July 21, 1999
JOHN F. KENNEDY - THE MAN I KNEW, THE MAN I'LL MISS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amYOUNG John Kennedy was a man of his word, and even when he was mad at you, he kept his sense of humor. I was on the scene the very...
MICROSOFT'S CURSE - DOW, NASDAQ TUMBLE ON PROFIT WARNING
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amIn what's becoming a stock market tradition, the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all tanked yesterday after Microsoft Corp. made its now-standard warning after the close of trading Monday that...
MP3 RAISES $344.4M ON EVE OF ITS IPO
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMP3.com, the website that allows consumers to search, sample and download music free of charge, raised $344.4 million in an initial stock sale yesterday. The San Diego-based company sold 12.3...
LEVITT ON THE SPOT: SEC NOT READY FOR Y2K
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amCongressional Democrats have scolded the Securities and Exchange Commission - which has been aggressively policing Y2K compliance in the industry - for failing to have its own computers ready for...
CAA DUMPS DOUBLE-DEALING DIRECTOR POLLACK
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amDirector-turned-actor Sydney Pollack seems to be working in Hollywood with his eyes shut. Pollack, who's got a major role in the new flick "Eyes Wide Shut," was telling everyone he...
PURNICK QUITTING AS TIMES METRO EDITOR
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am"You get away from things when you're an editor." JOYCE PURNICK, Metro editor, New York Times Controversial Joyce Purnick is out as metro editor at The New York Times. Purnick,...
SEARCH FOR LOST SIBLINGS IS TALE TOLD IN 'SOLD'
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amBASILE Sallustio's heart-rending documentary, threaded with dark ecclesiastical intrigue, tells the story of Pia Di Lisa, 55, a lonely Italian peasant woman who has spent her life haunted by the...
TV TICKER
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amTyne one on Tyne Daly's humiliating drunk-driving arrest is laid bare on her "Intimate Portrait," airing Sunday (11 p.m.) on Lifetime. "I had far too much to drink at dinner...
LOCKED UP: AMERICA'S SADDEST KID - '48 HOURS' FOLLOWS A WASTED LIFE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am"48 Hours" 10 p.m. tomorrow on WCBS/Ch. 2 "48 Hours" checks in with a kid whose sad story the newsmagazine has been following for five years. That's a commitment rare...
'CABARET' - MOVED & IMPROVED
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am''CABARET" is a better and richer show now - at Studio 54 and with new principals - than ever. In the broader, higher space of a spruced-up Studio 54, the...
AMANPOUR FORGETS CNN BUT REMEMBERS JFK JR.
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amCHRISTIANE Amanpour had some CNN staffers fuming on Sunday when she was interviewed on rival CBS about her memories of John F. Kennedy Jr. Amanpour, CNN's star correspondent, had been...
EXPIRED LICENSE STOKES 'STROKES' STAR'S ARREST
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amFORMER "Diff'rent Strokes" star Gary Coleman is in trouble with the law - again. The diminutive Coleman was arrested July 10 for failing to pay $400 in fines after he...
OLD AMUSEMENT PARKS NEVER DIE - ... THEY JUST MAKE A FUN DOCUMENTARY
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am"Great Old Amusement Parks" Tonight at 8 on WNET/Ch. 13 'GREAT Old Amusement Parks" takes you on a tour of 15 amusement parks in one hour. And if you're familiar...
'MIZ' POPULARITY
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amThis week, Post theater critic Donald Lyons revisits four long-running musicals 'LES Miserables," now at the Imperial and in its 13th year on Broadway, has an $80 top-ticket price, but...
ITALIAN THRILLS ON COLUMBUS AVENUE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amOUR waiter at Spazzia announces that rhubarbs are out of season. "But I saw them at Fairway," my wife protests. "And I saw them at Citarella," our friend Judy insists....
LOVE AT FIRST BITE - FOR NEW YORKERS WHERE TO DINE - AND WHAT TO DOWN - ON A FIRST DATE ARE A CRITICAL PART OF THE MATING RITUAL
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amFASHION journalist Susan Kirschbaum thought she'd had a great date. "After leaving the cafe, I noticed all these guys checking me out," she recalls. "I was walking with a little...
MORE HITS THAN MISSES AT PUNCH
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHE guy in the funky hat leans over our table. "Is someone here Cindy?" he asks. Clearly, we're puzzled. How does he know my name, and moreover, why is he...
TRUMP'S CASTLE SITS ATOP SHAKY EGO - SHRINKS READ THE WRITING ON HIS WALLS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amIf Donald Trump's lavish, king-size apartment is a window into his inner psyche, he suffers from deep-seated insecurity. So says a Manhattan psychologist who examined The Post's exclusive photos of...
PSYCHICS SWAMP POLICE WITH TIPS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMARTHA'S VINEYARD, Mass. - Police taking part in the investigation of John Kennedy Jr.'s fatal crash are being "swamped" with calls offering assistance - from self-proclaimed psychics. "It's amazing how...
WELL-END0WED STATUE'S BACK -IN THE BUFF; EXCLUSIVE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amA long-neglected - and anatomically impressive - statue of a very naked discus thrower will make its triumphant return to New York today, thanks to a $25,000 renovation and relaxed...
POST REPORTER RECALLS JFK JR. FONDLY
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMike Pearl covered Manhattan Criminal Court for the New York Post for 31 years until his retirement last year. He had more contact with John Kennedy Jr. during Kennedy's four-year...
DRUG-DEN BOOBY TRAP WOUNDS COP
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amA highly decorated NYPD sergeant narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday morning when a cocked gun went off as he tried to remove it from a drug-infested Bronx apartment building. Sgt....
JFK'S DESPERATE LAST-MINUTE BATTLE - SUDDEN TURNS SHOW STRUGGLE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amJFK's desperate last-minute battle Search teams found new debris - but no trace of John Kennedy Jr. - off Martha's Vineyard yesterday, while questions arose about his final maneuvers and...
CONE TWEAKS CAP-ITAL HILL - BRUSHES BACK SUDDEN YANKEE FAN
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amYankee hurler David Cone - at City Hall yesterday for a ceremony honoring his perfect game - threw a beanball at Hillary Rodham Clinton for claiming she's been a longtime...
FOTOG FAMED FOR JFK PIX DIES AT 77
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amStanley Tretick, the former Look magazine photographer who shot the touching photo of John F. Kennedy Jr. as a toddler peeping out from under his father's Oval Office desk, died...
NEW $2M SUBWAY CARS GET OFF ON THE WRONG TRACK; EXCLUSIVE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am"They're in the maintenance shop taking up track space. Nobody even knows how to fix them." TA SOURCE The Transit Authority's new $2.2 million, high-tech subway cars are such lemons...
HISTORIC LAUNCH RESCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe crew of the shuttle Columbia - the first to be commanded by a woman - will make another attempt at liftoff tomorrow, after a technical glitch scrapped the initial...
THE PATCH COULD SOON JOIN THE PILL
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amFirst, they came out with a patch to help you stop smoking - now there's a patch to help you stop making babies. Johnson & Johnson disclosed yesterday it is...
$5.7M TO KIN OF HOSTAGE SLAIN BY COPS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe city must pay $5.7 million to the family of a school aide who died in a barrage of 29 police bullets when she was caught in the crossfire of...
COUNCIL PANEL OKS HIKE$ FOR CITY POLS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amA City Council committee voted yesterday to give the city's elected officials - from council members to the mayor - hefty raises of up to 28 percent. The salary hikes...
LAW MIGHT BE SLOW TO DECLARE VICTIMS DEAD
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amWhile their families have come to accept that John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette are dead, it could take the law up to two months to...
MAYOR AND GOV NAME L.I. PREXY TO RUN CUNY
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe president of Long Island's Adelphi University has been tapped by Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani to be the next chancellor of the City University - filling a post that's...
OHIO DEMS WANT SEN. JERRY SPRINGER
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Some Ohio Democrats are recruiting TV bad boy Jerry Springer to run for the U.S. Senate, where parliamentary rules bar spectators from chanting, "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!" But the...
EXTRA MILLION VEHICLES SWELL MTA TOLL TAKE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amOne million more vehicles crossed the city's nine toll crossings this May than a year ago, the MTA Bridges and Tunnels division said yesterday. That's a 4 percent jump. It...
CRUEL SEA SLOWLY YIELDING ITS TAUNTING CLUES
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMENEMSHA, Martha's Vineyard. IT IS cruel how nature taunts the noble. First, a suitcase from a beautiful girl called Lauren Bessette, 34, washed up on the beach. Second, an innocent...
NATION OF ISLAM FIRES MALCOLM KILLER
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amOne of three men convicted of killing Malcolm X has reportedly been booted from his job as East Coast security chief for the Nation of Islam. In the shake-up, Muhammad...
FIRE CHIEF SHOT IN THE HEAD BY GYM NUT: COPS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amA beloved fire chief three weeks from retirement was critically wounded yesterday when he was shot in the head by a fellow gym member who thought the firefighter had dissed...
BAIL FOR '70S 'BOMB' MOM
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - The minivan-driving soccer mom accused of a quarter-century-old act of urban terrorism was sprung yesterday following 35 days in jail. Kathleen Ann Soliah, 52, also known as...
BARAK PROMISES NOT TO DRAG FEET ON TROOP PULLOUT
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday assured Yasser Arafat he will not delay in withdrawing from a portion of the West Bank while working toward a comprehensive Middle...
CLAN PLANS MEMORIAL IN NEW YORK - KENNEDYS WON'T BURY JOHN JR. AT ARLINGTON
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Kennedy family is planning a public memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. in New York this week, and doesn't intend to bury him at Arlington National...
BRAVE VICTIM SERVED CITY FOR THREE DECADES
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amIn his 29 years as a firefighter, Chief Lawrence Schwemmer escaped serious injury. Yesterday, just weeks away from retiring, Schwemmer was shot and critically wounded outside a Queens health club...
JOY FOR ILL MAN REUNITED WITH LONG-LOST TWIN
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amA Manhattan man who is battling cancer was granted his life's wish last night when he embraced the twin sister he hadn't seen since childhood. "Thank you, Jesus!" whispered Robert...
A CONVERSATION IN HELL
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am"You got everything you wanted. But when I make a deal for a soul like yours, I need to season it before I'm ready to put it in the infernal...
HOW TO HIT TODAY'S PICK 6
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amThanks to a trio of longshot winners Sunday - Lined in Gold, $25.20 in the third race; Field Cat, $31.40 in the fifth; and Mythical Gem, $24.40 in the Lexington...
N.Y. SPORTSMEN: WE'RE FEE-D UP!
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN it was reported that New York State was going to raise hunting and fishing license fees by almost 30 percent, it was a foregone conclusion that the legislature in...
PRINCESS COURTS M.J. TO JOIN BID FOR NUGGETS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMICHAEL Jordan is thinking about taking a second run at owning an NBA team. His Airness, comfortably retired but still missing the thrill of the game, has been asked by...
CLARK: I'M STILL QUITTING
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Despite the seeming cracks that are surfacing in the umpires' supposed united front, some of the remaining umpires vowed that they are still prepared to resign Sept. 2...
U.S. DEFENSE NEVER RESTS - PRESSURE THE KEY TO SUCCESS
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: SAN JUAN - Immediately after Dream Team IV had been assembled critics tried to find a weakness on this team. And they thought they had one - no legitimate...
THE BATTERY BOYS - CONE, GIRARDI HAVE A SPECIAL RAPPORT
July 21, 1999 | 4:00am"He knows I'm flaky up there on the mound, and he calms me down. I couldn't have gotten through it without him." DAVID CONE ON JOE GIRARDI Most of us...
HARD TO DEAL DOTEL - PHILLIPS AFRAID TO PART WITH RIGHTY PHENOM
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Damn the trades, full speed ahead! That should be Steve Phillips' mantra after watching Octavio Dotel's impressive performance Monday night. The Mets GM could easily make a trade...
JOE: ROCKET, RAMIRO OK
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Roger Clemens is struggling mightily, and Ramiro Mendoza is slumping even worse. But Yankee manager Joe Torre says he's not worried about either one. Clemens entered last night's...
TEAM TYSON MULLS BUSTER REMATCH; EXCLUSIVE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe hunt for a "safe" opponent for Mike Tyson's latest comeback has led to some familiar, and dangerous, territory - James (Buster) Douglas. Douglas, who knocked out Tyson in 1990...
ROCKET'S FIZZLING IN CONE'S SHADOW
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amAS DAVID Cone was pitching his way into Cooperstown Sunday against the Expos, one Yankee was so riveted by what was happening on the field he barely moved a muscle...
AMAZIN'S KEEP TABS ON LIVAN
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES BALTIMORE - Mets scout Roland Johnson was spotted at Fenway Park, where the Marlins' Livan Hernandez was pitching last night. The Mets remain interested in Orioles reliever Arthur...
MEDIOCRE ROG EXPO-SED AGAIN
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHE best thing you can say about Roger Clemens' performance last night is simply this: Pitching against the bargain-basement Montreal Expos, he was able to keep the big-budget, World Series...
GOOD OL' AMERICAN KNOW-HOW
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amYANK NOTES The Yankees' 7-4 win over Montreal last night capped their interleague play for the season. And as far as the Bombers are concerned, good riddance. The Yanks finished...
COMPLETE FRUSTRATION - ORIOLES' PONSON SHOWS METS HOW TO GO THE DISTANCE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - It irritates the Mets like a lone mosquito ruining a restful night's sleep. Bobby Valentine says it matters, Steve Phillips said it only matters if it taxes the...
THIS WIN'S A SLAM-DUNC - TIM LIFTS U.S. PAST FEISTY FOE
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - No sooner had Dream Team IV been assembled than critics tried to find a weakness. And they thought they had - no dominating center. No Shaquille O'Neal....
ROCKET LUCKS OUT - O'NEILL RESCUES CLEMENS WITH BIG HIT IN 7TH
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amIt wasn't pretty and it surely wasn't perfect. But it was a quality start and a courageous win for the struggling Roger Clemens. And considering what the Yankees have been...
HAMILTON SAYS HE'LL PLAY IT SAFE WITH FRAGILE ANKLES
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amHOOP NOTEBOOK SAN JUAN - Former Connecticut star Richard Hamilton remains the only U.S. player who has yet to play in the Olympic qualifying tournament. Hamilton sprained his right ankle...
A-MAYS-ING MILESTONE FOR RICKEY
July 21, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES BALTIMORE - Rickey Henderson scored his 2,062nd career run in the third inning to tie Willie Mays for fifth on the all-time list in the Orioles' 4-1 win...