June 27, 1999
BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET?
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amMICHAEL Lipper is angering a lot of people in the mutual fund business. The man best known for the Lipper rankings of mutual funds is opening one of his own,...
YOU HAVE TO BE A SPORT ABOUT IT
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amGET Allen & Co.'s Paul Gould an ice bag. The investment banker's reputation took a beating in June over the botched sale of Ascent Entertainment's Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche....
TV DOCUMENTARY FOCUSES ON THE WEB-HEAD YEARS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amLOOKS like the Nineties are ending without anyone getting the requisite Tom Wolfe-ian handle on them. Into the vacuum, however, comes a handheld movie called "Home Page," which hits TV...
SO, HOW AM I DOING? MY PICKS' PERFORMANCE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWHO says technology stocks are in a bear market? As I review my picks - the stocks I've recommended in this space since the beginning of this turbulent year in...
TRY BABEL'S MANAGEMENT CHART
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amPITY the poor number crunchers at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which was hired to advise and underwrite a possible bond issue secured by billions in fees to be paid out...
PRIMEDIA'S REILLY FACING THE OL' HEAVE-HO?
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amTALK is swirling that William Reilly's days as the CEO of Primedia are numbered. Henry Kravis, the chief of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ,which controls more than 70 percent...
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS...AND LOSERS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWinners: KATHERINE BETTS The Vogue editor got the top job at arch-rival Harper's Bazaar, vacant since the death of Liz Tilberis. The switcheroo pits Betts against her long-time friend and...
'TERRASSE' WORTH A LOOK
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe play moves into a state of slow, aggravated decline, finishing up in a no-man's land of indecision ... but [it is] still well worth experiencing. If you regularly go...
FUNNIEST GUY ON LATE-NIGHT TV IS..... JAY!
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amJAY Leno may be the only true superstar left on network TV. That's right - hard- working Jay Leno, America's reigning king of comedy who's criminally underrated by everyone but...
POST TV COLUMNISTS MICHELE GREPPI AND ADAM BUCKMAN ARE HOPELESSLY AT ODDS OVER WHICH SHOW DOES A BETTER JOB OF KEEPING THEM AWAKE AFTER THE NEWS - LENO OR LETTERMAN. WE LET THEM BATTLE IT OUT...
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWe know how to end the argument about who's got the funniest show - David Letterman or Jay Leno - in one breath. Letterman does his late- night show in...
MUTT MATCH: HOW TO CHOOSE A POOCH THAT FITS YOUR PERSONALITY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amChoosing a pet is a lot like dating - it's all about compatibility and animal attraction.When a dog and its human companion fit together well, the resulting bond can enrich...
SOUNDS BY THE SAND: JONES BEACH IS HEATING UP THIS SUMMER WITH DOZENS OF COOL CONCERTS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amAfter Bruce Springsteen plays the Continental Airlines Arena and Whitney Houston does her shows at Madison Square Garden, those two venues will be relatively quiet for the rest of the...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: CRYSTAL BERNARD
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe daughter of a traveling evangelical preacher from Houston, Crystal Bernard - along with her parents and sisters - sang at churches, tent revivals and gospel jubilees as they criss-crossed...
BINOCHE'S OLD AND NEW "LOVERS'
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amJuliette Binoche relaxes in a New York hotel during a recent visit here to promote "The Lovers on the Bridge.'Juliette Binoche and Leos Carax on the set of "Lovers.' It...
TABLE HOPPER: BAMBOU
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Bambou 243 E. 14th St. (212) 358-0012 Some say it's easier to find Atlantis than it is the Caribbean restaurant Bambou, but once you do, you'll feel as if...
MEALS & DEALS: TIVOLI
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Tivoli 515 Third Avenue (212) 532-3300 For some reason, finding a good casual-dining spot in Murray Hill is difficult. That's why locals keep returning to Tivoli. The roomy restaurant...
CITY'S SQUEEZE ON SLEAZE HARD-UP OWNERS DO BEST TO NOT GO BUST
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThese are hard times for the city's nudie bars, sex shops and porn palaces - but not even the mayor can deflate New York's appetite for smut. "Everything is still...
SLUM 'EMANCIPATOR' ROUSED CONSCIENCES WITH A CAMERA
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amJacob Riis, the first photojournalist, is credited with drawing public attention to the terrible living conditions faced by immigrants living in turn-of-the-century New York. Riis (1849-1915) shocked middle-class readers of...
MY AGE OF INNOCENCE CAME TO A FEARFUL END
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amIT goes without saying that we were scared. Knee-shaking, heart-palpitating scared. But also, we were annoyed. And, in truth, just a little bit thrilled. He was after us, that suffocatingly...
' HOW CAN ANY HUMAN TAKE THIS? '
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amOn Sunday, July 31, 1977, Post reporter Steve Dunleavy kept a tense vigil at Kings County Hospital with the parents of Son of Sam's last two victims - Brooklyn 20-year-olds...
HILLARY CLINTON'S STRANGE NEW BEDFELLOWS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amI T was one of those cute stories about computer mix-ups and misdirected campaign solicitations that occasionally move across the political newswires. This one, however, is worth more than its...
LIFE SPRINGS FROM ASHES OF SHATTERED CITY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amPRISTINA, Kosovo. NINETEEN-year-old Kuitesa Graicevci could barely contain her excitement at the news that Tricky Dick's, a popular night club, was going to reopen. "I haven't seen my friends in...
EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SEX......AND POST POLLSTER WASN'T AFRAID TO ASK!
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amLet's talk about sex! That's what The Post has been doing with hundreds of New Yorkers. We asked about sex lives and sex partners, frequency and fidelity, safe sex and...
HOME-GROWN VODKA'S COME A 'LONG' WAY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amFor years, Steven Abramson and Jane Nichols toiled in Manhattan, summered in the Hamptons and dreamed of finding a way to live and work full-time on the East End of...
DEFENDING THE FAITHFUL: MOST SAY THEY DON'T STRAY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amLegend has it that New York City is a swinging, up-all-night town, but locals told The Post they're stay-at-home, faithful types. More than two-thirds - 67.1 percent - of those...
SUMMER OF INSANITY AS KILLER TERRORIZED CITY : MAD GUNMAN'S SPREE PANICKED YOUNG LOVERS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amSpike Lee's "Summer of Sam" movie hits theaters Friday. It's set in the Big Apple in 1977. Here's The Post's in-depth look at the news behind the screenplay, the real-life...
SHORING UP CONEY PART OF STATION-REHAB PLAN
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe MTA wants to provide sunnier days for beachgoers by totally rebuilding its dilapidated Coney Island terminal. A $250 million reconstruction of the Stillwell Avenue station is one of the...
BITTER BIBI BLASTS BARAK ON SYRIA
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.BENJAMIN Netanyahu had only bitter words for Ehud Barak, the man who crushed him in Israel's elections on May 17 and will succeed him as prime minister: "All Ehud dreams...
SUICIDE WAS FINAL STEP IN TRAIL OF TEARS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amA week ago, Ewa Rakowska packed her life into six suitcases and checked into a $600-a-night room at the St. Moritz Hotel across from Central Park. For three days and...
BX. LIVERY-CAR ROBBER NABBED
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amA gunman who robbed nine livery drivers in The Bronx last fall has been caught, police said yesterday. Victor Little, 21, was busted in Harlem for marijuana possession early yesterday....
VMI CADET BOOTED IN HARASSMENT FLAPT
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amhe highest-ranking cadet at the Virginia Military Institute was expelled for demanding sex from three freshman females, the formerly all-male school's superintendent admitted yesterday. Senior Jerry B. Webb II, who...
N. IRELAND OFFICIAL SURE OF PEACE DEAL
June 27, 1999 | 4:00am"We are staring into the abyss in Northern Ireland and must somehow pull ourselves back."BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam was confident yesterday that the deadlock...
HILLARY ADDS VETERAN SCHUMER AIDE TO HER TEAM
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amIn the strongest sign yet that she'll toss her hat into the ring, Hillary Clinton has hired the veteran press secretary who worked on Chuck Schumer's winning 1998 campaign for...
COPS ON PROWL FOR BRONX RAPIST
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBronx detectives yesterday said they are looking for a man who has raped three 12-year-old girls and a 23-year-old woman whose 7-year-old son cowered in his bedroom during the attack....
TRIPP TAPES MUST GO TO MD. PROBER
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr has to give a Maryland prosecutor Linda Tripp's once-secret tapes of Monica Lewinsky, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson,...
GORE GETTING BOOST FROM CLINTON 'RIFT'
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Al Gore's supporters say reports of a "rift" between him and President Clinton could help his slumbering campaign by emphasizing the moral difference between the two men. "To...
CHRISTIE BEAMING OVER SCUTTLED TAX
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amNew Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman yesterday gloated about her state's win in the commuter-tax war, as city officials geared up to appeal a judge's ruling that wiped out the levy....
FAMILY: WHY DID COP KILL OUR DOG? : POOCH SHOT IN FRONT OF KIDS AT PLAY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amA devastated family says police blew away their pet dog on the front lawn of their Rockland County home - for no apparent reason - as more than a dozen...
BANKER'S WIFE FEELS THE PINCH
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amIt's bad enough to get dissed by the new boss, but you know you're in big trouble when he starts demanding give-backs from your spouse. But that's just what's happening...
RUSSIANS LAND A BIG ONE YELTSIN'S TROOPS SECURE AIRPORT
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A plane carrying 21 Russian paratroopers touched down in Kosovo yesterday, re-opening the Pristina airport that had been closed by NATO's war against the Serbs. The airport is...
GAY PRIDE ON PARADE TODAY WITH MESSAGE OF TOLERANCE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amOrganizers of today's 30th Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride March expect a half-million participants - and are hoping for some surprise guests. "Last year, the Spice Girls showed up," said...
CLANCY'S LATEST THRILLER IS WEDDING IN APPLE CHAPEL
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBest-selling author Tom Clancy was married yesterday - again! Clancy, 52, and Alexandra Marie Llewellyn were wed at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue in what one guest described...
SOPHIE DISCOVERS EDWARD IS APART-TIME HUBBY!
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThey've only been married a week, but royal newlyweds Edward and Sophie are already planning to live apart half of the time, London's Sunday Mirror reports today. Edward, the new...
ERIC CLAPTON: I BEAT MY WIFE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amRock superstar Eric Clapton has admitted for the first time that he was so addicted to drugs and alcohol that he beat his first wife, Patti Boyd. The Grammy-award winning...
COPS HUNT FIEND IN RAPES OF 3 BRONX KIDS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBronx detectives are hunting a vicious rapist who has attacked three 12-year-old girls - choking them unconscious before assaulting them. The brutal rapist also attacked a 23-year-old woman as her...
BOY, 6, PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH IN BRONX
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amA 6-year-old orphan fell 10 stories to his death last night from a window of the Bronx apartment where he had been placed less than two weeks ago, police said....
SUSPECT GRILLED IN VICIOUS BRONX RAPE SPREE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amCops were questioning a 25-year-old man today in a series of brutal Bronx rapes in which three 12-year-old girls and a 23-year-old woman were attacked after being choked unconscious. Though...
MTA IS PUSHING V. SUBWAY TO SIDE TRACK
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amStraphangers packed like sardines on the East Side will have to wait for the arrival for a new Second Avenue subway while Long Islanders will get an easier commute to...
ROHLF DEFENDS CROWN AT IKE TOURNEY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amDefending champion Greg Rohlf heads a field of 104 amateurs teeing off tomorrow in the Ike Championship at Hollywood GC in Deal, N.J. The 44th annual two-day, 54-hole stroke-play championship...
BOATERS SHOULD TAKE HURRICANE PRECAUTIONS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amTHE experts tell us this could be a very active hurricane season - and if we get hit by one, do you know how to protect you boat? Because of...
DOGGONE IT, SHOW GOES ON PARALYZED GOLFER'S ACT IS INSPIRING
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amPrecious few of us are able to make a career out of our passion. Dennis Walters is doing that, and he's doing it with an asterisk. Golf has always been...
A LONG, BUMPY ROAD FOR YANK FARMHAND
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amIF YOU are human, you will be rooting for Yankee minor-league pitcher David Zancanaro. A 1990 first-round choice of the A's, Zancanaro is a 30-year-old veteran of 10 minor-league seasons....
TENNIS ... ANYONE? ; HBO BOLTS SINKING SHIP THAT'S MEN'S GAME
June 27, 1999 | 4:00am"What does it tell you about the state of the game when its most attractive players are in TV booths?"NETWORK EXECUTIVE H OW DEAD is men's tennis? Well, there's a...
WALTON MADE 'L' OF A MISTAKE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWhat a pity. Just as we declared NBC's Bill Walton cured of his self-promotional ways, just as we celebrated Walton for no longer making himself the focus of his TV...
METS ENTER BRAVE NEW WORLD AMAZIN'S SERVE NOTICE THEY'RE READY TO RACE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - At some point in time the Braves won't win the National League East. If Friday night's total annihilation of the four-time defending division champs by the Mets is...
THE BEST IS YET TO COME SKY'S THE LIMIT FOR VG & KNICKS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Knicks should all remember the pain inside their giant hearts as they trudged off the Garden floor Friday night and the Spurs danced on their grave, and remember how...
POSADA'S SORE THUMB NOT SERIOUS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Jorge Posada's black-and-blue left thumb was heavily wrapped yesterday when he was told by the Yankees' medical staff to stay away from playing catch and taking batting practice....
THE MOURNING AFTER VAN GUNDY BOTH PROUD & DISAPPOINTED
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amHe pulled into the Purchase College parking lot a little after noon, and wore a blue T-shirt with white KNICKS BASKETBALL lettering. On The Mourning After, Jeff Van Gundy had...
JEANA MARIE WORTH WAGER
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amM OST of the betting action in today's Mount Vernon Handicap, for New York-bred distaffers at 11/8 miles over Belmont Park's inner turf course, will land on a pair of...
RANGERS DEAL FOR KID GUNNER
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The Rangers failed to acquire sniper Ziggy Palffy but they did acquire the best finisher in yesterday's draft, Pavel Brendl, in a stirring turn of events that managed...
RING-LESS EWING RUNNING OUT OF TIME
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amIf Patrick Ewing really wants a ring, he should consider heading over to the Diamond District in midtown. Because after 14 seasons with the Knicks, it appears his only hope...
RICKEY RUBS IT IN BY RUNNING
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Rickey Henderson stole second base in the ninth inning Friday night with the Mets leading 7-2. In some baseball circles that is considered rubbing it in, and Bobby...
PHILLIPS MAKES THE GRADE AS GM
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - If the Mets were looking for someone to cure the world's problems and right the nation's injustices, they could have signed Albert Belle. Instead, they were looking for...
RED, WHITE & BLUESHIRT DAY : SMITH'S DEALS MAKE RANGERS YOUNGER, BIGGER - AND BETTER
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS WAS Neil Smith reinventing both himself and his franchise. This was the GM moving boldly on draft day, and doing so without use of the financial crutch on which...
CONE STICKS NEEDLE IN O'S ACUPUNCTURE HELPS DAVID MOVE TO 8-3
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amYankees7 Orioles4 BALTIMORE - Two days of acupuncture treatments in Florida had left the skin on David Cone's right shoulder covered with ugly purple and black ovals. The marks, left...
AUSSIES STARVED IN BID TO TAKE OUT CHINESE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amChina3 Australia1 The U.S. women's team may have captured the hearts of American soccer fans, but the Chinese team isn't ready to let them capture the 1999 World Cup without...
SPREE YOU AT THE PARADE IN 2000
June 27, 1999 | 4:00am"Our mindset should be nothing less than winning a championship next year."ALLAN HOUSTON HOURS before the end of the line arrived for the Knicks, Jeff Van Gundy stood on the...
ISLES' BIG DAY STARTS WITH SYRACUSE CENTER
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Although the Islanders were upstaged by the trade-crazy Rangers yesterday, they still feel they came away with four solid first-round picks, even if none of them was as...
FEELING SO FREE TO ROOT FOR SPREE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amJOURNALISTS aren't supposed to favor one side or the other. That's why picking a team to win a particular game, series, or season is frequently detrimental to a writer's credibility....
HOUSTON ENDS HIS SEASON ON A QUIET NOTE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amAs recently as Game 3 of the Finals, Allan Houston seemed like the best shooting guard in the NBA. But as he's often done throughout his Knick career, Houston evaporated...
DEVILS PICK ANOTHER GOALTENDER
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - With the 27th pick of the first round, the Devils selected a goalie, Ari Ahonen of Finland. Ahonen, whose goaltending idol is the Islanders' Felix Potvin, likely will...
MISSED 3 ONLY ADDS TO LJ'S PAIN
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe nightmare is over for Larry Johnson. The series from hell is history, his impossible matchup with Tim Duncan nothing but a bitter memory. "Well, it really hurts right now,"...
WOE, CANADA! RUSSIANS KEEP THEIR COOL
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amRussia4 Canada1 Genius strategies, inspirational speeches are fine, but sometimes the best coaching is just ordering the obvious. The Russian World Cup team had this one made in the shade....
THREE RING DIES AT BELMONT
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amFour days after a fire killed three horses on the backstretch, tragedy struck at Belmont Park again yesterday when the great filly Three Ring died in the paddock before the...
HEARTS AT RISK LIGHTS UP BOARD
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amHearts At Risk, 63-1 and the longest shot of the uncoupled Richard Schosberg entry, closed powerfully in the stretch to defeat heavily favored David by three-quarters of a length to...
WARD ISN'T SURE ABOUT HIS FUTURE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amThere is no one in the NBA with stronger faith in his teammates or his religion than Knicks point guard Charlie Ward. Even in final defeat he made sure to...
KNICKS' NEW GOAL: ALL THE WAY IN Y2K FINALS DEFEAT FILLED WITH SIGNS OF HOPE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amWhile packing away your "I Still Believe" T-shirt until next year, here's a dose of reality for Knick fans. The last time the team made it to the Finals -...
CRAMP LIKELY TO SIDELINE JETER TODAY
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Seeing Joe Torre and trainer Gene Monahan at first base talking to Derek Jeter sent Yankee hearts fluttering yesterday. Just when the bats around Jeter have finally come...
HUNGRY AUSSIES FAIL TO TAKE OUT CHINESE
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amChina3 Australia1 The U.S. may have captured the hearts of the fans and the media, but the Chinese team isn't about to let them capture the 1999 Women's World Cup...
CLASSIC TITLE UP FOR GRABS CARTER, WALDORF SHARE LEAD AFTER 3RD ROUND
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amTwo hundred and seventy three tournaments in his 12-year career Jim Carter has teed it up on a Thursday in a PGA Tour event and 273 times he's departed the...
WELCOME TO MAJORS, KID GLAVINE WAS SHELLED IN HIS DEBUT, TOO
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - A baby-faced Braves left-hander, Tom Glavine arrived in the big leagues 12 summers ago at the tender age of 21. He brought with him to Houston a suitcase...
PHENOM'S CHOPPED LIVER KLESKO'S 3-RUN SHOT SENDS DOTEL TO FIRST LOSS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm happy, my first time in the big leagues. You can't make a lot of mistakes up here or they get you. You can make some mistakes, but you cannot...
VALENTINE LAUDS NEW COACHES
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Ever since they fired three of their coaches, the Mets have made a remarkable turnaround, going 15-4 in their last 19 games. Bobby Valentine, who was shocked and...
.405! - HE FLOPPED TWICE IN NEW YORK, BUT, AT 37, TONY FERNANDEZ IS FLIRTING WITH THE MOST MAGICAL OF NUMBERS
June 27, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: ATLANTA - Many, many springs ago, out on a back field, a man worked alone. He was on one knee, holding a baseball bat in one hand, a tiny...