July 6, 1999
NEW MEDIA TO CLICK WITH OLD GUARD AT SUN VALLEY
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThis year will be remembered out here as the year the Internet guys showed up. As the giants of the media business arrive here today for the annual Allen &...
GNC GOES DUTCH IN FORTIFYING $2.5B DEAL
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amEurope's largest producer of baby food will buy U.S. vitamin giant General Nutrition Companies for $2.5 billion, the companies announced yesterday. Dutch food maker Royal Numico NV will pay $1.75...
GOLDBERG'S RECORD LABEL A DUAL EFFORT
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Mercury Records chief Danny Goldberg has teamed up with the son of New Jersey Nets owner and Steinbrenner ally Raymond Chambers to start a new label called Artemis Records,...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amAH, summer. Warm sunshiny days, cold beer, exposed flesh. It's a time when we find our fancy turning to, well, business. But, oddly enough, we don't seem to be the...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amScots on the rocks Gather the clan and hie up to Loon Mountain in New Hampshire for one of the biggest Scottish festivals in the country. The New Hampshire Highland...
A 'LIVING' TESTAMENT TO 'MUSEUM' ARTWORK
July 6, 1999 | 4:00am"The Living Museum" Tonight at 7:30 on HBO IF you ever doubted the power of art, look at the works produced by patients at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens....
'M*A*S*H' MAN BURGHOFF FLIES UNDER N.Y.'S RADAR
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amNEW York's public TV stations have snubbed Radar. Neither WNET/Ch. 13 nor Long Island's WLIW/Ch. 21 have picked up Gary Burghoff's new series "Pets: Part of the Family." The show...
BELA & PALS SERVE UP FINGER-PICKIN' GOOD BLUEGRASS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00am*THE BLUEGRASS SESSIONS: TALES FROM THE ACOUSTIC PLANET, VOLUME 2; Bela Fleck; Warner Bros. Virtuosity and velocity - the hallmarks of good bluegrass music - are running at maximum power...
AMAZING QUIZ SHOW THAT STOPS A NATION - THIS WOMAN IS TRYING TO WIN A SMALL FORTUNE ON TELEVISION. SHE'S THE FACE OF A $ MILLION MANIA THAT'S ABOUT TO ARRIVE IN NEW YORK
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S only a summer replacement show, but "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" - which debuts on ABC next month for a two-week run - has big ideas. Based on...
HE HELPS GIVE 'BASH' ITS LASH - FROM 'ER' TO HOT NEW PLAY
July 6, 1999 | 4:00am"The first time I did the play, the audience was laughing a lot, which threw me off completely. I got lost and just gazed off for about 40 seconds -...
JUDGE'S HUSBAND ON TRIAL OVER 'LOST' 147G
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe husband of a Brooklyn federal judge is due in court this week to face civil charges he gutted his law firm's pension fund by making questionable stock deals for...
BODY LANGUAGE MIGHT SHOW IF BABIES MISS EACH OTHER
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amJust because they're too young to speak doesn't mean fraternal twins Akelle Richard Rogers and Vincent Fasano don't have a lot to say. "Babies show who they are by how...
'SURROGATE' WOULD HAVE LOST CUSTODY BID: EXPERTS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amDonna Fasano spared herself the pain of a long, emotional custody battle she ultimately would have lost when she turned her switched-before-birth baby over to his genetic parents, legal experts...
SCRAMBLED-EGG PARENTS NEED WISDOM OF SOLOMON
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amOn May 10, the day after Mother's Day, Donna Fasano made the greatest sacrifice any parent could make. Inside her Staten Island home, she handed Deborah Rogers a bag filled...
OH, QUIT YOUR GRIPING AND ENJOY THESE BEAUTIFUL DAYS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHE heat is killing me. Not the temperature - but the whining. The woman who shares my roof continues to complain, "It's hot." She repeats these words with such abandon...
VIETNAM AIDS STUDY ON AGENT ORANGE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. researchers will get a closer look at the impact of Agent Orange on Vietnam now that Hanoi has turned over blood samples - clearing the way for up to...
NEST EASY: BIRDS OF PREY MAKING N.Y. COMEBACK
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amIt used to be that the only birds that flew at Kennedy Airport were jumbo jets. But now, thanks to the efforts of federal, state and city wildlife experts, a...
KKK TRAIL LEADS TO LONG ISLAND; EXCLUSIVE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe feds have zeroed in on five members of a Ku Klux Klan sect - including a Long Island man who allegedly torched his black neighbor's car - that carried...
HILLARY'S N.Y. TRIP A CASE OF EXPLORATORY 'URGERY'
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - She's off and running. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton today will officially launch her exploratory committee for a possible U.S. Senate campaign as she prepares to kick off...
GORE CLAN GOES 4TH AND MULTIPLIES
July 6, 1999 | 4:00am"Gramps" Al Gore won't have any trouble remembering his first grandchild's birthday - he's a Yankee Doodle baby and a native New Yorker, to boot. Little Wyatt Gore Schiff -...
TAPE SHOWS HOT-DOG CHAMP JUMPED THE BUN
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amA second-place finisher in Sunday's hot-dog-eating contest is demanding a rematch after a tape of the frankfest showed the eventual winner with half a dog in his mouth an instant...
BORIS SAYS HE'LL STEP DOWN NEXT YEAR
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amEmbattled Russian President Boris Yeltsin says he's ready to step down when his term expires next year - but vehemently denied rumors he'll ban the Communist Party. Yeltsin, 68, insisted...
PRO-BRIT PARADE BANNED IN BELFAST
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amAuthorities in Northern Ireland yesterday banned the Protestant Orange Order from parading through an emotionally charged Roman Catholic area in south Belfast next week. Catholics in the Northern Irish capital...
U.S. GALS ARE COMING UP RO$ES
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe Women's World Cup has sold out the mammoth Rose Bowl stadium, the first women's event ever to do so. How's this for kicks? The Women's World Cup has sold...
NATO AND RUSSIA SETTLE PROBLEMS - OK DEAL FOR KOSOVO TROOPS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amRussia and NATO ironed out their differences yesterday, clearing the way for Moscow to send more troops into Kosovo, officials said. Russia had sought to change an agreement reached in...
MAD KILLER WAS SPOILED RICH KID - EVIL BELIEFS DIDN'T SURFACE UNTIL HE WENT OFF TO COLLEGE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amA portrait emerged yesterday of the Midwest Madman, who grew up in the lap of luxury, turned into a tattooed white supremacist in college - and went on a hate-driven...
NEBRASKA'S KERREY BACKS BRADLEY
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amBill Bradley yesterday won the support of Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, one of the Senate's most respected Democrats, in his challenge to Vice President Al Gore for the 2000 Democratic...
TASTE OF HELL ON SUBWAY PLATFORMS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amTorrid 100-degree temperatures are turning city subway stations into sweltering infernos. Armed with a thermometer that measures both temperature and humidity, The Post found that it was hotter at some...
PREZ FEELS PAIN OF POOR
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday went to Appalachia to launch a four-day trip to bring the spotlight to pockets of poverty that have been left behind in what he called a "blessed...
ISRAELIS GET FIRST LOOK AT TEAM BARAK
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak unveiled his Cabinet picks yesterday - and on the eve of taking office, promised to bring peace and prosperity to the country. "We...
MERCURY RISING ONE MORE DAY - FORECAST PROMISES RELIEF TOMORROW
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amIt's a stifling sauna out there again today - as wilting New Yorkers head back to work with Mother Nature's broiler set for triple digits a day after her record...
HE SPREAD VENOM IN WORDS AND THEN BULLETS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amBLOOMINGTON, Ind. THEY called him the "one doing the Lone Wolf activity." That's the way the skinheads on the Internet referred to Benjamin Smith - the 21-year-old Indiana student who...
BLAIR TO IRA: DISARM, OR ELSE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair talked tough with the Irish Republican Army yesterday, threatening to halt the release of IRA terrorist prisoners if the organization fails to give up its...
MAD KILLER WAS SPOILED RICH KID - CLAIMED L.A. RIOTS SPAWNED HIS RACIST VIEWS IN 8TH GRADE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe madman who terrorized the Midwest with a hate-driven racist rampage grew up in the lap of luxury, but turned into a bitter, tattooed white supremacist by the time he...
COPS TRYING TO TRACE GUNS USED IN SHOOTING SPREE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe feds last night tried to track the source of handguns used by the Midwest Madman during a bloody two-state racist rampage as new calls went out for stiffer gun...
THE MOTHER OF ALL SETBACKS - STEVENSON-DR. J AFFAIR HURTS FEMALE SPORTS MEDIA
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amIF I WERE a serious female sports journalist - and there are plenty - I'd have some serious problems with one, Samantha Stevenson, mother of Alexandra Stevenson, "love child" of...
A BREEZE FOR BEHRENS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amTrainer Jim Bond's instructions to jockey Jorge Chavez as he gave him a leg up aboard 2-5 favorite Behrens before yesterday's Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park were simple. "I told...
PAPA LEON CELEBRATES WITH WIN
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amCongratulations to Filiberto Leon and his wife Roberta on the birth of Mariah Leon. The 7-pound, 1-ounce baby girl was born just after midnight at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola,...
PALERMO'S PENALTY KICKS A STORY OF MISS-FORTUNE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - To miss one penalty kick might seem like misfortune, and to miss two poor judgment. But for a single individual to fluff three kicks in one game -...
AMAZIN'S CAN FIND ANSWERS WITHIN
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThere is $8.8 million left on Bonilla's contract, but if he cannot be traded before his DL stint ends, it is time to add by subtracting. IN THIS age of...
MORE HEAT IN MET FORECAST - BENITEZ WARMS TO THE TASK OF CLOSING
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe operative words were high heat. Not the 94-degree temperature at Shea, but the 98-mph fastball coming across the plate. It was the calling card of Mets reliever Armando Benitez,...
YOSHII MIGHT GET EXTRA DAY OF REST
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Masato Yoshii tested his sore right knee yesterday and Bobby Valentine pronounced him fit - mostly. Yoshii had injured the knee warming up in the bullpen, and his...
JORGE TO UMP: I'M SORRY
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amIt didn't take Jorge Posada long to realize he had to utter two of the toughest words in the English language yesterday - "I'm sorry." He had to do it...
GARCIAPARRA WINS START ON LATE SURGE BY VOTERS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amOne week ago, the Yankees' Derek Jeter held a 30,000-vote lead over Boston's Nomar Garciaparra for the starting shortstop job in next Wednesday's All-Star game in Boston. Yesterday the results...
AMAZIN'S MUST GET OWN HOUSE IN ORDER
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amFOR THE fourth time in his last six outings, Rick Reed last night authored a quality start. By allowing one run over seven innings, he helped the Mets defeat the...
POSADA: I'M A CHUMP FOR RIPPING SICK UMP
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amIt didn't take Jorge Posada long to realize he had to utter two of the toughest words in the English language yesterday - "I'm sorry." He had to do it...
DEREK GETS SHORTED - BOSTON BALLOT-STUFFERS ANOINT NOMAR DESPITE JETER'S SUPERIOR STATS
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHE candidate from New York had the better credentials, the better smile, said all the right things, did all the right things. So why did the candidate from Boston win...
BOBBY V THROWS DICE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amLATE on a steamy night, the Met pitching situation - now and for the future, from the rotation and in the bullpen - sure got interesting. Armando Benitez, throwing sliders...
METS SWEAT IT OUT AGAIN - REED, WENDEL, BENITEZ KEEP MONTREAL IN CHECK
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amOn a night that saw the game-time temperature reach 100 degrees, the Mets and Expos played like teams drained of all life, devoid of energy. But with the hitters wilting...
STILL-RAGGEDY ANDY - PETTITTE FAILS AGAIN IN LOSS TO ORIOLES
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amHe has established himself as the enigma of the staff, the lone lefty starter who in recent years has had trouble getting it right because he lost command of one...
OREL AGREES TO COME BACK ON SHORT NOTICE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amWith Masato Yoshii recovering from his sore right knee, manager Bobby Valentine has decided to bring back Orel Hershiser on just one day of rest and start him tonight against...
PETTITTE FEELS SQUEEZE OF TIGHTER STRIKE ZONE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amBilly Sample, a former big-leauge hitter, evaluates umpires from his perches at the Stadium and at Shea. As part of his job, he also talks to managers from time to...
FENWAY FANS TELL JETER TO STUFF IT; SOX WORK HARD TO DEFEAT JETER
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHE candidate from New York had the better credentials, the better smile, said all the right things, did all the right things. So why did the candidate from Boston win...
YOSHII'S KNEE IMPROVES, BUT HE WON'T BE RUSHED
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Masato Yoshii tested his sore right knee yesterday and Bobby Valentine pronounced him fit - mostly. Yoshii had injured the knee warming up in the bullpen, and his...
NOMAR'S VOTERS GO THE DISTANCE
July 6, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES One week ago, the Yankees' Derek Jeter held a 30,000-vote lead over Boston's Nomar Garciaparra for the starting shortstop job in next Tuesday's All-Star game in Boston. Yesterday...