April 3, 1999
J0BLESS RATE HITS 4.2%, A 29-YR. L0W
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amJobs a-plenty and high productivity are adding up to keep the U.S. economy healthy and inflation free. The U.S. economy created 46,000 new jobs in March, the fewest new jobs...
THESTREET.COM IPO IS PRICED TO RAISE $71.5M
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amJames Cramer could reap a tenfold or better gain on his original $3.3 million startup stake in Internet financial site TheStreet.com. TheStreet.com is going public at between $11 and $13...
TIME NEW MEDIA'S PRESIDENT RESIGNS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA second key executive has bolted Time Inc. New Media. Linda McCutcheon, who had been president of Time Inc. New Media for two years, resigned yesterday. In a statement she...
'DOUG'S 1ST' IS 1ST-RATE FOR KIDS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amRECOMMENDED"DOUG'S 1st MOVIE" (G): "Doug's" greatest virtue is that it doesn't try too hard. The movie mirrors the modest animated TV show - that Nickelodeon launched and ABC-TV airs -...
'BREATHE' A BAG OF NOXIOUS WIND
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE is nonsense and there is pretentious nonsense, and while the second is more laudable than the first - it at least has the conviction of its own stupidity -...
COUPLE OPENS THEIR HEARTS & HOME TO SAVE LIVES
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amSKOPJE, Macedonia.EASTER is going to be a lot more hectic in the Dodic household this year. Joseph Dodic, 65, a retired factory worker, and his wife, Antonetta, are Albanian Catholics...
WRETCHED WAIT AT THE BORDER OF DESPAIR
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amBLACE, Macedonia.IT IS 6:45 a.m. at the Border of Despair as the fog lifts over the Lepenec River Valley. I gasp. Four hundred feet below me there is the biggest...
PRESS LOSES ACCESS TO LOUIMA JURY POOL
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amJudge shot down defense lawyer's request to have the trial postponed for four months. A Brooklyn federal judge yesterday refused to delay the Abner Louima torture trial - and barred...
MAYORAL HOPEFUL HEVESI GETTING BURNED ON HOT TOPIC
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amMAYOR Giuliani isn't the only one walking a political minefield in the Amadou Diallo case. Comptroller Alan Hevesi, Giuliani's would-be successor, has discovered it's not easy to answer questions about...
SERBS CLAIM BIG GAINS ; AND REBELS ALLEGE NEW MASSACRES
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amDefiant Serb forces yesterday reported capturing several rebel Kosovar strongholds and confiscating thousands of arms. Serbian TV footage of empty houses fortified with sandbags was offered as proof that 10...
VIRUS LAWS NOW NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe New Jersey man accused of spawning the Melissa virus is being charged under a set of 15-year-old laws designed to short-circuit cyber-criminals. And the government will likely throw the...
DEFIANT REPORTER MISSING
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA brave Albanian journalist who kept filing firsthand accounts of the terror from Pristina, Kosovo's capital city, after Serbian authorities kicked out reporters is now missing. The reporter's last dispatch...
U.S. URGES EUROPE TO HARBOR REFUGEES
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. officials have no plans to house the tens of thousands of terrified ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo - but they urged Kosovo's neighbors to harbor them. "Ultimately, we...
L.I. FLIER IN ITALIAN SKI-LIFT DISASTER FACES BOOT
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA military jury recommended yesterday that a Marine navigator be dismissed for destroying videotape he shot just before his jet severed an Italian ski gondola cable, sending 20 people to...
MYSTERY SURROUNDS AILING FARRAKHAN
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amNation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's medical condition remained shrouded in mystery yesterday, as reports that he is seriously ill persisted despite rosy assurances from his organization. The Washington Post...
HOBBLED MAILER'S HEALTH PLAN: 'STICK-2-IT'
April 3, 1999 | 5:00am''He said ... he does have a touch of arthritis.''MAILER ASSISTANT JUDITH McNALLY Tough guys don't dance, but sometimes they have trouble even walking. Arthritis-stricken literary lion Norman Mailer sometimes...
N.J. NERD CHARGED WITH SPREADING MELISSA BUG
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA New Jersey techno-wiz unleashed the computer virus Melissa because he wanted to see how much damage the cyberbug he named for a topless dancer could do, authorities said yesterday....
SERBIAN BUTCHERS 'CUT EARS OF KIDS'
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amTIRANA, Albania - Ramadan Kaperter stood in a muddy refugee camp and described how he managed to run for his life to the Albanian border despite his 75 years. "They...
REV. AL AND RUDY CLASH OVER A 'LONG, HOT SUMMER'
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani ripped the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday, accusing him of trying to instigate a "difficult summer" with his protests over the Amadou Diallo shooting. Sharpton immediately lashed back, denying...
CLUB KING'S LAWYERS OUT FOR BLOOD
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe popular Peter Gatien-owned nightclub where a teen died of a drug overdose is suing the city medical examiner's office for samples of his blood. "This is absolutely disgusting," said...
JUDGE BENCHES 'RUDE' LAWYER IN THE HOOSEGOW
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge ordered a Legal Aid lawyer locked up for 10 days yesterday for being rude to her - a move other lawyers said is out of order. The...
BELGRADE BOMBING MAKES SLOBBO SUFFER ; NATO JETS MANGLE TOP YUGO MINISTRIES
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amBombs rained on downtown Belgrade last night, as NATO made good on a promise to bring the attack home to President Slobodan Milosevic - ignoring pleas from Pope John Paul...
U.S. AWAITS WORD ON CAPTURED GIS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amAnxious U.S. officials awaited the first word today on progress of a court-martial of three GIs captured near the Macedonia border with Yugoslavia. In Kosovo's capital of Pristina, presiding Judge...
B'KLYN SIBLINGS RELIEVED MOM MADE IT OUT ALIVE
April 3, 1999 | 5:00am"She was telling me about the devastation there. She said there were bodies all over the city. It was like the Holocaust."ARDIJAN HASANGJEKAJ Just two months ago, Neriman Hasangjekaj was...
STUNTMAN KILLED IN PLUNGE ; OFF B'KLYN BRIDGE
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA former Junior Olympic boxer trying to kickstart his acting career by climbing five bridges in four hours fell to his death yesterday when he slipped from a cable on...
RAIN HATS MAY REPLACE EASTER BONNETS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amEaster, the most joyous day on the Christian calendar, is tomorrow - but the forecast is nothing to hippity-hop about. "It will be cloudy and we're calling for scattered showers...
TWINS, 11, KILL DAD & SHOOT MOM
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amEleven-year-old twin boys "with plans of wrongdoing" went on a shooting rampage, killing their dad and wounding their mom and teen-age sister, authorities in North Carolina said yesterday. The fifth-graders...
DA WON'T PROSECUTE PROTESTERS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe slate's been wiped clean for actress Susan Sarandon and a slew of other celebrities and politicians arrested over 15 days of protests of the cop killing of Amadou Diallo....
HOME IS WHERE THE HEARTS ARE
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT- EASTER IS GOING TO BE A LOT MORE HECTIC IN THE DODIC HOUSEHOLD THIS YEAR. JOSEPH DODIC , 65, A RETIRED FACTORY WORKER, AND HIS WIFE, ANTONETTA ARE ABLANIAN...
ROBIN WON'T FLY, BUT HE'S STEADY
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amA career .274 hitter, Robin Ventura has surpassed defensive expectations and developed into a good, not great, major league hitter. VIERA, Fla. - A time will come when you will...
STEWART TAKES HIT FOR REMARKS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amFinally blaming himself instead of the "New York media" for taking his remarks "out of context," Islanders coach Bill Stewart admitted his Monday-night diatribe following the loss to the Rangers...
DEVILS' MORRISON COULD FILL CALDER WITH CASH
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amPITTSBURGH - The honor would be foremost, but there are 100,000 other reasons, all green, why Brendan Morrison hopes to win the Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year....
KNICKS' ENGINE REVVED-UP FOR INDY
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe only predictable thing about the Knicks has been that they're completely unpredictable, and maddeningly inconsistent. But they feel they're on the verge of putting some stability into their up-and-down...
BAFFERT PACKING 1-2 PUNCH
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amFor the last three years trainer Bob Baffert has made the Grade 1, $750,000 Santa Anita Derby his private playground, winning with Cavonnier in 1996, finishing second in a photo...
$1M PICK SIX AT SANTA ANITA
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amBig Apple horseplayers can take a bite of the Big Orange today as Santa Anita offers a guaranteed $1 million Pick Six pot on Races 6 through 11. Both Aqueduct...
PRECOCITY, BEHRENS GUN FOR OAKLAWN HANDICAP
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amTrainer Bob Baffert had every intention of sending last year's Kentucky Derby-Preakness winner Real Quiet to Arkansas for today's Grade 1, $750,000 Oaklawn Handicap (Fox Sports Net, 6-7 p.m. tape...
DYNAMIC DUCK DUO SEES RANGERS' BEST
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amThe questions were directed to John Muckler, to Brian Leetch, to Mathieu Schneider; to anyone who was going to be faced with the challenge of defending against Anaheim's Paul Kariya...
CALL RICKEY WHEN BELL RINGS ; HENDERSON UNFAZED BY HITTING .120 IN SPRING
April 3, 1999 | 5:00am"This is my last night to party. I'm going to be a zombie the next two days."RICKEY HENDERSON VIERA, Fla. - The Mets broke camp yesterday with their leadoff hitter...
MORA FAILS TO BAG 25TH ROSTER SPOT
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amVIERA, Fla. - His bat bag and luggage already had been packed onto the bus bound first for Marlins camp, then for the airport for a flight to Texas. Melvin...
BRUISIN' BOOZER EYES RED STORM ; ST. JOHN'S BID FOR ALASKAN STUD
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - He praises the coach, admires the point guard and craves to play at the Garden. But will all that be enough to lure the schoolboy All-American Carlos...
HIDEKI'S GOT MUCH TO DO TO MAKE AMENDS
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Hideki Irabu felt he was letting the Yankees down. He was embarrassed. He sensed his status as a one-man team within a team was never so exaggerated....
SATTERFIELD, MAPP CARRYING BIG APPLE BANNER WITH PRIDE
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amAUBURN HILLS - Kenny Satterfield and Majestic Mapp are New York City's two representatives at Magic's Roundball Classic, a high school all-star game, which will take place today at the...
A TOAD OF CONFIDENCE ; GEORGE DOES A 180, GIVES SUPPORT TO IRABU
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - George Steinbrenner thinks the "toad" can become a prince. Deciding a helping hand would be better than the back of his hand, Steinbrenner has opted to become...
ZIMMER DOESN'T MIND TAKING THE HEAT
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - When George Steinbrenner told Don Zimmer he was going to replace Joe Torre as Yankees manager until Torre returned from prostate cancer surgery, Zimmer knew it wasn't...
PETTITTE FEELS FINE AFTER GOOD FLA. EFFORT
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - There was another pitcher at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa yesterday who is very important to the club's chances of repeating as World Champs. Unlike...
NELSON, CONE DIFFER ON HIDEKI
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - Jeff Nelson and David Cone are lockering eight feet apart in Dodger Stadium's cramped visiting clubhouse for this weekend's two-game exhibition series. However, when it comes to...
MUCK'S DEAD DUCKS ; RANGERS DISPLAY NO SIGN OF LIFE
April 3, 1999 | 5:00amMighty Ducks4 Rangers1 All of the promises from the Rangers that they would fight to the end of the season have proved little more than empty bravado. In the two...