July 18, 1999
FAST-TRACK DAUGHTERS :FEMALE SCIONS OUTSHINING SONS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amDaughters rule. While most women in the financial services business complain about that pesky glass ceiling, the daughters of some of Wall Street's most famous men have had no such...
GALOTTI DUMPS ON TALK'S COMPETITION
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amRON Galotti, publisher of the soon-to-be-launched Talk, was calling out the bucket brigade in a frenzied bid to reach the magical 400-ad-page total for the first four issues. Advertising closed...
HE REALLY COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amAH, just what we need, another history of Silicon Valley. The gist of this one, "The Silicon Boys," by David Kaplan, is that the place has really only been around...
MAYBE HE SHOULD STICK TO THE BUNNY SLOPES
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amCALL it a grudge match. David O'Leary, best known for being the fly in the ointment at his former place of employment, Fidelity Investments, is now taking on his wife's...
MORE EVIDENCE THAT IN VINO VERITAS?
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe scene: an elevator in a nondescript midtown office building on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Two people are quietly descending when the doors open to a burst of noise and...
KEEP THE LETTERHEAD
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amN EPOTISM could be a winning word at Merrill Lynch, as the firm seeks a replacement for ex-president Herb Allison. Word around the Merrill Lynch water coolers has it that...
THE POWER MENU'S AUTHOR: HE'S TAKING HIS KNOW-HOW ABOUT RESTAURANTS TO THE 'NET
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amPROFILE: MICHAEL MCCARTY JESSICA Lange looks up from her salad to a dapper, graying man - superagent Sam Cohn - standing at her table and whispers to him. He pats...
THE FAILED FRIEL FESTIVAL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amFestivals can provide wonderful opportunities for focus - focus on place, on time and on people. The Lincoln Center Festival, unlike some in more exotic locales, can hardly beam in...
4 QUESTIONS FOR BILL NYE
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amFor six years now, Bill Nye has been using his PBS show, "Bill Nye, the Science Guy," to make science a fun and educational learning experience for kids of all...
WOODSTOCK.COM: THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ROCK CONCERT ROLLS ONTO THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amPeace, love, music and lots of toilets, state troopers and, maybe, if we all wish really, really hard, rain. It's Woodstock 99.The 30th-anniversary version of the fabulous festival first held...
THE ASIAN PERSUASION
July 18, 1999 | 4:00am" Some of the most exciting cinema these days has an Asian flavor, and one of the best places to see it is at the Asian American International Film Festival....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: KIRSTEN DUNST
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amKirsten Dunst is only 17, but the blond, blue-eyed actress has already shared the camera with Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Winona Ryder, Nick Nolte and George Clooney....
MEALS & DEALS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- WHAT STARTS OUT CLEAR AND TURNS CLOUDY WHEN YOU ADD WATER ? THE ANSWER IS OUZO. AND NOW THERE'S A WATERING HOLE DEDICATED TO GREECE'S ANISE-FLAVORED LIQUEUR, WHICH AT...
TABLE HOPPER
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- THE HOSTESS LOOKED BEWILDERED WHEN, SOME TIME AGO, ME BROOKS WALKED INTO 95 SCHOOL STREET WITH HIS WIFE ANNE BANCROFT, AND STARTED NAME DROPPING. 95 SCHOOL STREET BRIDGEHAMPTON, LI...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL... WHAT IS THE NICEST WAY HE MADE UP WITH YOU?
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amChristian Santos, Newark, NJ Once, he took me to a shoe store and told me I could buy any pair I wanted. Juliana Mardones, Teaneck, NJ Out of the blue,...
SIGMUND FREUD: THE 'ORIGINAL' SHRINK
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, is history's best known psychologist - and its most controversial. He was born in 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia, a country now known as the...
HIGH-TECH PUTS MINDS AT EASE
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amIn the next millennium, anti-depressants such as Prozac will very likely go the way of the lobotomy - and shrinks could wind up on the endangered-species list. Psychology tomorrow will...
LAW FIRM'S $1.1M PLUM TIED TO PATAKI PAL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The Pataki administration awarded a $1.1 million no-bid contract to a Republican-connected law firm tied to the governor's former chief counsel, The Post has learned. Two of the...
POLL: WE GET BIGGER KICK FROM WOMEN'S SOCCER THAN MEN'S
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThanks to the recent World Cup victory, more than twice as many Americans would rather watch women's soccer than men's, a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll found. The survey also found...
'LISTENING' IN ON THE FIRST LADY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00am"Just try to pretend that we're here by ourselves and no one else is in the room . . . so we can have a conversation together."HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TO...
CITY'S HIGHWAY TO HELL - REPORT: REPAIRS CAN'T END TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amSagging highways and bridges weren't designed to handle the current record volume of traffic.Motorists will spend the beginning of the new millennium as they end the current one: dodging a...
CLAN HISTORY IS WRITTEN IN TEARS: TRAGEDIES HAVE TOUCHED THE SOUL OF A NATION
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Kennedy family has suffered a long and sad list of tragedies - many that have plunged the nation into mourning. None broke the nation's heart more than the shots...
L.I. GOPER JOINS DEMS AFTER FIGHT WITH LAZIO
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Rep. Michael Forbes of Long Island yesterday became the first big-name congressman to switch from Republican to Democrat. House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) called it a "courageous...
A GOOD MAN WHO MADE EVERYONE FEEL SPECIAL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHE first reaction upon waking is: It can't be true. Not him. Not now. Then, denial: This must be some kind of hideous mistake! He wasn't on that plane. He's...
GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE OF A NOBLE FAMILY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amT HIS will not be about the Kennedy Curse. This will not be about how JFK's siblings Joe and Kathleen died in plane crashes in the 1940s. This will be...
COURT HALTS MASS NUDE PHOTO SHOOT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amNo nudes were good news for city lawyers yesterday when they got a temporary court ruling nixing a naked photo shoot that was scheduled for today. City Corporation Counsel Michael...
HE HAD TO EARN HIS BIG NAME EVERY DAY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amHunky, rich and charming. He could have sat around in his limousine all day, but he got off his pinstriped ass. GOD, not again. We know the Almighty works in...
AIR DISASTERS TOOK JOHN'S AUNT, UNCLE
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amAirplanes have been cruel to the Kennedys. Before yesterday, two family members had died in air disasters, and one other was badly injured. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. - brother of...
LATEST SUMMER BUMMER BROILS APPLE: POWER'S ON AND NYERS PLAY IT COOL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe heat was on - along with the power - in the Big Apple yesterday as New Yorkers baked during the second day of a sweltering heat wave and city...
RED-INK BLUES DOG HIS AILING MAG
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amObservers say George magazine has little chance of surviving beyond year's end without John Kennedy Jr. at the helm.Industry observers say George magazine has little chance of surviving beyond year's...
PUBLISHER: JOHN HAD 'A PASSION FOR FLYING'
July 18, 1999 | 4:00am"I realized what an icon he was and how well he coped with his celebrity-hood."DAVID PECKER David Pecker, the magazine executive who arranged pilot lessons for his friend John F....
WOMAN WHO WON HIS HEART: CAROLYN SEEMED CLASSIC KENNEDY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amElegant. Poised. Mysterious. She dressed in black. She didn't give interviews. Often the prey of paparazzi, she would rarely look at the cameras, her blue eyes' downcast gaze revealing nothing...
MILLIONS FOLLOW THE SEARCH
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amDETAILS came with an agonizing slowness.An airplane headrest bobbing off the beach. A piece of landing gear, a sneaker, a suitcase possibly identified by a waterlogged luggage tag as belonging...
NEW TRAGEDY MARKS DATE IN HISTORY: ANNIVERSARY OF FLT. 800 AND CHAPPAQUIDDICK
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amIn a terrible coincidence, John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane vanished on the weekend marking the anniversaries of the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Chappaquiddick scandal. Three years ago...
HE WAS THE HUNK FOR MORE THAN A DECADE: CAMELOT HEIR SQUIRED CO-EDS AND STARLETS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amUntil John F. Kennedy Jr. walked down the aisle with Carolyn Bessette, the handsome heir to the Camelot legend was America's most wanted - and most watched - bachelor. The...
STUNNED NATION OPENS UP ITS HEART: OUTPOURING OF GRIEF FOR THE ILL-FATED KENNEDYS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThey feared the worst - and prayed for the best. At John F. Kennedy Jr.'s apartment in TriBeCa - and across the nation - people reacted with shock and disbelief...
FELLOW PILOT SAID SKY WAS TOO HAZY TO FLY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amA relaxed JFK Jr. looked as if he didn't have a care in the world as he lovingly chatted with wife Carolyn next to their tiny plane minutes before takeoff,...
'RAGTIME' STAR STILL SHAKEN UP BY COPS' GRILLING
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amBroadway star Alton Fitzgerald White remained "still kind of shocked" yesterday as he described a five-hour trip to hell that began when cops roped him in along with suspected drug...
ASSAULT SUSPECT NABBED AFTER WOUNDING OFFICER
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amSuspect found hiding in church after massive manhunt.A cop suffered a deep head wound yesterday when he was bowled over by an assault suspect - who sparked a massive manhunt...
EXPERTS AGREE AMATEUR PILOT SHOULD HAVE TAKEN PRECAUTIONS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr. could have taken several crucial precautions that would have made his flight to Martha's Vineyard safer, experts said yesterday. Kennedy took off from Essex County Airport...
THE CROWN PRINCE OF OUR ROYAL FAMILY: SALUTE AT DAD'S FUNERAL CAPTURED NATION'S HEART
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJFK Jr. John F. Kennedy Jr. broke a nation's heart on his third birthday. Wearing a blue coat and shorts, the boy America knew as "John John" let go of...
SISTER WAS SUCCESSFUL BIZWOMAN
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amLAUREN BESSETTE Her bag was first clue. Lauren Bessette, 34 - sister-in-law of John F. Kennedy Jr. - was reportedly an Asia venture capitalist and Morgan Stanley vice president. Her...
UNTHINKABLE TRAGEDY AGAIN FOR KENNEDYS : SIGNS POINT TO FATAL AIR CRASH BY JFK JR.
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. - son of the slain 35th president and heir to the legacy of Camelot - is missing and presumed dead after his plane vanished over the...
NEWSWEEKLIES STOP PRESSES FOR HOT COVER STORY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amBy yesterday morning, Time and Newsweek had already decided to scrap their soft news covers and replace them with John F. Kennedy Jr. Even U.S. News & World Report, which...
NETWORKS JUGGLE SPORTS LINEUPS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amAs the networks covered the search for John F. Kennedy Jr.'s. missing plane yesterday, TV sports executives decided what to do with their already scheduled programming. Here is how they...
AIR CRASHES TOOK JOHN'S AUNT AND UNCLE
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amTwo other Kennedys have died in air disasters, and one was badly injured. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. - brother of President John Kennedy - volunteered for an extremely hazardous World...
COPS NAB PAIR IN GRAMERCY PARK RAPE AND ROBBERY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amOne suspect told cops he has HIV.Two thugs, one of whom told detectives he has the HIV virus, were busted yesterday in Gramercy Park after brutally raping an 18-year-old student...
TIME FOR JOY ENDS IN DARK DESPAIR: JOHN JR. WAS EN ROUTE TO SEE COUSIN TIE KNOT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe guests arrived for a wedding - but they attended a tearful Mass. Rory Kennedy, daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was supposed to get married yesterday. But...
DI SAW JOHN AS ROLE MODEL FOR ROYALS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr. handled the glaring media spotlight so smoothly that Princess Diana wanted her oldest son, Prince William, to look to him as a role model. "I'm hoping...
U.S. MIGHT TRY STUPID PETE TRICK
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. - Let the lying begin. Soon after Pete Sampras' stirring five-set Davis Cup doubles victory with Alex O'Brien yesterday at Longwood Cricket Club kept the U.S. alive, cap-tain...
MASSIVE SEARCH AS SEA YIELDS GRIM CLUES
July 18, 1999 | 4:00am"My friend lifted the flap to see the business card. It said, 'Lauren Bessette.' That's when we knew."LAUREN BELINFANTY Air Force planes and Coast Guard cutters swept the Atlantic yesterday...
UNTHINKABLE TRAGEDY AGAIN FOR KENNEDYS:SIGNS POINT TO FATAL AIR CRASH BY JFK JR.
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. - son of the slain 35th president and heir to the legacy of Camelot - is missing and presumed dead after his plane vanished over the...
CAROLINE NOW LAST LINK TO CAMELOT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amShe is the sole heiress of Camelot. Bereft of father, mother and her only brother, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg now stands alone. A trio of thieves - her father's assassin, her...
GEORGE COLUMNIST: JOHN WAS IN ; GRIP OF A DEATH WISH
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amA George magazine columnist says John F. Kennedy Jr. had a "death wish" that may have led to yesterday's fatal plane crash. "There was a death wish that allowed the...
AMATEUR PILOT SKIPPED PRUDENT STEPS: EXPERTS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr. could have taken several crucial precautions that would have made his flight to Martha's Vineyard safer, experts said yesterday. Kennedy took off from Essex County Airport...
CASE CLOTHED FOR 'NAKED CITY' PHOTOG WHO PLANNED SHOOT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amNo nudes were good news for city lawyers yesterday when they got a temporary court ruling nixing a naked photo shoot that was scheduled for today. City Corporation Counsel Michael...
NO SHAKEUP FOR DEVILS DESPITE PLAYOFF FAILURE, LOU STANDING PAT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amMEANWHILE, the team on the other side of the Hudson. You remember, don't you; the one that hasn't advanced past the first round in two years out of the one-seed,...
SAME OLD STORY? NOT FOR MCKEON
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amIT WAS nice to see Red manager Jack McKeon, a National League coach at the All-Star Game, join in the virtual cocktail party of all-time greats that broke out on...
A 'HELL' OF A GOOD TIME NOT EVEN DEVLISH BUNKER CAN SPOIL OL' ST. ANDREWS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThis is pure, raw golf the way Old Tom Morris intended it to be. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - This could have been one of those dreams I awoke from in...
TAKING WRECKING BALL TO BASEBALL'S HISTORY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00am"Fenway Park is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned Easter egg . ....
ALFONSO: OF NOT AN OPTION
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amPerhaps the best prospect in the minors, Double-A Norwich shortstop Alfonso Soriano will not play the outfield for the Yankees. "Not even an option," Soriano told The Post through third...
SECOND COMING FOR YANK PHENOM?
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amYOU'RE off the record with a scout, trying to get the low down on this kid Alfonso Soriano - the right-handed 21-year-old shortstop for Double-A Norwich who some say is...
CONDITIONS TRULY ARE FOR THE BIRDS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amAmerica's ducks found some of the best habitat conditions in more than half a century on their breeding grounds this year, and consequently waterfowl experts are reporting this could lead...
YOGI'S SAFE AT HOME: IT'LL BE MEMORABLE DAY IN BRONX FOR UNFORGETTABLE YANK
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: When are you coming back?' said Yogi's son, Dale. "I think the best thing about this is the relief for him not to have to answer the question anymore."...
BEER AND LOATHING: ESPN ANCHOR TURNS SUDS SALESMAN
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amESPN anchor sells his good name "Of course I wrestled with the decision."DAN PATRICK ESPN's Dan Patrick must be another guy starving to death. Why else would the nation's premier...
RAGGED REED CATCHING BREAKS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Concern over Rick Reed's pitching was not really eliminated by the discovery that Reed wasn't using his legs enough in his delivery. Reed had another...
IZZY'S GOING TO SCHOOL ; TAKING CUES FROM FRANCO
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - Late Friday night, after Jason Isringhausen had made his third relief appearance, he sat in the clubhouse with John Franco and went over his performance. For Isringhausen,...
FAULT SAMPRAS FOR PUTTING U.S. IN BIND AT CUP
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amBROOKLINE, Mass. - Gentleman Pete came to suburban Boston this week aiming to be a powerful addition, not a powerful distraction. But the latter is exactly what Pete Sampras became...
WIN FOR HOYLE IS IN CARDS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amIT isn't often you get a price on a horse who dropped a photo in a stakes race last out, but you will today with Hoyle in Belmont Park's Grade...
LEDEE GETTING EXTRA HELP IN OF
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amRicky Ledee's sweet left-handed swing may finally be producing the line drive base hits the Yankees have been waiting for, but his defense hasn't been what the club expected. So,...
BRAVES' JONES ENOYS STADIUM SPOTLIGHT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe it's because Andruw Jones is just 22 years old, and Atlanta has been winning for as long as he can remember. The Braves were the dominant team in his...
'U.S.' AGAINST THE WORLD 'DREAM TEAM' DIGS IN
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - This isn't about being the Ugly Americans, nor is it solely about nationalism. This is about winning. The other nine countries that are here competing in the...
2 JOCKS HURT IN BELMONT SPILL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJockeys Richard Migliore and Ariel Smith were rushed to North Shore University Hospital yesterday following a brutal, chain-reaction spill in the third race at Belmont Park. Turning for home, Migliore's...
PAR EXCELLENCE! FRENCHMAN HANGS TOUGH, GRABS 5-SHOT LEAD
July 18, 1999 | 4:00am"This is the biggest tournament in the world and I'm in there with a bit of a lead. What can happen? I can lose the tournament. That's the only thing...
VICTORY GALLOP EYES WHITNEY
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amVictory Gallop, the 1998 Belmont Stakes winner, is scheduled to work at Churchill Downs on Tuesday morning. He will then fly Wednesday to Saratoga, where he will prepare to take...
CAPRIATI SHOWING SOME OF THAT OL' FORM
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amAt 23, Jennifer Capriati remembers the good ol' days. The time when she was a regular in the Top 10, and the youngest semifinalist at Wimbledon at 15. But that...
BOMBERS REBOUND HITTERS GO BATTY AS YANKS AVERT ATLANTA SWEEP
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEES11 BRAVES4 Is there such a thing as a big game in July against a team from the other league? When it's the Yankees trying to break a two-game slide,...
BREAKDOWN AT 17 HURTS TIGER
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amCARNOUSTIE - Tiger Woods was just minutes removed from double-bogeying No. 17 yesterday at the British Open and his coach, Butch Harmon, was walking off 18 with a long face....
COOKIN' SHERRI LEADS:TIES BIG APPLE MARK WITH 30 ON FRONT
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amIt was a duel of turns, first one playing partner, then the other, matching the JAL Big Apple Classic nine-hole record. Sherri Steinhauer opened the drama yesterday with a tourney...
TORRE'S JOE COOL : YANKEE SKIPPER'S ALWAYS IN CONTROL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHANK goodness none of the 50,000 yahoos who chose to sit through a ballgame in the sweltering, 90-degree haze enveloping Yankee Stadium yesterday was actually managing the home team. Likewise,...
ANDY NEEDED TO DO BETTER
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amANDY PETTITTE pitched a game yesterday that followed his career path. It began brilliantly and got gradually worse. He certainly would have loved to trade this outing for a better...
SOARING SOFTLY WINS N.Y. 'CAP
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amSoaring Softly was hard as nails yesterday at Belmont Park, cementing her claim as the best grass filly in the East, possibly in the nation, with a hard-fought nose victory...
MIG BREAKS ARM IN SPILL
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Richard Migliore was listed in stable condition yesterday at North Shore University Medical Center after suffering a compound fracture of his right arm in a brutal, chain-reaction spill in...
DREAM TEAM: WE WON'T BE DENIED
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amU.S.103 Argentina72 SAN JUAN - This isn't about being the ugly Americans, nor is it solely about nationalism. This is about winning. The other nine countries that are here competing...
STADIUM REALITY CHECK : JFK JR. TRAGEDY OVERSHADOWS GAME
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe handful of sportswriters who had retreated to the basement press room for the ending of yesterday's Yankees-Braves game were staring intently at the overhead television screen when the baseball...
UMP CREW CHIEF: CAN'T FAULT BOOING FANS
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe umpires have threatened to quit Sept. 2. And, at least as far as Yankee fans are concerned, good riddance. After watching a few questionable calls at the Stadium yesterday...
YANKEE FIREPOWER STARTS AT TOP
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe batting average remains a disappointment at .266 and, despite playing better defense, he has committed a team-leading 16 errors. However, Chuck Knoblauch doesn't make the cut when it comes...
LEDEE ENROLLED IN FLY BALL 101
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Ricky Ledee's sweet, left-handed swing may finally be producing the line-drive hits the Yankees have been waiting for but his defense hasn't been what the club expected. So,...
METS ARE VINTAGE DUDS: LOSS TO RAYS A REAL THROWBACK
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - If the Mets could have set their own Way Back Machine for yesterday's "Turn Back the Clock Day," they would have stopped at 1988, the year Orel...
OREL FINDS MOUNDS OF TROUBLE
July 18, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Searching for his 200th career win, Orel Hershiser said he had trouble making the adjustment from the bullpen mound at Tropicana Field to the real...