May 19, 1999
RATES STAY PUT BUT FED'S BIASED TOWARD A HIKE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00am"A bias does not commit the Fed, yet it removes any doubt that (it's) ready to combat price pressures."ROBERT DiCLEMENTE, Salomon Smith Barney Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan didn't like...
ROME-ING DILLER'S TV DEAL FACING ITALIAN GOV'T SCRUTINY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBarry Diller may have to become an Italian citizen if he wants buy a network there and convert it into a 24-hour home shopping channel. Diller, head of USA Networks...
LOEHMANN'S IN CH. 11;:; BROOKLYN, QUEENS STORES MAY GO
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amLoehmann's filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday, defeated by competitors who copied its off-price strategy, and an overly aggressive expansion. "The decision to file for Chapter 11, while difficult, represents...
FUTURE NOT TOTAL E ROSEN FOR TW-SONY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amTime Warner's and Sony's effort to hire Ticketmaster founder Fred Rosen to run their burgeoning online music operations has fallen apart, The Post has learned. The two media giants wanted...
MALONE PACKAGES 'NET DEAL IN BOX SALE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amCable magnate John Malone is kicking his own Internet music enterprise out of his media family by selling it to rival MTV. The deal is expected to be announced today....
FULLER MAY MOVE OVER TO HARPER'S BAZAAR
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amMEDIA INK THE rumor mill was churning again yesterday inside Conde Nast, with reports that Bonnie Fuller was going to defect from her post as editor of Glamour - which...
TV TICKER
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amScott's turf The WB's "Felicity" wraps its first season on Tuesday (9-10 p.m. on Ch.11) - after surviving a freshman campaign of hype and overall change that brightened the show's...
AN 'UNEXPECTED' PLEASURE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00am"The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax"Tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WCBS/Ch.2 JESSICA Fletcher was no slouch in the fun department, but she would never be able to keep up with Emily Pollifax....
THE SKYE'S THE LIMIT
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amF OR actress Ione Skye, her new movie, "Mascara," is a case of real life meeting reel life. The film, written and directed by Linda Kandel and opening Friday, chronicles...
BUFFY'S AGONY: WB WILL EDIT SCHOOLKIDS WITH WEAPONS FROM VIOLENT FINALE - OR SCRAP SHOW
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE WB has decided that it may not air the season finale of its teen megahit "Buffy The Vampire Slayer." If the show is broadcast next week, it will be...
'FOX FILES' MAKES THE GRADE, BUT... ; 'MILLENNIUM' TO MISS YEAR 2000
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amFOX is cancelling "Millennium" but is bringing back "Fox Files" for another season, sources say. Fox will announce its fall schedule tomorrow. CBS, meanwhile, is expected to announce today that...
SPOOKY BLACKBIRD IS PRICEY, TO BOOT
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBlackbird Two stars 60 E. 49th St. (212) 692-9292 'NATURE is a haunted house,'' Emily Dickinson wrote. And she hadn't even been to Blackbird. Ghosts have the run of this...
A SLICE OF LOUISIANA IN THE EAST VILLAGE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amLa Gould Finch 93 Avenue B (212) 253-6369 THERE is no such thing as a Gould finch. Happily, however, there is La Gould Finch. This rare bird of a restaurant...
WOMAN BIDS TO MAKE PBA 'HERSTORY'
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amFor the first time in the 105-year history of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, a woman is taking on the boys in blue in a bid to become a board member....
SPICE SPLICE NEAR SLICE - SCARY MAY SPLIT WITH HUBBY OF 8 MONTHS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00am"After the glitz and the glamour of their romance, it has now all gone wrong." FRIEND OF SCARY SPICE The eight-month marriage of Scary Spice is frighteningly close to collapse....
SHELLY'S COMMUNITY SEES NO SILVER LINING
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's core constituents yesterday came out swinging against the Manhattan Democrat, branding him a ''sellout'' for leading the charge to dump the city's suburban commuter tax. Residents...
MOTHER RUSSIA FRETS OVER BORIS' HEALTH AS HE SKIPS MEETING
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amRussian President Boris Yeltsin was a no-show for a meeting with Spain's leader yesterday, prompting fresh alarms about his health on the eve of a crucial parliamentary vote on his...
IT'S ABOUT TIME WE CITY STIFFS CATCH A BREAK
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWILL somebody - please! - give us poor, overworked, overtaxed, underappreciated and misunderstood New Yorkers a break? I'll admit, the streets of this city have never seemed friendly to the...
THE GOOTCH STOPS $EX HARASSMENT'S OUT-OF-CONTROL SPIN
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amSEX, beautiful when it is spelled l-o-v-e, can putrefy when it is called give-me-a-buck. I am talking specifically about how some people believe screaming sexual harassment will get you a...
INSIDERS SAY PATAKI WILL DROP BOMBSHELL
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amGov. Pataki's "major political announcement" Monday may be a lot bigger than most people expect, two top state officials said yesterday. The officials told The Post Pataki has described his...
MOVIE LOVERS ARRIVE EARLY FOR 'STAR' DATE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amSome questions we have about 'The Phantom Menace' / Arts Wednesday: Page 49 Sci-fi fans showed their undying devotion to "Star Wars" last night as they lined up at theaters,...
D'AMATO: STARR WAS WAY OUT OF HIS GALAXY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is denouncing independent counsel Kenneth Starr as a "flop" - a back-stabbing bumbler who botched the Whitewater probe. In a column for George magazine, D'Amato says...
COMMUTER-TAX REPEAL HELD HOSTAGE - POLITICAL INFIGHTING GRIPS STATE CAPITAL
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amAlbany seemed possessed yesterday as political back-stabbing, infighting, game-playing and intrigue involving Gov. Pataki and the state's most powerful players spun out of control. It started with the surprising new...
GRIDLOCK ALERT TODAY FOR CLINTON'S VISIT
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton is attending several events here today, and that means Clinton-lock throughout Midtown. Consider taking mass transit. The president will attend an 11 a.m. event at the Farley Post...
SACKED SNOOP: BRIT SPY DROVE DIANA'S DEATH CAR
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amDisgruntled British spy Richard Tomlinson charged last night that the man who drove Princess Diana's death car was an informant for British intelligence. Continuing his high-profile "exposure" of secret British...
TAX-AX JOE SPARES YONKERS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe city of Yonkers - the other New York burg with a commuter tax - won't fall victim to the tax-cutting frenzy in Albany that's set to wipe New York...
N.J. COPS: KIDS STOLE CHEMICALS TO MAKE BOMBS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amTwo New Jersey teens swiped chemicals from their school's science room in a plot to build a bomb, police said yesterday. The seventh-graders, from Emerson Junior-Senior HS, learned about explosives...
VOTE HAS PREZ OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PEACE PROSPECTS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak wants to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians but won't sell out his homeland, President Clinton said yesterday. Clinton said he's confident...
S.I. BEEP HAMMERS TEAM PATAKI OVER BUDGET 'THREATS'
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari angrily exploded yesterday, accusing Gov. Pataki's administration of threatening him with the loss of aid for his borough. Molinari, one of the...
BOARD OF ED OFFICIAL UNDER FIRE OVER EXEC PENSION SCAM
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe No. 2 official at the Board of Ed's retirement system cooked the books so a powerful executive could get a larger pension than he deserved, an explosive report charges....
HIGH NOON FOR THE GUN LOBBY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amAs was true of the tobacco lobby, whichcontinued to insist that smoking is notaddictive, the gun lobby has boxed itselfinto a corner by the extremism it displaysin the defense of...
DOLLAR BILL EARN$ SPOT OVER GORE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amVice President Al Gore's poll numbers might be bigger, but Bill Bradley's got a fatter wallet, new financial reports reveal. The veep had about $1.4 million in assets last year,...
TEEN CELLMATE SAYS HE SAW LOUIMA IN AGONY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amA teen who shared a cell with Abner Louima testified yesterday he heard "banging and screaming" sounds coming from the bathroom where cops allegedly tortured Louima. Later, as the Haitian...
BILL OPENS DOOR FOR GROUND TROOPS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton said yesterday that NATO will win the war against Serbia "one way or the other" and that no option, including sending in ground troops, is "off...
BREAST-FEEDING MOM RECALLS WATCHING UNDERFED BABY DIE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amA Bronx woman on trial for starving her breast-fed infant to death insisted yesterday she never noticed her son was losing weight - and broke down recalling the day he...
RABIN'S WIDOW SHEDS NO TEARS FOR BIBI
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Yitzhak Rabin's widow said yesterday there's one thing the Israeli election results won't change - her bitterness toward Benjamin Netanyahu. "I'm not ready to forgive Netanyahu. I'll never...
THERAPY AIDS DEPRESSION DRUG: STUDY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amFor the 14 million Americans who suffer from chronic depression - a condition doctors once thought almost untreatable - there's new hope for relief with a combination of a drug...
COURT BENCHES GATIEN JUDGES
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn a highly unusual move, a senior judge yesterday slammed two lower-ranking judges for playing a legal tug-of-war with Peter Gatien's Tunnel nightclub - and reassigned the case to a...
BARAK BEGINS BUILDING BR0AD NEW C0ALITI0N
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel's new prime minister today begins sizing up potential members of his government after signaling he wants a broad-based coalition. Sources said Ehud Barak wants to put together...
COLUMBINE TEEN: NO LAW CAN STOP HATE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A survivor of the Columbine HS massacre told Congress yesterday that no law can prevent some students from hating people or resorting to violence. Adam Campbell, 18, a...
TIFFANY EXPERT TIED TO GRAVE-ROB
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amAlastair Duncan walked into the FBI's Queens office yesterday, thinking he was going to render an expert opinion on Tiffany glass for the agency - as he had done many...
THE EVIL LURKING BEHIND BLUE WALL
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amCONNELLE LUGG tilted his head and swiveled his chair as he sat on the witness stand. The 19-year-old, who shared a cell with alleged sex-torture victim Abner Louima, looked uncomfortable...
BACK IN THE LINEUP! - TORRE RETURNS TO MANAGE THE YANKS IN BOSTON
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amJoe Torre is back in pinstripes! The popular Yankee skipper took the helm last night for the first time this season - returning to pilot the faltering World Series champs...
LIKUD TAPS SHARON TO LEAD PARTY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Battered but unbowed, Israel's Likud Party called on Ariel Sharon, the war hero and foreign minister, to serve as a temporary replacement for Benjamin Netanyahu as party leader....
IT'S A BOY FOR MICK'S BRAZILIAN BOMBSHELL
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe sexy Brazilian lover of Mick Jagger gave birth to a bouncing baby boy in a Manhattan hospital yesterday - but it's still a mystery if the rubber-lipped rocker is...
GAY-MAG CASE ROCKS WALL STREET - MORGAN STANLEY FACES SUIT FOR AX
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amA disgraced Wall Street whiz kid says he'll file a $1.35 billion lawsuit against Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. for ruining his reputation and career. Christian L. Curry, 25,...
GIRL, 13, DIES IN WEST SIDE BUS TRAGEDY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amA 13-year-old girl died yesterday when she slipped on the wet pavement and fell under the wheels of a city bus on her way home from school. The tragedy occurred...
SENATE OKS KID-SAFETY DEVICES FOR GUNS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate voted 78-20 yesterday to require child-safety devices on handguns - hours after a House subcommittee heard from survivors of the Columbine HS massacre. The Senate vote...
WEEKEND FISHING IS A BREEZE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amDESPITE the windy conditions it was a good weekend for saltwater fishing, especially for weakfish and striped bass. The Sheepshead Bay party boats that were sailing under the stars this...
DEVILS MAY DEAL BRYLIN TO CALGARY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amHe was as much of a playoff hero as any Devil, and now, Sergei Brylin is even more likely to be grabbed by the expansion Atlanta Thrashers next month or...
'BULLET' MAY GO IN FINAL JEWEL
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBaffert may run 'Bullet' Trainer Bob Baffert - who all spring teased American racing fans by saying champion filly Silverbulletday might tackle the boys in the Triple Crown, only to...
ISLES CO-OWNER THREATENS CUTS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amIslanders co-owner Steven Gluckstern has threatened NHL commissioner Gary Bettman that he will cut the team's payroll to $12 million next season if he doesn't have a new arena deal...
WOOTEN MAKES CHANGE TO SAVE GIANT CAREER
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWhenever Tito Wooten feels the urge to stray back to his troubled past, a new consideration occupies his thoughts and helps him resist the temptation. Spending nearly every night with...
LOOKING FOR A MET SAVIOR? SAVE YOUR BREATH
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amADOZEN eggs, a quart of milk and an ace. And why don't you throw in a run-producing outfielder, as well? This is all the Mets need to do, go to...
HOW TO HIT PICK 6 JACKPOT
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWith a hefty $207,750 already in the Pick 6 carryover pot, you can expect Belmont horseplayers to pour another $400,000 into today's jackpot hoping for a get rich quick score....
UNLIKE HERO, KELLY'S NO CLUTZ
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amDerek Kelly had always idolized Harrison Ford. In fact, it was Ford's performances in the "Indiana Jones" movies that nearly persuaded Kelly to become an archaeologist. So at first, Kelly...
NO REST FOR WEARY KNICKS NEED ANOTHER HEROIC EFFORT FROM EWING
May 19, 1999 | 4:00am"It's important in this league to play when you are hurt. That shows the ultimate commitment to the team."JEFF VAN GUNDY ATLANTA - Dikembe Mutombo says the Knicks are going...
ROTATION FRUSTRATION ; APODACA CAN'T PINPOINT WHAT AILS MET STARTERS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I feel like I'm missing something, like there's some glaring mistakes out there that I don't see."BOB APODACA For much of this month, what was supposed to be a strength...
PAPA JOE BACK AT HELM :DECISION TO RETURN SURPRISES THE BOSS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Having lost five of six and starting a three-game series against the hated Red Sox with first place in the AL East on the line, the Yankees welcomed...
MCMICHAEL INCHING CLOSER TO COMEBACK
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Mets' reliever Greg McMichael, who's been out all season with a shoulder injury, appears to be making progress, according to Bobby Valentine. Though no timetable has been officially...
ROGER'S RETURN GETS BUMPED OUTTA BOSTON
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre's return to the dugout added a great deal of appeal to the already big three-game series at Fenway Park. Then Torre took a little luster away...
ZIMMER GLAD TO GIVE JOE YANK REINS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The day Don Zimmer wanted to see for almost two months arrived yesterday when Joe Torre returned to the helm of the Yankees. And to the 68-year-old Zimmer,...
SPREE HOLDS THE KEY KNICKS NEED LATRELL TO BE BIG OFF BENCH
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Call him the X factor. The Hawks will have to find a way to defend Latrell Sprewell before they can think of winning this series that...
HAWKS IN DEEP TROUBLE BANGED-UP ATLANTA HURTING FOR HEALTHY BODIES
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amWith all due respect to Lenny Wilkens, the Knicks should win this series on attrition alone.ATLANTA - Jeff Van Gundy is trying to convince us and his team that his...
BLAYLOCK COMPLETE PACKAGE
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - When Lenny Wilkens took over as coach of the Hawks, he found a superb offensive point guard in Mookie Blaylock already in place. So what Wilkens tried to...
JITTERY JEFF SOUNDS ALARM ISSUES WAKE-UP TO WEARY KNICKS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - While Dikembe Mutombo was guaranteeing the Hawks would win the series, Jeff Van Gundy was guaranteeing that the Knicks had better wake up before last night's game, the...
OAKLEY STILL HIGH ON HIS OLD TEAM
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Dikembe Mutombo may pick the Hawks, but another fair rebounder of note, Charles Oakley, picks the Knicks in this Eastern Conference semifinals. "They should beat Atlanta in six...
PAPA JOE BACK AT HELM: TORRE RETURN CAME AT THE PERFECT TIME
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - If only Norman Rockwell were around to capture the expressions on all the faces wearing Yankee jackets at Fenway Park last evening as the visiting team took batting...
EVEN JOE CAN'T HELP: YANK BATS STAY COLD IN LOSS
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amRed Sox 6 Yankees 3 BOSTON - The emotional lift Joe Torre's return gave the Yankees didn't do a thing to jump start their dead lumber last night against the...
ROCKET'S RETURN BANNED IN BOSTON
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Joe Torre's return to the dugout last night added a great deal of appeal to the already big three-game series at Fenway Park. Then Torre took...
CALL THIS WIN A GUARD-SEND: KNICKS GRAB OPENER AS SPREE, HOU TEAM FOR 65
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The Knicks' two-headed scoring monster ran the Hawks off the floor last night at the Georgia Dome. Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell combined for 65 points to power...
DOME COOKIN' FOR KNICKS N.Y. FANS MAKE BIG NOISE IN ATLANTA
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amPLAYOFF NOTEBOOK ATLANTA - Home sweet home. The Georgia Dome was like the Knicks' second home last night as the building appeared to have an equal amount of Knick fans...
DIKEMBE PROMISES VICTORY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Maybe, just maybe, this will stop Georgetown centers from making predictions. Patrick Ewing, of course, is about 0-for-the-millennium in guarantees of Knick victories, championships and return trips to...
SPREEWHEELIN' START HAWKS IN DEEP TROUBLE AGAINST LATRELL & CO.
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks coach would have to be in deep denial to believe that his Knicks are not in the same class as the Hawks after Allan Houston scored 34 points...
AVS FINISH OFF RED WINGS IN 6
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - Their reign lasted 711 days, 711 days filled with class and character. The Red Wings were proud, good champions two years running. But their time is over. And...
MARQUIS AN AMAZIN' PAIN: GRISSOM'S 3-RUN SHOT STUNS BENITEZ AGAIN
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amBrewers 4 Mets 2 Baseball is a wonderfully tactical game of intriguing matchups. One team goes through a spell when it can't beat another. One pitcher has a batter's number...
THE SHOOTING STAR: RED-HOT ALLAN KEEPS ROLLING ALONG
May 19, 1999 | 4:00am"I wanted to stay hungry out there. I didn't want to stop until I left the floor."ALLAN HOUSTON ATLANTA - The Knicks spent the season on the bubble, and now...
CHRIS NO DUD AFTER HIS STINT IN LIMBO
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Chris Dudley had mixed emotions after the Knicks beat the Heat in Game 5 Sunday afternoon in Miami Arena. He was elated his team had won to advance...
REED'S PITCHES LETHAL - AND LEGAL
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Rick Reed, though ticked off to have not gotten a win out of his sparking starting performance last night, was amused by Milwaukee's contention that he was cheating....
NL TO REVIEW BASELINE BUMP
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets claimed Ron Belliard obstructed Jermaine Allensworth and umpire crew chief Terry Tata obstructed justice. In a pivotal sequence in the eighth inning of last night's 4-2 Brewer victory...
A BENCH-MARK VICTORY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amA TLANTA - Jeff Van Gundy spent the previous two days trying to convince the basketball public and his team that the Knicks are a "heavy underdog," against the Hawks....
OFFICIALLY, EWING HAS FRUSTRATING NIGHT PATRICK EWING
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - At least Patrick Ewing got his left leg and hip some rest. Not the way he planned, but if there are limited miles left in his body for...
CRAWFORD COMES BACK WITH A BANG
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The last time he was on a basketball court competitively, Chris Crawford landed hard on his right shoulder, suffering a slight separation. That was just two minutes into...
HAWKS CAN'T DEFEND THEIR PLAY
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mookie Blaylock summed the Hawks' plight against the Knicks rather succinctly: "It's tough when you can't stop anybody." But actually, the Hawks stopped some Knicks -Larry Johnson for...
EWING: I'LL TAKE W MATES PICK UP SLACK FOR BIG MAN
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amPLAYOFF NOTES ATLANTA - So, what did Patrick Ewing think of his foul-plagued 17-minute performance, a game that saw Ewing hit six of his seven shots and produce 12 points...
N.Y. FANS: IT'S DOME COOKING
May 19, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Home sweet home. The Georgia Dome was like the Knicks' second home last night as the building seemed to have as many Knicks fans present as Hawks fans...