May 2, 1999
THE GURUS' FAVORITES ; THEY BARE BEST PICKS FOR VALUES
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amREFLECTING on the stock market recently, I decided that it resembles the late stages of an all-night poker game. There's a lot of money on the table, even as some...
HE STILL DIDN'T SAY WHY HE'S SELLING HIS STOCK
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amD O as I say and not as I do could well be the mantra of the corporate elite on the issue of the Year 2000 computer bug. Take Michael...
MINI BUF-FETE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amSLOW down, Warren Buffett, you're no spring chicken. That's the message some Berkshire Hathaway shareholders had for their 68-year-old chairman as they gathered in Omaha yesterday to start their yearly...
SI'S BOOK-LINE PLAN SPARKS TIFF AT WARNER
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amSPORTS Illustrated is teaming up with North Carolina-based Total Sports to produce a new sports book imprint, but the move could end up sparking an in-house brouhaha with the book...
MAKING IT EASIER TO RING THOSE E-REGISTER$
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amSHOP.ORG, an online retail industry association, estimates only 1.6 percent of people who surf e-commerce sites make purchases. QuickBuy Inc., a new company based in Tyngsboro, Mass., wants to up...
HOTSHOTS GUNNING DOWN JETT'S BOOK
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amJ OSEPH Jett (left) may have already been cleared by the regulatory powers, but a jury of his peers just won't let the now-infamous ex-Kidder Peabody trader off the hook...
'MOON' LIGHTS UP B'WAY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00am"Ring Round the Moon" starts prickly and is hedgehog slow, but this tale of identical twins with unidentical natures won me over. Beware of nostalgia. It's a dangerous beast -...
A LEAUD-MAGE TO TRUFFAUT
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amJean-Pierre Leaud has worked for a virtual Who's Who of world-class directors. But he will always be best remembered for his work with Francois Truffaut, the Cahiers du Cinema critic...
SHAKESPEARE I'D LOVE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amIn Hollywood, William Shakespeare is the new Jane Austen. From 'Shakespeare in Love'' to 'Ten Things I Hate About You'' to the upcoming 'William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,'' filmmakers...
TABLE HOPPER: CHELSEA BISTRO & BAR
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Chelsea Bistro & Bar is usually teeming with detectives and assistant district attorneys. But that doesn't scare anyone. Actually, it's the big draw: The cast of the hit TV...
MEALS & DEALS: MISS ELLE'S HOMESICK BAR & GRILL
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: What do a china rabbit, a bird's nest and a tree stump have in common? Not much, other than they're all on display in the front window of Miss...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: HEATHER KOZAR
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Heather Kozar never imagined that she'd be the millenium's very last Playmate of the Year. In fact, while working behind the counter at Pizza Hut and in a men's...
NEW YORK PET: VEGGING OUT: HOW NON-MEAN EATERS MEET THEIR PETS' NUTRITIONAL NEEDS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Todd Oldham is as famous for his fashions and celebrity friends, like Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts, as he is for his vegan lifestyle - no animal products on...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL...WHAT IS HIS WORST HABIT?
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amMaile Carpenter, Manhattan, Writer: "He'll sit at the dinner table and play games on his Palm Pilot." Nadine Cooke, Brooklyn, Paralegal: "He's a neat freak. He has 53 pairs of...
GUY-GERCOUNTER
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Our roving panelists rate man at his messed - and sometimes, best. Name: Asio Highsmith
4 QUESTIONS FOR KEVIN JAMES
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe scariest thing I ever heard: silence and a blender. On Kevin James' character on "King of Queens," Doug, is a UPS driver, married to a smart, career-wise wife -...
MIDTOWN TUNNEL TAKES BIGGEST TOLL ON DRIVERS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Queens Midtown Tunnel is the worst of the city's nine toll crossings to drive through, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority survey found. Tie-ups at the toll plaza and problems entering...
WAR WILL BE A DEADLY VIDEO GAME
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amGive peace a chance? Not in a millennium anytime soon, military futurists predict. They say war will not disappear in the next 1,000 years, but trenches, soldiers and tanks probably...
WHEN DID WE DECIDE TO SINK SO FAR?
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amAMERICA is searching for the quick, simple answer that will explain away the carnage at Columbine High School. And those at whom the fingers are being pointed are quickly pointing...
WACKY FAN FARE FOR 'MS. OBI-WAN'
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amJust 17 days before the release of "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace," "Star Wars" fever is making seemingly responsible people do some very unusual things. Take the case of Jennifer...
NO MORE GRIN AND BEER IT: BLEACHERS WON'T DRINK TO YANK BAN
May 2, 1999 | 4:00am"There were old-timers who wanted to hoist a beer for Joe D, and they couldn't do it. Try telling some 70-year-old who comes out to sit in the bleachers like...
DONOR CLUB$: LIFE OF THE PARTIES
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amSip cocktails with the speaker of the House. Barbecue at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport. Play golf with your favorite senator. These are some of the perks Republican and Democratic...
I.D. IDEA: DNA TEST FOR NEWBORNS ; FIRM TO MARKET GENETIC TESTS FOR MOTHERS' PEACE OF MIND
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amNew moms worried they may go home with the wrong baby soon will be able to test their child's DNA before they leave the hospital. A Houston company plans to...
TOP EATERIES STILL SERVE SNUB FARE: DINERS STEAMED OVER INSULT, INJURY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amToo many of city's top restaurants serve up rudeness with their radicchio. An informal Post survey found that virtually everyone has a story about a long-awaited evening out that became...
RADIOACTIVE BULLETS FIRE UP HUGE CONTROVERSY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amDepleted uranium "is the Agent Orange of the 1990s."FORMER ARMY DOCTOR DOUG ROKKE American planes in Kosovo are armed with controversial radioactive, anti-tank bullets that some scientists cite as a...
AN EL OF A BRIDGE DISRUPTION DUE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amConstruction work will shut down train service over the Williamsburg Bridge for five months - bringing commuter hell for the 90,000 daily riders who use the M, J and Z...
AIR-TRAFFIC RADAR NO SCREEN GEM
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amBugs in a new $1.4 billion air-traffic control system will force area airports to continue relying on their faulty antique radar screens, air-traffic controllers told The Post. The Federal Aviation...
RUDY SEEKS TOUGH UNION WATCHDOG$
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWhile prospective mayoral candidates are busy wooing city labor unions, Mayor Giuliani plans to call for greater financial control of their leaders, sources told The Post. Giuliani, who's eyeing a...
ARAFAT'S LATEST THREAT: '47 U.N. RESOLUTION
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.WHOEVER is elected Israeli prime minister will face a new demand from Yasser Arafat - to revive a 52-year-old U.N. plan for dividing Israel into a larger Arab state and...
SENATE POLL A WARNING FOR HILLARY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Mayor Giuliani is "slightly ahead" of Hillary Clinton in their possible Senate matchup, according to the director of the latest Post Poll, which offers several other warning signs...
MOGUL'S MISSION MORE THAN MIR CHARITY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amMir is an aging, accident-prone, soon-to-be abandoned space station, but Peter Llewellyn wants to shell out $100 million for a ride in it anyway. Llewellyn, a Welsh-born trash mogul who...
ORIOLES-CUBA GAME AN ARRESTING PROPOSITION
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amBaltimore cops are prepared to make as many as 600 arrests tomorrow as protesters converge on a baseball game between Cuba's national team and the American League Orioles. Two groups...
KILLER'S KIN WON'T TALK: DEMAND IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe parents of Columbine HS gunman Eric Harris are refusing to talk with investigators because they're afraid prosecutors will charge them with a crime. "We wanted to interview them as...
ANGRY PARENTS TEAR INTO VIOLENT CONTENT OF NEW STUDY GUIDE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00am"What were they thinking? Why didn't anyone at the Board of Ed catch this?"NANCY CARDOZO, MOTHER OF A THIRD-GRADER Parents of public school third-graders are fuming that study guides for...
JESSE'S TRIUMPH HIGHLIGHTS BILL'S FAILURE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amJESSE Jackson won a place in history yesterday. Bill Clinton won a place in the Bozo Hall of Fame. And Slobodan Milosevic won the right for a place to sit...
DIEHARDS ARE LINING UP FOR DATE WITH DARTH
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Force was with scores of diehard "Star Wars" fans who descended on a Midtown movie theater yesterday to line up for tickets to the hotly anticipated prequel. "This is...
BRIT COPS QUESTION SUSPECT IN WAVE OF HATE-BOMBINGS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amBritish police intensified their hunt for neo-Nazi extremists yesterday as the death toll rose to three in the blast that ripped through a gay bar in London. Police were questioning...
WOMEN KEEPING WARY EYE OUT FOR SUBWAY STABBER
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amNew York's female subway riders say they won't change their straphanging ways, despite fear of further episodes like a gruesome subway shoving incident this week and a spate of stabbings....
2 YOUNG SISTERS SHOT AT QUEENS RESTAURANT
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThree people - including two innocent sisters - were shot and wounded yesterday afternoon when one man opened fire on another outside a Far Rockaway McDonald's, police said. The two...
SLOBBO VOWS TO RELEASE OUR BOYS ; JESSE GETS SERBS TO FREE 3 POWS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Rev. Jesse Jackson did it again - earning Serb strongman Slododan Milosevic's promise that three American POWs would be released today. "Our boys are coming home," said...
MISSILE TURNS BUS INTO BALL OF FIRE: SERBS BLAME NATO FOR CARNAGE ON BRIDGE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amSerbs accused NATO of bombing a bus in Kosovo and killing at least 23 people early yesterday - and President Clinton formally imposed a trade embargo on Serbia. The war...
LOVED ONES AT HOME ON PINS AND NEEDLES
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe families and friends of the American POWs in Kosovo reacted with guarded elation yesterday to the news that their boys would soon be coming home. "We can't wait to...
NRA DRAWS SILENT WRATH:THOUSANDS PROTEST MEETING IN DENVER
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThousands of protesters held a silent vigil yesterday as National Rifle Association chief Charlton Heston insisted gun supporters shouldn't feel guilty about the Columbine HS massacre. "They say don't come...
KING OF CLUBS HIRES FORMER CITY DRUG-BUSTER
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amEmbattled impresario Peter Gatien has hired the former top city drug prosecutor to help him keep his clubs free of drugs like Ecstasy and SpecialK. Robert Silberling's hiring was revealed...
NGIHTMARE OVER FOR LOVED ONES AT HOME
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe families and friends of the American POWs in Kosovo yesterday were overjoyed to learn that their boys would are coming home. "We can't wait to hold him," the mother...
11 DIE AS TOUR BOAT SINKS IN ARK.
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amAn amphibious tourist boat sank like a rock on a lake in Hot Springs, Ark., yesterday, killing 11 people, including three children. Panicked passengers scrambled for life vests as the...
DRUG CZAR RAISES HUE AND CRY OVER 'BLACK' COCAINE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amHigh-tech drug smugglers are dyeing cocaine black - making it so hard to detect that the drug could be on the verge of a dangerous comeback. Colombian druglords are turning...
3 WOUNDED AS BULLETS FLY IN QNS. MCDONALD'S
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amA dispute between two men at a Queens McDonald's turned violent yesterday, leaving three people shot, including two young sisters who were waiting for a bus, cops said. The men...
THREE DIE, 16 HURT IN L.I. BLAZE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amFirefighters believe a fire that ripped through a crowded Suffolk County house early yesterday - killing three people and injuring 16 - may have been deliberately set. Meanwhile, another man...
BILL SKIPS SEXGATE SLEUTH'S MEDIA AWARD
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton arrived a good 30 minutes after the reporter who uncovered the Sexgate scandal was given an award at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. Although Clinton...
SLOBBO VOWS TO RELEASE OUR BOYS: JESSE GETS SERBS TO FREE 3 POWS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Rev. Jesse Jackson did it again - winning Serb strongman Slododan Milosevic's promise that three American POWs would be released today. "Our boys are coming home," said...
SLOBBO LETS P.O.W. TRIO HEAD HOME JACKSON'S PLEA OPENS JAIL DOOR
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Declaring "It's good to be free," three GIs tasted freedom today - 32 days after they were captured by Yugoslav forces. Fulfilling a promise he made yesterday to...
DON'T BLAME CRAFT ; FOR THE MISHAP
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amMANY TIMES when people lose their lives in boating accidents involving a small boat, the craft is unfairly categorized as unstable or unsafe. But it is often the people in...
HO-HUM BONILLA INVITES ABUSE FROM SHEA LOUTS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWE wholeheartedly agree with Bobby Bonilla. There's no good reason for his children to be present at Shea Stadium while he's subjected to verbal abuse from fans. There's no reason...
HEY, METS: DIAL 'A' FOR A-ROD DEAL'S A LONGSHOT - BUT WORTH A TRY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amTHE medium-market Mariners won't be able to afford both Ken Griffey Jr. and Alex Rodriguez. Griffey wants to stay with the M's, and he was there first. So chances are...
SHE SAVED LOUISVILLE'S BLACK JOCKEY HERITAGE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The nice lady on the other end of the phone literally whispered her answer to the question, ''When did the Kentucky Derby Museum add its exhibit honoring the...
INJURIES CAN HURT REST OF YOUR LINEUP, TOO
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amINJURIES continue to mount and we all continue to scramble seeking replacements who won't hurt our team productivity. But we must also look to see what other players are affected...
ANYONE WANT A DOMINATOR? ; SABRES SHOPPING HASEK AROUND THE NHL
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Even as Dominik Hasek waits for the Devils to finish off the Penguins so he can commence his top-of-the-world duel with Martin Brodeur, the Sabres are already making...
GORING PLANS TO GET ISLANDER 'O' IN GEAR
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe Islanders have hired a strong offensive mind in Butch Goring. Now all they have to get him is more weapons to go along with Ziggy Palffy. In contrast to...
DEVILS GO FOR THE JAGR-LAR
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - They have had far too much trouble with far too damaged a team to be a convincing Stanley Cup contender. The Devils do just enough to get by,...
EASY GOER? IT'S BAFFERT HIMSELF
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The boys were copacetic, their moods relaxed, at the Bob Baffert barn yesterday morning. You'd never know that just eight hours away, the white-haired wizard and three of...
ROYAL RUMBLE ON TAP? KNOBLAUCH FUMES OVER MONTGOMERY BEANBALL
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - At war with the Royals? Come on! Maybe the Orioles, Indians, Rangers, Red Sox or Mariners. After all they have qualities the Yankees' easily loathe. But the...
WILPON'S NOT SCARED OF BIG, BAD BRAVES
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amOn May 1, 1998, the Mets were 13-12 and four games behind the Braves. Going into yesterday's game they were 14-9 and only 1 games behind Atlanta. Now, that isn't...
RUSSELL STILL A WINNER ; NOW 65, CELTIC GREAT IS MELLOWING OUT
May 2, 1999 | 4:00am"Seems to me, if you're playing the last game in your sport, you've had a wonderful year."BILL RUSSELL WHEN Bill Russell retired after the 1968-69 championship season, his Celtic teams...
LOCAL HERO NATHAN'S AHEAD OF HIS TIME
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe talent was there, painfully obvious to everybody but Joe Nathan himself. Three years ago, the Circleville, N.Y., (Hudson Valley) native was a light-hitting shortstop, struggling his way through rookie...
ROCK & ROLL MAKES NOISE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - As even-money favorite Lil's Lad faded badly to finish last in the field of seven, Rock and Roll rallied down the stretch under Pat Day and held off...
GRIMSLEY & NAULTY ON BUBBLE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - The savage beating Dan Naulty absorbed from the Royals Friday night wasn't bad enough for him to be sent to the minors, but a few more stinkers...
ROCCO HOPES TO RETURN WEDNESDAY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Joe Rocco Jr. was never admitted to North Shore Hospital after a frightening spill in the first race on Friday. He took off his mounts yesterday and his only...
NHL NEEDS HIT SHOW ON BROADWAY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWould we have a different sense of this tournament if the Red Wings, Avalanche or Stars played in Manhattan, would television ratings reflect the difference? The answers are one and...
MCRAE'S A GIANT KILLER BRIAN SNAPS OUT OF IT WITH SLAM TO SUPPORT OREL
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amMets9 Giants4 ByWith one swing of the bat Brian McRae increased his RBI total by 133 percent, increased his home run total by 100 percent, and added 25 percent more...
RISING TO THE OCCASION - SORT OF ; OUR MAN FLIRTS WITH CUT AT PELHAM
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amA year ago, I walked off the golf course shamed and shaken. Yesterday, I walked off triumphant, yet still lamenting what could have been. The occasion, both last year and...
FRANCO'S GOTTA HAVE BIG FINISH FOR HALL
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLATE in the game - exactly as it should be considering his job description - John Franco is gaining recognition and respect for his career in his hometown. His 400th...
A CHARISMATIC WIN LUKAS' 30-1 SHOT HOLDS OFF MENIFEE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, winless in the Triple Crown since taking seven of eight from 1994-96, was king of the hill again yesterday, saddling Charismatic to win the...
NATHAN MAKES PITCH
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe talent was there, painfully obvious to everybody but Joe Nathan himself. Three years ago, the Circleville, N.Y., (Hudson Valley) native was a light-hitting shortstop, struggling his way through rookie...
MCRAE SMELLIN' LIKE A ROSE WINS DERBY POOL, SLAMS SF TO STEAL SHOW FROM FRANCO
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amGuess who won the Mets Kentucky Derby Pool? In name only was this John Franco Day. In every other respect, it belonged to Brian McRae, who not only hit a...
OREL JUST WINGS IT
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amAt 40 years old, Orel Hershiser clearly isn't what he once was. He's no longer a complete-game workhorse, or No. 1 ace. But while the Mets' newest starter didn't have...
REED RETURNS TOMORROW; LEITER TO GO TUESDAY
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Valentine announced after yesterday's 9-4 win that Rick Reed would indeed pitch tomorrow against the Astros in place of Al Leiter, and the lefty would go Tuesday. Leiter suffered...
IRABU'S READY TO PITCH IN
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - One month ago, Hideki Irabu was ready to quit. Now, after being at the root of a feud between interim manager Don Zimmer and George Steinbrenner, the...
ONCE-JUMBO JOCKEY AGAIN A HEAVY HITTER
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The kind of stories that are written on this racetrack on the first Saturday in May are the kind you couldn't dream up in your wildest imagination, and...
ZUPPARDO ARDO WINS HUMANA 'CAP
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Trainer Bobby Barnett had his winner on Derby Day, only it came two races too early and with a five-year-old mare, Zuppardo Ardo, rather than the three-year-old colt,...
BAFFERT DIDN'T SEE IT COMING ; TRAINER HAD NO JITTERS
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The boys were copacetic, their moods relaxed, at the Bob Baffert barn yesterday morning. You'd never know that just eight hours away, the white-haired wizard and three of...
SUCCESSFUL APPEAL GETS BEST OF 'LUCK'
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amWithstanding a late rush by Best Of Luck, Successful Appeal won the 120th running of the Withers Stakes at Aqueduct by half length. It was another 41/4 lengths back to...
D. WAYNE SAVORS CHARISMATIC WIN LONGSHOT HOLDS OFF MENIFEE
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - For two years trainer D. Wayne Lukas sat and stewed - and waited. After dominating the Triple Crown from 1994-96, winning six straight classics and seven out of...
CONE HAS CY ON PRIZE YANK HURLER AN EARLY CONTENDER FOR TOP AWARD
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amYankees8 Royals4 KANSAS CITY - Cy Cone. Laugh if you want to and say it's early in May and there are five months left to decide who is the best...
NETS LOOK TO MAKE SIZABLE GAIN
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amNets102 Wizards91 Even with something as gosh-darn important as escaping the Atlantic Division cellar on the line, the Nets' hierarchy is thinking about next season. All right, all right, you...
INSIDE SCOOP
May 2, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: CONE-HERSHISER FEUD FINALLY COMES TO AN END The 11-year war of written words is over between David Cone and Orel Hershiser. It was Cone's debut as a sportswriter that...