July 15, 1999
THE MAN WHO PARKS THE DOT-COMS' BUTTS - THE ALLEY'S 1ST CHOICE FOR FURNITURE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am"Some of these companies say, 'We need 60 desks - and, by the way, we're opening in six weeks.' Next time you're at the loft launch of some cool dot-com...
GLOBAL M&A BOSS LEWY LATEST BIG TO BAIL OUT OF DEUTSCHE BANK
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amGlen Lewy, head of global mergers and acquisitions, yesterday became the most recent high-placed executive to flee Deutsche Bank after its $9.1 billion purchase of Bankers Trust. Lewy, who co-headed...
MORGAN DIDN'T CURRY FAVOR - FIRM DIDN'T BRIBE COPS IN STING: DA
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amManhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau yesterday dealt a blow to Christian Curry by undercutting one of the most explosive allegations made in his suit against Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. In...
IVILLAGE CONTRACTS TO BUY LAMAZE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amiVillage is hoping the Lamaze method will produce healthy profits. The women's online network, headed by Candice Carpenter, is buying money-losing Lamaze Publishing for $86.7 million in stock, cash and...
SONNY MEHTA HAS HEART BYPASS SURGERY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amBook publishing legend Sonny Mehta is recovering from emergency triple bypass surgery at New York Cornell hospital. "He's resting comfortably and we expect him to be back after a reasonable...
SOROS SOARS INTO WILD GREEN YONDER
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amFlying the friendly skies will soon be a lot cheaper thanks to billionaire financier George Soros. Soros, along with Weston Presidio Capital and Chase Capital, put up $130 million -...
FANS DON'T GET FAIR CHER
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amA CHER show is like a Wonder Bra - it looks great, but when you get right down to it, there's not much there. The lanky singer hit Madison Square...
CHOREOGRAPHER'S 'ONE OF A KIND' FAREWELL
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amA woman clambers along a jagged-shaped ramp built over the orchestra pit of the New York State Theater and reaches the stage. She will not leave it for more than...
PLAY TAKES 'URN' FOR THE WORST
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE urn contains daddy's ashes. He was a brilliant astronomer who either fell or jumped off the roof while stargazing. His family - wife, three children, aged father - sit...
SCURRY IN A HURRY - U.S. WOMEN'S SOCCER GOALIE GOES BICOASTAL FOR JAY, DAVE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Tonight Show" wanted the whole U.S. women's soccer team, but has had to settle for the goalie. Briana Scurry is due in Burbank to appear tonight on the NBC...
CURIOUS GEORGE - STEPHANOPOULOS TRAINS FOR MYSTERY ABC JOB
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amABC News is actively grooming former White House advisor George Stephanonopoulos for a big-time TV job. The only question is: which job? In recent weeks, the network has assigned a...
JUDITH IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amNUDE scenes in Broadway shows are no longer big news - but it's a different story when the exposed actress is as famous as "Who's the Boss?" star Judith Light....
HE WOULDN'T TALK WITHOUT PROMISE OF CRUISE CONTROL
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE publicist for Tom Cruise and his new movie, "Eyes Wide Shut" may have gone too far when they tried to force several TV shows to let them preview the...
WALDORF CROWD WAS ALWAYS IN HER GOOD GRACES - AFTER 53 YEARS, BELOVED BOUTIQUE OWNER CLOSES UP SHOP
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amDORIS Motlin is packing her bags - and, so doing, she's ending an era. The 74-year-old owner of the eponymous Doris' Boutique on the ground floor of the Waldorf-Astoria will...
IRAN THREATENS DISSIDENTS WITH DEATH
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amIran's hard-liners moved to gain the upper hand in the violent struggle over the nation's future yesterday, staging a huge rally supporting Islamic rule and warning dissidents they'll be executed....
ALEC HAD FAT CHANCE OF KILLING TICKET
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amWE SCOOPED Bazooka Joe on this one. In the interest of journalistic integrity, I bring you the truth behind the famous Hamptons incident involving half-wit, double-width actor Alec Baldwin, an...
SUSPECTED 'RAIL KILLER' CONFESSES - TO BURGLARY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mexican drifter suspected of eight grisly slayings along railroad tracks in three states eagerly confessed yesterday - twice - to a burglary at the bloody scene of one of...
REAGAN GETTING WORSE: DOCTOR
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amEx-President Ronald Reagan's health is declining as he continues to suffer from the "ravages" of Alzheimer's disease, one of his doctors has revealed. Dr. Ron Petersen, of Minnesota's famed Mayo...
MORE METROCARD MACHINES ON WAY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe days of waiting on line in subway stations to buy MetroCard fares are numbered. The Transit Authority plans to spend $18 million to install 1,000 mini-MetroCard vending machines that...
HS TEACHER BOOTED IN TEEN-SEX, FORGERY PROBE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amA 42-year-old biology teacher accused of getting a student pregnant was fired yesterday after a probe showed he paid for her abortion - and allegedly had sexual relations with two...
HILLARY'S SLIP IS SHOWING - 'LISTENS' ON L.I. AS POLL NUMBERS DIVE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amAs a new poll showed her numbers slipping, First Lady Hillary Clinton yesterday ducked questions about the repeal of New York City's commuter tax, saying the politically charged tax cut...
BILL 'EAGER AS A KID' TO MEET BARAK TODAY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ehud Barak, in his first visit to President Clinton since becoming Israeli prime minister, will ask for a green light for his peace plan - which calls for...
ULSTER PEACE IN DANGER AS PROTESTANTS NIX BRIT PLAN
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am"Our problem is not with former terrorists. It is about taking an existing and active terrorist organization into government." PROTESTANT LEADER DAVID TRIMBLE Northern Ireland's main Protestant leaders put the...
SCORES KILLERS GET THE MAX
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amAn angry Manhattan judge sent a pair of reputed Albanian mobster brothers away on maximum jail sentences yesterday for the notorious 1996 double homicide at Scores strip club. "They were...
TA HERO STABBED SAVING PAL FROM SLASHER
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amA hero transit worker was stabbed on a Brooklyn subway by a knife-wielding psycho early yesterday while trying to prevent the suspect from hitting on a female colleague, police said....
PENTAG0N PR0BER UNDER FIRE FOR HART SEX QUIZ
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A Pentagon investigator risks suspension for asking questions about Gary Hart's sex life during a security background check on the one-time presidential wannabe, his lawyers and pals claimed...
LOUIMA COP SUFFERS BLOW IN RETRIAL BID
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amAfter Schwarz's conviction, Justin Volpe said through his lawyer that Schwarz did not take part in the attack. A federal judge yesterday barred lawyers for the cops in the Abner...
RIDERS GET WRONG MESSAGE FROM TA: REPORT
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Transit Authority is leaving riders in the dark about canceled or rerouted subway service, a report released yesterday found. It's bad enough that riders have to navigate an obstacle...
A GUIDE FOR THE RATINGS-PERPLEXED
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am'It's obvious that there's a difference between movies' depiction of sexual situations and their portrayal of violence.' HOLLYWOOD has a ready-made complaint whenever the ratings board run by the Motion...
GORE POSES A REAL DILEMMA FOR HILLARY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amNOW here's a delicate little puzzle for Hillary Clinton: Does she really want to put her prestige on the line to campaign for Veep Al Gore in a messy New...
REV. BUTTS: I'D BE SUNY CAMPUS PREXY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rev. Calvin Butts of Harlem yesterday said he's up to the challenge if he's tapped as the next president of SUNY Old Westbury. "I'm looking forward, if offered this...
CON ED KEPT US IN THE DARK: RUDY AIDE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amA top city official yesterday charged that Con Edison continued to tell authorities that things were under control - until minutes before it pulled the plug on Washington Heights and...
GREAT HOUSE HUNT IS NEARING AN END
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton is "very close" to finding her dream house. It won't be the $3.8 million, 18-room mansion in tony North Salem, N.Y. Nor, it appears, will it be...
BUILDINGS COMMISH: FDNY PROBERS ARE WRONG
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's housing commissioner yesterday staunchly defended his agency from charges that faulty renovations and a failure to inspect a city-owned building contributed to the deaths of two firefighters last...
HUBBY FIGHTS BACK IN IRT MUG-AND-SHOVE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amTwo subway thieves took $100 from a man and pushed his wife to the tracks - but were taken by surprise when the husband angrily pulled out a knife and...
SCIENTOLOGY SNARED SONNY BONO: WIDOW
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amPop-star-turned-politician Sonny Bono, once a devoted Scientologist, tried to break away from the cult-like group in 1991 - but members refused to let him, his widow says. In an interview...
TALL-TALE KID NOT SHORT ON WOULD-BE PARENTS
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amDozens of New Yorkers who opened their hearts to a 13-year-old Honduran boy in his quest to flee his impoverished homeland say they want to go one step further -...
FIRE WIDOW MUST ENDURE HOUSING BOSS' DOUBLE-TALK
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amHOUSING Commissioner Richard Roberts should take time off from his busy schedule of bashing firemen and reinventing the word scapegoat long enough today to visit the Long Island National Cemetery....
ROSIE MIGHT TAKE A PAGE FROM OPRAH & START MAG
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amTalk-show queen Rosie O'Donnell may soon be battling rival Oprah Winfrey in the magazine publishing world - as well on the airwaves. O'Donnell is said to be shopping for financial...
RADICAL MOM LIKELY TO MAKE BAIL
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Suspected Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist Kathleen Ann Soliah - who spent 23 years on the lam before cops busted her last month - will likely make her...
CLUELESS COUNCIL LET UTILITY BOSS CHEAT THE HEAT
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amTHE head of Con Edison walked out of City Hall like a con man mistakenly released from jail. Reporters swarmed around Eugene McGrath while his workers used their chunky bodies...
SUSPECTED 'RAIL KILLER' IS LINKED TO 9TH MURDER
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mexican drifter suspected of a string of grisly slayings along railroad tracks in three states was linked to yet another killing yesterday - and charged with capital murder for...
PBS SHARED DONOR LIST WITH DEMS
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am"What happened was not a partisan situation. It was the result of administrative errors." WGBH SPOKESWOMAN Republicans in Congress threatened to cut money for public broadcasting after a Boston PBS...
BARAK WANTS TO REWORK '98 WYE DEAL
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ehud Barak, in his first visit with President Clinton since becoming Israeli prime minister, will raise the issue of renegotiating parts of the far-reaching Wye Plantation summit agreement,...
TOURNAMENT ODDS: TEAM BY TEAM
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - The U.S. is one of 10 basketball teams here trying to qualify for two Olympic berths. The U.S. was forced to qualify when the NBA lockout prevented...
COACH TO MONTY: TOUGHEN UP!
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - Colin Montgomerie's coach, Bob Torrance, saying that if his man "had Bernhard Langer's brain" he'd have won a major already, proclaimed that it's time for...
THE UNEASY RYDER - BRIT CAPTAIN JAMES ON BUBBLE AS PLAYER
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThough the 128th British Open begins today with the first round at Carnoustie, the Ryder Cup is prominent in the minds of the people involved. European Ryder Cup captain Mark...
MOVE OVER, TIGER! HERE COMES SERGIO
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amCARNOUSTIE, Scotland - He's become so good so fast that the unflappable 19-year-old Spanish phenom Sergio Garcia wants to drop the Garcia. Please, from here on, refer to him as...
MCENROE STUNG BY DAVIS CUP DOUBLES SNUB
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amJohn McEnroe boarded a flight from JFK for Finland Tuesday night, headed for another nondescript Senior Tour event. Finland was not where Big Mac wanted to be this weekend. The...
METS PITCHING FOR A STARTER - NEED HELP TO BATTLE BRAVES
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - In a slight alteration of Bill Clinton's famous campaign theme, Mets GM Steve Phillips might declare, "It's the starting pitching, stupid." As the second half of the...
YANKEES KNOW THERE'S ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT; YANKS FIRST BUT HARDLY PERFECT
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amWhen it's you being hauled into the emergency room near death do you want the best surgeon in the world working on an off day or a mediocre one having...
RED SOX CAN FORGET CATCHING BOMBERS
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES For all you number freaks who are fretting the Yankees don't have what it takes to hold off the Red Sox, chew on this while you look at...
TAYLOR MAY FIT RANGERS
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe summer shopping cart nearly filled to capacity, the Rangers are now about to present checking center Tim Taylor at the checkout counter even as bargaining continues with defenseman Sylvain...
GALLAGHER TAKES NTRA POST
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe NTRA announced that James Gallagher has been appointed executive director of the NTRA Task Force on Racing Integrity and Drug Testing Standards, effective Aug. 1. Gallagher will join the...
WEBB LEARNS TO KARRIE ON
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amThe bright young star of the LPGA, threatening to become the first woman of the '80s or '90s to win more than seven titles in a year, sat nearly ignored...
DREAM TEAM EMBARKS ON NEW MISSION
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - This year's version of the Dream Team has a dream of its own. It's a dream that goes beyond qualifying for the 2000 Olympics and winning the...
IT'S QUITTING TIME - MLB UMPS TO RESIGN ON SEPT. 2
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amLess than 24 hours after the All-Star Game in Fenway Park gave baseball a shot in the arm, the men in blue have struck a potentially devastating blow to the...
LIBERTY LIGHT UP GARDEN - DISTINCT N.Y. FLAVOR AT WNBA ALL-STAR GAME
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amBefore last night's inaugural WNBA All-Star Game, Rebecca Lobo limped gingerly to her locker - the one she shares with another gimpy-kneed New York center - and Liberty teammates Teresa...
HILL TURNS FORDHAM INTO HOOP DREAMERS - EX-KNICK COACH HAS RAMS THINKIN' NCAAS
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am"He's going to change the perception of Fordham basketball. We'll get a lot of recognition because of Coach Hill." FORDHAM GUARD BEVON ROBIN Before his press conference yesterday to announce...
GUGLIOTTA'S NOSE SUFFERS TOUGH BREAK
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK SAN JUAN - If there were any questions about how seriously the U.S. team is taking this Olympic qualifying tournament, the answer came in yesterday's practice. Long Island native...
WHO SAYS FORDHAM CAN'T?
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amPLAYERS today just don't have the same respect Bob Hill's generation had. "I think the discipline has slid away," said the new Fordham coach yesterday. "I saw a kid last...
BONILLA OFF THE HOOK FOR TIRADE AT V?
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Mets general manager Steve Phillips implied he would not discipline Bobby Bonilla for his actions during last Friday night's game against the Yankees. According to...
GO AHEAD & WALK, YOU PORKY CHUMPS
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amSO ALL but 11 of the 68 major league umpires announced their resignations yesterday, effective Sept. 2, did they? And the other 11 might follow suit within the next few...
IT'S THE PIONEER GAME - FIRST STARS WILL SET THE STAGE FOR FUTURE
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amNo doubt, 10 or 15 years from now, the players who performed last night will be invited to an All-Star Game where they will be saluted for the things they...
BRANDI KEEPS HER SHIRT ON
July 15, 1999 | 4:00am"Keep your shirt on," is sanity-saving advice for a five-hour round of golf. Suggested or not, Brandi Chastain followed that plan yesterday. Mia may have the name, but Chastain was...
WNBA'S TOP GUNS - IN LEAGUE'S 2020 VISION, THIS IS NIGHT TO REMEMBER
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amALMOST 24 hours after major league baseball showcased its stars in Boston, the WNBA held its inaugural version last night at the sold-out Garden. It was a big night for...
WILD, WILD WEST - LESLIE TAKES HOME MVP TROPHY
July 15, 1999 | 4:00amFor one night, the WNBA had the nation's spotlight all to itself as it held its inaugural All-Star Game under the bright lights of the Garden. And the show it...