April 20, 1999
MODERN MATURITY GETS EDITOR
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amEx-Utne Reader Editor-in-Chief Hugh Delehanty has just been tapped as the new editor of Modern Maturity - ending a protracted five-month search for the magazine that bills itself as the...
RISK CONTROL PAYS OFF FOR THIS FUND
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amEXACTLY one month ago yesterday, Banc One changed the name of its popular Value Growth fund to One Group Diversified Equity Fund. The bank may come to regret playing the...
BRILL SLAMS FORMER PUBLISHER WHO BOLTED FOR BETTER HOMES
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amBrill's Content founder Steve Brill took a few pot shots at Sally Preston, who quit as publisher last week to take a job at Better Homes & Gardens. "We're an...
CITI'S SITTING PRETTY - PROFITS UP 12% IN QTR.
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amCarnegie Hall will be rocking and rolling this morning as Citigroup shareholders meet to celebrate their company's bang-up first-quarter profits. The nation's biggest financial services company, which was formed last...
VERSACE INKS LUXURY HOTEL JOINT VENTURE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe late designer Gianni Versace was famous for his extravagant lifestyle and palatial home in Miami. Now the house of Versace is building a chain of opulent hotels which will...
LLOYD WEBBER BUYS BACK STAKE IN FIRM
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amAndrew Lloyd Webber has made himself whole again. Over the weekend, Universal Music Group agreed to sell its 30 percent stake in Lloyd Webber's production company - Really Useful Holdings...
FUMBLING PFEIFFER WALKS WITH $278M
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amOusted Compaq chief Eckhard Pfeiffer is walking away with a $278 million severance package. But he would have gotten much more - up to $418 million - if he hadn't...
MONEY-LOSING SALON OFFERS 2.5M SHARE-IPO
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amOnline cultural 'zine Salon.com is opening its parlor doors to the public. Parent company Salon Internet Inc. is offering 2.5 million shares at between $10.50 and $13.50 per share. At...
CORZINE SEEN IN BID FOR LTCM
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amGoldman Sachs lame duck co-chairman Jon Corzine is sure keeping busy. The 52-year-old Wall Street veteran has teamed up with Long-Term Capital Management's John Meriwether for discussions aimed at buying...
VERSACE VENTURES INTO LUXURY HOTEL BIZ
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe late designer Gianni Versace was famous for his extravagant lifestyle and palatial home in Miami. Now the house of Versace is building a chain of opulent hotels which will...
YUKON DO IT - ANIMAL ATTRACTIONS WAY UP NORTH IN ALASKA AND WESTERN CANADA
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amAT Alaska's Denali National Park, the largest and most protected forest in the U.S., visitors get animal scorecards with photos and descriptions of the game wandering within. Spot a moose...
ISLE GETAWAY - IF IT TAKES TOO LONG TO GET TO MONTAUK, HOP OVER TO THE BAHAMAS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amA FLIGHT that's cheap, easy-to-catch and gets passengers to the beach before noon is what makes the new Nassau/Paradise Island Express service a boon for New Yorkers. There's practically nothing...
HOW NOW, MOSCOW - DESPITE ECONOMIC TURMOIL, THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS TO VISIT RUSSIA'S CAPITAL AS A TOURIST
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amYOU'VE probably seen the bad news on TV: angry Russians besieging a bankrupt Moscow bank, inflation running at 84 percent a year, officials admitting Russian businesses can't repay $18 billion...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amUpper-class savings Travel to luxurious Palm Beach, Fla., gets a tad more economical as summer approaches. Packages and attractions are available for less, and free outdoor performances and festivals take...
SON ALSO RISES
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am*RISING SON Big Bill Morganfield Blind Pig Records To blues buffs, the late McKinley Morganfield is a god. "McKinley who?" McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield - the greatest, most influential bluesman...
SKY-HIGH PREVIEW: $500
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE good news is that you can see the new "Star Wars" flick before it opens May 19. The bad news is that it'll cost you a bundle. Sci-fi fans...
HELLUVA CHANGE FOR HBO'S NIGHT FRIGHTS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE creator of "Spawn" - the HBO series so violent it's shown at midnight - is toning down the show. Todd McFarlane told The Post that "Spawn" - which kicks...
NEW 'ROCKFORD' NOT JIM-DANDY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"The Rockford Files:If It Bleeds...It Leads" Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch.2 SOMEONE'S raping little California girls, and he looks just like an old pal of Jim Rockford (James Garner) and...
'GUNMAN' MISSES THE MARK
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Shadow of a Gunman," Sean O'Casey's 1923 tragicomedy about heroism in Ireland, is being done at the Irish Repertory Theatre. The first of his trilogy set in the times...
KEVIN ICED OUT BY DRAMA DESK IN SPACEY MOVE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Drama Desk snubbed Kevin Spacey yesterday, refusing to give the actor a nomination for his widely praised performance in ''The Iceman Cometh.'' The omission startled the Broadway community because...
SAIL OF THE CENTURY - GERALDO PLOTS COURSE TO CROSS DATELINE FIRST IN 2000
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amGERALDO Rivera is making his version of must-sea TV - with Travel Channel footing the bill. The pugnacious NBC newsman wants to be the first person to sail across the...
'TAILWIND' CARRIES ARNETT OUT OF CNN
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: IT'S official: Peter Arnett is out at CNN after 18 years. The all-news cable network announced yesterday that Arnett has "amicably" left his job - shortly after several published...
TV TICKER
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amSoldiers stories "CBS News' This Morning" is carving out a unique niche in covering the war in Kosovo. Last Friday, "This Morning" introduced a new feature, where soldiers abroad are...
HECHE ALSO HAS PAINFUL PAST
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amEllen DeGeneres isn't the only one in her current relationship who allegedly was abused in her youth. Anne Heche also has skeletons in her childhood closet. Heche's father, Donald, led...
N.Y. LAWYER MAKES A CASE FOR THE CHILDREN
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amKUKES, Albania. FIGHTING for men and women's constitutional rights in the Big Apple isn't enough for Manhattan public defender David Kuhn. Kuhn, 32, likes defending the human rights of boys...
NYPD GRIDDERS FINEST TEAM AROUND
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amA select team of New York City cops are really into tackling - both bad guys and football players. They're the 66 patrolmen, sergeants and detectives who make up the...
HEAD START HEAD HELPED HERSELF: FEDS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe former director of the defunct Head Start office in East Harlem was charged yesterday with embezzling $250,000 from the federal program for poor preschool kids. Beatrice Richardson, who ran...
BREAK FOR EX-COP IN BEATING - 4-8 YRS. FOR ROLE IN L.I. NIGHTCLUB ASSAULT
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe ex-city cop who held back a crowd of potential helpers with his gun while a black man was beaten senseless outside a Long Island nightclub was sentenced yesterday to...
BERNIE GOETZ'S 'SQUIRREL CRISIS' RUINS MY TRIFECTA
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amONE chose her parents brilliantly and was born into fame that went back to that most overcrowded ship called The Mayflower. A second chose his law school well, being a...
EGG STUDY DOESN'T GO OVER EASY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amNew research has found no proof that an egg a day raises your risk of heart attack or stroke - but the American Heart Association yesterday took a more hard-boiled...
SHE MAKES MERYL & ME NERVOUS AT LUNCH
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amSO THIS is what successful women do. Hillary ''Don't Mention Bill'' Clinton and Donna ''Don't Even Think Giuliani'' Hanover lunched at the Waldorf yesterday along with legions of sister bottle-blondes...
UPSTATE ABORT FOES: BARNES NOT SO NOBLE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Vastly outnumbered by cops, abortion foes yesterday demonstrated outside an upstate Barnes & Noble store, urging a boycott of the giant bookseller for offering what they claim is...
IT'S KATE VS. CELINE IN FAT 'FIGHT'
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm happy with the way I am. I'm not like American film stars." KATE WINSLET "Titanic" divas Kate Winslet and Celine Dion are squaring off in a battle of the...
CON ED SUED IN CARRIAGE HORSE'S ELECTROCUTION
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amA whoa-ful carriage operator is suing Con Edison for $100,000 for the shocking death of his horse in Midtown. The electrocution happened on Jan. 8, when Stephen Hand drove Jackie...
OKLA. BOMB VICTIMS MOURNED 4 YRS. LATER
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"We need to keep remembering the people who gave their lives." JIM DENNY Four years after the bombing of Oklahoma City's federal building, the names of the 168 victims were...
JERSEY TURNPIKE TROOPERS INDICTED
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amTwo New Jersey troopers who shot four unarmed black and Hispanic youths were indicted yesterday on charges of faking records to cover up racial profiling. Troopers John Hogan, 29, and...
GUY WARNS RUDY'S GOP FOES
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amStaten Island Borough President Guy Molinari warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki is harming himself politically by trying to derail Mayor's Giuliani bid for the U.S. Senate. "I think the governor...
N.Y. RUN MAY MEAN HILLARY HEARTBREAK - 'LOVES' STATE BUT SLIDES IN SURVEY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I have always been very excited by the dynamism of the people here and the real cutting-edge approach," HILLARY CLINTON First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made a marathon campaign-style swing...
SECOND AVE. SUBWAY GETS CHUCK BOOST
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday endorsed a new Second Avenue subway line and supported doubling an airline passenger tax he said could help pay for it. "I'm positively disposed toward a...
DA: FAKE DOC'S FACE INJECTIONS DISFIGURED WOMAN
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens woman who pretended to be a plastic surgeon was charged yesterday with practicing medicine without a license after she "temporarily disfigured" one of her patients, authorities said. Olga...
'MASKED' COP RIPS TACTICS OF ELITE UNIT
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amBlack cops are shut out of the controversial Street Crime Unit because police brass don't think they'll adopt the detail's "reckless" tactics, a fearful squad member testified yesterday. Wearing a...
HAS SLOBBO SEALED OFF ESCAPE? - REFUGEE EXODUS SLOWS TO A TRICKLE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A monthlong flood of refugees out of Kosovo abruptly dried up yesterday, raising fears that Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic locked his border and may be keeping Albanians from...
SCHOOLBOY BUBBA BLEW THIS LESSON
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Four decades before a federal judge weighed throwing President Clinton in the slammer for lying, his sixth-grade teacher predicted his words could land him "in the penitentiary." Clinton,...
LEO SURVIVES SHARK TERROR IN STORMY SEA - SWIMS FOR HIS LIFE AS BOAT SINKS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"There can't have been anyone who didn't at one stage think they would die." DIVEMASTER PAUL DAVIES "Titanic" heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio had to jump from a sinking boat and swim...
5 STABBED IN GANG FIGHT
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amFive men were stabbed yesterday when a landlord-tenant dispute led to a battle between members of Taiwanese gangs in Queens, police sources said. All five victims - apparent members of...
CHUCK HOPS ABOARD 2ND AVENUE SUBWAY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer yesterday endorsed a new Second Avenue subway line and supported doubling an airline passenger tax he said could help pay for it. "I'm positively disposed toward a...
NYPD'S FOOTBALL SQUAD IS FINEST TEAM AROUND
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amA select team of New York City cops are really into tackling - both bad guys and football players. They're the 66 patrolmen, sergeants and detectives who make up the...
MOLINARI SNAPS AT GOV'S AIDES FOR RIPPING RUDY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amStaten Island Borough President Guy Molinari warned yesterday that Gov. Pataki is harming himself politically by trying to derail Mayor's Giuliani bid for the U.S. Senate. "I think the governor...
STATE POLS SUE FOR THEIR PAY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: ALBANY - Fourteen state lawmakers sued in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday to nullify a new law temporarily withholding their pay because a state budget hasn't been passed. The lawmakers,...
HORRORS OF WAR HIT HOME FOR BORA
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amBora Milutinovic, one of the most renowned soccer coaches on the planet, had just finished putting his first-place MetroStars through practice. And, after a quick lunch, he planned to take...
USBL HOOP TEAM GROWS IN BROOKLYN
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani announced yesterday that the new U.S. Basketball League expansion team, the Brooklyn Kings, will play in Long Island University starting April 30. Democratic Congressman Ed Towns, a Giuliani...
KING TAKES FORD INTO THE FAST LANE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amIt was February of his sophomore year at Ft. Hamilton High, and Matt King was ready for a change. So on the advice of Ralph Amitrano, a coach at Ft....
PENS PLAN TO CATCH DEVILS IN DEEP END
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amPounce while the Devils' forwards are caught deep - that's the scouting report the Penguins will incorporate into their game plan in the teams' playoff series, as revealed to The...
SYKORA PRAGUE-MATIC ABOUT BATTLE WITH JAGR
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amThey are countrymen, Petr Sykora and Jaromir Jagr, both from the Czech Republic. The Devils' leading scorer wants the NHL's leading scorer to spend his springtime in Prague. "Pretty much...
BARKLEY BULKS UP FOR NEXT YEAR
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amErick Barkley was all smiles last week. He stood in the corner of the Jacob Riis Settlement House, where Ron Artest had announced his decision to enter the NBA draft,...
JETS' OL BERNSTEIN KEEPS HIS GUARD UP
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm not in any way nervous or scared. In the NFL, no one ever hands you anything on a silver platter." ALEX BERNSTEIN One by one, as the guards came...
METS GLAD TO SEE RED - AMAZIN'S TIRED OF EXPOS, MARLINS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets haven't played Montreal and Florida 50 times this year; it only seems that way. All 13 of their regular-season games and a dozen of the spring training games...
JINTS SAY BENNETT MAY SHOCK EXPERTS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amHe once ran for 313 yards against San Diego, punished Kentucky Wesleyan for 279, ravaged Morehead State with 238 and shredded Butler with 232. And yet, during an intense period...
TWO TOP RECRUITS SET TO CHOOSE ST. JOHN'S
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amWith Ron Artest headed to the NBA, St. John's will have reinforcements on the way. Though not for another season. Jeff McMillan, a 6-foot-8 junior forward/center from St. Thomas Moore...
PERSON SAYS NETS MUCH BETTER WITH COACH CASEY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amNET NOTES Notice a difference in the Nets? Hornets' forward Chuck Person has. And it's definitely for the better. Back on March 4, after Person torched the Nets for 21...
YANKS TRY TEXAS TWO-STEP - CONE, CLEMENS MUST STOP BLEEDING
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amWhen does a five-game stretch at Yankee Stadium against the Rangers and Blue Jays in the first month of the season take on added importance for the Yankees? When the...
BAFFERT'S FEELING BAFFLED
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amIs he or isn't he? Will she or won't she? For the umpteenth time this spring trainer Bob Baffert hedged his bets yesterday on whether he'll run one of his...
KNICKS POINTED THE WRONG WAY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Thick heads keep the Knicks on the treadmill to .500. Nothing penetrates - not Jeff Van Gundy glares, not any magic ointment that can keep Patrick Ewing in...
NEIL MUST NOT LET LEETCH GET AWAY
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amIN THE last 21 months, the Rangers have lost both Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky and have failed to qualify for the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time...
TIME'S RUNNING OUT KNICKS' - STRUGGLE GETTING SERIOUS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I think we're going to play hard - whether we play well enough, I don't know." JEFF VAN GUNDY PHILADELPHIA - Nine games, nine playoff lives left for the Knicks....
SPREE GETS SNEAKER DEAL
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - "AND1" markets itself as the basketball shoe and apparel company for players with serious game. Now it has a serious spokesman - the NBA's most serious...
KEYSHAWN KIDS ABOUT NEIL REUNION
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amA reporter asked Keyshawn Johnson yesterday, if he were saddened that Neil O'Donnell was released by the Bengals. "I had no idea," Johnson said before he received The Achievement in...
SHAQ'S RAP CAN LIBERATE LAKERS
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amIN SHAQUILLE O'Neal's third year in the NBA, he joined forces with Penny Hardaway to escort the Magic to The Finals where they were cremated in four straight by the...
JAYSON VOWS TO BE READY NEXT SEASON
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amOver the years, Jayson Williams has made more predictions than anything seen on late night TV. And usually, the popular center's picks were not ones you'd want to back up...
WARD, LJ HOLLOW HEROES
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amI'm amused at Charlie Ward's contention that female sports writers do not belong in the locker rooms of male professional athletes. Naturally, there are millions of men in this city...
JAYSON VOWS TO BE READY FOR NET CAMP
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amOver the years, Jayson Williams has made more predictions than anything seen on late night TV. And usually, the popular center's picks were not ones you'd want to back up...
PARTY LINE: SMITH SEES MESS, DAD AND KEENAN
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amRANGER NOTES Just when things couldn't get more awkward on Sunday for Neil Smith, brutally booed during the Garden's Farewell to 99 Celebration, along came the post-game, post-season, team party...
IT'S OFFICIAL: NETS OUT OF CHASE FOR PLAYOFF SPOT
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amHornets 120 Nets 113 Stephon Marbury gave all due praise and credit as he looked over a stat sheet. The Hornets, he said, shot like pros, shot impressively and shot...
WORST OF TIMES - KNICKS LOSING STREAK HITS 4
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - If the Knicks were a horse, you'd have to shoot them right about now. But because they are a basketball team - and not a very good one...
PHILLY HAS GOOD GOALTENDER
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES PHILADELPHIA - You knew it was going to be a bad night for the Knicks when Marcus Camby's first-half dunk did not count because Matt Geiger got away...
HOUSTON DOES VANISHING ACT
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Jeff Van Gundy says that at crunch time, nothing serves a shooter better than a short memory of his last miss. Problem with the Knicks is, you need...
COLD LEDEE CAN'T FIND HIS STROKE
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: YANKEE NOTES If Darryl Strawberry hadn't gotten jammed up in Tampa, there was a very good chance he would have been in Yankee Pinstripes by the weekend, with Ricky...
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR STRAW
April 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: According to a person well-versed in the workings of Major League Baseball's substance abuse program, the only time a player or club is notified of a drug testing result...