April 10, 1999
EBAY'S CEO IS SOLE FEMALE 'NET BILLIONAIRE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMargaret Whitman, chief executive of online auctioneer eBay Inc., joined an exclusive club when she became an Internet billionaire by exercising options that soared over 200,000 percent in value. Her...
'NET WORTH GROWS; IPOS MAKE MILLIONAIRES OF 3 MORE CYBER CEOS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amWelcome, new gold rush millionaires. Three more Internet-related companies went public yesterday, triggering another buying stampede that tripled their stock prices and wildly enriched their young founders. Making the most...
LIAM'S ALLSET FOR HIS'STAR' TURN
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amHARRISON Ford was the heartthrob of the first ''Star Wars'' series - and now it's Liam Neeson's turn to send pulses pounding. The head-turning Irish hunk plays swashbuckling Qui-Gon Jinn,...
SILLY VULGARITY SAPS STRENGTH FROM 'LE CID'
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amP IERRE Corneille, the first great French playwright, called his 1637 play "Le Cid" a tragicomedy, meaning having a happy ending. The production of "Le Cid" at the Brooklyn Academy...
BITTER 'BATMAN' HAS FILM FUTURE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE next ''Batman" feature film will be an animated movie version of the kids TV runway hit, "Batman Beyond," according to studio sources. The Warner Bros. film - planned as...
'FOOLISH' ISTOO GOOD A WORD FOR IT
April 10, 1999 | 4:00am'F OOLISH" is the name of the lead character in this sewer-mouthed comedy, but it's a good prediction of how you'll feel after having forked over good money to sit...
D'AMATO: I'D SUPPORT RUDY FOR SENATE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Al D'Amato yesterday called Mayor Giuliani a "very powerful candidate" for the Senate and vowed to support him if he wins the GOP nomination. The former senator said...
ALBANIAN WRITER SAFE IN LONDON
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amAn Albanian journalist who fled Kosovo after Serbian soldiers gave her 15 minutes to leave is safe in London after a frightening week on the Macedonian border. Gjeraqina Tuhina, who...
2 MORE OCTUPLETS SENT HOME FROM HOSP
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amFive down, two to go. Two more of the seven surviving octuplets were sent home this week, leaving just two of the babies still hospitalized. Chidi and Chima joined their...
COP-STOP TALE DOGS A SECOND RUDY AIDE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amA SECOND high official in the Giuliani administration has complained privately about being harassed by cops who stopped his car, two sources have told The Post. The official, Deputy Housing...
RIFLE FOUND NEAR HOME OF SLAIN ABORT DOC
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amDiscovery a crucial clue in the execution of Buffalo-area doc Barnett Slepian. The FBI is examining a rifle dug up in the woods near slain abortion doctor Barnett Slepian's suburban...
MAGICIAN PRONE TO BEING SORE AT TAIL END
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThis whole burial thing has become one big pain in the butt for magician David Blaine. The kooky conjurer - who has been buried in a Plexiglas coffin on the...
TONY WANTS TO LEAVE HIS ART SCHOOL IN N.Y.
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe crooner is proposing a private-public partnership with the Board of Ed to open a school combining arts education and community service in the seventh through 12th grades.Tony Bennett may...
WHY SHOULD THE GREATEST LIVING YANK KISS KING GEORGE'S RING?
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amH E HAD become the Greatest Living Yankee, circa 1999, not through merit, but through attrition. After all, who was left? DiMaggio has finally lost his fight for life. Mantle...
THE LATEST ATROCITY: RAPE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe United States said yesterday "very disturbing" reports have surfaced of young Kosovar women being systematically raped and killed by Serbian troops at an army camp. Although fleeing refugees have...
INSPIRATION IS BRAVE BIRTHDAY GIRL'S GREATEST GIFT
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amTIRANA, Albania. LAST Monday night was Edona Zeka's 21st birthday. She spent it in a tent in the Pishna refugee center sleeping shoulder to shoulder with her mother, her father,...
A BANNER DAY IN BRONX WITH BOMBERS, BERRA BACK ; DAMP FANS SAY REIGN WON'T LET UP
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amRain couldn't dampen the Yankee spirit yesterday as the returning champs declawed the Detroit Tigers in a 12-3 home-opener victory cut short by bad weather. Bombers fans endured a steady...
L.I. FLIER TO KIN OF ITALIAN SKI-LIFT VICTIMS: I'M SORRY
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe jet navigator dismissed from the Marines in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps said yesterday he's so sorry for the tragedy he'd be willing to trade...
FAMILIES' HOPES DASHED FOR RELEASE OF GIS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amYugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic rejected a Cypriot request to free three captured GIs - but their devastated families vowed to continue praying for their release. "It has been an absolute...
RUDY: SAFIR DID RIGHT TO TRACK CAR-CRASH WOMAN
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday vigorously defended his top cop for sending detectives to the home of a woman who had a fender-bender with his wife, saying it was for "security reasons."...
'BOOKISH' MCDOUGAL JUROR IN UPROAR
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Susan McDougal trial took a bizarre turn yesterday when the judge halted jury deliberations after a juror brought in a law book containing a former judge's business...
SAFIR TO ARM COP CARS WITH VIDEO CAMS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD will soon install video cameras in some of its highway patrol cars in a pilot program, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said yesterday. He announced the move after returning...
6 DEAD AS 200 MPH TWISTERS CUT THROUGH MIDWEST STATES
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amTornadoes ripped a deadly swath through the Midwest just before dawn yesterday, killing at least six people and flattening hundreds of homes. Dozens were injured as twisters packing winds up...
STEWART: ISLES WANT ME BACK
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amCall it "Vote of Confidence, The Sequel." Let's hope for Islanders coach Bill Stewart's sake that this one turns into less of a disaster than the original. Stewart's shaky job...
BIG 3 WAGER IS EASY PICKIN'S
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amLEXINGTON - Today's trio of blockbuster preps - the Blue Grass here at Keeneland, Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park, all at a mile and an...
KY. DERBY HOPEFULS SET FOR BLUE GRASS BATTLE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amLEXINGTON - It's only fitting that the most important Kentucky Derby prep of the spring will be run today here at Keeneland, smack in the heart of horse country just...
LUCKY O'NEILL WEATHERS CINCY STORM
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill was awakened just past 8 a.m. yesterday by his brother Robert and quickly the rain that would threaten the Yankee home opener became a secondary weather story to...
YOGI TOSSES AWAY THE BITTERNESS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe ceremonial first pitch of Opening Day at Yankee Stadium was clearly a ball, high and outside. But to the Bombers and their fans, it was perfection; not because of...
METS: WAY TOO SOON TO PUSH PANIC BUTTON
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Before last night's game against the Expos, the Mets had played only four games, but in those four games they were like two completely different teams. In the...
AMAZIN'S HAVE LONG WAY TO GO TO CATCH BRAVES
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Baseball, more than any slice of culture, tends to perpetuate myths. The biggest one at the moment is the Braves are vulnerable to the Mets because they don't...
LEITER HAS DIFFERENT GAME PLAN
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Al Leiter takes the mound today against the Expos' Dustin Hermanson looking to make up for his bad Opening Day start against the Marlins. Leiter acknowledged that he...
HERE COMES THE SHARK ; NORMAN THREE BACK AFTER 68
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Shortly after lunchtime yesterday, the swells of people lining the pristine fairways of the Augusta National back nine were 10, 15, 20 bodies deep from the ropes. At...
NORMAN STILL HAS DOUBTERS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - The role of sentimental favorite fits Greg Norman as comfortably as green jacket might come sunset tomorrow. With new kids on the block like Tiger Woods, David Duval...
BROSIUS BUSTS OUT IN BIG WAY
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThis season couldn't have opened more differently than last year ended for Scott Brosius. The Yankee third baseman was the MVP of last season's World Series, but in this year's...
CONE FORECAST ALWAYS CLOUDY
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees took the field yesterday, then Robert Merrill sang the national anthem and finally - just a few steps ahead of Yogi Berra - David Cone emerged from the...
STRUGGLING KITTLES HOPES TO FIND TOUCH
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amKerry Kittles prayed recent history would take a hike. Back in February against Houston, Kittles shot 8-of-15 from the floor. The next game, he was 8-of-23. He began March with...
ANDY: I'M NOT GONNA RUSH IT
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amBecause Andy Pettitte hasn't pitched with his Yankee teammates behind him since March 7 when he only lasted an inning thanks to a tender left elbow, Pettitte wants to make...
ZIMMER MANAGES TO BE HIS OWN MAN
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amDON ZIMMER'S retirement watch has turned out to be a 114-karat baseball team. It is an expensive and unique token of appreciation for more than 50 years of baseball service,...
MCCARRON'S NOT AWED BY POSITION
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - A look at the Masters leaderboard entering weekend play could be daunting to a guy like Scott McCarron. After all, of the top seven names on the board,...
NO MORE CHEMO FOR STRAWBERRY
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe last chemo treatment pierced his muscular right forearm Thursday and immediately Darryl Strawberry's mental outlook took one giant step forward. ''You don't know how good it feels to be...
DAVE PUTS KNICKS ON NOTICE CHECKETTS: YOU'D BETTER GET BETTER
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Garden president Dave Checketts made it clear last night that unless the Knicks make a dramatic turnaround, there will be significant changes within the organization. There is no...
LOSS TO HORNETS STILL STINGS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Jeff Van Gundy was looking for a bounce back last night from his Knicks, a win he desperately needed. "There's been a lot of low points," Van Gundy...
TIGER STAYS IN HUNT WITH LATE BIRDIES
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - Tiger Woods began the day in contention for this Masters and, by the time he double-bogeyed No. 12 yesterday, he found himself scrambling to make the cut as...
DEVILS' NEXT STOP: MONTREAL
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe road warriors play in Montreal tonight with no margin for error. The Devils are still two road victories away from tying the NHL record for road wins (27) in...
JOY IN MUDVILLE ; YANKEES STORM TO HOME-OPENING WIN BEHIND CONE, CHILI
April 10, 1999 | 4:00am6 1/3 INNINGS Yankees12 Tigers3 "I thought I managed real good today. Mel [Stottlemyre] and I had it going real good today. Coney was pitching a no-hitter and we got...
BOMBERS CHEW UP TIGERS' ROOKIE
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt had been 32 years since a rookie pitcher debuted at the Yankee Stadium opener. And after what the Bombers did to Detroit's Beiker Graterol, it may be another 32...
MASATO SPRINGS TO LIFE WHEN IT COUNTS
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Fat, straight, crawling spring pitches delivered by Masato Yoshii had the Mets panicking. Steve Phillips tried to get Jeff Fassero from the Mariners. When that failed, he talked...
NOT READY TO CHECK OUT ; VAN'S KNICKS RESPOND TO CHECKETTS' WARNING
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amKnicks86 Hawks78 ATLANTA - Garden president Dave Checketts made it clear last night that unless the Knicks make a dramatic turnaround there will be significant changes within the organization. He...
ONE NIGHT LATER, NIRVANA ; YOSHII HELPS METS REBOUND
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMets10 Expos3 MONTREAL - The radio caller was right. There is a pattern developing. A disgruntled and apparently clairvoyant caller to WFAN spotted it after only one game. The Mets...
CHILDS LOSES TOOTH, TEMPER
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Dikembe Mutombo, who owns the sharpest elbows in the world, sliced up Chris Childs last night, knocking out Childs' left front tooth with about four minutes to go...
RICKEY'S GOT BASES COVERED
April 10, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - If you looked carefully at the bases in Florida and here in Olympic Stadium, you would probably see Rickey Henderson's footprints on them. Including last night's game in...