May 3, 1999
WHERE THE SURPLUS WENT:COUNTING SOCIAL SECURITY, IT NEVER WAS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amIF you spent $40,000 last year and earned only $35,000, you would have had a deficit of $5,000. Keep that up and you'd live on the street before long. If...
MORE PROTEST BT MERGER
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amJewish groups have new allies in their drive to block the merger of Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust - former clients of the Bankers Trust estate department who allege mismanagement....
AOL COULD GO IT ALONE IN COMCAST BUY
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amAT&T has won the latest battle over MediaOne, but as the war rages on, another option is surfacing: AOL buys MediaOne itself, and arranges for Comcast to run the operation....
CELEBRITY WEALTH'S NO MATCH FOR CEOS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amWhile celebrity salaries may catch the public's eye, it's the country's chief executives who snag the biggest bucks. Consider this fact from the just-released "Forbes 800" list of highest-paid CEOs:...
STAR WARS - 16 DAYS TO GO: THEME LIKELY TO SOAR TO TOP SPOT
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amYOU probably haven't heard of a tune called "Duel of the Fates," but within a month's time you'll probably be humming it uncontrollably. That's because "Duel of the Fates" is...
TV TICKER
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amUPN bonanza UPN's entrance into the wrestling ring paid handsome dividends Thursday. "WWF Smackdown!" helped UPN notch a 5.8 overnight rating (3.1 million households) in the metered markets, including WWOR/Ch.9....
MUTILATION IN MOVIES: NOT FUNNY, NO MONEY - LOW SCORE FOR GORE
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amW HEN will Hollywood realize that gratuitous gruesomeness played for laughs just doesn't sell? Last week's "Idle Hands" was marketed as another "gruesome comedy." But like most other gory ultra-dark...
FIGHTIN' WORDS MAY PUNCH OUT SPRINGER: HE'LL EITHER BE EXPOSED - OR ARRESTED
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amThreatening Springer's guests with arrest was the idea of a crusading priest, Rev. Michael Pfleger. CHICAGO'S most powerful City Council member wants Jerry Springer to 'fess up: Are the fights...
B'WAY'S COST OF LOSING INDEX: FRANK WILDHORN KEEPS CRANKING OUT MUSICALS THAT DON'T MAKE MONEY
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amHOW do you explain the rise of Frank Wildhorn, the bearded, baseball-cap-wearing composer whose shows - "Jekyll and Hyde," "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Civil War" - seem to defy...
CITY BALLET'S 'SWAN' DROWNS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amDANCE REVIEW T HERE is actually no lake in New York City Ballet's new "Swan Lake" - or at least not one readily discernible to the naked eye. There isn't...
OPRAH, MEET SONIA: THE NEXT WAVE OF TALK-SHOW HOSTS ARE OUTTA NOWHERE
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amYou've probably never heard of Sonia Benezra - and that's the idea. Benezra represents the next wave of talk show hosts - performers with star quality who are being yanked...
MORE RAILROAD COPS ON WAY
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe MTA is boosting the number of cops patrolling the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North commuter lines from 400 to 510. The 25 percent increase will come in January,...
ALL TEACHERS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL
May 3, 1999 | 4:00am'Is it right that the Excellence inTeaching program rewards the dullards,the time-servers and the burnouts alongwith the truly exceptional amongthe city's 60,000-plus teachers?' HERE'S a brief tale of three New...
COLUMBINE SHOOTING ECHOES IN ALBANY
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amJUST when everyone thought that political relations here couldn't get any worse, they have - and fallout from the Littleton school massacre is partly to blame. Because Gov. Pataki and...
GOOD EATS JOIN BUDGET ON BACK BURNER
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amWOULD somebody please buy Deborah Glick a cookbook already? The Greenwich Village assemblywoman can use the help, now that she's cooking for herself instead of eating out - thanks to...
HESTON SHOOTS FROM THE LIP
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amHollywood legend Charlton Heston yesterday angrily tore into gun critics who blame the Columbine HS massacre on the availability of firearms. And Heston, president of the National Rifle Association, blasted...
MINORITY COPS JOIN STREET CRIME UNIT
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amEight minority cops will join the embattled Street Crime Unit today, bringing the minority total to 26, The Post has learned. The move is part of an ongoing recruitment effort...
HELL-RAISING ACTOR OLIVER REED DIES OF BARROOM CARDIAC
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amHard-boozing actor Oliver Reed - known for his lusty portrayals of English louts, lovers and lunatics both on-screen and in real life - died yesterday at the age of 61....
FAMILY REUNIONS AWAIT EX-HOSTAGES - BURGER-GOBBLING TRIO 'REASONABLY HEALTHY' AFTER 32-DAY ORDEAL
May 3, 1999 | 4:00am"I hope that in some way our release will lead to negotiations for peace. It's sad that this is happening, and we pray for peace." STAFF SGT. CHRISTOPHER STONE The...
REFUGEES NOT WELCOME, SAY N.J. BASE'S NEIGHBORS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amWRIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - When the first batch of ethnic Albanian refugees arrive at Fort Dix Wednesday, they may not find a red, white and blue welcome mat rolled out. Some...
TWO RUDYS WILL FINALLY MEET TODAY
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said he plans to use a meeting today with Chancellor Rudy Crew to press for more reforms of the school system - including an immediate end to the...
SHE'S WORN HIS RING - FOR 75 YRS.
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amQueens couple Will and Inez Kelly celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary yesterday - displaying the unabashed affection of love-struck newlyweds. The pair barely parted for a moment, remaining hand-in-hand all...
BOOKSELLERS GET IRISH UP OVER MCCOURT
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amIndependent booksellers are bashing "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt for shilling for mega-rival Barnes and Noble's online superstore in a TV ad. The American Booksellers Association voted Saturday to send...
TOP DEM: 'HEADS OUGHT TO ROLL' OVER SPY SCANDAL
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A top Senate Democrat said yesterday that "heads ought to roll" if it turns out that President Clinton's security team hushed up reports of Chinese espionage. "If this,...
NATO VOWS TO STEP UP BOMBING CAMPAIGN
May 3, 1999 | 4:00am"We will cut them off, pin them down and take them out." NATO SPOKESMAN JAMIE SHEA WASHINGTON - Brushing aside the sudden release of three American POW's, NATO yesterday vowed...
MILOSEVIC GESTURE WILL ALLOW BILL TO SAVE FACE
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - He'd be the last guy in the world to say thank you to Slobodan Milosevic but President Clinton, is psyched now that the bad-boy Serb has coughed...
COP TWICE SAVES SUICIDAL WOMAN FROM BURNING CAR
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amAn off-duty Staten Island cop yesterday twice rescued a suicidal woman after she apparently set her car aflame. Officer Richard Ortiz of the New Dorp station house first dragged the...
IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL TODAY FOR COLO. KIDS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amTraumatized Columbine HS students head back to class today, almost two weeks after their world was rocked by two classmates who massacred 13 people in a guns-and-bombs rampage at the...
MRS. SLOBBO IS IN A STATE OF DENIAL - INSISTS THERE HAVE BEEN NO ATROCITIES
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amSerbian troops aren't murdering or expelling anybody in Kosovo, the wife of Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic insisted last night in a rare interview. "They are not killing them. They are...
FBI AIDED BRIT BOMB BUST
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe FBI reportedly helped British investigators nab a 22-year-old engineer for the horrific London bomb blasts that have killed three people and maimed more than 100. David Copeland is set...
MT. EVEREST BODY MIGHT REVEAL WHO PEAKED 1ST
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amThe 75-year-old mystery of who was first to climb Mount Everest was nearer a solution yesterday with the discovery of the body of a pioneering mountaineer. George Mallory's frozen remains...
MAN CHARGED AS BRIT BOMBER
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: A 22-year-old engineer was charged yesterday in the horrific London bomb blasts that have killed three people and maimed more than 100. David Copeland is set to appear in...
RED TAPE GIVES SCOFFLAWS GREEN LIGHT
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amThousands of parking scofflaws may be getting off the hook - literally - because the sheriff's office hasn't reached deals with two companies in Brooklyn and Manhattan, The Post has...
OVER-40S MUSCLE IN ON LIST OF FITTEST GALS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Meet the Hollywood actresses who have sex appeal - and pecs appeal. They're the Top Ten female hardbodies as voted by the bodybuilding magazine Flex. And the two women...
OVERCROWDED DERBY ASKING FOR TROUBLE
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - They are playing with fire at Churchill Downs, and not the type that swept through the old wooden press box, dubbed The Chicken Coop, during the runnning of...
JASON WON'T LET BOMBERS GO NELLIE-UP
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES KANSAS CITY - Jason Grimsley taking over for Jeff Nelson in the middle of an inning in a close game is not something the Yankees are used to....
'69 METS RELIVE THAT GLORIOUS MIRACLE
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amED CHARLES, the third baseman against left-handers for the 1969 Miracle Mets, was in uniform, standing near first base, surveying the aging stadium, his eyes moving from one foul to...
LUKAS: PREAKNESS WILL BE BEST TEST
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - A triumphant D. Wayne Lukas, proclaimed "trainer of the '90s" by arch-rival Bob Baffert after saddling his third Kentucky Derby winner of the decade and fourth overall, held...
MENIFEE ALL SET FOR PREAKNESS REMATCH
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Menifee, beaten a neck in the Kentucky Derby by Charismatic after making a strong late run, tops the list of nine Derby losers who appear headed for the...
ABC DONS BLINKERS OVER ANTLEY
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amG IVE sports television a simple but uncomfortable truth and watch TV squirm. Watch TV kinda, sorta, almost tell a national audience the truth, but, in the end, leave the...
DISGUSTED VG MOANS: WE HAD NO DISCIPLINE
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - With only two games remaining in the regular season, the Knicks showed again yesterday that they are not together as a team. Jeff Van Gundy criticized...
EXPOSED IN INDY PACER POUNDING SHOWS KNICKS AS PRETENDERS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amPacers 94 Knicks 71 INDIANAPOLIS - This message was loud and clear: We own you - if you make the playoffs. Those were the words the Pacers hammered home to...
BIG GHEORGHE READY TO SIGN
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amSo you ask what's wrong with the Nets. Hey, nobody has THAT much time to chat on a given day. But when analyzing their problems, even when healthy, you notice...
BOMBERS BAIL OUT IRABU:BERNIE HR SAVES HORRIBLE HIDEKI
May 3, 1999 | 4:00am"Honestly, I wasn't able to do much out there."HIDEKI IRABU Yankees 9 Royals 8 KANSAS CITY - Busses to Kauffman Stadium he missed. Barrels of Royals bats he didn't. So...
POINT IS, KNICKS DON'T GET POINT
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amFor all the Knicks have changed ... nothing really has or will, until they get a point guard. I NDIANAPOLIS - The reasons why the Knicks are barely a .500...
HOW SWEEP IT IS FOR VALENTINE'S TROOPS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets' 2-0 win yesterday at Shea capped their first three-game sweep of the Giants since July 4-6, 1994 at San Francisco. The last time the Amazin's swept...
THE DOUBTS ARE ERASED
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - They were becoming questions of character, no two ways around it. When Jaromir Jagr missed not one playoff game, but then two; not two games, but then three...
LAID-BACK DEVILS BLAME THEMSELVES
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The Devils' Bobby Holik wasn't in the mood to toss bouquets at fellow Czech countryman and hobbled hero Jaromir Jagr yesterday. If the Devils had played their game,...
SOME AMAZIN' LUCK :METS CATCH BREAK ON GIANT MISCUE TO PULL OUT WIN
May 3, 1999 | 4:00am"The way I've been messing up, good luck was sure to come, and I guess it came today."RICKEY HENDERSON Mets 2 Giants 0 The Amazin's honored their 1969 World Series...
JAGR GOES SCOTT-FREE ON 2 GOALS
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - Scott & Scott shut down Jaromir Jagr in Game 1, almost shut him down for the season. Paired together against the Jagr line, Scott Stevens and Scott Niedermayer...
ARTAX SETS MARK: CHAVEZ HURT
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amArtax pulled away from Affirmed Success in the stretch yesterday and broke a 31-year-old track record in winning the Grade 1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct. Ridden by Jorge Chavez and...
JAGR FORCES GAME 7
May 3, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: PITTSBURGH - This becomes hockey legend, and makes a hockey legend. Jaromir Jagr dramatically turned into a belated Bobby Baun and Mario Lemieux, rolled into one, trying to keep...