June 29, 1999
HERE'S WHY FIDELITY SHOULD PROTECT PETER LYNCH'S JOB
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amPETER Lynch is, without a doubt, one of the best stock-pickers ever to find his way into the mutual fund world, and continues to be one of Fidelity Investments' biggest...
ECONOMISTS FAIL TO SEE NEED FOR HIKING RATES
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amTo get a clue to understanding monetary policy these days, take a look at Robert Louis Stevenson's "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde." Right now, according to Wall Street economists, Federal...
BEAR FINED $25M - A.R. BARON FRAUD BLAME SPOOKS STREET
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amBear Stearns Cos. has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a two-year investigation by the Securities & Exchange Commission into securities fraud. The SEC had charged that Bear Stearns...
NEW 'NET MUSIC STANDARDS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amMusic industry executives moved yesterday to regain control of the burgeoning online music business. A coalition of more than 100 music companies and groups announced they had agreed on a...
SANTO FAMILY READY TO LET THREE DOVE RESTAURANTS FLY; EXCLUSIVE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe beloved Doves will be taking flight all over Manhattan. Famed restaurateurs Santo Family Group are opening, not one, but three incarnations of their former Upper East Side restaurant, The...
SPIKED BRILL BASHER TURNS UP ON DRUDGE SITE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe controversial story about magazine entrepreneur Steve Brill that was spiked by Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter has fallen into the hands of cyber sleuth Matt Drudge. "It has caused...
BIG BOARD BOSS FOR CAPITALISM
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amIs Richard Grasso looking to become the next Richard Holbrooke? After risking his life to meet with drug-trafficking Marxist guerillas in Colombia over the weekend, Grasso dined last night with...
FOUR AXED IN RANDOM FIRINGS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amRandom House Inc. axed four top Dell/Delacorte executives in a sweeping reorganization of its newly formed Bantam Dell Publishing Group. Among those who are leaving in yesterday's purge was Leslie...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amSneak peak Nosy Parkers should head out to Long Island July 9 for the Sag Harbor Historic House Tour. Six houses of historic and/or architectural interest can be viewed from...
JACKSON'S 'HONEY' IS SWEET, BUT COMES UP SHORT
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amELECTRIC HONEY; Luscious Jackson, Grand Royal/Capitol Skyscraper Park's own Luscious Jackson - flying in missing-woman formation since the departure of keyboardist Vivian Trimble - delivers a nice but inferior follow-up...
JUDI COMING BACK INTO 'VIEW'
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amDAME Judi Dench will be out of the hit Broadway play "Amy's View" for at least another week, attending her ailing husband in England, production sources said yesterday. The actress,...
TV TICKER
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amDeadly mix Tonight's "60 Minutes II" (9 p.m. on Ch. 2) takes a look at extreme measures taken by some nursing homes to fill empty beds. Correspondent Jim Stewart examines...
'PROFILER' SHRINK TAKES A LONG WALK
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amALLY Walker will leave the low-rated "Profiler" after two episodes next season, NBC confirmed yesterday in an announcement that surprised no one. While NBC Entertainment President Garth Ancier said the...
FOX ROLLS A LUCKY 'SEVEN' - MIDSEASON ORDER PLACED FOR NEWSMAG PARODY
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amWinstead and Unger had been courted last year by UPN to develop a parody of newsmagazines . . . but Fox's new entertainment chief, Doug Herzog, lured the pair away....
RATINGS DIED WITH THE KNICKS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amNBC's hopes for big NBA finals ratings died when the Knicks were eliminated in Game 5 by the San Antonio Spurs. NBC posted its lowest NBA finals ratings since 1981,...
'POKEMON' GROWS INTO MONSTER FLICK - CRAZE GETS CRAZIER WITH TV SERIES ON 11 TIMES A WEEK
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amAS if a top-rated animated kids' TV show and a world-wide obsession isn't enough, "Pokemon" is now headed toward a theater near you. "Pokemon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back" -...
FOUL TROUBLE - WITH ITS CURSING TOTS AND SEXUAL PERVERSITY, THE 'SOUTH PARK' MOVIE BRINGS HOLLYWOOD HUMOR TO NEW LOW
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amHOW serious are the country's theater owners in their new vigilance against letting underage kids into R-rated films? We shall see when "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" opens tomorrow....
MODEL'S BALD STATEMENT - HEADSTRONG BEAUTY DOESN'T LET HER HAIR LOSS GET HER DOWN
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN Margaret Baker enters a room, people stare.It's isn't her exquisitely sculpted eyebrows or her full, pouty mouth that draws such attention. It's her head, which is perfectly smooth and...
EVERY PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE - WHY A MIDDLE-CLASS GIRL FROM NEW JERSEY RAN AWAY TO NEW YORK CITY
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - At first, Melissa Hollender won't explain why she ran away to New York, nor what made her chop off all her lustrous blond hair while she...
YE OLDE NEW PALTZ - FOR A TASTE OF LIFE DURING COLONIAL DAYS, GIVE THIS HUDSON VALLEY TOWN THE OLD COLLEGE TRY
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amWHILE Williamsburg, Va., might offer the creme de la creme in Colonial-era lore, for those not willing to deal with the seven-hour road trip, a history lesson - with gorgeous...
BLACKOUT PLUNGED US INTO DARKEST HOURS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amSpike Lee's "Summer of Sam" hits movie theaters this Friday. It's set in the tense Big Apple of 1977, when David Berkowitz cruised the streets looking for women in parked...
NEW HMO LAW HAS A LOT OF 'APPEAL'
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amStarting this week, patients will have some extra help in the battle to get HMOs to pay for necessary medical treatment. The state's new external review law, which takes effect...
SINGLES LOOKING FOR SOMEONE .COMPATIBLE - FEMALES & E-MALES WANT LOVE BYTES
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amIn the third and final report on the results of our poll on sexual activity and attitudes in New York, we turn the spotlight on the singles scene. We also...
MY INTERNET DATE AND I SIMPLY DIDN'T CLICK
June 29, 1999 | 4:00am"Wanted: savvy Manhattan girl for 33-year-old, curly-haired, seersucker-suit-wearing journalist." Interested? If you read more, check out my personal ads on the Internet. One is on Match.com under the name "Plotkin1."...
FIREWORKS CRACKDOWN LEAVES ROCKETS' RED RARE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's crackdown on illegal fireworks this year has been so successful, the Fire Department says it plans to treat Independence Day like any other day. "This will be the...
CONCERT MISHAP JOLTS JACKO
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amPop superstar Michael Jackson escaped serious injury when a crane lifting him into the air suddenly plunged toward the ground during a concert in Germany. Fans gasped in horror as...
TAKE YOUR ARROGANT ACT ELSEWHERE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amAT LEAST he's consistent. Bill Clinton runs for the U.S. Senate the same way he has sexual relations: If you don't catch him in the act, in a strictly legal...
SHARON REJECTS BARAK'S OFFER TO JOIN FORCES
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM -Efforts to form a broad-based new Israeli government collapsed yesterday when the Likud Party walked out of talks, saying it had been misled by Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak. Ariel...
'SCRAMBLED EGG' MOM IN EMOTIONAL PLEA
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amA white Staten Island woman who gave up custody of her switched-before-birth black child vowed yesterday to never give up being the boy's mother. "God gave me Joe for a...
FEW KOSOVARS TAKE U.N. OFFER TO GO HOME
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe United Nations began its long-awaited bus convoys taking ethnic Albanians home to Kosovo yesterday - while NATO began disarming Kosovar rebels. But only 335 refugees went back in the...
BUDGET CUTS PUT ROYALS ON A SHOESTRING
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe royal family has turned its stately home into Save-A-Palace - cutting more than $8 million from its yearly expenses. Queen Elizabeth and her blue-blooded brood cut the fat by...
800 NUMBER FOR HOLOCAUST CLAIMS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amHolocaust survivors and their heirs who have claims against Swiss banks can call a toll-free number or go online to get information about their legal status. Swiss banks have agreed...
CRISPO CHARGED AGAIN
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amNotorious art dealer Andrew Crispo - held without bail since last month for allegedly threatening to kidnap a 4-year-old girl - was charged yesterday with possessing crack cocaine. Crispo had...
'CRIB DEATH' OR MURDER?
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amCrib death is always a tragedy, but in a handful of cases it may also mask cold-blooded murder. Sudden infant death syndrome is the unexpected death of an infant or...
BILL IN NEW BID TO SAVE ULSTER PEACE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton said he's ready to intervene once again to salvage Northern Ireland's troubled peace accord - even as a ban on a contentious Protestant march yesterday led to heightened...
HILL DUMPS BILL T0 L00K F0R H0USE - SKIPS B'WAY PLAY AND FUND-RAISER
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton came to the Big Apple yesterday - but opted to go house-hunting for her Senate race and snubbed a fat-cat fund-raiser where she was slated...
HAUNTED EX-COP CONFESSES TO '67 BEATING
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amMy conscience was really bothering me ... We lied about the beating and I just had to come forward. Hopefully it's not too late for him to get justice." EX-COP...
TA WILL LIFT METROCARD LOCKOUT POLICY
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe Transit Authority by the end of the summer will drop its policy of keeping MetroCard users from re-entering the subway system for 18 minutes, an official said. Straphangers who...
BILL FINDS EXTRA $1 TRILLION FOR MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton trumpeted news yesterday of an extra $1 trillion budget surplus over the next 15 years, and said he wants the money to go to Social Security and Medicare....
HUBBELL READY TO PLEAD GUILTY IN SHADY ARK. LAND SCHEME
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Clinton's ex-law partner has cut a plea deal with prosecutor Kenneth Starr, sources said yesterday - ending the risk that the First Lady could be called to testify about...
GYM KILLED MY WIFE: SUIT
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amBad nutritional advice from a Crunch gym trainer cost a successful fashion designer her life, a $320 million lawsuit charges. In papers filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Douglas Hanson...
REPORT-CARD REVENGE - BROOKLYN MOM AND DAUGHTER BEAT 6TH-GRADE TEACHER: COPS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn mother and her sixth-grade daughter - angry over an unfavorable report card - yesterday punched the girl's teacher in the face, cops said. Brenda Smith, 44, of Cozine...
'ALL-AMERICAN' FATHER'S PAL STUNNED
June 29, 1999 | 4:00am"He would do anything in the world for you if you asked him to, and he treated the baby like it was his world." SHANABARGER'S FORMER CO-WORKER The Indiana dad...
'JESUS WOULD HAVE FORGIVEN - BUT I CAN'T' - REV'S SPIRITUAL CRISIS OVER BABY-SLAY DAD
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amFRANKLIN, Ind. THE REV. Randy Maynard yesterday admitted to committing a crime of the cloth. He can't find the spiritual power to forgive Ronald Shanabarger for the sin of murder...
LOUIMA COP'S WIFE VOWS TO CLEAR HIM
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe wife of police officer Charles Schwarz, who faces a life sentence for his role in the Abner Louima torture case, says she'll never stop trying to clear her husband's...
BOY HITCHES FROM HONDURAS TO CITY IN SEARCH OF DAD
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amA courageous 13-year-old Honduran boy who lost his mother and brother in Hurricane Mitch, walked, hitched and hopped buses on an incredible journey to New York to be with the...
SPREWELL SHOP RAIDED IN THEFT PROBE
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amSAN GABRIEL, Calif. - Sheriffs broke up a Mexico-based auto-theft ring and raided eight locations near Los Angeles yesterday - including a store owned by Knick star Latrell Sprewell. Authorities...
TEEN LEAPS 23 FLOORS TO HIS DEATH
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amA Bronx youth jumped 23 stories to his death yesterday after a fight with his mom, cops said. During the dispute, Ernesto Parker, 16, picked up a knife and tried...
MACHETE-WIELDING MAN SLAIN BY COPS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amPolice officers shot and killed a machete-wielding burglar they caught inside an Upper West Side apartment last night, authorities said. Responding to a neighbor's 911 call, police found the man...
BRADLEY WAR CHEST HAS $11M
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amDemocratic 2000 hopeful Bill Bradley tomorrow will report raising about $11 million so far this year, aides said yesterday - another sign the ex-Knick could be Al Gore's worst nightmare....
METS & YANKS CURE FOR HOOP HANGOVER
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amUNDO the cornrows. Stitch the red seams back into your heads. It is baseball season in New York and you are here in the Knick of time. This is the...
SYMPATHETIC WILLIS FEELS PATRICK'S PAIN
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amThere were abundant honors heaped upon his illustrious career, including the ultimate tribute, enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame. And along that path to Springfield, Willis Reed earned the...
PLAYERS GLAD CASE IS STICKIN' AROUND
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amDon Casey won over Stephon Marbury before the last game of the regular season. Casey received Kendall Gill's backing with a phone call in the wee hours. And he lined...
WINFIELD EYES OFF-THE-FIELD BASEBALL RETURN
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amDrafted in baseball, football and basketball, Dave Winfield always has owned triple-threat skills. Today, that owns new meaning. The 47-year-old probable Hall of Famer owns alight and energy company, nine...
TORRE HAS YANK SHIP CRUISING
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amAfter some lineup shuffling by Joe Torre, the Yankee bats are as alive as they've been all year. With Andy Pettitte, Orlando Hernandez and Hideki Irabu finding some consistency to...
KNICKS MULL RAD-ICAL IDEA - 7-3 SERB PROJECT MAY BE PICK; KNICKS LIKE SERB CENTER
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amRemember this name: Aleksandar Radojevic. His is one of the most fascinating stories of tomorrow's NBA draft - and he might even wind up the Knicks center of the future....
BOMBERS PLAY WAIT-AND-SEE ON JETER RETURN
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Derek Jeter wants to return to the lineup tonight when the Yankees host the Tigers - but GM Brian Cashman was fuzzy on the issue yesterday as Jeter...
TUNA WON'T LET JET SALE DERAIL SUPER BOWL QUEST
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amBill Parcells plans to dedicate this season to his late friend and team owner, Leon Hess, and wants nothing to distract his team's focus from their goal of winning the...
AX FALLS AGAIN ON ATLETICO'S COACH
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Jesus Gil, the owner of Spanish underachievers Atletico Madrid and a notorious firer of coaches, is up to his old tricks again. After seeing his hapless team lose...
WALLY WANTS TO BE THE 1; WALLY ON TOP OF WORLD
June 29, 1999 | 4:00am"The main objective of the workouts was to dispel the white man's myth." WALLY SZCZERBIAK The first player chosen in tomorrow night's NBA draft should be Wally Szczerbiak. Says who?...
JINTS' BROWN IS INJURED IN CYCLE CRASH
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amWhile visiting his parents this past weekend back home in Williamsport, Pa., Gary Brown, the Giants' starting running back, was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him with concussion...
NETS BELIEVE CASEY WON'T STRIKE OUT
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amHe was the second choice in the eyes of the owners but first in the hearts and minds of his players. And when the Nets failed to attract the glitz...
A RICKEY REVIVAL - HENDERSON'S SERMON ON THE METS: I BELIEVE WE CAN BEAT BRAVES
June 29, 1999 | 4:00am"It's too early for something to change. I feel the same way I did in spring training. I still feel we can beat them. What they [my teammates] believe, I...
ALL EYES ON KRAUSE, BULLS - CHI WANTS TO DEAL, BUT LIKES FRANCIS; KRAUSE HOLDS ALL THE CARDS
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amAS FAR as the draft is concerned, what were Jerry Krause's first words to me after winning the lottery? "Do I get fries with that?'' 1. BULLS: GM Jerry Krause...
JEFF AS KNICK GM? NO SHOT!
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amTwo Knick items of interest need to be addressed before exploring the selections of the 13 teams in tomorrow night's draft in Washington D.C. Will Garden president Dave Checketts promote...
ROBIN PLAYS BAT MAN - VENTURA SLUGS PAIR OF THREE-RUN HOMERS TO POWER AMAZIN'S
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - The Braves never got a chance to see why the Mets are a better team this year, but the Marlins saw Exhibit V. Florida saw not only why...
VALENTINE FIRES BACK AT BRAVES
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES MIAMI - The Braves' insistence on continually checking the ball when Dennis Cook pitches - an implicit accusation that the reliever is cheating - was met with a...
HOT LEITER STRUGGLES, STILL NOTCHES 5TH STRAIGHT
June 29, 1999 | 4:00amMIAMI - Al Leiter's remarkable comeback from the depths of a horrible first two months continued here last night. Leiter didn't have his best stuff, but he gritted his teeth,...