April 7, 1999
PUMPKIN HO ON BLOCK FOR $1.6M
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amA panorama of views from its many rooms is the prime reason for its relatively high price. A $1.6 million house in Washington Heights? If it sells for its steep...
CALCULATING RETURNS MADE EASY ON SEC WEBSITE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00am"A 1 percent difference in mutual-fund costs may seem insignificant at first, but over time it can really add up."NANCY SMITH, SEC official. Quick, which mutual fund is better: one...
NEWS CORP. SHARES RISE ON LIBERTY MEDIA DEAL
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amNews Corporation shares continued to climb yesterday, after the company formally announced several deals that will give it full control of its sports business. Fox Entertainment Group and News Corp....
GROVE'S STOCKPILE INTEL SLASHES BOSS' BONUS, UPS OPTIONS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amIntel Chairman Andy Grove got a 31 percent cut in his bonus over Intel's woes but still is walking away with one of his highest compensation packages ever. Grove, 62,...
BREAKUP ENTITLES CBS TO $100M KING'S RANSOM
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amKing World will have to fork over $100 million to CBS if their merger plans fall apart. At the same time, CBS would be allowed out of the $2.5 billion...
HELL'S ANGELS HAVE KNOWN NO FURY LIKE AN AGENT SCORNED
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amHELL's Angels supreme leader Ralph "Sonny" Barger may be revving up to peddle his autobiography anew now that his year-long legal battle with one-time literary agent Maureen Regan is nearing...
THEGLOBE.COM GETS AN ATTITUDE FOR $43M
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amTheglobe.com co-founders Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot are now really a pair of happy puppies. The pair who made millions from their IPO are continuing their worldwide expansion efforts by...
A 'HEAD ON' CLASH BETWEEN FAMILY & FREEDOM
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amNew Directors/New Films IF John Travolta's Tony Manero had been a second-generation Greek-Australian walking the meanish streets of Melbourne, dancing to bouzouki music rather than the Bee Gees - and...
TV TICKER
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amFor openers Both the Mets and Yankees pulled in big ratings on Monday's opening day. The Mets averaged 213,000 households on Fox Sports New York - the team's highest-rated opening...
'CANDY' LEAVES SOUR TASTE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00am"Strangers With Candy" Tonight at 10:30 onComedy Central FLATPOINT High is a school for future "Jerry Springer" sadsacks. The saddest is Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a 46-year-old freshman back on...
A LORTEL LAUREL 'WIT' HONOR
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amWIT,'' Margaret Edson's searing off-Broadway drama about a college professor battling ovarian cancer, yesterday won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play.Kathleen Chalfant, who plays the professor, was named outstanding...
PROTESTORS TO DOG 'DOGMA'?
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amW HY is maverick filmmaker Kevin Smith's heterodox religious satire "Dogma" anathema to Miramax and its parent company Disney? Read the screenplay at Smith's Web site (www.viewaskew.com) and see for...
HE'S WAN OF A KIND
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHE actor who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in the new ''Star Wars'' movie has a scandalous reputation on the big screen: He's shot heroin, pranced around naked and sashayed across a...
TV ANCHOR WINS $7.3M IN FIRING; KESSLER CHARGED RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amS ARA Lee Kessler was awarded $7.3 million yesterday in a lawsuit against WWOR/Ch.9 which charged that religious discrimination led to her firing in 1994. A jury in Hackensack, N.J....
SUAVE ITALIAN: TASTY BUT TARDY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amGiorgio's of Gramercy 27 E. 21st St. (212) 477-0007 The waiter at Giorgio's of Gramercy uses grand gestures to describe the night's special appetizer. There's a chop-chop-chop motion for slicing...
OPERA CHEF
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amTake one part opera star, one part gospel singer, some Louisiana cowboy and a good dash of cook - and you have Jeffrey Wells, who last week appeared as the...
CALL IT MOOMBA-PEQUA
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amRestaurant reviews RATINGS BOX: Alaia Half a star 59 Fifth Ave. (between 12th and 13th streets) (212) 249-9710 'Put your $20 on the bar,'' the bartender at Alaia growls. 'We...
FEDS PROBE CIRCUS ELEPHANT 'ABUSE' ; RINGLING IS BEASTLY: EX-WORKERS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe Greatest Show on Earth is under federal investigation for alleged elephant abuse - something several former employees claim to have witnessed under Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's big...
GOD HELP THEM, BECAUSE BUREAUCRATS WON'T
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amBLACE, Macedonia.THE Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, stood on the rim of misery and asked for God's help. "We have been prevented from helping those people. We...
SLOPPY CLINICS FOSTER MANY MIXUPS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe recent embryo mixup that ended up with a Staten Island woman giving birth to test-tube twin boys - one black and one white - is not the first high-tech...
POLICE AND THANK YOU: COPS WILL CARRY TIPS ON POLITENESS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amExplain "in a courteous . . . demeanor the reason for your interaction . . . and apologize for any inconvenience."COURTESY-INSTRUCTION CARDS FOR COPS All NYPD cops will soon carry...
HEARTBREAK OF FAMILIES WITHOUT A COUNTRY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amDURRES, Albania.TEHANI SMOKIC and his wife, Nakolec, are desperately trying to put the horror of Kosovo behind them and start a new life in Germany. But they are trapped in...
RITES FOR SONGWRITER STONE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amFuneral services for famed songwriter and arranger Jesse Stone - who wrote "Shake, Rattle and Roll" - are scheduled for today at 2:30 p.m at St. Peter's Church, 619 Lexington...
PARENTS RIP HYNES FOR 'COVER-UP' IN '97 SLAY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe outraged family of a Brooklyn man slain by Diallo-case cop Kenneth Boss lashed out at the district attorney yesterday for clearing him in the earlier shooting. Evedine and Lloyd...
L.I. JURY TOLD: CONFESSED CANNIBAL COULD KILL AGAIN
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amConfessed cannibal Albert Fentress' court bid to win freedom after two decades inside state mental hospitals began yesterday with a prosecutor warning that Fentress could become a killer again. Prosecutor...
CARDINAL GIVES HIS BLESSINGS TO AMADOU KIN
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor offered his condolences to the parents of Amadou Diallo yesterday in a 50-minute meeting in his office. ''He gave us blessings,'' said Diallo's mother, Kadiatou Diallo. ''And...
DOWNED PILOT: GOD SAVED ME ; RELIVES DRAMA OF FIGHTER-JET BAILOUT
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe U.S. stealth-fighter pilot who was dramatically rescued after his plane was shot down over Serbia says, "God took my hands and pulled" the ejector levers as the jet hurtled...
THEY'RE CHIPS OFF THE OLD (CELL) BLOCK
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amWhen John A. "Junior" Gotti starts his prison term, he and his father will become one of several notorious father-and-son teams to do time simultaneously. Gotti, 35, pleaded guilty to...
ALLIED BOMB KILLS 12 YUGO CIVILIANS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amBody parts and building debris littered the streets of a Yugoslav coal-mining town walloped by an American bomb that "fell short" of its target - reportedly killing a dozen civilians....
ARE COPS RUDE? WOULDN'T YOU BE?; EVERYBODY HAS TROUBLE WHEN OBLIGED TO DEAL WITH THE POLICE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amIt's tempting to extrapolate from personal experience - indeed, it's human nature to try to understand the world through your own experiences - but it is often a false picture....
FIRST REFUGEES HAULED OUT OF HELL ; NATO BEGINS AIRLIFT OF 100,000 KOSOVARS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amNATO's massive airlift got under way yesterday, with thousands of the Kosovar refugees who fled the horrors in their homeland making heartbreaking new journeys to far-flung nations. Lugging meager belongings...
DOCS: QUITTING WON'T HELP KIDS WHO SMOKE DAILY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amTeens who smoke daily will suffer lung damage that lasts a lifetime - and increase their risk of lung cancer - even if they quit, a new study says. And...
ART CLASS DIGS COFFIN MAGICIAN
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amAt least we know one thing about magician David Blaine's burial on the Upper West Side: It's definitely art. A group of graduate art students from Columbia University, no less,...
U.S. VOWS: NO-ONE 'AGAINST THEIR WILL'
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe U.N. is investigating reports that many of the refugees who were shipped to Turkey were dragged at gunpoint onto airplanes. WASHINGTON - The White House said yesterday it will...
SCRAMBLED EGGS HATCH 2ND LAWSUIT ; BOTH COUPLES FIGHT FERTILITY DOC
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe Staten Island mother of a switched-before-birth baby filed suit against her Manhattan fertility doctor yesterday for implanting another couple's embryos in her. In her malpractice suit against Dr. Lillian...
NATO BLASTS AWAY, DESPITE SLOBBO'S EASTER 'CEASE-FIRE'
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amNATO bombs pounded the Serbs last night - even after strongman Slobodan Milosevic declared a cease-fire and promised to start talking peace. Air-raid sirens pierced the Belgrade night just minutes...
'JUNIOR' HAD DOUBTS HE'D GET A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE COPPING PLEA
April 7, 1999 | 4:00am"Do you think [jurors] could look past my name?"JOHN "JUNIOR" GOTTI A reflective and bitter John A. "Junior" Gotti questioned whether he could get a fair trial - just hours...
NEWS BRINGS NIGHTMARES TO KOSOVAR HELD IN N.J.
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amA Kosovar father of three who is being held in New Jersey while he battles deportation says he scoured TV footage for a glimpse of his wife and youngsters back...
RODMAN PUTS FAST BREAK ON MARRIAGE TO CARMEN
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amBreaking up is hard to do - but Dennis Rodman has done it again. The basketball bad boy and his bodacious bride, actress Carmen Electra, called it quits yesterday for...
SWORDSMAN SHOT BY POLICE ON LIRR
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amCops shot a samurai-sword-wielding man in Penn Station yesterday, following a tense standoff on a Long Island Rail Road train packed with terrified commuters. The MTA officers shot the Army...
HIZZONER HINTS HE'S ALL BUT IN THE RACE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani gave the strongest indication yet last night that he's ready to enter next year's U.S. Senate race. "I'm seriously considering running for Senate," Giuliani told a crowd of...
BRONX COPS BUST RAPE SUSPECT TIED TO DIALLO TRAGEDY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amCops yesterday nabbed a man they believe is the notorious Bronx rapist wanted in at least 37 vicious sexual assaults - grabbing him as he tried to pawn jewelry allegedly...
4 REASONS TO WORRY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The Yankees lost their first game last year. Then their second. Then their third. Then they were pretty much done with losing for the season. So, when the...
EARLY SPEED IS THE FIRST STEP
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amIt's no secret that horses with early speed - not necessarily front-runners, but those who at least have the ability to lay close to the pace - usually have a...
BIG TROUT DONORS' STOCK GOING UP
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHE chart in the Pro Sport Bait and Tackle Shop in Rockaway, N.J., says Big Trout Donors, and with the state's trout season still three days away, you couldn't help...
MARBURY GOES ON DEFENSIVE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Consider that in the last four games, Net point guard Stephon Marbury faced Orlando's Darrell Armstrong, who was coming off his NBA Player of the Week honor, Atlanta's...
ISLANDERS HOPING STEFAN FEELS DRAFT
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Mike Milbury said two weeks ago his chief priority was obtaining a No. 1 center for next season, he was asked if anyone in the draft fit the bill....
NEMCHINOV FINDS HOME WITH DEVILS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amGREENSBORO - The moan that escapes the Devils' deadline acquisition is one of knowing what's coming. "Don't start," Sergei Nemchinov pleads. "It's only been seven games." But entering last night...
BOSS GIVES MIXED REVIEWS AFTER OPENER
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - George Steinbrenner was impressed with Roger Clemens, unsure about Jim Evans' strike zone, not concerned in the least over his World Series champion Yankees losing to the lowly...
IN RAINY DEFEAT, ROG'S FIRE BURNS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00am8 INNINGS A's 5 Yankees 3 OAKLAND - They had heard about Roger Clemens' game-day intensity. Yet, until Monday night, the only view the Yankees had was from the other...
MAJOR MARK FEELS DIFFERENCE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - It may have been his final duty as the defending Masters champion, but it was one that Mark O'Meara was looking forward to with the anticipation of a...
DUVAL'S LEGEND KEEPS GROWING
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Who is David Duval, where did he come from and what makes him so special? The answers to all of the above are as difficult to answer as...
SNAKEBIT ANDY SPRAINS ANKLE
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Andy Pettitte's comeback from a cranky elbow hit a pothole yesterday when the only lefty Yankee starter sprained his right ankle during an agility drill at...
NORMAN STILL WANTS TO SWIM WITH SHARKS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Greg Norman still craves the Masters green jacket. It's just that he won't bleed for it like he once would. At age 44, coming off shoulder surgery and...
NO QUIT IN LEITER ; VOWS TO REBOUND AFTER SHAKY DEBUT
April 7, 1999 | 4:00am"Daddy didn't pitch well last night and he's very unhappy about it."LINDSAY LEITER MIAMI - A day after pitching a bad game, Al Leiter was so upset, his daughter Lindsay...
UCONN STAR'S DAD COMES THROUGH LIKE A CHAMPION
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amMASTERS NOTES AUGUSTA - Otis "Buck" Moore, the father of UConn guard Ricky Moore, has been a caddie at the Augusta National Golf Club since he was 12 years old....
JACK'S BACK, BUT ONLY FOR BRIEF VISIT
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Jack Nicklaus wasn't supposed to play Augusta National this weekend, but he did. Sort of. Nicklaus, 10 weeks removed from hip replacement surgery, stepped out of a cart...
PHILLIPS: IT'S TOO EARLY TO LABEL US 'FLOPS'
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - A bemused Steve Phillips laughed it off as over-reaction. Phillips was referring to newspaper accounts, including The Post's which proclaimed, "For openers, Mets are ... $75M...
PIAZZA EARNED HIS PAY
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - A guy signs a contract that ensures he will make $91 million playing baseball and it's as if rules of common decency no longer apply. All contributions he...
KNICKS NEED PASSION PLAY ; JEFF WANTS MAGIC-LIKE COHESION FOR PLAYOFF RUN
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amHe was informed that following his team's most recent loss, there were players inside the locker room who were, shall we say, not exactly outwardly broken up about getting beaten...
SPREE RIDE COMES TO END
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Latrell Sprewell's stay as a starter, always considered to be a short-lived assignment, came to an end last night, as Larry Johnson returned to the lineup against Orlando,...
ARMSTRONG RAISES GAME FROM DNP TO MVP
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThe Orlando Magic, leading the Eastern Conference at 25-10, are the biggest surprise in the NBA this season. And the single biggest surprise on the Magic roster - and biggest...
KNICKS DON'T HAVE THAT MAGIC TOUCH
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amTHE season is flying by more quickly than Chris Childs is to question a call, Chris Dudley is to lose his temper, even faster than Latrell Sprewell can shoot the...
KNICKS PULL VANISHING ACT
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amCollapse puts VG & Co. on outside of playoff chase Magic 81 Knicks 72 The games come so fast and furious that the Knicks are never far removed from another...
RICKEY: STEAL MAGNOLIA
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amM IAMI - The SportsCenter generation prefers home runs. We will see every tater Mark McGwire hits for the rest of his career. Over and over to the point of...
METS HIT PAY-DIRT ; BATS COME ALIVE; AMAZIN'S SHOW THEY'RE NO FLOPS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - If the Mets could take a mulligan, opening day would have been it. This time they came back with a perfect drive onto the fairway. Everything they did...
DEVILS FINALLY HIT A BUMP IN THE ROAD
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amHurricanes 4 Devils 2 GREENSBORO - They can't do it cleanly, now. If the Devils are to become the winningest road team in NHL history, it will have to be...
STREAKING NETS GO FOURTH
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amNets97 Wizards 93 WASHINGTON - Consider some of what happened here last night. Keith Van Horn turned his right ankle with 7:40 left. He returned to the game, contributed and...
ISLES EYE STEFAN
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amSabres 4 Isles 3 When Mike Milbury said two weeks ago his chief priority was obtaining a No. 1 center for next season, he was asked if anyone in the...
EL DUQUE PUTS YANKS ON TRACK
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 7 A's 4 OAKLAND - Using the support Roger Clemens didn't receive on Opening Night, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez added to his reputation as a big-money pitcher last night...
NO ONE'S LAUGHING NOW
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amThere was no laughter in the Knicks' locker room last night following their 81-72 loss to the Magic. That is a marked contrast to the way things were in Indianapolis...
IN SOGGY DEBUT DOWNER, ROCKET'S FIRE STILL BURNS
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - They had heard about Roger Clemens' game-day intensity. Yet, until Monday night, the only view the Yankees had was from the other dugout. Now, after watching Clemens in...
DEREK: NEW & IMPROVED
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - In three seasons, Derek Jeter has established himself as the Yankees' most popular player. As a star shortstop on two championship teams. As one of the best in...
RIVERA SAVES THE DAY AS YANKS TOPPLE A'S
April 7, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - Don Zimmer may have been working his second game as the Yankees' manager but he has been around the club long enough to know that starting the season...