June 20, 1999
NO. 1 TELECOM PICK ISN'T WHAT YOU'D EXPECT
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amU S WEST Inc.'s Solomon Trujillo and Frontier Corp.'s Joseph Clayton must feel like sure bets to become king of the prom this season. After all, they have become the...
AT REBELLION, THE NAME OF THE GAME IS 'CONTROL'
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amM INI-MOGUL alert! There's nothing like a surprise hit to stir up a complacent $5 billion dollar industry. "Aliens vs. Predator," a video game for the PC platform, has taken...
AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amJOE Luethke, the mysterious informant at the heart of the Christian Curry/Morgan Stanley Dean Witter gay porn and fake e-mails affair, held a press conference Tuesday. The reason you didn't...
TIME INC. CHIEF OUTFLANKED ON 'NET
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amDON Logan, CEO of Time Inc., suffered a major setback in the wrenching Internet turf wars being fought inside parent company Time Warner, insiders are whispering. And a one-time trusted...
CALL HIM MR. MONEY HONEY
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amIndividual Investor CEO Jonathan Steinberg is wasting little time cashing in on the dowry of his new wife, Maria Bartiromo. Just after the newlyweds returned from a quick honeymoon on...
WAS THAT ON THE MENU?
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amAT the New York Financial Writers Association dinner Thursday, Fannie Mae boss Franklin Raines gave a speech flattering the hacks enough to keep them interested and chiding them to show...
THAT'S A DEFINITE MAYBE :CONDE NAST'S JAMES TRUMAN CAN BE HARD TO PIN DOWN
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amCONDE Nast Editorial Director James Truman is the highest ranking invisible man in the publishing industry - and he probably hopes it stays that way. This weekend, the movers are...
NON-MOVING 'IMAGE'
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amIt was in a bar at the Roxburgh Hotel in Edinburgh, during a festival in the mid-'60s, that Alan Bates told me all I've ever needed to know about film...
VON STROHEIM: MAN AND MYTH
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amErich von Stroheim advanced to the center of the room, brought his heels together with a sharp click and bowed stiffly from the waist. The back of his neck looked...
BRANDY STYLE & SUBSTANCE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amBrandy began performing when she was just 2 years old, singing in the Macomb, Miss., church where her father was the choir director. At 14, she signed with Atlantic Records,...
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY : IT'S FATHER'S DAY AND TIME TO MEET THE NEW DAD - HE SPENDS MORE TIME WITH HIS KIDS . . . AND LOVES EVERY MINUTE OF IT
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amYou've come a long way, daddy. In fact, you're helping to close the child-care gap - by spending more time with your children, and less on yourself. A study released...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL.... WHAT'S THE STRANGEST WAY YOU EVER MET A MAN?
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am*Sarah Ahmedani , Coram, L.I. Last night, a waiter in a restaurant asked me for my number. *Katherine Bailey, Manhattan I slammed into him while I was bike riding in...
SINGLE MINDED: MELISSA BANK'S STATEMENT ON BEING THIRTY-SOMETHING AND FEMALE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: She's over 30, single- and just neurotic enough to be interesting. Meet Jane Rosenal, the frank and funny heart of "The Girls' Guide to hunting and Fishing." Hardly had...
TABLE HOPPER: LEXINGTON BAR & BOOKS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Lexington Bar & Books 1020 Lexington Ave. (212) 717-3902 At first glance, it looks like a snotty private club that would never accept Hopper as a member. But despite...
MEALS & DEALS: CAFE ST. JOHN
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Cafe St. John 500 W. 110th St. (212) 932-8420 Just across the street from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is a heavenly little bistro called Cafe St....
PAY-SLOW HMOS STIR HOSP WOE$
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amHMOs have saddled local hospitals with billions in unpaid bills, forcing some facilities to borrow to stay afloat, hospital administrators say. And the problem is getting worse, with insurers holding...
'ROUGH RIDER' REFORMED NYPD
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amIn 1894, New York City policemen were a corrupt bunch who bought their badges and sold their services to local criminals. All that changed under Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)....
COP ON THE BEAT A HIGH-TECH HERO
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amPolice officers of the future will be part RoboCop, part Blade Runner, part Andy Griffith. They will patrol city streets wearing uniforms with built-in bulletproof vests, radios and computer circuits....
TAKING MANHATTAN BY STORM: 'CATEGORY 3' HURRICANE WOULD DEVASTATE ISLAND
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe mayor, sealed behind the steel walls of his emergency bunker on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, orders a massive evacuation of New York City. Pummeling rains...
RUNNING AWAY FROM BILL
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amN O vice president of the United States in history has ever so vehemently disavowed his political patron - the sitting president - as did Al Gore last week in...
LAST-DITCH TRY TO STOP TRUMP TOWER: FOUNDATION GOING IN AS U.N. NABES FIGHT PLAN
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"It was an invasion, and everyone was blindsided. The neighborhood was ambushed."RESIDENT SEYMOUR FLUG The controversial 861-foot-tall Trump World Tower will start rising near the United Nations this week at...
PANEL SAYS SCRATCH NAIL-SALON TOXIN USE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"This industry has carte blanche to do anything it wants because we don't police [it]."MANICURIST KAREN LESSLER ALBANY - A state committee has voted to ban a poisonous chemical used...
PREVIOUS VICTIM: DA DROPPED THE BALL
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amAttacker "came up to me like she knew me."MARIA LUCY ALMEIDA The woman Olga Maisonet allegedly slashed last month said the Brooklyn district attorney's office never contacted her about the...
THEIR LOVE BLOSSOMED AMID BOMBINGS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE.THERE are plenty of tragic stories emerging from the Kosovo crisis - and one love story. While Belgrade was being lit up for 78 nights by laser-guided NATO missiles and...
ALL BUT THE LAW SAW HER KILLER 'DEMONS' : MENTAL PATIENT'S FAMILY BEGGED FOR HELP BEFORE B'KLYN MURDER
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I said [to a cop], 'Does she have to kill someone before you take her away?' He said, 'Yeah, basically.'"KAREEM CATES Olga Maisonet was having another bad day. She was...
PREZ TAKES AIM AGAIN AT GOP, NRA
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday pleaded with Congress to ''learn the lessons of Littleton'' and try again to pass gun-control legislation. Clinton accused House Republicans of taking orders from the...
BEWARE THE RIM REAPER :KNICKS SEE TITLE HOPES GO CLANK IN THE NIGHT
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amJust think, if Santa Anna's outfit had shot like this at the Alamo, they would've run out of ammunition in no time, the war would've been called off due to...
HILL IN N.Y. STATE OF MIND: SHE'LL MOVE HERE BEFORE 2000: MAG
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Clinton, who's seriously mulling a run for U.S. Senate, reportedly plans to leave the White House more than a year early and move to New York to become a...
SOMEBODY SHOULD MAKE THOSE BRITS SPEAK ENGLISH
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE BBC's true-Brit coverage of the wedding of Prince Edward to Sophie Rhys-Jones had us crying "Translation, please." So we found ourselves gravitating from the Learning Channel, which carried it...
YES, THE TEAM'S 'VOICE' IS BACK
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE only way to hear the Knicks in the NBA Finals is in Marv Albert's voice. NBC's Bob Costas and WFAN's Gus Johnson don't match up. Albert is the definitive...
EDWARD AND SOPHIE TIE WINDSOR KNOT: PUBLIC INCLUDED IN FAIRY-TALE WEDDING
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"It was like a family wedding, just like a wedding you'd go to at home."PAULINE PITTENBritain's Prince Edward and commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones tied the knot yesterday in a traditional ceremony...
GUN DEALERS: PATAKI POLICY ON TARGET
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki won praise from gun dealers here yesterday for permitting the semiannual Albany Gun Show to go on as scheduled on state-owned property for the 25th year...
SEN. DODD WEDS CLEGG ; LIGHT OF HIS LIFE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Not quite a royal wedding, but Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) - one of the last playboys in D.C. politics - quietly took a bride this weekend at his...
RUDY SCOFFS AT CITY 'BAN' ON D'AMATO
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe Giuliani administration yesterday tried to downplay a senior official's claim that City Hall is locked in an all-out war with Al D'Amato and has banned his access to city...
THE KNICKS DROP TWO AND TIX DROP TOO
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amMore on the team's struggle / SportsThere's a silver lining in the cloud of the Knicks sorry performance in the NBA championship series - scalpers are lowering prices for the...
SUPERINTENDENTS OUT IN MAJOR HS SHAKE-UP: CREW AIMS FOR TOP TO TARGET LOW PERFORMANCE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amTwo Board of Education high-school superintendents will be ousted - while another, under pressure, took a job in another state - in a school system shake-up, The Post has learned....
LOVE MATCH MAY BEAT ROYAL RECORD
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe this one will end happily ever after. Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones couldn't have looked more in love as they laughed, chatted and beamed at each other outside Windsor...
U.S. MAY SEND HUMANITARIAN AID TO SERBIA
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton has vowed never to rebuild Serbia while Milosevic is in power. But humanitarian aid could be available.The United States and other industrialized world leaders might rebuild Serbia's roads...
MOM SEES SON KILLED BY CAR
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"The Jeep driver came out of the car and started to cry."EYEWITNESS A 9-year-old New Jersey boy was struck and killed in Midtown Manhattan yesterday when he darted into traffic...
HUDSON BOAT CRASH HURTS 5
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amA speedboat zooming up the Hudson River at up to 80 m.p.h. hit a wave, flew into the air and split apart last night, hurling its five passengers into the...
AUTHOR STEPHEN KING HIT BY VAN
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amMaster horror writer Stephen King was in serious but stable condition last night after being struck by a van while walking near his home in Maine. The 51-year-old superstar scaremeister...
SAD DAD'S DAY FOR CHUCK, BROSIUS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch and Scott Brosius are about as far apart on the baseball spectrum as two players can get. Knoblauch is a smallish second baseman who hits at the top...
'NET GAIN FOR METROCARDS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amMetroCard sales are a hit on the Internet. The MTA has sold more than 9,000 MetroCards to 3,338 riders how have paid with plastic via the Net since mid-April Sales...
TEENS ASSAULT GIRL AT BEACH
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amThree teens sexually abused and sodomized a 12-year-old girl in a Brighton Beach public bathroom that is supposed to be staffed by an attendant while it's open, police said yesterday....
KEEPING THE FAITH IN HONOLULU :AGBAYANI'S MOTHER FOLLOWS SON FROM AFAR
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"There's just been oodles of publicity in the past month. We're overwhelmed. It's such a good feeling to know that people in New York love my son."FAITH AGBAYANI ST. LOUIS...
EX-JOHNNIE STEPS IN FOR FALLEN DIERKER
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amITSHOULDN'T have come to this. Matt Galante shouldn't have had to wait for his friend to have a seizure right beside him in the dugout to get his first chance...
JEFF'S A TRUE SONUVAGUNDY VG DOESN'T NEED FATHER'S DAY TO THINK OF HIS DAD
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"Jeff's been through a lot in New York this past year and he's handled himself well and with a lot of class. That comes from my father."STAN VAN GUNDY Bill...
THIS 'RYAN EXPRESS' HAS SLOWED IN COLUMBUS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amSINCE Yankee pitching prospect Ryan Bradley rose through the system as quickly as his 90 mph fastball - going from Single-A Tampa to The Bronx last season - the following...
MILBURY IS MIRED IN MUCK
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - We've questioned many of Mike Milbury's moves throughout his four-year association with the Islanders, but never once have we even been tempted to question his integrity and we...
MAN, OH, MANNY: BLUESHIRTS WON'T WING IT WITH MALHOTRA
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amRangers talked with the Red Wings about both Brendan Shanahan and Sergei Fedorov prior to constructing their package for Zigmund Palffy. Before agreeing to the hockey end of the deal...
OLERUD'S BAT SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Although he doesn't have much to show for it, John Olerud is definitely hitting the ball harder lately, an encouraging sign that he may be breaking out...
NYRA BUYOUT OF OTB IS GOOD BET
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S June 9, 2007, Belmont Stakes day in New York. A crowd of over 80,000 heads for Belmont Park to see Silverbulletcharm, a colt by Silver Charm out of Silverbulletday...
HERE'S TO YOU, MR. ROBINSON ROBINSON'S ONE STEP BACK HAS TAKEN THE SPURS TWO STEPS FORWARD. THEY ARE TWO WINS FROM CLAIMING THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - John Elway was a great quarterback long before Terrell Davis became a member of the Denver Broncos. His statistics over his legendary career speak for themselves. But...
DEC'S GOING BASS BACKWARDS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amNEW YORK'S Department of Environmental Conservation has done a lot of good things for recreational anglers around the state, but you have to wonder sometimes if anyone is home after...
STARS POISED FOR VICTORY LAP
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - In the end, the heaviest of burdens turns almost weightless, which is part of what makes the fantasy so fantastic. "You feel like you could carry it forever,"...
STRAW ALONE ISN'T ANSWER
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amFEW PEOPLE can understand life as Derek Jeter, circa 1999, better than Darryl Strawberry. Nearly two decades ago, the lanky lefty power hitter with the unforgettable name was drafted first...
KNICKS NEED HOME COOKIN'
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"We're not dead just because we're down two games. We've been in worse situations this year."ALLAN HOUSTON They would like to believe they are primed for this, having been hardened...
MSG BOUT PIVOTAL TO GRANT'S CAREER
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amYou listen to Michael Grant tell his story and it reminds you of the scene in Rocky when Burgess Meredith tells Sylvester Stallone he could have been a somebody if...
MET LOSS IS SLOW TORTURE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amCardinals7 Mets6 ST. LOUIS - Interleague play is having its effect. The tedium and sheer length of American League games have worn off on their National League counterparts, and yesterday's...
TIGER: BETTER THAN EVER
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amP INEHURST - Perhaps it's time we listen to Tiger Woods and believe in some of the things he says about himself instead of passing it off as spin doctoring....
KNICKS COME HOME - & HIT THE ROAD
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amThis was hardly conquering heroes returning home. The Knicks' charter flight - their private Boeing 737 - arrived from San Antonio and landed at 2:10 p.m. yesterday at Hangar E...
SABRES' WHINE LIST IS LONG
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Down to their very last breath, the Sabres spent the time between Thursday's Game 5 loss in Dallas and last night's last-chance Game 6 playing up a woe-is-us...
PLAYERS SAY NO. 2 IS NO. 1 FOR OPEN TESTS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Pinehurst's No. 2 course, in USGA Open conditions, has been battering and bruising players all week long, yet they love it. The consensus among nearly every player this...
SERBY'S MESSAGE TO DOWNTRODDEN KNICKS ... DON'T QUIT!
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amMAYBE this is all a Four-gone conclusion for the Knicks. Maybe Clyde Frazier, Willis Reed, Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley and Dick Barnett or Pearl Monroe, at their ages today, would...
ELIE KNOWS KNICKS MISS PATRICK
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Enter one more name onto the list of those who adhere to the belief that the Knicks are not better without Patrick Ewing: Spurs guard Mario Elie....
SPURS ARE KINGS OF THE ROAD
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Now the Spurs may be just where they want to be in the Finals: in the other guys' building. For the Spurs in these playoffs, there's been...
HOT SPURS DIG IN ON DEFENSE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - You can't fault the Knick defense. Nope, not at all. The Knicks have battled and rotated and banged the Spurs in the first two games of the...
CHARISMATIC MENDING LIKE CHAMP
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amCharismatic continues his recovery from being injured in the Belmont Stakes. ''He is a very good patient,'' according to trainer D. Wayne Lukas. ''He is doing better than we could...
SIZE DOES MATTER KNICKS' ONLY HOPE MAY BE SWITCH TO BIG BACKCOURT
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amIf the Spurs can have their Texas Towers, the Knicks could have their Goliath Guards of Gotham. Knicks may be forced to go big The Spurs have this brilliant, yet...
SISTER ACT SIZZLES
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amLeft to set her own early pace under Pat Day, 7-5 favorite Sister Act held off Beautiful Pleasure by a half-length after a long stretch drive to win yesterday's Grade...
THIS REALLY HURTS EWING KNOWS HE COULD'VE BEEN DIFFERENCE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE was a moment near the end of Game 2 of the NBA Finals Friday night when Patrick Ewing's eyes became a window to the ultimate fate of the Knicks....
DUDLEY'S SHOOTING GETS HELP
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amArt Rondeau, a peak performance consultant from San Diego, flew to New York yesterday for a Knick emergency. Yes, you can call Chris Dudley's free-throw shooting an emergency. Especially now...
SPREE CAN'T FIND WAY THROUGH SPURS' TREES
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amThis is the reality the Knicks have to overcome: Size matters. "A lot of our offensive problems are due to their size," Latrell Sprewell said after the Knicks fell behind...
SAD DAD'S DAY FOR 2 YANKS : KNOBLAUCH, BROSIUS KEEP SICK FATHERS IN THOUGHTS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch and Scott Brosius are about as far apart on the baseball spectrum as two players can get. Knoblauch is a smallish second baseman who hits at the top...
TORRE SAYS HE'LL STICK WITH SPENCER - FOR NOW
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"As long as the at-bats seem to be getting better, I'll leave him in there."JOE TORRE on Shane Spencer One would imagine it's been a difficult season for Shane Spencer,...
BOMBERS TO BATTLE TRIBE FOR FINLEY
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amAccording to AL sources, the Yankees and Indians will be going head-to-head long before a possible meeting in the playoffs. Both clubs have contacted the Angels about lefty Chuck Finley...
LATEST WOES LEAVE IZZY IN A TIZZY
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amST. LOUIS - Jason Isringhausen struggled terribly yesterday in his worst outing since being called up May 24. Afterward, the Met righty acknowledged he is confused by mechanical problems, and...
PAYNE AND SUFFERING STEWART'S UP BY ONE AT BLOODY PINEHURST
June 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I've wanted this opportunity again and now I've got to deal with it."PAYNE STEWART 'I love being in the hunt, where the most presure is. It's a great feeling."TIGER WOODS...
STRICKER'S 69 IS DIVINE
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Earlier in the day, John Cook said any round under par in yesterday's conditions would have to be considered "the round of the year." When the carnage of...
PAYNE'S EXPERIENCE WILL BE MAJOR FACTOR
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Payne Stewart sees today's U.S. Open final round two ways. Firstly, thank goodness Lee Janzen isn't close to him on the leaderboard. Janzen has twice, including last year,...
LENNOX-EVANDER SET FOR NOV. 13
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amSince beating Evander Holyfield like a punching bag last March 13, yet walking away with only a draw, Lennox Lewis has had a one-track mind: get Holyfield back in the...
MORE SHUFFLING NEEDED AS JOE WAITS ON DARRYL
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amFEW PEOPLE can understand life as Derek Jeter, circa 1999, better than Darryl Strawberry. Nearly two decades ago, the lanky power hitter with the unforgettable name was drafted first by...
IRABU MOWS DOWN ANEMIC ANGELS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amYankees6 Angels2 By now we know the Yankees don't have the biceps to win chest-to-chest battles against the muscular lineups that dot the American League landscape. Here in the middle...
AUCTION FOR FINLEY IN WORKS
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amAccording to AL sources, the Yankees and Indians will be going head to head long before a possible meeting in the AL playoffs. Both clubs have contacted the Angels about...
WILLIAMS HAS HALOS' NUMBER
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe last time Bernie Williams and his Yankee teammates saw Anaheim, the Angels swept them in a three-game series in mid-May. For over a month, Williams and the Bombers stewed,...
GRANT OUTSLUGS LOU IN LOW-CLASS AFFAIR
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amIf Michael Grant is supposed to be the next great heavyweight, the division once again is in trouble. Grant won a sluggish, somewhat dirty, 10-round decision over Lou Savarese before...
STARS' CUP RUNNETH OVERTIME HULL SCORES WINNER IN SIXTH PERIOD
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amTRIPLE OVERTIME Stars 2 Sabres 1 BUFFALO - They had waited and waited and waited throughout a 32-year franchise history that began in Minnesota in 1967, then through a move...
CHAMPS CAN SAY 'WE ARE WORTHY'
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - In the end, the heaviest of burdens turns almost weightless, which is what makes the fantasy so fantastic. "You feel like you could carry it forever," Lanny MacDonald...
OPEN AND SHUT: LONG ISLAND CLUB PRO MARK MIELKE IS APPRECIATIVE -BUT HUMBLED - AT PINEHURST
June 20, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: PINEHURST - Mark Mielke was a long way from Oyster Bay this week. It was exactly the moment that Mielke, the head pro at the Mill River Club who...