April 25, 1999
WHEELING AND DEALING
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE first thing you notice when climbing into Carlos Rubino's taxi is the laptop computer in the front seat and the Palm Pilot attached to the steering wheel. Although they...
TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY ; IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET A A PIECE OF THE CABLE ACTION
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amCABLE stocks are racing up the charts yet again, this time because AT&T jumped into a bidding war for MediaOne Group, which had already been entertaining a buyout offer from...
NOT WORTH IT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amECKARD Pfeiffer shows up on Worth magazine's list of the 50 best CEOs in an issue that hits newsstands just days after the Compaq CEO got tossed out by the...
THOSE ZANY, CRAZY GUYS IN THE TREASURY
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSO, you think laboring over the nuances of monetary policy is boring stuff? Not according to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. During a talk last week hosted by The New Yorker,...
NOT AS SIMPLE AS... ; ABC CARPET HEAD EVAN COLE HAS ADDED FOOD, CLOTHES AND PROFITS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S not surprising to learn that Evan Cole, President and CEO of ABC Carpet & Home, used to be a Hollywood agent. While his wife, Paulette, ABC's creative director, calls...
2 TEAM UP TO SCALE EVEREST AND CONQUER THE WEB
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSTEVE Burnett, the founder of Silicon Alley multimedia marketing firm Burnett Group, met mountain climber Robert M. Anderson at the Angry Monk, a Tibetan restaurant in the East Village, a...
SEX-CRIME D.A. TO THROW BOOK AT 'EM
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amTHE ladies who power lunch at Michaels every month were short two participants at last Tuesday's monthly get-together, our spies say. Absent from Tuesday's group: writer Anna Quindlen, who is...
HARE'S HAZY 'VIEW'
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amOf all the major playwrights to emerge since 1956, when modern British drama first heard the shocking sound of its own voice with John Osborne's ''Look Back in Anger,'' David...
READ MY HIPS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW IN THE BODY LANGUAGE LEXICON
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amWords lie. Bodies don't. Unless you're a con artist, professional poker player or Academy Award-winning actor, you have little control over the poses, gestures, facial expressions and stances that speak...
REEL-LIFE RACISM
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe you thought that Hollywood's penchant for racial stereotyping was gone with the wind. But all you have to do is see the movie 'Life'' to realize that Butterfly McQueen...
A WOMAN FOR 'THREE SEASONS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amNobody can accuse Zoe Bui of being lazy. The twentysomething Vietnamese- American is three weeks away from getting her master's degree in film at the University of Southern California, she's...
TABLE HOPPER
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CHESTER CARLSON (1906-1968)
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amIf Chester Carlson (photo right) didn't have such a boring job, we wouldn't have him to thank for the copy machine. Stuck with making duplicates of documents by typing the...
WORKPLACE WILL HAVE LESS LIFE TO IT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amNever mind photocopiers, steno pools and fax machines. The office of the future will have one major piece of equipment: a gargantuan 3-D computer screen. Your co-workers? Holographic projections on...
WHY L'IL LUKE'S DAD WENT BAD
April 25, 1999 | 4:00am"Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" goes back in time to divulge the origins of the "Star Wars" characters. It reveals why Luke Skywalker's dad, Anakin, turned into the heinous Darth...
A FANTASTIC FIGHT TO THE SCI-FINISH!
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe climatic battle scene in the new "Star Wars" movie is a sensational 20-minute sequence that sets the standard for all future sci-fi flicks. The fierce space face-off in "Episode...
BILL BRADLEY'S SAD REGRESSION ON RACE
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe comparison [of today's New York] to Bull Connor's Birmingham is no less odious comingfrom Bill Bradley than it is from Al Sharpton. BILL Bradley came to town last week...
CITY HALL RENEWS PUSH FOR GUN LOCKS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSpurred by the Colorado massacre, City Hall is renewing efforts to pass legislation requiring trigger locks on all privately owned guns in the city. A trigger-lock bill has been stalled...
GROUND WAR WOULD BE UPHILL BATTLE FOR NATO
April 25, 1999 | 4:00am"The question is not whether NATO will win. The question is at what cost."FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LAWRENCE KORB Military experts say there are five scenarios for a Kosovo...
HOSPS HERE WAGE BITTER BIDDING WAR FOR TOP DOCS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amLike sports teams in a frenzy to snatch up star athletes, two top New York hospitals are battling over prestigious - and lucrative - groups of doctors. The bitter rivalry...
CITY TAKES LAND CHOP OFF MENU ; WON'T AUCTION 13 BACK YARDS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amJim and Nancy Lewis' backyard pool is finally safe. The city's plan to auction off a piece of the Lewis' and 12 neighbors' back yards have been quietly shelved, fixing...
RUSSIA TELLS NETANYAHU NATO CANNOT WIN
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told Israeli officials last week here that Moscow is convinced NATO's air offensive in Yugoslavia will not achieve its objectives. ''Nothing can be gained by...
REV. AL CALLS FOR PROBE INTO '95 SHOOTING
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday called for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White to investigate reports of missing evidence in the fatal police shooting of two men in 1995. Detectives...
STREET OF HONOR FOR SLAIN OFFICER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amMore than 100 cops paid tribute yesterday to slain Police Officer Anthony Sanchez - who was gunned down trying to stop a robbery - at a tearful ceremony to rename...
PLANS ON TRACK FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS TO CLEAN TRAINS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe city and Transit Authority are close to an agreement on a plan to let welfare recipients work 20 hours a week cleaning up litter in subway stations, said an...
DONALD & MARLA SET TO $ETTLE ON DIVORCE DEAL
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amDonald Trump and Marla Maples may go the way of the Wildensteins and settle their differences, The Post has learned. The Trump-Maples settlement may come "as soon as this week,"...
PUBLICITY-HOUND MONICA LICKS HER WOUNDS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky, who's been dealing for weeks with the European media, is finding it tough to deal with questions here. In the past week, she's walked out of...
COPS IN 'ECSTASY' OVER DRUG BUSTS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amCops delivered two strikes against the drug Ecstasy, busting a ring based in Staten Island and arresting a woman trying to smuggle more than 26,000 pills past security at Kennedy...
'GAME OVER,' BILL URGES ; PREZ WANTS BOYCOTT OF VIOLENT VIDEO TOYS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday urged parents to boycott ultra-violent video games like the ones played by Columbine HS killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Clinton singled out three games - Mortal...
OUTCASTS FOUND SOUL MATES IN EACH OTHER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amEric Harris and Dylan Klebold grew up thousands of miles apart, but three years ago the quiet outsiders found each other - and formed a bond that led them toward...
SCHOOLS BOSS: I'LL FIGHT MAYOR'S PLAN ; TO CAN BOARD OF EDUCATION
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew said yesterday a plan by Mayor Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone to abolish the Board of Education would reduce him to a "talking head."...
ROCKER OZZY'S ROCKS STOLEN
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amRocker Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon lost some serious heavy metal when a jewel thief pilfered $70,000 in jewels from their St. Regis Hotel room, police said yesterday. The theft occurred...
BILL: STICK WITH AIR WAR ; ASKS AMERICANS FOR 'PATIENCE' IN BID TO STOP SLOBBO
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday asked Americans to be ''patient'' with the air war against Serbia and declared, ''We are not drifting.'' As the war began its second month with...
STUDENT FACTIONS LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. - The tragedy at Columbine HS is tearing down walls that divided the student body into cliques. Students who had shunned others in different groups are now reaching...
WOODY: IT'S OUR BABY ; HE AND SOON-YI STROLL WITH INFANT DAUGHTER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amWoody Allen and child bride Soon-Yi Previn now have a baby of their own. "Yes, it's our baby," the proud papa director confirmed as he and Previn pushed tiny Bechet...
TAPE HAUNTS TRAUMATIZED TEACHER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amColo. - The terrified teacher who made the desperate 911 call for help during the Colorado school massacre is reliving the horror as the tape is replayed over and over....
COPS CALL 'SUICIDE E-MAIL' A LIKELY FAKE
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amA taunting e-mail that appeared to be a suicide note from one of the Columbine HS killers - promising more bloodshed - is probably a sick hoax. Sheriff's spokesman Steve...
THE CROSS ALL PARENTS MUST LEARN TO BEAR
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amAlice Suyama had tears in her eyes as she stood at the bottom of a 60-foot hill overlooking Columbine HS. Someone had placed a 6-foot-tall wooden cross at the hill's...
'NAZI' KIDS PLOTTED EVIL ACT FOR A YEAR DIARY :SET BIG KILL FOR HILTER BIRTHDAY
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe Columbine HS assassins meticulously plotted their "big kill" for a full year - chronicling their efforts in a Nazi-themed diary of death that culminated with Adolf Hitler's birthday. Jefferson...
5 TEXAS TEENS IN SLAY PLOT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amFive Texas teens plotted to kill their classmates and teachers - amassing an arsenal of crude bombs and gunpowder in a frightening parallel to the Columbine HS tragedy, investigators said....
CREW: DUMPING BOARD OF ED WOULD ; MAKE ME MAYOR'S PUPPET
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew said yesterday a plan by Mayor Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone to abolish the Board of Education would reduce him to a "talking head."...
TEARS FLOW FOR A BEAUTIFUL LIFE CUT SHORT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. - Rachel Joy Scott spent much of the 17 years, eight months and 15 days of her life praying. Yesterday, as she lay in a white casket with...
ROYALS FUME OVER WILLS' CIG HABIT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amPrince William, England's heir to the throne, has been making the air around the throne a little less pleasant these days. London's Sunday Express reports today that the royal teen...
NEO-NAZIS CLAIM LONDON BOMB
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amA neo-Nazi group claimed responsibility for a blast that rocked East London's Bangladeshi community and injured seven people last night - a week after another bomb attack injured 39. The...
CREW TO ALBANY: I'M QUITTING IF BOARD OF ED IS ABOLISHED
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew said yesterday he'll quit if Albany passes a plan to abolish the Board of Education, because it will reduce him to a "talking head." But Crew,...
AUTHOR: HILLARY WILL RUN FOR SENATE
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- JOYCE MILTON SAYS SHE DIDN'T SET OUT TO WRITE A BOOK DISHING DIRT ABOUT HILLARY RODHAM .
TODD DEAL PAYING OFF METS COLLECTING BIG DIVIDENDS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amT HE Roger Clemens deal was the most glamorous New York baseball trade of the offseason, but the one that sent popular Todd Hundley out of town was the best....
'20/20' BLIND TO THE TRUTH MAGAZINE SHOW & 'GMA' INDULGE WORM'S FADED ACT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThere are those in the media who still engage Rodman as if he's important, as if he has something important to say. WITH any luck or self-control, this will be...
NEIL HEADS WEST TO HUNT FOR RETREADS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - While most of the league gets to play, Neil Smith gets to work. The Rangers' GM, spending a second consecutive spring without a game of his own to...
HIRING JAX CAN BE A BEAUTI-PHIL THING
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - The guy was a CBA coach. He had a championship ring from his playing days in the NBA, but he was a role player who had much to...
HIT GOONS, NOT BUFFOONS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amAND SO the playoff silliness has begun with name-calling from Matthew Barnaby, that charter member of MENSA, and wonderfully sophisticated retorts from his target, Lyle Odelein. In case you missed...
SOME HELP FOR KOSOVO REFUGEES
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amA NUMBER of companies in the outdoor industry have responded with efforts to aid the Kosovo refugees. Malden Mills donated 1000 yards of Polartec fleece and workers at Chuck Roast...
COURTIN' TROUBLE ; WATCH OUT WHEN PLAYERS BUDDY-UP WITH BRASS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amIT never fails. Seen it happen countless times during 30 years of covering professional basketball. The moment an owner starts listening to players' grievances about the coach, let the anarchy...
KNICKS NOW NEED CAMBY FOR CRUNCH ; IT'S CRUNCH TIME FOR CAMBY
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - Seven weeks ago the Knicks played a crucial game here. The Knicks were 9-5, Pat Riley's Heat was 9-4. That game went into overtime before the Heat emerged...
SHOCK JOCK'S DREAM DYING BUZZ IS NO DERBY FOR PATIN
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - At one end of barn 42 at Churchill Downs early yesterday morning, smiling Hall of Fame rider Chris McCarron was the center of attention, surrounded by reporters and...
PETTIGOUT FINDS A FRIENDLY FACE ON BIG BLUE LINE
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amOne thing is for sure: Luke Petitgout won't go through this all alone. When the Giants' first-round draft pick endures the first-year hardships that will surely come his way, he'll...
TUNA'S TURNING TO ZOLAK
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amEx-Pat eyed as backup; heat's on Lucas SCOTT ZOLAKJet deal imminent.As the Jets welcomed 19 rookies to Weeb Ewbank Hall yesterday for a weekend orientation minicamp, the team also prepared...
JETS NOW TEAM TO BEAT IN AFC ; WITH JOHN GONE, TUNA CREW'S TOPS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Elway goes out on top now, goes out a champion, the way Michael Jordan went out and Wayne Gretzky went out. Elway limps off to Canton like some football...
DOOR'S OPEN FOR O'DWYER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amJet coach Bill Parcells yesterday continued to say the door remains open for unsigned free-agent right guard Matt O'Dwyer to rejoin the team. It's just that O'Dwyer, who apparently was...
FASSEL GLAD THAT ELWAY'S GOING OUT AS A CHAMPION
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amJim Fassel is closer to John Elway than any other player, forming a relationship that developed over years of friendship. Fassel recruited Elway at Stanford, spent four years with him...
JETER & YANKS GET DEFENSIVE
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSince foul weather had forced the Yankees to cancel outdoor batting practice for the previous six games, it was generally believed the offensive part of the game had suffered. Yet...
TERRILL GETS RED-CARPET SENDOFF
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amAfter 50 years in the racing industry, William ''Red'' Terrill is calling it a career. The native New Yorker is retiring and NYRA honored him by naming the fifth race...
PIAZZA PUMPED FOR RETURN PRATT TAKING SEAT AFTER SUPER SUB JOB
April 25, 1999 | 4:00am"I've kept in great shape the whole time. It doesn't feel like it's been 15 days."MIKE PIAZZA CHICAGO - Todd Pratt has been playing so well during Mike Piazza's absence...
BOSS OWES STRAW HIS HELPING HAND
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amStrawberry needs more than money here. He needs friends who care about him beyond his next home run. THE reverse spelling of straw is warts. George Steinbrenner had to understand...
'STEPHEN,' IMPRESSES MCCARRON
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE -Stephen Got Even and the filly Three Ring, neither of whom has raced in the last month, had major tune-ups yesterday morning at Churchill Downs for Saturday's Kentucky Derby....
CHILI STILL COOKIN' ; DAVIS' HOMER GIVES BOMBERS FOURTH STRAIGHT
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amYanks7 Blue Jays4 After the Yankees attempted to rub themselves out with sloppy defense yesterday, they turned to their best hitter in April and pleaded with Chili Davis to bail...
DEVILS TAKE ROUGH ROAD ; JAGR-LESS PENGUINS EVEN SERIES
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 2 Penguins4 Devils1 Great teams don't waste such opportunities. Instead of invading Pittsburgh with a chance to sweep, the Devils are so quickly in trouble. These Devils who set...
ORDONEZ NIXES OFFER, SO METS PULL IT BACK
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Rey Ordonez isn't having a good week. Before he even got into a spat with Bobby Valentine about not being in the starting lineup for a couple of...
COMELY TO MADISON'S CHARM
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amClosing from last early, Donald A. Adam's Madison's Charm just got up to defeat favored Better Than Honour by a neck in the Grade 3, $109,200 Comely Stakes at Aqueduct...
'PATIENCE' PAYS OFF IN TRIAL
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Patience Game, fresh off an eight-length maiden score in California, came from off the pace under Corey Nakatani to win yesterday's Grade 3, $100,000 Derby Trial at Churchill...
DAVIS' HR JOLTS JAYS FOR YANKS' 4TH IN ROW
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amYankees7 Blue Jays4 Chili Davis knocked them out with a clutch home run after Chuck Knoblauch and Derek Jeter had softened the Blue Jays' belly with body shots propelled by...
THIS CUP RUNNETH SLOWLY
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amS O welcome to the NHL's off-Broadway showcase, the first-round playoff series between the Devils and Penguins that not only hasn't come close to filling the seats at the Meadowlands...
BARNABY: DON'T DISS MY WIFE
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe Matthew Barnaby-Lyle Odelein feud continued to boil yesterday with the Penguins' agitator saying the Devils' defenseman better watch his mouth about Barnaby's wife, Christina. "My wife told me to...
DEVILS CHOOSE HARD ROAD ; BLOW CHANCE TO CRUSH JAGR-LESS PENGUINS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 2 Penguins4 Devils1 Momentum has turned, whether from words or deeds. If this team with championship aspirations is to survive the first round, the Devils will have to wrestle...
JETER, YANKEES OUT OF PRACTICE BOMBERS SEE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amSince foul weather had forced the Yankees to cancel outdoor batting practice for the previous six games, it was believed the hitting had taken a hit. Yet prior to yesterday's...
HEY, METS: SAY IT AIN'T SOSA ; STRAND 12, BOW TO CUBS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amCubs2 Mets0 CHICAGO - The temperature rose a few degrees at Wrigley Field yesterday, but the Mets bats went in the opposite direction, chilling out completely. Whenever they needed a...
PRATT MAKES WAY FOR PIAZZA'S RETURN
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Todd Pratt played so well during Mike Piazza's absence that Bobby Valentine referred to Piazza the other day as "Wally Piazza," a whimsical suggestion that Pratt could replace...
ORDONEZ TURNS DOWN $5.6M OFFER
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Rey Ordonez isn't having a good week. Before he even got into a spat with Bobby Valentine about not being in the starting lineup, he turned down a...
EMBARRASS BUFFOONS, PUNISH REAL GOON ACTS
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - And so the playoff silliness has begun with name-calling from Matthew Barnaby, that charter member of MENSA, and wonderfully sophisticated retorts from his target, Lyle Odelein. In case...
FITTING YOU TO A TEE WHY YO SHOULDN'T BUY CLUBS OFF THE RACK
April 25, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- WHEN YOU SHOP FOR CLOTHES YOU DON'T RANDOMLY GRAB WHATEVER LOOKS GOOD ON THE RACK, RING IT UP AT THE REGISTER AND THEN GO HOME TO TRY THEM ON...