonight in a semifinal...
CAL'S THIN GRAY LINE COLLAPSES
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amHornets 96 Nets 82 Hey, did you catch those new Net uniforms last night? Snazzy-looking gray jobs that the team will wear on the road. Zany, huh? Wearing road uniforms...
SAM INSISTS ANKLE INJURY REALLY HURTS
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES With the Nets this season, it's always something to distract and detract. Yesterday's crisis du jour was a magazine article claiming players have grumbled about Sam Cassell's unwillingness...
ACHING SAM: MY INJURY'S REAL
March 5, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: With the Nets this season, it's always something to distract and detract. Yesterday's crisis du jour was a magazine article claiming players have been grumbling about Sam Cassell's unwillingness...