March 13, 1999
RALLY IS BULLDOZED CATERPILLAR WARNING BURIES DOW 10,000
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amInvestors will have to wait for another day for Dow 10,000; the market could not pull off that much-anticipated feat yesterday. In fact, Caterpillar, one of the 30 stocks that...
'GENIUSES' IS MORONIC
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amRECOMMENDED,WITH RESERVATIONS "BABY GENIUSES" (PG): It's hard to believe, but Kathleen Turner's career has hit a new low, playing Dr. Kinder, a mad scientist intent on engineering a new breed...
COMPACT AND CAPABLE
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amA good idea gone right, a most promising new dance venture, calling itself DanceGalaxy, made its bow at the Joyce Theater, opening a debut New York season. DanceGalaxy - a...
IT'S 'PARTY' TIME ; FOX SERIES SETS STAGE FOR LESBIAN MAY 'ROMANCE'
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amWELL, there she goes again. Neve Campbell's "Party of Five" character, Julia Salinger, will romantically kiss another woman during May sweeps - echoing the bisexual character Campbell played in the...
NO-BLARNEY 'STONE' MOLONEY'S PERFORMING HERE,BUT HIS HEART'S IN IRELAND
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Chieftains - arguably the best-known, best-loved group of traditional Irish musicians in the world - have just released an all-star album featuring many of the top female voices in...
BUNGLE LEFT DEAD MAN'S DAD IN DARK FOR MONTHS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amAn elderly Brooklyn man says he needlessly lived with a broken heart for 18 months because the city misidentified his son's body and buried him in Potter's Field. Robert Jensen,...
SPURNED BIG POSTS 10G BOUNTY FOR 'NEWS' SCOOPS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amTHE former president of the city's Art Commission, who quit after losing a behind-the-scenes battle with the parks commissioner, is offering a $10,000 prize for City Hall "investigative journalism." Reba...
CULKIN MOM HIT WITH $80M SUIT
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amThe mother of "Home Alone" star Macaulay Culkin was slapped with an $80 million lawsuit yesterday charging her with negligence for a deadly blaze in the family's West Side high-rise....
SENATE IS WARY OF PREZ'S KOSOVO PLAN
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton's plan to send GIs to maintain peace in Kosovo faces an uncertain future in the Senate next week despite House endorsement of the controversial effort. Sen. Kay Bailey...
RENOWNED VIOLINIST MENUHIN DIES AT 82
March 13, 1999 | 5:00am"[He was] an extraordinary musician and a great humanitarian."ISAAC STERN Virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin, a child prodigy who became one of the world's most celebrated classical musicians, died yesterday at...
TAINTED PSYCH-PANEL BIG ; STEPPING DOWN
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amThe state Psychiatric Institute's No. 2 official - a lightning rod for critics because of his lucrative ties to major drug companies - is resigning, The Post learned yesterday. The...
PATAKI TELLS REPUBLICANS TO ABANDON ABORT PLANK
March 13, 1999 | 5:00am"I think we should just recognize ... the existence of a diversity of opinion, tolerate that diversity and have a big-tent type of philosophy."GOV. PATAKI ALBANY - Gov. Pataki dished...
FERRER TO SKIP BRONX PARADE OVER GAY FLAP
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amBronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer won't march tomorrow in his borough's first St. Patrick's Day parade in 70 years because its organizers are excluding an Irish gay and lesbian group....
PITCH IS MADE FOR 'DIMAGGIO STADIUM'
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amA state assemblyman wants to rename Yankee Stadium for Joe DiMaggio, rejecting Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani's proposal to rechristen a local highway after the late baseball legend. "Renaming the...
TESTED TORRE HEADED BACK TO TAMPA
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA, Fla. - Yankees skipper Joe Torre was scheduled to head back to Tampa after undergoing prostate-cancer tests yesterday at a top research hospital in St. Louis. The Yankees organization...
COP BIG MAY GET DIRTY JOB - AS SANIT CHIEF
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amThe No. 2 man in the NYPD's detective division is in line to run the Sanitation Department, The Post has learned. Sources said Assistant Chief Kevin Farrell, now serving as...
MOURNERS BID 'ANGEL' AMY TEARY ADIEU ; MURDERED STUDENT IS REMEMBERED AS CARING AND GIVING
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 400 friends and family of slain social-work student Amy Watkins crowded into a small Manhattan church yesterday to bid a sad farewell to an angel on Earth. As...
BAND: APPLE PEACHY AFTER 'ROSIE' SNUB
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amThe Big Apple has opened its heart to the Atlanta high-school band dissed by "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." The band will be treated to dinner at an Italian restaurant Sunday...
BILL RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS AS HILL HUDDLES ON SENATE RUN
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A nostalgic President Clinton took a sentimental journey to his Arkansas birthplace yesterday - but wife Hillary stayed home to plot her future with top New York Democrats....
A WISTFUL LAST LOOK, THEN MOM HEADS HOME
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMARGARET TAYFOA looked uncomfortable, shaken, as she stepped from the back seat of the police car. She paused. She was 15 feet away from a piece of Brooklyn real estate...
FIRE'S AFTERMATH WILL BE HELLISH ON F, G STRAPHANGERS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amA fire that knocked out a subway signal system in Brooklyn means commuter hell - indefinitely - for 200,000 riders in the borough who depend on F and G line...
TWIN TOTS ARE HOT SNOOZE ; NAP THROUGH REUNION WITH FIREFIGHTER RESCUE DUO
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amA grateful mom yesterday thanked firefighters for rescuing her 6-week-old twins from a roaring blaze in her Upper West Side building, saying that if the infants could talk they'd say...
MAN SHOOTS 3, THEN KILLS SELF: COPS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amAn enraged boyfriend shot three of his girlfriend's relatives in her Queens apartment last night and then turned the gun and killed himself, cops said. The horrific incident occurred shortly...
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND AT BARUCH
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amCops are trying to determine whether the body of a woman found last night behind a Baruch College building is that of an Asian student who vanished on Monday. The...
AGONY IN GARDEN WILL BE LENNOX'
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amHE IS aiming low, grasping at moral victories and fighting, it seems, more to prove others wrong than to prove himself right. That alone is enough to tell me that...
HE'S MIAMI'S KING JAMES
March 13, 1999 | 5:00am"Words can't describe how much Tim [James] has done for our program."MIAMI'S JOHNNY HEMSLEY Tim James can remember being 3 years old and hiding under the bed during the bloody...
CAT THIEF WILL BOUNCE BACK
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - Trainer Nick Zito, whose Adonis and Wondertross carry the hopes of New York in today's Grade 1 $750,000 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, often talks of finding...
HOW PIAZZA WENT FROM ZERO TO HERO IN VERO
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - In 1989, as a 62nd-round draft choice, Mike Piazza arrived to Dodgertown for the first time as a pro viewed as a favor, not a favorite. His...
LIKE KNIGHT AND DAY ; RED STORM, HOOSIERS DIFFER IN DANCE STYLE
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amORLANDO - They are opposites that have been attracted to one another by this blind dating service known as the NCAA Tournament. St. John's and Indiana, two of the most...
JARVIS ADMIRES GENERAL'S GENIUS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amAs soon as the CBS powers-that-be saw the NCAA Tournament bracket, the network made a decision it has rarely made in the history of televising this event: Hoping that the...
EX-DUKE AIDE RATES '92 CLUB BETTER
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - For the first time since Christian Laettner moved onto the NBA, Duke has that strut back, but not quite to the extent the Blue Devils once had it,...
AILING CALHOUN'S EXPECTED BACK
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - Jim Calhoun, recovering from the effects of an intestinal virus, was at McNichols Sports Arena yesterday for UConn's practice, and plans on being on the bench today when...
UCONN WARY OF LOBOS' THOMAS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER - He lived and breathed on TV, existing from their frame of reference only on late-night ESPN action, and his game nearly burst through the small screen. The word...
RANGERS CAN'T HIT SKID NOW
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amManny Malhotra may be only an 18-year-old freshman, but he knew the score as well as anyone going into last night's Garden showdown against the Bruins. "It's an important game...
NO REASSURANCE FOR CAL
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - If John Calipari did indeed receive a last minute reprieve from the coaching gas chamber, he didn't get any public reassurance from his ownership that his job is...
VAN HORN'S LIST STARTS WITH MARBURY
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Keith Van Horn was talking with teammates Kerry Kittles and Jayson Williams during training camp one day. The subject was point guards. In Van Horn's mind, there was...
STRAW: PUT ME IN THE LINEUP
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - If the Yankees have any doubts that Darryl Strawberry will be ready to start the season, he is offering a simple way for them to find out: Play...
OWLS LOADED FOR BEARCAT
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amEAST Temple61 Kent54 BOSTON - Temple point guard Pepe Sanchez admits his Owls looked past their first-round NCAA game last year, and toward a second-round date with Cincinnati that never...
BAD-GERS ARE SIMPLY THE WORST
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amEAST SW Mo. St.43 Wisconsin32 CHARLOTTE - Wisconsin statisticians dug deep into their record books of futility and this is what they came up with after Southwest Missouri State dumped...
SOONERS STUN 'ZONA ; ARIZONA LETS ONE SLIP AWAY
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMIDWEST Oklahoma61 Arizona60 MILWAUKEE - When the end came, none of the Arizona players could believe it. When Arizona senior Jason Terry made a desperate - and unsuccessful - drive...
WHAT ABOUT BOB? ; ST. JOHN'S ISN'T MAD FOR HIM
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amORLANDO - Imagine some of the St. John's basketball players starring in the movie "Hoosiers" if you can. Imagine some of them playing for Bobby Knight if you can. You...
BROWN JUMPS ON BANDWAGON FOR NETS' DEAL
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The deal that brought Stephon Marbury home to the New York area is drawing raves around the league. Sixer coach Larry Brown couldn't help but laud the Nets'...
METS TREATED LIKE ROYALTY IN DOMINICAN
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amSANTO DOMINGO - Beisbol is king in the Dominican Republic, and the yesterday this island nation welcomed the visiting royalty from the north. With a curious populace waving them on,...
'NOVA GOAL: CELESTAND & DELIVER
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - John Celestand, once the precocious freshman on some star-dominated Villanova teams, is now the Wildcats' veteran leader. This is his team. He's now the seasoned player trying to...
STEPHON DEMANDS NETS FORGET TRADING KITTLES
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - Stephon Marbury said he had one major request - more like a demand - about any move involving his going to New Jersey. He wanted to find Kerry...
ZIMMER'S NOT STEPPING ON JOE'S TOES
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Bad knee and all, Don Zimmer appears to be comfortable running the Yankees while Joe Torre battles prostate cancer. However, he dearly misses the man he has grown...
SUB HELPS NINERS STRIKE GOLD IN OT
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMIDWEST / OT UNCC 81 URI 70 MILWAUKEE - Regulation was so riveting in yesterday's Midwest Regional first-round game between Rhode Island and UNC-Charlotte that it had to go to...
VAN WANTS CHANGE IN KNICKS' ATTITUDE
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO - The chalkboard in the Knick locker room said it all before last night's game with the Horri-Bulls. Jeff Van Gundy is looking for more than just a couple...
NO SHAQ, SO NETS 'SETTLE' FOR MARBURY
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The Nets couldn't get Shaquille O'Neal. So they "settled" for Stephon Marbury. See, Lewis Katz, the hands-on co-chairman and principal owner, was itching to do something to try...
KATZ GIVES NO REASSURANCE ON JOB SECURITY TO COACH CAL
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - If John Calipari did indeed receive a last minute reprieve from the coaching gas chamber, he didn't get any public reassurance from ownership that his job is secure....
IZZY SHARP IN MET LOSS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amVERO BEACH - Jason Isringhausen put two more impressive innings together yesterday. Not only because his curve was crisp, his arm strong. But because he is having a better time...
SIXERS' BROWN JUMPS ON NETS' BANDWAGON
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The deal that brought Stephon Marbury home to the New York area is drawing raves around the league. Sixer coach Larry Brown couldn't help but laud the Nets'...
BLUE DEVILS DON'T GET RATTLED IN FIRST ROUND
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amEAST Duke99 Fla. A&M58 CHARLOTTE - Duke blasted Florida A&M 99-58 last night, but the night was not without a ''Hoosiers''-like moment for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament-champion Rattlers. Fantasies...
LIKE 'HOOSIERS,' ST. EDMUND REINS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amCHSAA 'B' FINAL St. Edmund 48 Spellman43 CHSAA 'C' FINAL Salesian 58 Regis54 Four years ago, St. Edmund High did not have a varsity team. Last night, it won the...
HORRI-BULL KNICKS HIT NEW LOW
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amBulls76 Knicks63 CHICAGO - If you look up the word pathetic in the dictionary this morning, there will be a picture of the Knicks. If you are a Knick fan,...
SIXERS NUDGE NETS IN OT
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amSixers100 Nets93 PHILADELPHIA - The Nets got an up close look last night of what Stephen Marbury will do for them. They saw it in the form of what Allen...
HEMSLEY ON TARGET
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amEASTMiami (Fla.)75 Lafayette54 BOSTON - To Miami's Johnny Hemsley, shooting the basketball last night must have seemed like tossing a rock into the Atlantic. The junior swingman put on one...
BRUINS' RALLY STUNS RANGERS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amBruins5 Rangers4 It was the wrong time of the season for the Rangers to get caught up in an explosion of seven third-period goals that left them one shy at...
'NOVA REACHES FOR STARS
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - John Celestand, once the precocious freshman on some star-dominated Villanova teams, is now the Wildcats' veteran leader. This is his team. He's now the seasoned player trying to...
CHARLESTON MIRACLE DENIED
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amEAST Tulsa62 Charleston53 CHARLOTTE - Just when it looked as if its grand record was little more than the result of exploiting a cheap schedule, the College of Charleston blitzed...
IT'S ALL OVER FOR VILLANOVA
March 13, 1999 | 5:00amMIDWEST Mississippi72 Villanova70 MILWAUKEE - John Celestand sat alone on a bench inside the Villanova locker room staring blankly and with tears welling up in his eyes after Mississippi ended...