June 8, 1999
NEW STORE FOR WINDOWS SHOPPING IN S.F.
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMicrosoft is venturing into the retailing business. The computer software giant is opening its own store in technology-friendly San Francisco, where it will allow customers to test and buy its...
SIX FUND FIRMS GRAB 90% OF INCOMING CASH
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE big story in mutual fund circles these days is how much money is flowing into the open arms of so few firms. So far this year, only six fund...
MERGER COULD BE SIGNAL OF PUBLIC OFFERING
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe integration of the London, Paris and New York arms of Lazard Freres is a necessary step for the firm to keep up with globalized competitors, and a possible step...
RATTNER FOR RENT? - SHAKEUP MAY SEND LAZARD HEIR TO D.C.
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amSteve Rattner, Lazard Freres' top man in the U.S., has been kicked upstairs. The move comes as the privately owned firm announced that its U.S. operation will be merged with...
TIMES SQUARE LANDLORDS STICK IT TO MEL
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMel Karmazin - who 's paying top dollar for the billboard giant that controls most of Times Square's famed billboards - is now facing steep price hikes just to keep...
'NET LOSS FOR DISNEY - CHIEF EXITS AS SPINOFF IS EYED
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amWalt Disney Co. Internet chief Jake Winebaum is quitting just as Disney enters into discussions to acquire Infoseek, and merge the Internet site with its other online businesses. Disney said...
CURRY HOT ON CLASS-ACTION SUIT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amA Morgan Stanley analyst fired after appearing nude in a gay porn magazine is considering launching a class-action lawsuit against the investment bank. Word of the possible action came yesterday,...
VIVA LUXE VEGAS - THE FORMERLY TAWDRY GAMBLING MECCA HAS NOW GONE UPSCALE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amI took my first trip to Las Vegas when I was 16 and my high school buddy Phil and I headed out for the weekend, driving his family's beat-up Toyota...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am'Pop' a wheely If dad's a car buff, you might think of bringing him to Dearborn, Mich., this Father's Day. June 19-20 brings "Motor Muster" to the Henry Ford Museum...
UNIVERSAL APPEAL - ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE, A NEW THEME PARK IN ORLANDO, TRIES TO OUTRIDE AND OUTFRIGHT THE MOUSE NEXT DOOR
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am'PEOPLE come to Orlando for Disney World. But they come back for Universal Studios." So said a British vacation organizer we met in theme-park capital of the world, Orlando, Fla....
KILA SETS NEO-CELTIC TRADITION
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am*TOG E GO BOG E Kila Green Linnet Records In one of the more clever musical moments of the year, Dublin's Kila has turned 14 original tunes - tinted with...
JERRY KNOCKS 'EM OUT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amIF THE Chicago City Council's disastrous face-off with Jerry Springer proved anything, it's that city councils should never invite TV personalities for a debate in a televised forum. TV personalities...
MOORE CRIES FOUL OVER 'AWFUL' CUT - POKING FUN AT TEENS AND GUNS IS WAY OFF TARGET, SAYS BRAVO
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE cable network Bravo has ordered Michael Moore to yank a four-minute segment called "Teen Sniper School" from next Sunday's episode of his cable show, "The Awful Truth." The satirist...
THE TONY 'BLUES' - POOR RATINGS AND A LOOMING LAWSUIT MAR THE BIG NIGHT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThere was carping up and down Broadway that the telecast was a drag. THE reviews are in: Sunday night's Tony Award telecast was a bomb. And for the producers of...
CAN YOGA BOOTCAMP RID YOU OF BAD HABITS?
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE night before I went to the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in the Catskills, at 4 a.m., I ate a hamburger at the Corner Bistro, bummed a Camel Light off Jeff...
MARTINS & MARSALIS MAKE TERRIFIC TWOSOME
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE are two arts in which the United States is the world's undisputed superpower - dance and jazz. Yet they don't often get together in any meaningful fashion. What, then,...
KNICKS GRABBED RATINGS GAME
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amFOR the record, the Knicks won the ratings battle of last Saturday's "Christmas in July" sports fest. The biggest single sports day in recent memory - which included the NBA...
MIXED-UP MARSHALS SWIPE COP'S CAR - HE'S TREATED LIKE DIRT FOR PHANTOM TICKETS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amA Long Island cop's birthday outing at Yankee Stadium turned into a nightmare of red tape and rudeness when marshals mistakenly towed his car for tickets that didn't exist. The...
ABORT-DOC MURDER SUSPECT, TERRORIST JOIN MOST WANTED
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amA feared Islamic terror chief and an anti-abortion zealot accused of the sniper killing of a Buffalo doctor are now on the FBI's Ten Most-Wanted list. As had been widely...
BIG GUY GETS A LIFT ON HIS WEIGH TO NEW LIFE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amIt was not a trip he wanted to make once, let alone twice, but Michael Hebranko, one of the world's heaviest men, was forklifted through his front window yesterday for...
CITY SHOWS OFF GIULIANI'S SKY 'BUNKER'
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday unveiled the city's new emergency operations center - a $13 million bunker in the sky - as one top official said the facility is getting a...
FISHER LAUDED AT INTREPID MEMORIAL
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amHundreds of friends, relatives, politicians and top military brass packed the USS Intrepid yesterday to bid farewell to Zachary Fisher, who saved the battle-scarred aircraft carrier from the scrap yard....
FOSTER-CARE RULES TEAR A FAMILY APART - CITY TAKES GIRLS FROM BIG 'SIS'; EXCLUSIVE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amNadia Swanson lost her entire family the same day - her mother to a heart ailment, and her two little "sisters" to red tape. Only six hours after her mother,...
CONFUSION REIGNS - AND BOMBS RAIN DOWN - RUSSIA REJECTS ITS OWN ENVOY'S PEACE PROPOSAL
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Russia flip-flopped yesterday on the Kosovo peace deal, balking at the presence of a NATO-run peacekeeping force to protect returning refugees. Although Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic said he's...
CREW TO BARE BAD-NEWS SCORES - 'OVERALL' READING LEVELS ARE DOWN
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew is expected to report today that reading scores for city students dropped significantly this year, The Post has learned. "I think there are going to be...
MCCAIN LIKENS SLOBBO TO SADDAM
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amSerbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic could "easily" wind up being another Saddam Hussein who hangs around to keep making trouble, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain warned yesterday. "I think if we'd...
ENOUGH TALKING - BLOW AWAY THIS BUTCHER!
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amHOPE springs eternal but stupidity reigns eternally. I'm talking about that career diplomat, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana, who is actually on the record as saying the following: "It is not...
RUDY CAMPAIGN SUFFERS BAD SPELL - 'NIAGRA' FALLS ON HEELS OF GOP ATTACK
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amHow do you spell trouble for likely Senate candidate Rudy Giuliani? N-I-A-G-A-R-A. Chuckling state Democrats had the mayor's staff over a barrel yesterday after his press office twice misspelled the...
APPLE'S MAYOR SHOULD BE HIGHEST-PAID: PANEL
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's salary could soar to $195,000 next month - making him the highest-paid mayor in the country. A special commission yesterday recommended pay raises of 10 to 28 percent...
YOU CAN BET THESE CAUSTIC CHARACTERS WILL RUN A GRATE RACE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amIt will be a nasty, negative election because they are nasty, negative people who don't have a lot to argue about. THE Hillary-Rudy Senate battle will be Viagra for the...
BEST EYES RETURN
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTravis Best is down but - he hopes - not out of the Pacers' Eastern Conference finals against the Knicks. Best, who suffered a pulled right groin muscle in Game...
SPREE STRIKES FEAR IN INDY - FOR STARTERS, MULLIN CAN'T HANDLE LOAD
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am"I can play good defense ... and I don't think I've been hidden." CHRIS MULLIN Chris Mullin heard the charge emitted from the Knicks' camp. The Pacers need to "hide"...
HIT MARCUS, WIN A PRIZE - VAN: BIRD HAS BOUNTY ON CAMBY
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy warned Marcus Camby to count on being whacked by the Pacers last night. Having read Larry Bird's comments yesterday that Camby would become shellshocked if his Pacers...
LATRELL'S JOB: KEEP HEAT ON PACERS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm going to do the same things; it's just now I'm starting." LATRELL SPREWELL Latrell Sprewell finally would be under the spotlight last night when his name was announced in...
BIG D TITLE IN STARS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Stars and Sabres are both going to dance with the ones that brung 'em to the ball, which means that the Stanley Cup Finals are likely to resemble more...
IT'S HASEK OR HOPELESS - DOMINIK'S GOTTA BE ALL-WORLD
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Forget the southern-fried ice, the generation gap, or any of the other alleged factors. This Stanley Cup final is the ultimate test of the axiom that goaltending wins...
NOW BOXERS HAVE A SENIOR CIRCUIT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amSo now we know; old boxers don't die. They just fight each other. In a press conference yesterday at Gallagher's Steakhouse that could as easily have been a retirement luncheon,...
LJ STEPS TO THE '4' - HIS MAGICAL GAME-WINNER CEMENTS NEW LEADER'S ROLE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe bond between Larry Johnson and Jeff Van Gundy is special. Van Gundy says that if Johnson had a fan club, "I'd be his No. 1 fan." Johnson never fails...
FERNANDEZ RETURNS ON TOP
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amIt is a fact that Blue Jays' Tony Fernandez is one of 62 players to suit up for both the Mets and Yankees. But Fernandez, who played for the Mets...
METS NO LONGER BEHIND 8-BALL - BUT 'FRESH START' COULD SPOIL QUICKLY
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Jones answered the telephone in the Mets' clubhouse before last night's game against the Blue Jays with the following greeting. "Kitchen," he said. Over the past 10 days a...
PRESCRIPTION FOR DOC - IMPRESSIVE RIVERS STILL NEEDS ABLE AIDES
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE were only two real candidates for the Magic coaching job. First Scott Skiles auditioned for members of management, then Doc Rivers. Both blew away interrogators with their enthusiasm and...
WELLS: I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amOne great thing about interleague play is it gives Toronto's David Wells three extra nights to carouse in Manhattan. But with rumblings that the pitching-poor Mets will make a run...
THERE'S STILL HOPE, BUT ...
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Mets have not done irreparable harm to themselves in recent days. We mean in a battle for the playoffs, not within the confines of their clubhouse or executive structure....
JEFF'S RETURN LOOKS MORE & MORE LIKELY
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES All signs are pointing toward Jeff Van Gundy returning to the Knicks next season - if he wants to be back. Garden management appears to be backing off...
FINALS WILL BE REAL GRIND
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - It oughta be a great Stanley Cup Final. This year, it might even go five. Look, after four straight sweeps, you take what you can get, especially from...
YANKEES TARGET THOSE DARN SOX
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am"We have been spoiled over the last four years. For the most part, we have been there [in first place] more than anybody else. It's somewhere we feel we belong."...
LET BYGONES BE BYGONES - DAVE-ERNIE-JEFF TRIO SHOULD BE REUNITED
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amIt's clear that the best candidate to be the Knicks' new GM is the old GM. ON BEHALF of all the national media turning their attention to the Knicks-Pacers series...
HENDERSON COOLS OFF OF TROUBLES
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Outfielder Rickey Henderson did the talking. Manager Bobby Valentine did the listening. Perhaps the two can work together to calm a group of outfielders who are frustrated by...
SEA WINS; XAVERIAN NEXT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amAfter yesterday's 11-2 CHSAA "A" third-round intersectional domination of St. Francis, the St. Joseph by the Sea Vikings sat on the grass, waiting for head coach Gordon Rugg's post-game talk....
LARRY: WATCH IT, JEFF!
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe war of words in the Eastern Conference Finals continued last night as Larry Bird jokingly fired back at Jeff Van Gundy's claim the Pacer coach put out "a bounty"...
BENNY, METS ARE TWO MUCH - AMAZIN' AGBAYANI HOMERS TWICE IN WIN
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amLook who's on a win streak - Benny and the Mets. After dropping eight straight games to cost three coaches their jobs, the Mets won their second straight by pounding...
VAN GUNDY SEEKING 'SLIGHT' ADVANTAGE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy is now a member of that coaching fraternity that stretches the truth to get his players riled up. Van Gundy showed signs earlier in the Eastern finals,...
4-GET ABOUT IT! - KNICKS, SPREE FALTER AS INDY TIES SERIES
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMiracles are wonderful. But you can't count on them. The Knicks learned last night why the Pacers remain the Eastern Conference's Evil Empire. On a night when the Knicks could...
BO WILL STAY NAILED TO BENCH; EXCLUSIVE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amDeciding to act now with his club at a crossroads, Bobby Valentine told Bobby Bonilla before last night's game that he is no longer a regular outfielder for the Mets,...
OREL HARD TO BEAT IN SHEA HEAT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amCompared to his prior outing that turned into a comedy of errors last week against Cincinnati, Mets starter Orel Hershiser put forth a masterpiece in all phases. Well, almost all...
CHILI MUST SIT CHILLY IN NL PARKS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Beginning last night, the Yankees were to face NL teams in six straight away games and that means DH Chili Davis' productive, switch-hitting bat was grounded against the...
RICKEY OK WITH SITTING LAST NIGHT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Outfielder Rickey Henderson did the talking. Manager Bobby Valentine did the listening. Perhaps the two can work together to calm a group of outfielders who are frustrated by...
PLAN 'B' TURNS INTO BUST - VAN'S SWITCH BACKFIRES AS SPREWELL STRUGGLES
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amLET'S see. Rik Smits plays just 30 seconds in the first half because of foul trouble. Reggie Miller doesn't score in the first half because of foul trouble, and somehow...
ANNOYED JOE RAPS YANKS' KNUCKLES
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am"They were aggressive and ran the bases well. They were very confident and we were flat-footed." JOE TORRE PHILADELPHIA - Fire didn't dance from Joe Torre's eyes because that's never...
TRANQUILITY IS AMAZIN', BUT HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?; METS ENJOY A NIGHT OF TRANQUILITY
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amRICKEY Henderson talked briefly with Bobby Valentine yesterday about why he was not starting, and emerged from the chat to say he wanted to be the one to evoke serenity...
BOOMER: I'M NOT AMAZIN'
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amOne great thing about interleague play is it gives Toronto's David Wells three extra nights to carouse in Manhattan. But with rumblings that the pitching-poor Mets will make a run...
VG: BIRD PUT 'BOUNTY' ON MARCUS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy said yesterday that it appeared Larry Bird had put out "a bounty" on Marcus Camby. "There's like a bounty on Marcus' head," Van Gundy said before the...
ANDY OUTING STEP FORWARD, TORRE SAYS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES PHILADELPHIA - Despite getting tagged with a loss that lowered Andy Pettitte's record below the break-even mark, Joe Torre and the lefty hurler were satisfied with his outing...
KNICKS SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amIF I had told you before last night's Knicks-Pacers Game 4 that neither Rik Smits nor Reggie Miller would play, you would expect the Knicks to this morning to be...
RIK'S NOT TOO SLICK ONCE AGAIN
June 8, 1999 | 4:00am"I'll take two quick, early fouls if we can come out with a win." RIK SMITS Rik Smits was determined this time. It was not going to happen again. He...
HOIBERG HOLDS FORT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amAt halftime last night, the points column in the Pacers' boxscore read, in part: Smits 0, Miller 0, Hoiberg 2. Fred Hoiberg actually outscoring Reggie Miller and Rik Smits COMBINED...
ANTONIO PUTS ON A HAPPY FACE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amWhat a difference a game - and the lack of a foul that costs a victory and places you in the center of national media attention where the entire world...
HOUSTON'S STILL MISSING IN ACTION
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amFor the Knicks, this sure is a rotten time for Allan Houston to fall into the clutches of a dreaded shooting slump. There is no other way to describe what...
MORE KNICK MAGIC? FOUR-GET ABOUT IT! - SPREE & CO. FALTER AS INDY TIES SERIES
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amMiracles are wonderful. But you can't count on them. The Knicks learned last night why the Pacers remain the Eastern Conference's Evil Empire. On a night when they could have...
MARCUS IS A HIT MACHINE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Van Gundy had this warning for Marcus Camby before facing the Pacers last night: Watch your back. Having read Larry Bird's comments yesterday that Camby would become shell-shocked if...
MULLIN MAKES PRESENCE FELT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amChris Mullin heard the charge emitted from the Knicks' camp. The Pacers need to "hide" him on defense, he couldn't guard a closed door with a shotgun. So with the...
SPREE GETS WISH; INDY GETS 'W'
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amFOR four months we've heard Latrell Sprewell repeatedly declare his aversion to coming off the bench. He made it clear, he would rather start regardless of how many points or...
REGRESSION LEAVES JEFF DISGUSTED
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThere could not have been a more insulting accusation than the one Jeff Van Gundy leveled at the Knicks in the aftermath of their desultory 90-78 loss to the Pacers...
JALEN JUMP-START REVIVES PACERS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Pacers' recent history has been kind of monotonous. Get a fourth-quarter lead, advance to about two minutes left and then blow the lead. Happened time and again. Last night,...
NO MAGIC FOR JOHNSON - LJ CAN'T REPEAT SATURDAY MIRACLE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amJust two nights before, Larry Johnson was jubilantly racing around the Garden's court, Spike Lee in his arms, after his dramatic four-point play stunned the Pacers 92-91 in Game 3...
SECOND-QUARTER SWOON PROVED KILLER
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks may be able to recover from last night's abysmal performance, but if they do not, they will look back on an atrocious second quarter that may stand as...
JALEN'S A SAVIOR FOR INDY
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Pacers' recent history has been kind of monotonous. Get a fourth-quarter lead, advance to about two minutes left and then blow the lead. Happened time and again. Last night,...
RIK'S NOT SLICK IN FOUL EFFORT
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amRik Smits was determined this time. It was not going to happen again. He was going to stay in the game and avoid early trouble. But he was gone after...
THIS YEAR, OAKLEY'S JUST ONE OF THE FANS
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amCharles Oakley is used to being at the Garden at playoff time. He just never needed a ticket before. The former Knick power forward sat two rows behind the end...
FUN TO WATCH, TOUGH TO LIKE
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: THE Knicks are in the midst of writing once of the great New York sports stories of all time. They have already done better than anyone, themselves included, could...
HOUSTON-MILLER MARQUEE MATCHUP
June 8, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: No one will ever say that Allan Houston was not warned. Heading into last night's Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Houston knew exactly what he'd be in...