June 4, 1999
HOW A LEAK AT TREASURY IS TIED TO THE JOBS REPORT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE is never a problem that this White House can't dodge. Or at least that's the opinion the Clinton administration has of itself. So it wasn't surprising that someone at...
NYSE DELAYS START OF AFTER-HOURS TRADING
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amNew York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso is holding off on extended trading hours until at least the second half of next year, despite a competitive threat from other exchanges...
DILLER MOVES TO SKIRT TV RULES IN ITALY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTV mogul Barry Diller is trying to make an end run around European regulators who won't let him establish a beachhead for his Home Shopping Network across Europe. Diller was...
SPORTVISION SCORES - GETS FINANCING, MULLS IPO; EXCLUSIVE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amHi-tech firms continue to find gold by mining the world of television sports. SporTVision Systems, creator of the yellow virtual first-down marker, has landed a deal that will put the...
BIGGEST-EVER SEX HARASS CASE SETTLED
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am"He told me if I don't make the boss happy I won't have a job." PATRICE CHASE The 79-year-old head of a liquor importing firm agreed to pay $2.6 million...
RIVLIN QUITS FED AS DREAM TEAM SPLITS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton's economic Dream Team lost another key player yesterday when Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Alice Rivlin resigned. Less than a month after Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin stepped down,...
UNIVERSAL CAN'T SWALLOW 'LAMBS' SEQUEL
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amUniversal Studios is having serious second thoughts about producing a sequel to "Silence of the Lambs," because the project is costing an arm and a leg. The studio and the...
IT'S GETTING LONELY AT THE TOP FOR GREENSPAN
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amAlice Rivlin's departure from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors has left economists guessing at who will replace her - and President Clinton with a new political headache. There has...
SIZZLIN' SCHEDULE'S ON TAP
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amJUST when you think it's safe to head into the next century, this summer's concert season does a 360 and lands us back in 1975. Without question the hottest ticket...
MARTINS CELEBRATES HIMSELF
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE New York City Ballet's year-long 50th anniversary season has thus far featured a sequence of mini-festivals, devoted first to Stravinsky and then Tchaikovsky, which mirrored famous dance festivals in...
THEIR BEST FEAT FORWARD
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amNOT so long ago New York dance addicts in need of a summer fix had to leave town. You had to journey to the American Dance Festival, then in Connecticut,...
A MOVEABLE FEAST ON THE CITY STREETS; PLANNING A HOT TIME IS JUST CHILD'S PLAY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSUMMER has always been a kid-friendly time. Here's some of what's happening for kids in the summer of '99. NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN:The summer program offers a variety of classes,...
MAJESTY IN A SPARTAN SPACE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSUMMER means Shakespeare. Movie stars do the Bard in pretty New England towns, while every hamlet worth its salt stages a free "Hamlet" on the village green. Locally, there'll be...
'SEX' WITH A YANKEE...IT'S PRETTY FUNNY THE SECOND TIME AROUND
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am"Sex and the City" Sunday at 9 on HBO BREAKIN' up is hard to do, but "Sex and the City" makes breaking up funny. The adults-only series' second season kicks...
TV TICKER
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSophie's choice The Learning Channel will air the Prince Edward-Sophie Rhys-Jones wedding live on Saturday, June 19 (11 a.m.-1 p.m.). TLC is carrying the BBC's live coverage of the wedding,...
FILM SUCCEEDS AGAINST 'INSTINCT'
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am'INSTINCT'' is one of those schizoid cross-breed movies: You can imagine it being pitched as ''Gorillas in the Mist'' meets ''Brubaker,'' or ''Mighty Joe Young'' crossed with ''One Flew Over...
'FINDING NORTH' IMMEDIATELY GOES SOUTH
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am'FINDING North" is a low-budget labor of love that's just plain labored. Good intentions never jell into anything of dramatic interest in Kim Powers' feeble screenplay, whose indefatigable striving toward...
'BUENA VISTA' OFFERS GOOD VIEW OF CUBAN MUSICIANS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amIN the splendid "Buena Vista Social Club," director Wim Wenders documents a musical miracle: the virtual resurrection of aged and forgotten Cuban son musicians, brought together two years ago in...
FUR FLIES AT 'NIGHTINGALES'
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amEVERYBODY'S on edge at "Not About Nightingales" - and not because the show is up for several Tonys this Sunday. What's roiling the company is an ongoing conflict between the...
MEDIA FIGHTS FOR LOOK AT JERRY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amJERRY Springer's long-awaited testimony before a Chicago City Council committee today is garnering more media attention than the hearing's organizers had planned on. The hearing, scheduled for noon-2 p.m. Chicago...
'DESERT' SLOW TO HEAT UP
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am'DESERT Blue" is a sweet-natured, low-budget ensemble romance blessed by a fine young cast but cursed with a terrible, boring beginning. Fortunately, just when you've given up on it as...
'LIMBO' LOWERS THE BAR
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amI'M trying to be a grown-up about this, but the way John Sayles ended "Limbo" - it's one of those "Lady or the Tiger"-type finales that leave you hanging in...
BOOTLEGGERS MAKE KILLING WITH 'BUFFY'
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amDIE-hard "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fans are scrambling to get bootlegged copies off the Internet of the "lost" episode of the hit show's season finale. The episode - entitled "Graduation...
IT'S TONY TIME! INSIDERS GIVE THEIR PICKS FOR THIS SUNDAY'S AWARDS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS year, predicting who will win a Tony Award is a dangerous game. Many of the races, especially those involving this year's banner crop of straight plays, are extremely tight....
IT'S TONY TIME! OUR CRITIC REVEALS WHO SHOULD WIN
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTony, tony, tony, banana fana fo fony. Here's my picks for who should - not who will - cop the Rialto's Oscar-wannabes. Don't forget this is an award that, in...
HATE-MAIL 'SUSPECT' CLEARED
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amA Jewish Brooklyn activist whose name appeared on hate mail sent to an Italian couple has been ruled out as a suspect, The Post has learned. Shortly after moving to...
SCOPPETTA HITS SPANKING
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Spanking your child only promotes violence and has no place in modern parenting, the Big Apple's top child-welfare official said yesterday. Nicholas Scoppetta, commissioner of the...
HEALTH-COMMISH PICK SPARKS FUROR
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday tapped a doctor who opposes abortion to head the state Health Department - setting off a furor among pro-choice activists. Filling a nine-month vacancy, Pataki...
COOL-HEADED KID SAVES BROTHER FROM HOT SEAT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amA 5-year-old Long Island boy whose brother saved his pants, so to speak, while he was playing with sparklers plans to bring a unique item to school for show-and-tell -...
BODY-PIERCING LEAVES SOME FOLKS IN HOLE LOTTA TROUBLE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTaking an antibiotic before getting your body pierced or tattooed may stave off deadly infection for people with congenital heart disease, researchers said yesterday. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in...
PEACE PACT MAKES IT MUCH TOUGHER TO PROSECUTE SLOBBO
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSlobodan Milosevic's decision to strike a deal has bought him more time as president of Yugoslavia and made efforts to prosecute him for war crimes much more difficult, experts say....
NYPD MAKES QNS. IMAM 1ST MUSLIM CHAPLAIN
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD made history yesterday, appointing its first ever Muslim cleric as a department chaplain. Imam Izak-El M. Pasha is no stranger to the police world - or to City...
YANKS BEAT METS IN CLOTHES GAME
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE only thing that's certain is that the Mets will be wearing gray pants tonight. But we don't know which jersey (gray or black), which cap (the standard blue and...
DEAL WITH DEVIL HAS A FATAL FLAW - EVIL WAR CRIMINAL CANNOT BE TRUSTED
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amPLEASE let us keep the corks in the champagne bottle properly sealed before we toast peace. A promise from Slobodan Milosevic is like, as NATO spokesman Jamie Shea once said:...
PRIEST IS KILLED BY DRIVER WITH INVALID LICENSE: COPS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amA devoted Brooklyn-born Catholic missionary who was returning home for his annual visit from Honduras was run down and killed yesterday by a van driver with a suspended license, authorities...
MANDELA'S MAN WINS IN LANDSLIDE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amNelson Mandela's handpicked successor promised to govern South Africa "with humility" yesterday as election returns showed his African National Congress winning by a two-thirds margin. With 85 percent of polling...
COPS IN STREET CRIME UNIT CELEBRATE MASS PROMOTION
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amNearly 400 Street Crime Unit officers will be promoted today to detective as part of Police Commissioner Howard Safir's move to attract more minority cops to the embattled division. "I...
TEMPERS EXPLODE AT LOUIMA TRIAL
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amFurious charges of race-baiting flew from both sides yesterday at the close of the Abner Louima torture trial. The blistering bias brouhaha erupted after prosecutor Loretta Lynch said officer Thomas...
SHE WHIZ VS. BOYS AT BELMONT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe battle of the sexes comes to the racetrack tomorrow when superstar filly Silverbulletday takes on the boys in the Belmont Stakes. She's trying to become the first filly since...
NITA BOWS OUT OF SENATE RACE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amRep. Nita Lowey yesterday ditched her dreams of running for U.S. Senate, to make way for Hillary Rodham Clinton - whose pals quickly upstaged her by saying the First Lady...
THERE'S NO JOY IN BELGRADE JUST YET
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - There was no dancing in the streets here last night, no celebrations over the possible end of the NATO bombings - just deep skepticism and uncertainty among Slobodan...
REFUGEES HERE ARE WARY OF PACT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amKosovar refugees in New York say they yearn to go home - but don't trust Slobodan Milosevic when he talks peace. "He's a liar and a killer," said Xhylsada, a...
INJURED KNICK CAPTAIN: MAKE ME PAT EW-RING!
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSidelined Knick center Patrick Ewing had a simple message for his teammates yesterday: "Get me my ring!" Hobbling with a cast on his left leg, team captain Ewing gave the...
SLOBBO THROWS IN TOWEL - SORT OF - BILL DEMANDS PROOF BEFORE BOMBING ENDS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - It's over. Maybe. Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic yesterday dropped his own bombshell and said he'll pull his troops out of Kosovo - but President Clinton said NATO bombs...
MAD GRADS BOO BADILLO AT HUNTER CEREMONY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amCity University Chairman Herman Badillo was drowned out yesterday by jeering Hunter College graduates furious at his demands for tighter admission standards. A dozen students stood near the stage at...
GREAT DEAL FOR BELGRADE BUTCHER
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - It sure looks like a sellout of the brutalized Kosovars. After months of terror and war crimes, after creating over a million refugees, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic...
HERO FIRE CAPT. FIGHTS FOR LIFE AFTER QNS. BLAZE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am"[The captain] started trying to help people to get out before he himself fell down." FIREFIGHTER A fire captain was battling for his life last night after he collapsed trying...
TEEN SAVED FROM HOOKER HORROR
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThree men and a woman were arrested in Brooklyn yesterday and charged with picking up runaway girls and forcing them to work as prostitutes. One 15-year-old runaway was rescued after...
QUEENS BIKE COP NABBED AS SEX PEDALER: PROBERS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amA uniformed bicycle cop in Queens pedaled to a bordello where he got free sex from prostitutes while he was supposed to be on duty, authorities charged yesterday. Damian Colon,...
MOM SLAIN, PREGNANT DAUGHTER SHOT IN B'KLYN
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amA woman was killed and her pregnant daughter was critically injured last night in a shooting at their Brooklyn apartment. Cynthia St. Rose died of a gunshot to her head...
BUDGET DEAL INCLUDES $6M FOR SCHOOL-VOUCHER STUDY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone have reached a deal on the city's new $35.3 billion budget -including a delicate compromise on the explosive school-voucher issue, sources say....
SLOBBO THROWS IN TOWEL - SORT OF: WHO GETS WHAT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amWhat Slobodan Milosevic Would Get: * The promise of a speedy end to NATO bombing. *No NATO challenge to his hold on power, despite his indictment as a war criminal...
THE IDES OF N.Y. ARE ON BOBBY V
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amFRIENDS, Queenites, countymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Valentine, not to praise him. The noble Brutes of talk radio and newspapers and fandom have told us Valentine...
LOCAL HORSEMEN SPLIT THEIR VOTE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amHere's how a group of New York horsemen view tomorrow's Belmont Stakes, the third jewel of racing's Triple Crown. JOHN NERUD (trained '57 Belmont winner Gallant Man): I like Charismatic...
BRING BACK THE KID! - CAUTHEN SHOULD BE HERE FOR BELMONT'S BIG DAY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amON WHAT will probably be the greatest, and certainly the busiest, sports day in the history of this greatest of sports towns, Belmont Park has reasonable expectations of drawing perhaps...
WERBLIN'S WIDOW PASSES AWAY AT 84
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amLeah Ray Werblin, the widow of Sonny Werblin, passed away last Friday at her home in Rumson, N.J. She was 84. Having known her as the mother of a good...
THERE'S NO ROOM FOR SPORTSMANSHIP
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amREMARKABLE as it was, you didn't see it on any of the nightly sports highlights segments. Of course not. Tuesday morning, during USA Network's French Open coverage, No. 2 seed...
SHARKS CIRCLING AT VIRGINIA WRECK
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSALTWATER fishing was about as hot as the weather this past week, with both the North and South Shores of Long Island offering excellent opportunities for fluke, bass, weakfish and...
FED-UP FANS FEAST ON PHILLIPS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amFrustrated Met fans, upset over the team's six-game losing streak, ganged up on a surprised GM Steve Phillips yesterday, giving him the business for the Amazins' less then stellar play....
CHARISMATIC NOT AUTOMATIC - BEST OF LUCK CAPABLE OF FOILING CROWN BID
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amMANY are called but few are chosen to dine at the Triple Crown table. So where will Charismatic, the surprising winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, eat supper tomorrow...
WIN IT FOR THE GIMPER - KNICKS ARE HOPING TO BRING PATRICK HIS CHERISHED RING
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing's long, lonely quest has now become every Knick's goal. The team rallied around its fallen leader yesterday after hearing these stirring words from the center with the torn...
BAFFERT: IT'S A BATTLE FOR BRAGGIN' RIGHTS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amBELMONT NOTES Trainer Bob Baffert thinks the media is missing the big picture in the Belmont when they cast Silverbulletday as merely a potential spoiler of Charismatic's Triple Crown bid....
IT'S GONNA BE WILD - METS, BOMBERS ARE PRIMED FOR ARMAGEDDON
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe best three days in New York sports starts tonight when David Cone fires the first pitch to Rickey Henderson as a packed Yankee Stadium awaits what promises to be...
REGGIE CAN'T WAIT TO PUT ON A SHOW
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amPLAYOFF NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Psst, New York. Reggie's coming. And he's really looking forward to it. The Knicks and all the front-row denizens of the Garden can expect to see...
FOUL-PLAGUED RIK'S GOTTA SMARTEN UP
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It really is a simple proposition for the Pacers. They need Rik Smits to beat the Knicks. But to do that, they need Smits to play. But he...
INDY: IGNORE CHILDS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Pacers heard Chris Childs' comments that they're crying like babies and acting ''like women'' in their complaints about the Knicks and fouling tactics. Those Pacers who responded...
SPREE'S ONE TO AX JAX
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER discovering the way to beat the Pacers, the only "Eureka!" Jeff Van Gundy exclaims is more like a "You reek of inconsistency!" intended for the officials. "In the NBA,...
MET FAN'S RIBBING LEAVES CONE SPEECHLESS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe raw emotion that smothers the Mets-Yankees Subway Series was on display yesterday morning in Central Park where David Cone held his annual softball tournament that benefits multiple causes. Introduced...
BOSS SKIPPING SERIES
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amDon't expect to find George Steinbrenner hosting celebrities, politicians and other big wigs in his Yankee Stadium luxury box this weekend when his World Champions take on the Mets in...
EVERYONE'S A WINNER IN STICKBALL FACEOFF
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSubway Series fever spilled into the streets of Manhattan yesterday when the Yankees took on the Mets in a good, old-fashioned game of stickball on 56th Street and Madison Avenue....
SELIG GETS SERIOUS ON SERIES - COMMISSIONER STARTS SLOW SHIFT TO REALIGNMENT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amYOU PLAY the teams closest to your neighborhood, your high school, your college, most often. That's how it's done from sandlots to Little Leagues to everywhere but the big leagues....
YANKS DON'T KNOW ABOUT NELSON
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amSUBWAY SERIES NOTEBOOK While Brian Cashman believed Chuck Knoblauch would be ready to play tonight against the Mets, the Yankees' GM wasn't sure about Jeff Nelson's status. "There is nothing...
EARLY BIRDS ARE IN LUCK TODAY
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amAdvanced wagering on the Belmont Stakes begins today at Belmont Park and at all OTB branches and teletheaters. There will be win, place, show, exacta and trifecta betting available. There...
PACER FAN GWYNN KNOWS PATRICK'S PAIN
June 4, 1999 | 4:00am"I can't imagine with all the stop and go in basketball how Patrick played. The guy's will to win must be amazing." TONY GWYNN He's a legend in his sport,...
TOP SENIORS BATTLE IN CADILLAC CLASSIC
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Cadillac/NFL Golf Classic opens play today at the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton and it features not only some of the NFL and Senior Tour's biggest names, it...
CHANGING OF GUARD BEGINS FOR JETS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Jets' changing of the guard begins with this week's minicamp at Hofstra. While expectations are fairly low for some teams' rookies, the Jets' newcomers don't have that luxury. With...
HESITANT HOUSTON VOWS TO GO FOR GUSTO NEXT TIME
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amKnicks guard Allan Houston was asked yesterday if the loss of Patrick Ewing means he will have to emerge as one of the team's go-to guys. "It's not as if...
JERKENS' HORSE SAVES 'BEST' FOR LAST WORKOUT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amTHE final workout for tomorrow's Belmont Stakes was held yesterday here when Best of Luck, who won the Peter Pan Stakes in his last start, went four furlongs in :49.3...
DUDLEY SAYS HE'S READY TO FILL SOME BIG SHOES
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amChris Dudley worked with both the Knicks' first and second units yesterday and will be doing the same come tomorrow as he replaces Patrick Ewing in the lineup. "I'm ready...
THOMAS LIKES POLL RESULT
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks' Kurt Thomas would've checked off the Jeff Van Gundy box, too. Told that Van Gundy received 82 percent of the votes to Phil Jackson's 13 percent in The...
CRUZ CARRIES ADAMS
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amMost teams might have been anxious by having to use its No. 2 pitcher rather than its ace in the PSAL semifinals. But most teams don't have a No. 2...
PALFFY AUCTION'S HEATING UP
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amOn-the-block Ziggy Palffy is said to be vacationing in the Caribbean, but one of his advisors Petr Svoboda told The Post the Islanders star sniper left last weekend with peace...
FIRST BIRD, NOW VAN GUNDY HOLLERS FOUL
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amIt was Jeff Van Gundy's turn to cry foul yesterday after Larry Bird did a good job of setting up the Knicks in Game 2. After the Pacers' Game 1...
GUNG-HO CAMBY CAN'T WAIT TO STEP INTO EWING'S SHOES
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amWhile Marcus Camby said he was "devastated" by the news of Patrick Ewing's injury, the Knicks' underused big man also sounded like the shackles now have been released. "That's all...
KNICKS NOT MISSING OUT - WITH EWING OUT, WHO'LL BLOW IT?
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amPATRICK EWING'S unavailability for the remainder of the playoffs tends to throw Jeff Van Gundy's game plan into disarray. There may not be enough time to designate someoneelse who's equally...
POST POLL: WHO SHOULD COACH THE KNICKS? IT'S A VAN-SLIDE - INCUMBENT IS THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amKnick fans don't lie. They either love you or hate you. And when it comes to Jeff Van Gundy as the Knicks' coach, their feelings are overwhelmingly loud and clear:...
CASEY NET FRONT-RUNNER
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - More and more, it looks as if the Nets' coaching hunt will come full circle and land where it was when the season ended, with Don Casey. Casey,...
KNICKS LACK GO-AWAY GUY - JEFF NEEDS TO FIND NEW KING OF CLANG WITH PATRICK GONE
June 4, 1999 | 4:00amPATRICK EWING'S unavailability for the remainder of the playoffs tends to throw Jeff Van Gundy's game plan into disarray. There may not be enough time to designate someoneelse who's equally...