July 10, 1999
FCC BOSS LIKES AT&T'S 'NET PLAY
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIF AT&T's Mike Armstrong is scaling back his company's scope to impress the Federal Communications Commission, he probably doesn't have to worry. FCC Chairman William Kennard told The Post here...
BLACK CONFIRMS HE'S EYEING OBSERVER
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amCanadian media mogul Conrad Black confirmed yesterday he'd like to buy the New York Observer but added he hasn't yet worked out a plan for running it if he does....
OH BROTHERS! CELEBRITY SIBS CAN'T SAVE WB'S WEAK 'MOVIE STARS'
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE rich and famous, it turns out, are just as banal as you and we. They just name their children more bizarrely. And have more famous neighbors' names to drop...
LOTS FOR TOTS - FOR LESS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amKids' clothing is expensive - especially when an armoire's worth of new clothes can be outgrown in only a few months. But there are options. You can either pay an...
DAZED BY 'DAYS'
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIN "The Bandwagon," a 1953 Fred Astaire musical written by Comden and Green, a fanatically arty producer-director played by Jack Buchanan turns a witty comedy into a pretentious "Damnation Ballet"...
JERRY OUT FROM ; UNDER MICK'S THUMB ; JAGGER & HALL AGREE ON HIGH-STAKES SPLIT
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - It's all over now. Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and his model wife, Jerry Hall, yesterday ended their rocky romance with an out-of-court settlement thatlet the glamorous couple avoid...
HILL NOW BREAKING WITH BILL ON A DAIRY BASIS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y. - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ended her three-day "listening" tour of upstate caught up in another split with her husband's administration on a keypolitical issue -...
BIGGEST-YET KOSOVO BURIAL HORROR MAY HOLD 350 BODIES
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amNATO forces said yesterday they have discovered a mass grave holding up to 350 bodies in western Kosovo - the largest group-burial ground found in that war-ravaged province to date....
SOCCER MOM ADMITS SHE'S '70S TERRORIST
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amA Minnesota soccer mom admitted yesterday she is radical fugitive Kathleen Ann Soliah and agreed to return to Los Angeles to face 23-year-old charges that could put her in jail...
'BOSTON STRANGLER' PROBERS MAY TAKE STAB AT DNA CLUES
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt may be New York's time to rethink the scary summer of "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, but Boston is revisiting the notorious case of the Boston Strangler....
POLICE PINCH UPPER E. SIDE 'BUTT GRABBER'
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amBy day he kneaded dough, but by night an Upper East Side pastry chef snuck up on women and grabbed their buttocks, officials said yesterday. Gomez-Flores Bauder, 20, of Brooklyn,...
JURY HANDS CAR-CRASH VICTIMS A RECORD $5B
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amA California jury ordered General Motors to pay nearly $5 billion in damages to six people severely burned when the gas tank of their Chevrolet Malibu exploded in a fiery...
FAMED DEATH-ROW CON CONFESSED: MAG WITNESS SAYS HE ADMITTED KILLING COP
July 10, 1999 | 4:00am"It was directly implied in my statement that he was the one who did it. I don't think there's any possibility of miscommunication."PHILIP BLOCH A former prison volunteer says death-row...
POLS MEET THEIR 'MATCH' IN TAX-$ TUSSLE WITH RUDY
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amCANDIDATES for elective office here - from City Council to mayor - could be in for a big jolt because Mayor Giuliani hasn't abandoned plans to overturn the recently enacted...
COLLEGE TAKES HEAT ON BLOWN RESEARCH
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amProminent health expert Martin Begun yesterday slammed Columbia University for not doing enough to safeguard its medical research programs - some of which were decimated in this week's blackout. "A...
HIZZONER BEANS FIRST LADY IN MIDEAST FLIP-FLOP FLAP
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday took a jab at Hillary Clinton's flip-flopping Mideast policy tilt from pro-Palestinian to pro-Israel. "I don't really have a view on her changing her position - my...
LONG ISLAND GIRL SCORES BIG IN HOMETOWN
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amA Long Island town is getting its kicks - watching hometown hero Sara Whalen and her teammates thrill and captivate the nation as the goal-den girls of soccer. And residents...
RUDY: NYERS WON'T 'TALK' ABOUT PARTY
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday dismissed Tina Brown's Aug. 2 Liberty Island bash for her new magazine Talk as a "celebrity soiree" that was "really irrelevant" to most New Yorkers. "Who really...
TURNING OFF BOILERS WAS CON ED'S IDEA, ANGRY RUDY CLAIMS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday denied that City Hall ordered the shutdown of boilers in city housing projects during the power blackout, blaming Con Ed. Critics blasted the move as a civil-rights...
WOODSTOCK 1999: SHOW WILL GO ON
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amWoodstock '99 promoters vowed last night the 30th-anniversary restaging of the celebrated rock happening will go on despite paperwork glitches - and fines of $1.48 million - that threatened it....
DEMS GRANTED FUNNY-$$ MAN HIS 5 'WISHES'
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Funny-money hustler Johnny Chung testified publicly for the first time yesterday that he handed Hillary Clinton's top aide a "wish list" with five requests - all eventually granted...
ELTON FINE AFTER OPERATION
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rocket Man is still standing. Superstar Elton John was in great spirits last night after having a pacemaker installed at a London hospital. The 52-year-old rocker had the hourlong...
DEAL GIVES HER ALL THE $ATISFACTION SHE NEEDS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amYou can't always get what you want, but legal experts find Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall each got what they needed from their "separation" agreement. Lawyers for the leather-faced lothario...
POL'S WIFE HASN'T GOT HILL STORY DOWN 'PAT'
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The sheriff of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's upstate county said yesterday Moynihan's wife told him she and the senator "don't approve" of Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. Mrs. Moynihan,...
CIVIL-RIGHTS CHAMPION JAMES FARMER DIES AT 79
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amCivil-rights giant James Farmer, who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., at the helm of the 1960s movement, died yesterday at age 79. Battling pneumonia and diabetes that left him...
FORMER MAYOR BEAME RUSHED TO HOSP WITH CHEST PAIN: COPS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amNew York's former Mayor Abe Beame complained of chest pains last night and was rushed by ambulance to the hospital, police said. The 93-year-old Beame - who appeared hale and...
THE DIFFERENCE IS START-LING
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Mets are the A-Team. And the B-Plus Team. Rate the members of the Mets and the roster is loaded with more than passing grades. The starting infield of John...
BIG M RE-DRAWS ELIMS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIn an unprecedented act, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey ordered the Meadowlands Racetrack to re-draw eliminations for tonight's $1 million Meadowlands Pace because of an...
CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF A GOOD THING
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIN THE hours leading up to the second Subway Series of the season, the common theme filtering out of both clubhouses centered on excess. Mets center fielder Brian McRae called...
JUST CALL ME IN OCTOBER SUMMER SHOWDOWNS CHEAPEN WORLD SERIES
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amEVEN though it is in its third season, the subject of interleague play continues to arouse strong emotions in baseball fans, especially New York City baseball fans. Some think three...
FEDERAL TRIAL LOOKS TO LAND BOWLING GREEN
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amSpeed has been good on the Belmont inner turf, and the probable favorite for the Grade 2, $150,000 Bowling Green Handicap, Federal Trial, has plenty of it. He faces five...
SLOPPY: JOE'S TOP COMPLAINT ABOUT YANKS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amHis team started last night's Subway Series against the Mets four games up on the reeling Red Sox in the AL East; 3 games behind the Indians for the best...
SERIES-OUSLY, THIS MEANS MORE TO FANS : TEAMS PLAY IT COOL BUT CROWD DOESN'T
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Valentine walked up to Mike Piazza in the Mets' dugout about 90 minutes before last night's game and pointed to a slender silver trophy sitting atop a table behind...
FORDHAM SET FOR HILL ERA
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amSunday, Bob Hill toured the Fordham campus on a beautiful summer day in New York City and thought he had found his next coaching job. But as recently as Wednesday,...
YANKS DIDN'T KNOW STRAW WAS DRINKING
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amSince the drinking Darryl Strawberry mentioned yesterday was brief and didn't take place until the Yankees had left Tampa, none of the Yankees could have seen any signs that Strawberry...
... PETTITTE FIGHTS TO FIND FORM
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte is done looking at film. He's finished studying hitting charts or conferring with his catchers or seeking counsel from pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre or tinkering with his pitches...
PIAZZA SENDS A VALENTINE MIKE LIKES BOBBY V'S MANAGING
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt was at the final game of the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium a month ago when Bobby Valentine made his proclamation that if the Mets didn't do better in...
DIFFERENT PATHS FOR PITCHERS REED SUCCEEDS THE HARD WAY ...
July 10, 1999 | 4:00am"I know Dave Mlicki beat [the Yankees] recently, so I'll probably come in here and try to find a tape of that game and watch it. Anything I can use,...
SILVERBULLETDAY IS SHORE THING
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amSilverbulletday, undefeated in five starts this season until she faced the boys in the Belmont Stakes and finished seventh, makes her return to the races in the Grade 2 Monmouth...
LEITER ROCKETS TO ACE STATUS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amAL LEITER has turned into the ace Roger Clemens was supposed to be. Bringing a symmetry to the Mets' rise from contentious to contention, Leiter beat Clemens for the second...
SLOPPY : JOE'S TOP COMPLAINT ABOUT YANKS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amHis team started last night's Subway Series four games up on the Red Sox in the AL East, 3 games behind the Indians for the best record in the AL,...
PIAZZA BLAST GIVES METS FIRST BLOOD 3-RUN HOMER IN 6TH SNAPS TIE, BURIES ROCKET
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amMets5 Yankees2 A few weeks ago, Mike Piazza had a dream about hitting a home run in Yankee Stadium and then debating whether or not to make a curtain call...
RAGGEDY ROCKET'S OUTTA GAS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amDAVID CONE was sitting in front of his locker discussing the curious season of Roger Clemens before last night's Yankee-Met game at Shea. "I think tonight may be the night...
PIAZZA SENDS A VALENTINE MIKE LIKES THE JOB BOBBY V'S DONE MANAGING METS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt was at the final game of the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium a month ago when Bobby Valentine made his proclamation that if the Mets didn't do better in...
AMAZIN' MOMENT FOR REAL MR. MET
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amMR. MET doesn't have a huge baseball head with stitches for ears and big white gloves. Mr. Met didn't get punched out in the press box a couple of summers...
LEITER IS THE ACE OF QUEENS REVIVAL
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amAL LEITER has turned into the ace Roger Clemens was supposed to be. Bringing a symmetry to the Mets' rise from contentious to contention, Leiter beat Clemens for the second...
ROCKET FUEL RUNNIN' LOW
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amDAVID Cone was sitting in front of his locker discussing the curious season of Roger Clemens before last night's Yankee-Met game at Shea. "I think tonight may be the night...
ROBIN SHOWS AMAZIN' GUTS
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amAl Leiter paid Robin Ventura the ultimate compliment last night. He described him as a gamer. This is what any ballplayer worth his salt is after. Batting titles, Gold Gloves...
YANK BATS DON'T AMOUNT TO MUCH IN CLUTCH
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe only thing quieter than the Yankees' Shea Stadium clubhouse last night was their bats with runners in scoring position. Following a 5-2 loss to the Mets in the first...
REED TRIES TO DOWNPLAY TODAY'S START
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amRick Reed's trek to the major leagues is as different from Andy Pettitte's as driving a pickup truck is from driving a sports car. Pettitte sliced through Yankees' minor league...
PETTITTE STOPS LOOKING FOR ANSWER TO WOES
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amAndy Pettitte is done looking at film. He's finished studying hitting charts or conferring with his catchers or seeking counsel from pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre or tinkering with his pitches...
O'NEILL: NO WAY I WAS OUT AT THIRD
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill's pop-up slide was the first indication that he had just stolen third base and had put the potential go-ahead run 90 feet from home with one out in...
BENITEZ SURVIVES THRILL RIDE
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amArmando Benitez doesn't throw like John Franco and at 6-feet-4 and 230 pounds, he certainly doesn't look like the 5-10, 185-pound Franco. But in the Mets' 5-2 win over the...
OLERUD GETS REVENGE ON THE ROCKET
July 10, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Olerud has always struggled against Roger Clemens dating back to their days together in the American League, when Clemens was in Boston and Olerud in Toronto. In 54 career...