July 23, 1999
U.S. DOLLAR POLICY IS DAMAGING TO CORPORATE EARNINGS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amBAD earnings have been blamed for the stock market's troubles this week. Others said the problem was an economy that was too strong and might force a rise in interest...
ANOTHER DIS-APPOINTMENT - EISNER TAKES BLAME FOR 11% NET LOSS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amEmbattled Walt Disney chief Michael Eisner is again spanking himself publicly before Wall Street does. A grim Eisner told analysts, "We aren't satisfied" over Disney's fifth-straight quarter of losses posted...
NASD BOSS FUMING OVER NYSE VICTORY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amNasdaq-Amex exchange chief Frank Zarb hit the roof yesterday when the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a ruling that he says gives his arch-rival, Dick Grasso, a competitive edge in...
CBS FINDS ITS RX FOR PRESENCE ON THE WEB
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amCBS Corp. invested in an online pharmacy yesterday, continuing its strategy of trying to lure ageing baby boomers to its websites. The Tiffany Network agreed to buy 20 percent of...
GREENSPAN HINTS AT NEW RATE HIKE - MARKETS TANK
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amFederal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan spooked the markets yesterday when he hinted that the Fed could hike rates again as soon as next month. Most stock and bond market investors...
COMPAQ ENDS CEO SEARCH SINGING A-CAPELLAS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amAfter cleaning house at his troubled Compaq empire - and finding no top outsiders to run the company - crusty Chairman Ben Rosen has turned to his own ranks for...
AMAZON EXPLORES CONCRETE JUNGLE
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Bezos may be leading Amazon.com offline. The giant e-tailer has approached at least one land-based store about a partnership, according to a published report. And some analysts think the...
ALLEN'S BALK WON'T HURT ISLAND: ANALYSTS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe decision by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to pull out of a deal with Island ECN, the biggest electronic trading network, is a public relations blow for the company -...
EX-VF SCRIBE HAS 6-FIGURE BOOK DEAL
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Vanity Fair writer Jennet Conant has inked a six-figure deal with Simon & Schuster for a book about Depression-era banker, lawyer, and scientist Alfred Loomis. The eccentric millionaire hung...
NETS HOST PACERS IN OPENER
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Nets' Don Casey Era - an age where the coach does not have "interim" or "fill-in" preceding his name - begins on Tuesday, Nov. 2 when New Jersey opens...
'TRICK' IS DEFINITELY NO TREAT
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amT HE badly written and relentlessly overacted "Trick" is supposed to be a romantic comedy about two young men who find something like love as they desperately search for a...
SHOWTIME'S 'BONANNO' IS A PRIME-TIME CRIME: 'BONANNO' MOBSTER SAGA GOES FULL-BORE
July 23, 1999 | 4:00am"Bonanno: A Godfather's Story" Sunday and Mondayat 8 p.m. on Showtime AND now, mobsters who will bore you to death. "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story" is an overblown piece of twaddle...
A VERY SPECIAL 'OCCASION'
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amL EGENDS are often made of legends behaving legendarily. Try this one on for size. One of the great choreographers of the century, Merce Cunningham, is celebrating his 80th birthday...
GLUM TALE OF THE IDLE RICH IS ACTIVELY POOR
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amTheater Review 'ARISTOCRATS," a Brian Friel play written in 1978, will be performed by Dublin's Gate Theatre at the LaGuardia Drama Theater through July 25, as the last of a...
NOT BAD FOR A DOODAD
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW INSPECTOR GADGET Starring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett and Joely Fisher. Directed by David Kellogg. Screenplay by Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn. Running time: 80 minutes. Rating: PG. At...
HORROR SHOW: CREEPY GHOST-TALE REMAKE IS HAUNTINGLY BAD
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHE HAUNTING Starring Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson. Directed by Jan De Bont. Running time: 100 minutes. Rating: PG-13. At Lincoln Square, Loews 19th St. East, Coliseum Cinemas, others. 'THE Haunting"...
A REAL LIVE PHENOMENON: WIDESPREAD PANIC IS CATCHING ON
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amWITHOUT the aid of videos or radio play, Widespread Panic has managed to build a large and loyal audience. John "J.B." Bell, singer, songwriter and guitarist, and five of his...
TALE ISN'T VERY 'ROSIE'
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'ROSIE" is a poignant, well-acted but tiring addition to the slate of gritty social-realist films that have come out of Belgium in recent years. This unsentimental tale of...
THIS TIMELY 'CABARET' SERBS US RIGHT
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW FEROCIOUS, thrilling, arch and ultimately humane, "Cabaret Balkan" is not only one of the best films of the year, but one of the timeliest. Though it says little...
'GORGEOUS' GETS UGLY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW IT takes a special kind of talent to aim your satire at a target as big and easy as beauty pageants and miss it by a mile, especially...
JFK JR. PAL IN MONEY MYSTERY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amDID JFK Jr. pal Douglas Brinkley agree to be paid $10,000 by NBC News to provide commentary about his friend's untimely death? Nobody seems to know for sure. But according...
DESPITE GOOD LOOK, IT'S A BLUNDERFUL 'LIFE'
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW WHAT a pity that "My Life So Far" goes nowhere, and takes its own sweet time doing so. Shot in a glorious house on a misty loch, the...
'SCARLET' MUSICIANS SEE RED OVER MOVE
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S a revolt brewing at "The Scarlet Pimpernel," but it's not the French citizens who are up in arms - it's the pit players. Local 802 - the musicians' union...
MOB HIT ON THE EMMYS: 'SOPRANOS' BLOWS AWAY CABLE SHOWS FOR 16 NOMINATIONS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amHBO's mob drama "The Sopranos" whacked its cable competition yesterday, snagging a leading 16 Emmy nominations. "The Sopranos" is also the first-ever cable series to be cited in the "Best...
TV TICKER
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amSunday's best NBC's "Meet the Press" has reached a milestone: Fifty-two straight weeks as the winner in total homes on Sunday morning (with the caveat "when at full coverage," according...
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME FOR WOODSTOCK FANS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y. - Bare-breasted women and rock 'n' roll - Woodstock lives! A day before the first official guitar cord was played, the flesh and the fever of youth were...
LADY SKIPPER BLASTS SHUTTLE INTO ORBIT
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe shuttle Columbia soared into space - and the history books - early this morning under the command of the first woman to lead a U.S. space flight. After two...
BEST-SELLING SHRINK'S AIRLINE-RUCKUS BUST IS ONE FOR THE BOOKS; EXCLUSIVE
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe author of a best seller on how to break the ice with strangers forced a jetliner to make an emergency landing after he started a ruckus trying to burst...
OUTLAWED CHINESE SECT LEADER: OUR ONLY GOAL IS PEACE
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe leader of a quirky, New York-based meditation group - that was outlawed yesterday by China - said he's committed to building "high moral values and healthy bodies," and is...
CARDINAL'S PRAYERS FOR AN ALTRUISTIC PARISHIONER
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor yesterday offered his prayers for John F. Kennedy, Jr., and recalled meeting with him on a subject dear to both of them. "I met John F. Kennedy...
THE BELLS TOLLED LOUDER FOR THREE BEAUTIFUL KIDS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe ashes slipped into an element that had energized his life and took his life - the sea. GAY HEAD, Mass. IT COULD have been imagination, but you could almost...
SAVAGE CRIME BREEDS FEAR, DEFIES 'SAFE' STATS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThey still feel afraid. Despite statistical evidence that Central Park is safer than it has been in years, users of the city's 843-acre playground said yesterday's brutal murder reminded them...
LIGHTNING KILLS B'KLYN MAN IN COLORADO
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man was killed, and his wife and 2-year-old daughter seriously hurt, when they were struck by lightning while hiking in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. John Retting, 35,...
ACCUSATIONS ABOUND IN FAILED IRISH TALKS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amRival leaders in Northern Ireland angrily blamed the collapse of last week's peace talks on one another yesterday even as U.S. mediator George Mitchell said he was determined to save...
HOUSE OKS $792B TAX CUT - BUT BILL VOWS TO VETO 'RISKY' PLAN
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Republican-led House yesterday passed the largest tax cut in nearly 20 years, but President Clinton's veto threat means it's still a long way from showing up on...
RUDY WANTS IN ON BOARD OF ED $$$
July 23, 1999 | 4:00am"It's to get a bunch of dough that nobody can tell the mayor what to do with." NYPIRG's GENE RUSSIANOFF Mayor Giuliani's push to revise the City Charter includes a...
BRADLEY DARES GORE & BUSH TO REJECT SOFT $$
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Presidential candidate Bill Bradley yesterday slammed rivals Al Gore and George W. Bush as hypocrites on campaign finance, and called for a ban on millions of bucks in...
BARAK IN NEW PEACE TOUR
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak embarks on a second round of regional summit meetings this weekend in a bid to put to rest Arab concerns that he is foot-dragging on...
COP PAINTS HIMSELF A PARKING SPOT
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amIf you can't find 'em, paint 'em! A cop frustrated by the lack of parking near his Manhattan station house did what every New York driver can only dream about...
CENTRAL PK. VICTIM'S BEAU HUNTED - MENTALLY ILL WOMAN IS BRUTALLY SLAIN
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amCops were hunting last night for the boyfriend of a mentally ill woman found viciously bashed to death and possibly raped in a rocky and wooded area at the northwest...
DOOMED TRIO DIED INSTANTLY - TRAUMA SPARED THEM FROM DROWNING
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amAutopsies revealed that John Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law died instantly when their plane plunged into the water off Martha's Vineyard - but the cause of the crash may remain...
NO ONE BOTHERED TO TELL VICTIM'S ANGUISHED MOM
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMIRIAM Fuchs didn't know yet that her daughter was the corpse in Central Park. Hours after the beaten - and probably raped - body of Susan Fuchs was discovered, cops...
REFORMER IS NEW CUNY CHANCELLOR
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMatthew Goldstein, the administrator credited with reforming scandal-plagued Adelphi University on Long Island, was elected chancellor of CUNY yesterday by a unanimous vote of the college's board of trustees. Goldstein,...
TA MAY BE ON TRACK FOR $200M SURPLUS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe city transit system is racing toward a whopping windfall of $150 million to $200 million by the end of the year - largely due to a continuing ridership boom....
'FLATTERED' SPRINGER WEIGHS RUN FOR SENATE
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amControversial politician-turned-talk-show-host Jerry Springer said yesterday he's seriously pondering whether to turn back into a politician. Springer said he wondered if it is "practical or possible" for him to run...
ONE IN THREE SKIPS SUMMER SCHOOL - 21,000 NO-SHOWS DESPITE THREAT OF BEING HELD BACK
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amOne out of every three failing students ordered by schools Chancellor Rudy Crew to attend summer school this year - under threat of being held back - never showed up,...
GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE OF CAMELOT - NEW YORK REMEMBERS HIM AT MASS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amHundreds of weeping New Yorkers bade farewell last night to a prince of Camelot whose grace and style captivated the city. More than 800 people filled St. Patrick's Old Cathedral...
THOSE WHO STICK IT OUT LEARN 'IT'S FUN'
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amRusten Radonicic didn't want to go to summer school, but now he thinks it's "kinda cool." "They're helping me with some math I didn't understand before, and now I understand...
HE'LL SPEND ETERNITY ON OCEAN HE LOVED - TRIO'S ASHES CAST NEAR SITE OF CRASH
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amFamily members bade farewell to John Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law yesterday - scattering their ashes in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, a few miles from where their plane...
GOOD NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE OF CAMELOT - PRIVATE MASS AT E. SIDE CHURCH TODAY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe grieving Kennedy clan will gather in Manhattan today for a formal farewell Mass for John F. Kennedy Jr.- a day after hundreds of weeping New Yorkers came together to...
DOWN THE LINE: YANKS MIGHT BE DEALIN' JUSTIN TIME
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amQUIZ: George Brett and Robin Yount, who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame Sunday, lead Kansas City and Milwaukee, respectively, in career games, hits and homers. Six other...
PADRES AIN'T GIVING UP
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN the World Series ended last season, the Padres were expected to go on hiatus as a serious team for several years. Their ace, Kevin Brown, signed the largest free-agent...
REALITY'S BITTER FOR PUERTO RICANS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. 115 Puerto Rico 76 SAN JUAN - For a few tantalizing minutes, the people of Puerto Rico and their men's national basketball team were poised to make a statement...
OREL PUTS ON SHOW IN WINNING NO. 200
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - With a sinker every bit as good as it was 11 years ago, with legs every bit as nimble and a bat every bit as potent, Orel Hershiser...
ALFONZO A STUDY IN STEADY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - Edgardo Alfonzo went 3-for-5 with two RBIs in the Mets' 7-4 victory over the Expos last night to raise his average four points to .309 and extend his...
CARBAJAL EYES ONE LAST BELT
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Carbajal will likely always be known as a tiny bundle of energy that won the silver medal for the U.S. in the 1988 Summer Olympics. But Carbajal intends to...
LIVIN' ON THE EDGE: UMP'S CALL HELPS YANKS HANG ON
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amYankees 5 Devil Rays 4 The impish grin told you Ramiro Mendoza knew he benefited from plate umpire's Tim Tschida's liberal strike zone at the most crucial time of the...
KIMMEL MAY USE PRADO
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amWill one big break lead to another? That's a real possibility as trainer John Kimmel said yesterday he might use Maryland-based jockey Edgar Prado to pinch-hit for injured Rich Migliore...
KEYSHAWN DOES LUNCH ON COAST
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Just give him the damn crabcakes. Keyshawn Johnson might make his living calling for the pigskin, but he's spent his off-season tasting pork chops. The brash...
DREAM TEAMERS BRACE FOR THE PIT
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - Welcome to the Jungle, Dream Team. Last night, a sold-out crowd of passionate Puerto Rican fans turned Roberto Clemente Coliseum, a decrepit old structure, into a rocking,...
RACISM HAS NO GRAY AREA: DRAKE RB EXPERIENCED REAL THING IN '51
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amSuddenly, he was down and out, his jaw broken. Bright's career was over ... and the nation had experienced the football equivalent of a lynching. THE charge of racism is...
TRADE MARKET LOOKS SKIMPY TO BOMBERS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The Red Sox are chasing Eric Karros and Jeff Fassero. San Francisco is thinking about taking a chance on Kevin Appier. The Cardinals have eyes for Darryl Kile....
DECISION ON STRAW PUT OFF
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amKnee deep in the cesspool created by the umpires, Bud Selig couldn't find the time to reduce Darryl Strawberry's 120-day suspension yesterday. And it's likely that baseball's commissioner won't act...
CAVS ON TAP 1ST
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Y2Knicks will be tested early. The Eastern Conference champs will play 13 games in the first 21 days of the 1999-2000 season with 10 of those games on the...
1ST LOOK AT WEIS: NOTHING TO REPORT ; KNICKS WORK BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00am"My back feels very good, but I have to get into NBA shape."FREDERIC WEIS After his first face-to-face look at top draft pick Frederic Weis, Jeff Van Gundy isn't about...
LT INDUCTION: SON & GAMES ; BUT TAYLOR WANTS TUNA THERE FOR HIS BIG DAY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amFOR Lawrence Taylor, the day he is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame will also be Father's Day, of a sort. It will be a day for Lawrence...
FEICK FEELIN' WANTED
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amJamie Feick might have felt a little disoriented yesterday at the start of the Nets' mini-camp for their summer league team. There he was on the sidelines, watching a group...
WAY TOO EARLY TO GIVE UP ANDY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amIF THE Good Lord meant for the Yankees to trade Andy Pettitte, then Chuck Finley could occasionally win a game against somebody else. Randy Wolf would never have been born,...
JINTS SIGN 5TH-ROUND PICK
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amLess than a week before players must report to training camp in Albany, the Giants signed the first of their nine draft picks yesterday when fifth-round pick Mike Rosenthal agreed...
LAWRENCE: I BATTLE DEMONS EVERY DAY
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amHe did not think he would be this excited. But as the day nears when he officially will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Lawrence Taylor admits...
MURESAN'S HOBBLED BY HURT HIP
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amNET NOTES The foot and back are healing. Those were the problems that plagued Gheorghe Muresan for two seasons. But the 7-7 free agent Romanian Alp whom the Nets are...
METS RING OFF BELLE DEAL: CEDENO, BONILLA KEY NAMES IN TRADE TALKS
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amMONTREAL - The Mets and Orioles recently had discussions about a deal for Albert Belle, sources told The Post, but at the moment it does not look as if any...
TORREZ: LET EX-PLAYERS UMP
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amThose umpires who don't rescind their resignations by today's deadline might be surprised to learn who is willing to replace them if they don't: the very guys who used to...
SALT WATER ANGLERS GOTTA GO DEEP
July 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHE big three - fluke, bass and bluefish - are still providing the bulk of the action for inshore anglers while tuna are making more of a splash both offshore...