May 9, 1999
A PORTFOLIO A MOM COULD LOVE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMOTHER knows best. Value-oriented hedge-fund manager Mitch Julis learned that first-hand last year when his mother disregarded his investment tips and put her retirement money into large-cap growth stocks. "Let's...
DON'T IGNORE 'NET EFFECT INDICES ROCKED BY .COM ISSUES
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"It's possible [that] in 10 to 20 years we'll look back on this period in the way we now look at the industrial revolution."HENRY BLODGET,Merrill Lynch analyst The Internet is...
O.J. LAWYER SELLS MURDER MANUSCRIPT
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amROBERT Shapiro, one of O.J. Simpson's "Dream Team" lawyers, is jumping into the world of fiction with a new legal thriller called "Misconception." It was just sold to William Morrow...
BUFFETT'S OFFSPRING MUST SET OWN TABLES
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S probably not the best marketing strategy to have your father plug your new CD at a meeting - unless Dad is Warren Buffett. When the Oracle of Omaha mentioned...
EARVIN'S MAGIC BULLET :JOHNSON IS SHOWING BIG CHAINS THEY CAN BE PROFITABLE IN HARLEM
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMAGIC Johnson has a dream. Glancing around his new Starbucks on 125th Street the other day, the one-time basketball giant saw a vision of the chain's first inner-city coffee shop...
DESPITE THEIR PASTS, THEY'RE STREET LEGAL
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amWALL Street may be notoriously greedy, but it certainly has heart. The Street was buzzing when The Post reported exclusively Friday that former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, he of...
THIS SHOPPING PORTAL OFFERS REBATES FOR .MOM
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amWHILE working as prosecutors in California's San Mateo County, Paul Wasserman, 35, and Alessandro Isolani, 32, watched the Internet gold rush hit Silicon Valley. With a background in Internet crime...
NOT SO WILD ABOUT 'WEST'
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe Irish theater is bubbling. Again! My old friend, the late Ted Kalem, a revered, longtime drama critic for Time magazine, maintained that one of those small but notable revenges...
NO MAN'S LAND
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amIt was Henry Higgins who pounded the floor of his study and wondered, 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?'' More to the point, Rex Harrison: why can't...
MAMA TRAUMA
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMotherhood changes everything. One day you're debating Kosovo, the Knicks and the Tonys. The next you're discussing the quality and quantity of . . . poop. Indeed, the day you...
HAPPY MUMMY'S DAY!
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am'The Mummy,'' the new gorefest fea turing Brendan Fraser, is the latest in a long line of movies about the ancient gentleman wrapped in gauze. Dating back at least to...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE : TATJANA PATITZ
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- HER TIGER EYES AND EXQUISITE BONE STRUCTURE HAVE HELPED LAND HER ON MAGAZINE COVERS AND RUNWAYS AROUND THE WORLD, BUT TATJANA PATITZ'S HEART REMAINS DOWN ON HER FARM. HER...
THE SAVVY SHOPPER
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- WOMEN'S APPAREL MAXMARA PARSON'S SCHOOL OF DESIGN 560 SEVENTH AVE, AT 40TH ST. 2ND FLOOR 212-741-2660 MACKIE BY BOB MACKIE AND LAVANTINO 498 SEVENTH AVE. 22ND FL. 212-736-5505 BIS...
EXTERNAL WOMBS TAKE LOAD OFF MOM
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMothers of the future may have families without the pain of pregnancy and childbirth in the next millennium, thanks to emerging technologies that will do all the work for them....
GOT THE NEW YORK STATEAUTO-EMISSIONS TEST BLUES
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amI HAVE car trouble once a year. It's called the New York state safety and emissions inspection. My car trouble just got worse with the installation of new, supposedly cheat-proof,...
UNREASONABLE SUSPICION - OF COPS: WILL THE SUPREME COURT REIN IN JUDICIAL SECOND-GUESSING?
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amB ACK in September 1995, Sam Wardlow was standing on the street in a Chicago neighborhood known for its heavy drug activity when he spotted uniformed Officer Timothy Nolan driving...
FROM HIGH LIFE TO LOW-LIFE FOR CLUB KING
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am*1983: Gatien opens Limelight in a former Episcopal church on Avenue of the Americas and West 20th Street. *1992: Buys the Palladium, near Union Square. *1993: Opens the Tunnel at...
REAL NEW YORKERS KNOW COPS DESERVE OUR TRUST
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amFROM the limo-locked reaches of pricey Manhattan, where Susan Sarandon raises her kids, it's easy for the idiot actress to face the cameras, features contorted, to scream, "Police brutality!" From...
CITY MISSED GOLDMINE IN OLD HARLEM SCHOOL
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amAn antiques dealer is carving up a century-old public school in East Harlem and may be offering its windows, gargoyles and cupola for prices of up to $100,000 - not...
NATO MULLS WAR-CRIMES CHARGES FOR MILOSEVIC
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amNATO leaders are agonizing over whether to bring war-crimes charges against Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic - even as peace talks appear to be gaining momentum. With accounts of mass killings,...
IT TOOK KID'S DEATH TO STOP GATIEN ; DRUG TRAGEDY DOOMS EMPIRE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amIF Jimmy Lyons had not died of a drug overdose at the Tunnel disco, Peter Gatien would still be the King of Clubs. Gatien would have beaten the system with...
PUBLISHED SCRIPT OFFERS FORCE-FUL PLOT DETAILS
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe secret is out. "Star Wars: The Illustrated Screenplay" is a blueprint for the most eagerly anticipated movie of the decade. If you don't want to know the plot of...
'ETHNIC' SURGERY: IT'S NO LONGER A RACE TO LOOK ALIKE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amPlastic surgeons call it the "Michael Jackson syndrome." "He's like the worst example of having surgery the wrong way," said Dr. Randolph Waldman, vice- president of the American Academy of...
N.Y. ON $84 A DAY - JUST FOR YOUR CAR :MIDTOWN GARAGES MAKE DRIVERS PAY IN SPACE RACE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amGarage gougers in Midtown are charging rates that make $55 parking tickets seem like a bargain. You could get an apartment for less than it costs to house your vehicle...
NYPD BEEFING UP 'CUBA' PATROL
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe indictment of an alleged Cuban spy in Miami - and talk of Yankee-Cuban baseball games - has prompted a beef-up of some NYPD security details, The Post has learned....
WILL SOVIET-BORN VOTERS SAY NYET TO NETANYAHU?
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.IN the psychological warfare of the Israeli election campaign that ends a week from tomorrow it seems that every dirty trick is legitimate. "Crisis of Confidence Between Netanyahu and Finkelstein,"...
'ECSTASY' LEADS TO ANYTHING BUT
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe trendy club drug known as Ecstacy actually dates back to 1912, when it was cooked up by Merck, the German pharmaceuticals giant. Mostly unused until the 1970s, the drug's...
3,000 'STOP-AND-FRISKS' NET ONLY 6 GUNS
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amA specialized police unit dispatched to the South Bronx - including the neighborhood where Amadou Diallo was shot - has frisked thousands of people and turned up only a handful...
POPE AND RIVAL IN PEACE PLEA
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amPope John Paul II, in the middle of a historic visit to Romania, yesterday joined the country's Eastern Orthodox leader to condemn the conflict in neighboring Kosovo. "In the name...
COPS' LAWYERS TO PUT LOUIMA ON GRILL OVER HIS CREDIBILITY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amDefense lawyers for the cops accused of torturing Abner Louima will attack his credibility tomorrow when the Haitian immigrant resumes testifying in the sensational case. Louima, who has become a...
PASSENGER HURT IN JFK PLANE SLIP
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amAn American Eagle commuter plane slid off a runway at Kennedy Airport yesterday morning, slightly injuring one passenger. American Eagle flight 4925, carrying 24 passengers from Baltimore, slipped from the...
HE'S AN ALL-AMERICAN BABY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amFORT DIX, N.J. - It's official: The first baby born among hundreds of Kosovo refugees staying in the United States is American - literally. "We named him American - we...
NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIES, STARR CAN'T WIN
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amALEXANDRIA, Va. - The mistrials of Susan McDougal and Julie Hiatt Steele have Ken Starr's team wondering if it's possible to find a jury that isn't hostile to the independent...
BEIJING MOB TAKES REVENGE ON U.S. SITES
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"Pay blood debts in blood! Clinton's a murderer!"PROTESTERS IN BEIJING AND SHANGHAI Mobs of Chinese demonstrators hurled chunks of concrete at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing yesterday in anger over...
162 FOSTER KIDS CALL HER 'MOM'
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMother's Day will be a lonely one for Minnesota super-mom Vashti Risdall. The 96-year-old lives downstairs from her daughter, has 11 grandkids, 17 great-grandchildren - and over the past 50...
PARTY-GOER SHOT DEAD
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amA 27-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday morning after an argument with another party-goer at a Far Rockaway gathering, police said. Police said Craig Payton, of 438 Beach 40th...
EXPERT: SERBS MAY HAVE FED NATO PHONY INTELLIGENCE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amSerbian double-agents may have misled NATO into bombing the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, top defense analysts say. NATO admits the "smart" bombs that ripped into the embassy and killed four...
BILL: SORRY ABOUT BOMBING BLUNDER : CHINESE EMBASSY WAS ON TARGET LIST
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton apologized yesterday for bombing the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade but said the mistake won't stop NATO from launching more airstrikes on the Yugoslav capital. "It was...
PARCELLS MAY BUY JETS ; COACH LINING UP GROUP TO BID FOR TEAM: SOURCE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amJets coach Bill Parcells is positioning himself to buy a stake in Gang Green, The Post has learned. "Bill has a group he can put together to buy the team,"...
'MIDGET' VS. MOUSE AS HOLLYWOOD ; HONCHOS FIGHT $500M FEUD
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"Did you say Mr. Katzenberg was the 'tip of your pompom?'... Did you say Mr. Katzenberg was your 'retriever?'... Did you say, 'I think I hate the little midget?'"LAWYER BERT...
CHICAGO SCHOOLS BOSS COOL TO WHISPERS HERE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"Honest to God, I haven't been approached. I've got a job. I'm not an education mercenary."PAUL VALLAS, Chicago schools boss The Chicago schools boss who's reportedly Mayor Giuliani's top pick...
6 HURT AS CAR HITS BROOKLYN GROCERY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn driver was charged with reckless endangerment yesterday after his car plowed into a grocery store, injuring at least six people, including a 7-year-old boy. Police said the driver...
PLASTIC SURGERY'S NOT SO BLACK & WHITE ANYMORE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"As society becomes more mutli-cultural, diversity has priority over conformity. There's no such thing as a cookie-cutter look anymore."PLASTIC SURGEON ELIOT ROSE Plastic surgeons call it the "Michael Jackson syndrome."...
HEART ATTACK CLAIMS ACTOR DIRK BOGARDE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amInternational matinee idol Dirk Bogarde died of a heart attack in his London home yesterday at the age of 78. The British screen sensation, whose 60 films included starring roles...
RANDALLS ISLAND NEXT ON CITY'S 'FIXIT' LIST
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe city wants private companies to suggest commercial development proposals for Randalls Island. The proposals would help pay for a $200 million renovation of the massive 480-acre park on the...
PROBE EYES TIMING OF SHOTS THAT HIT DIALLO
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amInvestigators probing the shooting of Amadou Diallo by four police officers are trying to determine how long it took the cops to fire 41 bullets at him, law-enforcement sources said...
HILLARY HELPS TO TURN LOCAL ELECTION INTO MAJOR BATTLE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThe most important and expensive political contest of the year will explode this month in a special state Senate race in Rockland County. Even Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing her...
SUSPECTS WILL GET TO KEEP RX MEDICINES IN SLAMMER
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amPrisoners awaiting arraignment will soon be able to keep their prescription drugs, including AIDS medications. Mayoral spokeswoman Jennifer Chait said last night the new city policy is part of a...
THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT TAE-BO SERIOUS INJURIES MAY RESULT FROM THE HOTTEST WORKOUT
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amFitness fans are kicking, punching and twisting themselves into a nationwide tizzy over Tae-Bo - but the workout craze could knock them for a loop. 'Anyone can do it!'' the...
U.S. CONSULATE BURNS AS MOB TAKES REVENGE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amA furious mob of Chinese protesters torched a U.S. consulate building in southwest China today in an explosion of anger over NATO's bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade. It was...
REFUGEES BATHE JFK IN TEARS OF JOY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amThey wept in the arms of their loved ones. Dozens of Kosovar refugees found joy for the first time in weeks when they were reunited with relatives at Kennedy Airport...
'SNL' TEAMS MONICA WITH MR. BILL!
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amAmerica's portly pepperpot turned corpulent comedienne last night when she appeared as herself on "Saturday Night Live." In a tame skit that never mentioned cigars, sex or the Oral Office,...
THE BIGGEST BASEBALL STARS IN NY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMORE than anywhere, New York is a town known for its baseball stars. From Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to Casey Stengel and Joe DiMaggio to Willie Mays and Mickey...
BERNIE LENDS HIS SUPPORT
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMel Hall, Steve Sax, Jesse Barfield and Roberto Kelly are playing a hand in Ricky Ledee's battle to overcome a miserable start to what was supposed to be a coming...
LEDEE GRASPS FOR ANSWERS : STRUGGLIN' RICKY BATTLES TO REGAIN HIS SWEET SWING
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amONE EYE has scorched a hole in the video monitor looking for flaws in what was supposed to be the sweetest swing in the organization. The other cornea has been...
STREET FIGHTIN' FITNESS
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMove over, Demi Moore. There's a new G.I. Jane in town - Israeli style. Nathalie Levy-Koffler served in an elite unit of the Israeli Army, where she rose through the...
THE BROAD STREET BIGOT ; CLARKE EMBARRASSES HIMSELF WITH EURO SLUR
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amAS wonderfully talented and wholly professional European-born players thrive as never before in the NHL, a resurgence of Canadian - if not North American - xenophobia is rising dangerously around...
SUPER STARTS, NOT SUPERSTARS
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER the first month of the season, the baseball leader board in theory is what we expected it to be. But a closer look shows us that this is an...
LESS-TOXIC HUDSON STILL UNSAFE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amI T IS ironic that a highly toxic substance, which shielded Hudson River bass from commercial exploitation, proved to be the salvation for the fishery and allowed it to grow...
DEREK'S RINGS MAKE A-ROD'S MOUTH WATER
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amIt has been a season of frustration for Alex Rodriguez, so you'd think a night out with his best friend Derek Jeter would lift A-Rod's spirits. "Every time I see...
OREL: THIS WAS AS BAD AS I GET
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"I got what I deserved out there, but the guys didn't get what they deserved."OREL HERSHISER PHOENIX - Shortly after the dust had settled from one of the worst starts...
PRIME TIMBER WON'T GO; EXCELLENT MEETING WILL
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amTrainer Bob Baffert threw a curveball at the Preakness yesterday when he announced that Prime Timber was out but Excellent Meeting was suddenly in the middle jewel of the Triple...
LITTLE GUY CAN'T WYNN : HOW CASINO KING FORCED 9-HOLE NAME CHANGE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amEd Dombowski says all are welcome at public Shallow Creek Golf Club in Jefferson Valley, N.Y. The course had been known as ''Shadow Creek'' before exclusive Las Vegas country club...
GANG GREEN ENTERS GRAY AREA PARCELLS STILL THE MAN, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amEffective immediately, the Jets as we've known them will never be the same. The passing of beloved team owner Leon Hess early Friday morning has done a number of significant...
RELIEF! BELTRAN'S BACK TO BOLSTER BULLPEN
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amPHOENIX - With Rickey Henderson on the DL, the Mets decided to recall left-handed reliever Rigo Beltran from Norfolk because of the fear of a depleted middle-relief corps. After Friday...
ANTLEY'S LONG, HARD RIDE JOCKEY OVERCOMES DEMONS TO WIN DERBY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"You wake up every morning and the sun's not bright, you're not excited to be a part of life. There's a feeling you don't want to get out of bed....
ZIM MAY GROUND CHUCK TILL TUESDAY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch had said on Friday that he hoped to be back on the field before the end of the weekend. But yesterday Don Zimmer said he thought Tuesday's series-opener...
BROWN'S T'D OFF BY REF'S EJECTION
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - Just like the game, Heat forward P.J. Brown left the aftermath at Miami Arena early yesterday. Brown, like every other member of the Heat, clearly was in a...
JUNIOR'S 361ST HR TIES JOE D.
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amUntil his recent death, Joe DiMaggio was known as the greatest living baseball player. Seattle's Ken Griffey, Jr. has been regarded as the game's greatest active player. Yesterday in the...
JETER'S GROWTH GOES WAY BACK
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amWAITING for Derek Jeter upon his clubhouse arrival yesterday morning were three of his posters hung by pranking Yankee teammates to mock the shortstop. It was Derek Jeter Growth Chart...
VG'S GANG LOOKS LIKE THE NO. 1 SEED
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - On the wall in the Miami Heat locker room, is an oversized painting of a ring. "Miami Heat World Champions, 1999" the ring says, in such precise detail...
LATRELL LIGHTS UP HEAT IN BLOWOUT
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 1 Knicks95 Heat75 MIAMI - Like so many other New Yorkers, the Knicks came home to South Florida yesterday as Latrell Sprewell found a playoff home in New York...
HARDAWAY WON'T BLAME BUM KNEE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - Tim Hardaway darn near growls when his knee is offered into evidence as probable cause for a poor performance. If ever Hardaway could have pointed to his hyperextended...
DUQUE RIPPED AS MARINERS BLAST YANKS
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMariners14 Yankees5 The Yankees' tilt with Seattle yesterday was a marathon of a game, with never-ending innings, humbled pitchers and the sort of lopsided 14-5 score that have become almost...
KNICK RESERVES GOBBLE UP MIAMI SUBS
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - With :27.9 left in the third quarter, Terry Porter calmly walked to the foul line and drilled two free throws. Those freebies pulled the Heat to within 16...
STEVENS HEADING TO ENGLAND
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amGary Stevens announced that he will be riding full time in England for Michael Stoute. He signed a one year contract with a provision that it could be extended for...
HOUSTON & SPREE JUST TWO TOUGH DYNAMIC GUARD DUO TURNS UP HEAT
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - Latrell Sprewell and Allan Houston both know that when their games are on, there's no way to turn off the Knicks. For those who thought Sprewell and Houston...
MARCUS HANGS MOURNING OUT TO DRY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"My last three games against them I wanted to get my teammates' confidence and I think that's what I did."MARCUS CAMBY MIAMI - The guy who couldn't play against the...
YOSHII STOPS MET SKID BENITEZ SAVES DAY, BAILS OUT FRANCO IN 9TH
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amMets4 D-Backs2 PHOENIX - How do you say Stopper in Japanese? How about Masato Yoshii? Just when the Mets were in need of a big effort from their starting pitcher...
RAMIRO UNDER WEATHER, MAY MISS START
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amRamiro Mendoza was scheduled to start for the Yankees in today's series finale against Seattle, but may be forced to miss his turn because of illness. Mendoza (3-2, 3.03 ERA)...
SUDDENLY, MASATO BECOMES AMAZIN'S GO-TO GUY
May 9, 1999 | 4:00amPHOENIX - Just when the Mets were in need of a big effort from their starting pitcher to stem the tide of a three-game losing streak, and to erase the...
PIAZZA DELIVERS DESPITE PROBLEMS AT THE PLATE
May 9, 1999 | 4:00am"Everybody is contributing, which allows me to flounder along at my own pace."MIKE PIAZZA PHOENIX - Even though Mike Piazza hasn't hit the ball well on a consistent basis since...