July 25, 1999
BOARDING PASS FAILURE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amFORGET about what happened to Amelia Earhart's plane; the biggest aviation mystery these days is what happened on Northwest Airlines flight No. 12 on July 14. The tightly knit world...
A MOTLEY EXCHANGE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amI N the August issue of Money magazine, columnist Jason Zweig rips into the Motley Fools, comparing them to "knaves and shysters." The Fools, brothers Tom and David Gardner, lost...
HEARST AND MORT GET SHUT OUT
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amHEARST president Cathleen Black and Meredith Magazines president Christopher Little were given the shocking news late last week that the Ford Motor Co. is planning to shut the two publishing...
MR. ROGERS' NEW NABE : TRAPPER JOHN BOUGHT INTO KLEINFELD'S BASED ON ITS REP
July 25, 1999 | 4:00am"It's not anything I know about, no. I understand that it's a franchise and that it's a great name. Our job is to polish it up."WAYNE ROGERS on the Kleinfeld...
YOUR OLD PC COULD TAKE DIGITAL FUN TO THE MAX
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amDIGITAL enough for ya? Your life, I mean. You can still squeeze a few more chips in. Take that digital music you're gathering. All those MP3s you download from the...
'CHICAGO' REVISITED
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amWhat is a musical? Let's narrow down the scope of the inquiry. What's a successful musical? What exactly is it that has to come together, like some astrological configuration of...
A REAL-LIFE 'HAUNTING' :HOW A GHOST BUSTED INTO MY FAMILY'S HOUSE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amWhere do ghosts come from, and why are they linked to certain places and people? DreamWorks' new film "The Haunting" pins the spectral infestation at Hill House to psychic traumas...
CHABROL ROLLS INTO LINCOLN CENTER
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amClaude Chabrol has been called France's Hitchcock. But Chabrol himself downplays the effect the roly-poly Brit has had on his films. "The influence of Hitchcock for me has been exaggerated,"...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE KYLIE BAX
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amHer name is a Scrabble player's dream - but the real Kylie Bax is the fulfillment of many a fantasy.The hazel-eyed stunner grew up on her parents' horse-breeding farm in...
TABLE HOPPER
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT For a tiny bistro that doesn't take credit cards, Caffe Lure has managed to reel in some pretty big fish. One reason it's often packed to the gill is...
MEALS & DEALS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT No restaurant can be all things to all people, but Baby Jupiter certainly tries. Located a block below Houston Street, it's one part upscale diner, one part bar and...
SEX THROUGH A LENS, DARKLY
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amAlison Grodner probably knows your kids better than you do.For the past two years, the documentary filmmaker has immersed herself in the lives of American teens as part of a...
SEX AND THE CITY TEEN AN OLD TABOO IS SUDDENLY A POPULAR PRACTICE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amI think it's nasty, but I want to please my man and I don't want to get pregnant. Gina, a 15-year-old Blame it on the movies, the White House or...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL.... HOW DID YOU GET OVER YOUR GUY?
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amJoanna Dupont, Estelle Sarter and Veronique Durand Paris We go out, we drink and talk until we forget about it. Leila Asbat, Manhattan I went to Europe for two months...
GUTENBERG'S LIFE ALL TOO TYPE-ICAL
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe man who pioneered the use of movable type was unappreciated in his lifetime. Johannes Gutenberg (1394-1468) was born in Germany. Trained as a goldsmith, he lived in Strasbourg, where...
DON'T WRITE OFF BOOKS JUST YET
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amBooks, as we know them, won't go the way of stone tablets any time soon. The morning ritual of a newspaper and a cuppa joe is also here to stay....
CAN WE MOURN THE REAL JFK JR.?
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amNEARLY 36 years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote of the hysteria and mourning following the assassination of President Kennedy that "the rhetoric has gone quite out of control": America...
QUEENS THE CENTER OF CULT LEADER'S UNIVERSE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amHe lives in Queens and claims there are aliens on earth. He urges his followers not to take medicine and says a Year 2000 apocalypse is coming unless people join...
GIULIANI SITTING VERY WELL WITH COUNTY CHAIRS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Grassroots GOP leaders, including dozens upstate, overwhelmingly favor Mayor Giuliani as their party's candidate for Senate next year, a Post survey shows. The survey, conducted last Monday through...
RUDY ROLLS OVER LAZIO 4-1 IN GOP SENATE POLL : MAYOR'S NUMBERS STRONG STATEWIDE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Mayor Giuliani holds a commanding 4-to-1 lead over Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio as the choice for Senate nominee among likely Republican primary voters, a new poll shows....
EVEN-HANDED HASSAN KILLED HIS PALS, TOO - EXCLUSIVE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amKING Hassan managed to remain ruler of Morocco long enough to die in his bed at age 70 on Friday - because he murdered his most dangerous rivals in cold...
ED KOCH NEEDLES 'NASTY' RUDY IN NEW BOOK
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amIn his soon-to-be-released book "Giuliani, Nasty Man," former mayor Ed Koch describes the current mayor as an accomplished leader who is, well, nasty to anyone who criticizes him. In the...
PHIL COLLINS EMPLOYEE NOW HIS SWISS MISSUS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amIt was just another day in paradise for British rocker Phil Collins, who married his longtime Swiss girlfriend yesterday in front of 300 guests at a lavish hotel ceremony. Collins...
IT'S GREAT THEATER AT SUMMER 'STOCK
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y. - Hello muddah, hello faddah. Here I am at camp Woodstock-a. They've got music, they've got mud baths - and people selling pipes for marijuana. "Those are for...
TOUGH TEXAN'S UPHILL RIDE TO GLORY: CANCER SURVIVOR CONQUERS FRANCE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amLance Armstrong, who beat back a near-fatal cancer two years ago with super-human strength, is poised to win another astonishing victory today - the Tour de France. The 27-year-old Texan,...
SERBS BEG FOR PROTECTION AS ALBANIANS KILL 14 FARMERS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - NATO officials yesterday were investigating the slaughter of 14 Serb wheat harvesters on a Kosovo farm, the worst flare-up of violence since the war ended. The massacre in...
IN MUSICAL MIX, RAP 'N' ROLLERS BEAT HEADLINERS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y.IN concept, Woodstock offers one-stop shopping for all your summer music needs. But with more than an hour's walk between the east and the west stages - it's virtually...
FEDS SAY NO TO BLACKOUT AID : WASH. HTS. BUSINESSES WON'T GET CHEAP LOANS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amA federal agency has nixed the city's request for loans for Washington Heights shop owners whose businesses were devastated by this month's massive Con Ed blackout, officials told The Post...
BILL HEADS FOR MOROCCO TO MOURN ROYAL 'PEACEMAKER'
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMoroccans mourned the death of King Hassan II, who ruled the North African nation for nearly four decades, as world leaders prepared to join in their grief at the monarch's...
APT. TORCHED AFTER QUEENS STABBINGS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amCops burst into a gas-filled Queens apartment ringed in flames to rescue an unconscious man and two women he had stabbed moments earlier, yesterday morning, police said. Sun Chang Kim,...
BRONX PAYS TRIBUTE TO 'FRIEND OF POOR'
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr. was honored in a Bronx ceremony yesterday as a true friend of the poor, while the family of his wife and sister-in-law bid farewell to their...
2 PASSERS-BY DIE IN QUEENS BUILDING COLLAPSE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amA two-story Queens storefront under construction collapsed yesterday, raining down thousands of pounds of broken brick, cement and metal rubble that crushed two young women to death and spilled into...
HEIRS OF ART COLLECTOR IN $1.5M WAR OF WILLS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amThe family of a woman who left a $300 million art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be in court this week to prove her will is a...
16 HURT AS TRAIN DERAILS UPSTATE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amAn Amtrak train derailed last night outside of Albany, injuring 12 passengers and 4 crew members, officials said. The accident happened at the station in Renesselaer, just east of Albany,...
CANDLELIGHT SERVICE FOR BEAUTIFUL LAUREN
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amFriends and family gathered in a Connecticut church last night to bid a final, solemn farewell to Lauren Bessette - one of "two daughters who were living life to the...
MATTHEWS BAND (& SOME FANS) GET FULL EXPOSURE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y. IN concept, Woodstock offers one-stop shopping for all your summer music needs. But with more than an hour's walk between the east and the west stages - it's...
WOMAN DIES AS VAN LEAPS CURB
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amA woman was killed as she left church yesterday when she was pinned under a minivan that jumped the curb, police said. Despite the heroic efforts of five Good Samaritans...
BRA-VO! NEW BRASSIERE BUSTS OUT OF BRITAIN
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amWonderbra, meet your match. The cleavage-enhancing Ultimo, a bra with gel pads that supposedly look, feel and move like the real thing, will offer new hope to the flat-chested when...
BUILDING COLLAPSE KILLS MOM, DAUGHTER
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens storefront under construction collapsed yesterday, raining down thousands of pounds of broken brick, cement and metal that crushed to death a mother and her 14-year-old daughter who were...
1 SHOT DEAD, NINE HURT IN GUNPLAY AT BLOCK PARTIES
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amOne person died and nine were wounded when gunfire broke out last night at two Brooklyn block parties. The first shots rang out at 9:09 p.m. on E. 19th Street...
BRAVES IN LEAD IF A-ROD MOVES
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amIF Alex Rodriguez goes anywhere before Saturday's midnight trading deadline it will be to the Braves, who have oodles of the young pitching the Mariners so desperately need. Ted Turner's...
NOTHIN' BUT THE BEST FOR THIS GOLF 'NUT'
July 25, 1999 | 4:00am"Finally, I got to play Augusta. I played with the dishwasher. It took me 20 years, seven months and 27 days from the time I first started trying to get...
MEADOWLANDS NOT BORN TO RUN MUCH LONGER
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amSTORM clouds are gathering over New Jersey's Meadowlands Sports Complex, and not even Bruce Springsteen's record-setting concert run can chase them away. The country's preeminent sports and entertainment complex -...
THERE'S A NEW WAY TO SEE UNDER THE SEA
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amEXPLORING THE last frontier on Earth was just made easier thanks to a new toy that allows for underwater viewing. Not since the development of the sonar depth sounder has...
SLOW ROAD BACK FOR MET PROSPECT
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amWITH one surgery and one arthroscope, Met Double-A pitcher Grant Roberts is part of the question: Why have so many of the organization's pitching prospects gotten hurt? Like everyone else,...
UNDRAFTED GRANT MAY BE NET ASSET
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amDuring the college showcase time of year, when pro scouts and execs huddle and scrutinize and measure and clock and assess, one of the premier events is the Portsmouth Invitational...
YASHIN RUSHIN' TO RENEGOTIATE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amALEXEI Yashin, seeking to renegotiate and extend a four-year, $12-million contract that has one year to go at $3.3M, has told Ottawa ownership that he will meet with the team...
FIGHTING FOR RESPECT SZCZERBIAK, GUGLIOTTA BATTLE STEREOTYPES
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amSAN JUAN - Many black people get offended, and rightfully so, when black athletes are described as "articulate" - as if that should be regarded as unusual or noteworthy. Here's...
GM: METS MADE NO BELLE OFFER
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMets GM Steve Phillips emphatically denied yesterday that he had ever discussed trading any combination of Bobby Bonilla, Roger Cedeno, Jason Isringhausen or Benny Agbayani to the Orioles for Albert...
DREAM TEAM MARCHES ON ; EARN OLYMPIC SPOT BY REACHING FINAL
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amU.S.88 Argentina 59 SAN JUAN - Mission accomplished. Ho-hum. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't impressive. It wasn't worth NBC burning two hours of programming. But the U.S. will play in...
SOSA SAYS VALENTINE SHOULDN'T BE MIFFED
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amSammy Sosa admits the hero's welcome he got at Shea Stadium on Friday night was a bit unusual. But with the sellout crowd, comprised mainly of Latinos on hand for...
YANKS CAN BASH, TOO : JETER, BOMBERS SHOW TRIBE THEY'RE NO SLOUCHES
July 25, 1999 | 4:00am"You don't want to think about slugging it out with those guys ... But that second run, to come back from that, was a big win for us."JOE TORRE They...
DOTEL MAKES HIS CASE DOMINATES CUBS TO FIRM UP STARTER ROLE
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMets2 Cubs1 Octavio Dotel pitched yesterday as if the Met bullpen were the last place he wanted to wind up. With Kenny Rogers ready to land at Shea today, Dotel,...
IT'S GETAWAY DAY AT BELMONT
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amAdmission is free today at Belmont, the finale of the spring-summer meet, with $2 off clubhouse admission and reduced prices on hot dogs, soda and coffee. At Saratoga there's an...
CHECKPASSER HAS CHANCE TO CASH
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amA GREAT thing about horseplayers is that they love to express their opinions. One fellow at Aqueduct and Belmont, dubbed "The Screamer," stands by the winner's circle and yells so...
DEREK MASTERS THE GOOD & BAD
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amTIGHT? JOE Torre, once accused by Bob Gibson of being the king of distraction, can tell you about tight. "Everybody can handle the good times," says the Yankee manager. "That...
TORRE INSISTS ROCKET WILL COME ROUND
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Joe Torre knows all about Roger Clemens' history and how Yankee fans hold the Rocket to a higher standard than any other pinstriped hurler. Yet, as long as...
NEXT STOP, COOPERSTOWN RYAN HEADS CLASS OF '99
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amCOOPERSTOWN - The early lessons, spiced with old-fashioned humiliation, never die. Nolan Ryan, the biggest of seven names gaining induction to the Hall of Fame today, remembers so freshly getting...
SAMMY K IS DOTEL'S MOMENT OF TRUTH
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amP ERHAPS the next time they hold a Merengue Night at Shea Stadium, 50,000 Dominicans will come to the ballpark to see Octavio Dotel. Friday night, the big draw was...
ON A SOAPBOX WINS OAKS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMidwest shipper On a Soapbox, bet down to the 9-2 second choice, awarded her faithful with a stunning 41/4-length victory over 2-5 favorite Dreams Gallore in yesterday's Grade 1, $350,000...
FONZIE'S ENJOYING HAPPY DAYS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amOn an afternoon dominated by pitching, it was Edgardo Alfonzo that dominated the pitchers yesterday. He reached base safely in all four of his at-bats in the Mets' 2-1 win...
BOBBY V STILL STEAMED OVER SOSA CEREMONY
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMet manager Bobby Valentine was all for honoring Sammy Sosa on Friday night. But in clearing up his controversial remarks made following Friday's win on Merengue Night, Valentine yesterday said...
GM: METS DID MULL BELLE OFFER
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMet GM Steve Phillips emphatically denied yesterday that he had ever discussed trading any combination of Bobby Bonilla, Roger Cedeno, Jason Isringhausen and Benny Agbayani to the Orioles for Albert...
TORRE TO ROCKET: JUST GIVE US CHANCE TO WIN
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amJoe Torre knows all about Roger Clemens' history and how Yankee fans hold the Rocket to a higher standard than any other pinstriped hurler. Yet, as long as the five-time...
CANADIANS EARN SHOT VS. U.S.
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amCanada83 P. Rico71 SAN JUAN - Puerto Rico got what it wanted, and then paid for it. Earlier this week the home team in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament of the...
21-DEFUL ! : YANKS' BARRAGE BURIES INDIANS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amYankees21 Indians1 The best team in the American League lives in The Bronx. After months of hand-wringing by Yankee fans who wondered what ailed the World Champions, the Bombers climbed...
TOAD CARRYING THE LOAD : IRABU TURNING FROM $12.8M BUST TO BARGAIN
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S HARDLY bedtime for the season yet, not with 65 games to go, but we'll pretend this is still an evening newspaper and tell you the story about the fat...
NETS GIVING GRANT A SHOT
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amDuring the college showcase time of year, when pro scouts and execs huddle and scrutinize and measure and clock and assess, one of the premier events is the Portsmouth Invitational...
21-DERFUL ! YANKS' BARRAGE BURIES INDIANS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amWe won't know until October if the feral whipping administered to the Indians by the Yankees yesterday will mean a thing. But watching the Tribe slither into a sticky New...
TORRE APOLOGIZES FOR LANGSTON CLIP
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amMark Langston saw the video clip of him giving up a grand slam to Tino Martinez in Game 1 of last year's World Series as he walked to the Yankee...
BREAK THE BANK AT SARATOGA
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amTALK all you want about the tradition and mystique of Saratoga Race Course, its reputation as the "Graveyard of Favorites," local legends like Jim Dandy and "Diamond Jim" Brady, ripe,...
ATLANTA OR BUSTS : SUPER QUESTIONS FACING JETS & GIANTS AS TRAINING CAMP OPENS
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amBY the end of this week, the Jets will begin defense of their first-ever AFC East division championship. They'll do it with perhaps as much anticipation as there has been...
MIGRAINE LEAVES DOC IN SICK BAY
July 25, 1999 | 4:00amDwight Gooden got himself so worked up over not getting a start Friday night or yesterday against his old club that he was leveled by a migraine headache yesterday prior...