July 27, 1999
WHY MONEY MANAGERS WANT JOBS AT NEUBERGER
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amTHE official vote won't take place for a couple of days, but insiders at Neuberger Berman are already predicting a victory for the plan for an initial public offering. After...
BEAR TALKS SETTLEMENT WITH D.A.
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amBear Stearns Cos. is close to settling a case brought by Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau for as little as $10 million. Authorities had charged that Bear Stearns knew of and...
NO EASY ANSWERS TO ECN CHALLENGE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe New York Stock Exchange and the Nadaq-Amex market may be the fiercest of rivals, but now they have a new enemy in common - the burgeoning electronic stock trading...
COTY GIVES REVLON DEAL THE KISS-OFF
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amRevlon shares plummeted as much as 24 percent yesterday on news that a possible buyer was backing out, and that the cosmetics giant may now be dismantled. Revlon boss Ron...
TECHS TANK NASDAQ; DOW, S&P FALL, TOO
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amHigh-flying technology stocks went into freefall yesterday, with the tech-packed Nasdaq composite index dropping 73.21, or 2.72 percent, to 2,619.19. Other major market averages posted losses, though not nearly so...
OVITZ, BACK ON THE TALENT TRAIL, GETS BOOK AGENCY
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Ovitz's reincarnation came a step closer to reality yesterday when he announced the acquisition of a highly-regarded literary agency. The ex-superagent's newly-formed Artists Management Group announced it will merge...
TITANS IN CHAT WARS - AOL & MICROSOFT FIGHT OVER OPEN ACCESS
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amBill Gates and Steve Case are taking on unconventional roles in their battle for the future of the Internet messaging business. Microsoft's Gates, under assault from federal regulators on antitrust...
CURIOUS GEORGE BIDDER - MYSTERY MAN OFFERS $110M FOR JFK MAG
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe magazine world is skeptical of a mystery bidder claiming he wants to buy the late JFK Jr.'s troubled George magazine, which has just four more issues remaining before its...
CLAPTON AT HIS BEST
July 27, 1999 | 4:00am*BLUES Eric Clapton Universal The importance of Eric Clapton isn't as a singer or a songwriter, but as a guitarist. And as a guitarist, he's at his best when he...
NO ONE FITS THE GLASS SLIPPER IN PRINCE OF NEW MORNING SHOW'S SEARCH FOR CO-HOST: BRYANT CAN'T FIND HIS CINDERELLA
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amPASADENA - CBS is having trouble finding a female co-host for Bryant Gumbel's "The Early Show" - and now says it may not fill the slot until Labor Day. Meredith...
'FELICITY' STAR WANTS NYC BONU$$: KERI RUSSELL STAGES WALKOUT
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amPOUTY "Felicity" star Keri Russell is back at work after going AWOL in a salary dispute. Russell reportedly failed to show up for work last week after demanding more than...
'GMA' WANTS TO GET FORD ABOARD
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amNBC's Jack Ford is the leading candidate to be named a co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America," sources say. Insiders say Ford is ready to bolt NBC, and that he's...
SITUATION NORM-AL: MACDONALD SHOW FORCED TO CHANGE NAME
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amA COMIC strip with the copyrighted name "The Norm" is forcing a title change on Norm Macdonald's ABC comedy series. When "The Norm Show" returns this fall, it will be...
TV TICKER
July 27, 1999 | 4:00am'Power' play CNBC's "Power Lunch" (noon-2 p.m.) goes on the road from Aug. 2-6 with host Bill Griffeth. The show's "Wish You Were Here Summer Tour" will stop in and...
HOW FITNESS HELPS BEAT CANCER:DOCTORS SAY HERO CYCLIST'S PHYSICAL CONDITION AND INDOMITABLE SPIRIT SPED RECOVERY
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amAS he watched the TV coverage of Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong from his office at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, cancer specialist Dr. Lawrence Einhorn could hardly...
BROADWAY'S COMING ATTRACTIONS
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amIt's slow as molasses on Broadway during the summer. But in rehearsal studios, producers' offices and summer houses in the Hamptons, theater people are hard at work on projects for...
DYLAN WARMS UP FOR GARDEN WITH RED-HOT CLUB GIG
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amI n rock you can do it for love, money or fame. But since Bob Dylan has an abundance of all three, these days it seems he just does it...
PACKING IT ALL IN: COWGIRLS DON'T GET THE BLUES IN THE MOUNTAINS OF COLO.
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amSIESTA lived up to her name. When it was time to saddle up again after lunch, she was snoozing in the sun. Since I had just roused myself from a...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amPisa cake You can now fly direct from JFK to Pisa, with a stop in Venice - good news for visitors to northeastern Italy. Prior to yesterday's debut of AirEurope's...
CUNNINGHAM'S WORKS GET BETTER WITH AGE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT GERIATRIC genius is generally regarded as a pretty rare commodity, but of course there are some examples. Giuseppe Verdi is often cited for his final operas, "Otello" and "Falstaff";...
SHOW'S BIG CHEESE FIDDLED WHILE ROME BURNED
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amROME, N.Y. WOODSTOCK co-promoter John Scher went on stage as rioters were stripping plywood sections of his "peace" wall to feed to the bonfires raging in the midst of 100,000...
MORGY, AT 80, IS STILL AN AGELESS WONDER
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amRobert Morgenthau - who turns 80 at the end of the month - plans to remain Manhattan's district attorney well into the next century. All because of a deal he...
HIZZONER HEADING FOR THE HILL'S IN SEARCH OF ARK. MONEY
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amAt the governor's invitation, Mayor Giuliani will visit the state capital today, hold a fund-raising lunch with GOP officials and take a grand tour of the governor's mansion - in...
WILLIAM IS DRIVEN TO PROVE HE'S THE PRINCE OF WHEELS
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amBritain's royal heartthrob, Prince William, yesterday revved up for his first official photo op since his mother's death nearly two years ago, displaying his new skills behind the wheel. The...
SUSPECT IN CITY SLAY ARRESTED IN DOMINICAN
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe feds yesterday nabbed a fugitive drug dealer in the Dominican Republic who allegedly stabbed a woman to death at a children's birthday party in 1995. Working with Dominican police,...
BABY SEIZURES MAY PRECEDE EPILEPSY
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amBabies who have suffered a seizure triggered by a high fever might be predisposed to epilepsy later in life, a study shows. Researcher Ivan Soltesz and colleagues at the University...
BATTERERS, BEWARE! - DEVICE WARNS IF THEY GET NEAR VICTIMS
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani announced a new initiative yesterday to safeguard battered women - and then ridiculed a question about why his administration hasn't been able to reduce the number of domestic-violence...
AL'S FLOOD-GATE IS HIS SECOND IN A ROW, SAYS G0P
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amGOPers cited a 1996 incident when 96 million gallons of water were released so Gore could be photographed against a roaring South Platte River. WASHINGTON - Republicans, wading into Al...
APPLE'S LAST CHECKER CAN'T HACK IT ANYMORE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amAnd then, there were none. The glory days of the New York City taxicab officially ended yesterday as Earl Johnson - who became the city's last Checker cabby when a...
NAT0 ON HIGH ALERT AMID NEW VIOLENCE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amNATO troops in Kosovo maintained tight security yesterday in the village where 14 Serbian farmers were massacred in an ethnic revenge killing - while new reports of violence added to...
WHITE HOUSE IS GETTING A NEW WAY TO BUZZ BORIS
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Hello, hello, hello? With U.S.-Russia relations icy over Kosovo, Washington and Moscow have decided to install another hot line in addition to the Cold War "red phone" linking...
AUTOPSY SHOWS DRUG SUSPECT WAS NOT BEATEN
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amMaloney's family wants a probe of his death. An autopsy found no signs of injuries that would indicate police abuse in the case of a Brooklyn man who died in...
PREZ TO SYRIA: MAKE PEACE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton has reached out to Syrian President Hafez Assad and urged him to "seize the moment of opportunity" to negotiate peace with Israel. Word of the letter that Clinton...
TALK ABOUT QUIET RIOT! - PROMOTERS SHRUG OFF WOODSTOCK RAMPAGE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amRioting, looting, and mayhem were no big deal for Woodstock '99's promoters, who are downplaying Sunday night's melee and promising more music festivals to come. Authorities in Oneida County refused...
TUNNEL DUO FORCED SEX ON VICTIM'S PAL, TOO: DA - NEW BID TO CLOSE GATIEN CLUB
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amTwo men who allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl at the trouble-plagued Tunnel nightclub also sodomized the girl's 18-year-old friend during the attack, Manhattan prosecutors said yesterday. The added charges only...
KENNEDY'S LOFT WILL $KYROCKET - HIS NAME DRIVES PRICE TO $2.5M
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amJohn F. Kennedy Jr.'s apartment could be worth up to $2.5 million, a real-estate expert said yesterday. Kennedy bought the loft in TriBeCa for $700,000 in January, 1994. But Scott...
PARTING SWEET SORROW FOR KOSOVO REFUGEES
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amSome 300 grateful ethnic Albanian refugees boarded a plane at Kennedy Airport yesterday to go home to Kosovo - the first group to head back after receiving U.S. asylum. "America...
OH, BABY! DNA PROVES JAGGER'S THE DAD
July 27, 1999 | 4:00am"Now Mick has to formally accept Lucas is his. You can tell by looking at the baby anyway." A FRIEND OF LUCIANA GIMENEZ MORAD Mick Jagger's Brazilian bombshell girlfriend has...
SADLY, ONCE-PROUD COP NOW ASHAMES
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN he takes off the uniform, puts down the badge, and goes out for the evening, the young Brooklyn cop faces an identity crisis: "What am I going to be...
CRACKS IN CARRIAGE KO 90 SUBWAY CARS - EXCLUSIVE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amTransit officials have yanked 90 subway cars out of service because of dangerous cracks found in a key component, The Post has learned. The cracks were discovered in recent months...
MOTHER TERESA'S FIRST STEP TOWARD SAINTHOOD
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT Mother Teresa, hailed during her lifetime of charity as a "living saint," may now be on her way toward real sainthood. The archbishop of Calcutta launched an inquiry yesterday...
TRIBECA JFK MEMORIAL IS NOW ONLY A MEMORY
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT The huge, impromptu memorial that grew outside John F. Kennedy Jr.'s TriBeCa apartment after his deadly plane crash was taken down yesterday. The Department of Sanitation, along with five...
WHAT HE LEAVE$ BEHIND
July 27, 1999 | 4:00am* A co-op on North Moore Street, valued at $2.5 million * Half-interest (with sister Caroline) in three properties in Massachusetts inherited from their mother, including 375 acres of land...
U.S. DEFENSE NEVER RESTS ; DREAM TEAM 'D' JUST CAN'T BE MATCHED
July 27, 1999 | 4:00am"When we decide to shut down another team, we just shut them down."GARY PAYTON SAN JUAN - Midway through the second half of the championship game of the Olympic Qualifying...
YANKS VOW NO LETDOWN: PROMISE TO TAKE LOWLY CHISOX SERIOUSLY
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amGranted, the surging Yankees and struggling White Sox are teams headed in opposite directions, and it's easy to see how the Bombers might overlook lowly Chicago in-between sets with hated...
AWFULLY EARLY TO BE RIOTING
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - The new season is still several weeks away in Italy, but those excitable and powerful emotions soccer always manages to stir up have already had the fans in...
WEIS EARNS FOUL REVIEW: VAN'S NO FAN OF CHANGES
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Looks like there's some serious adjusting coming for NBA players regarding the new no forearm check rules. And if the adjusting continues year after year during summer leagues,...
27-28 SEEMS LONG AGO ; MET TURNAROUND AMAZING
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amVERY quietly, the Mets already have erased their first important magic number of the season. On June 6, at a news conference to discuss the dismissal of three coaches he...
RICKEY OF THE YEARS: AGELESS HENDERSON KEEPS GOING & GOING
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amMets GM Steve Phillips thought 40-year-old Rickey Henderson had a lot left when he signed him in the offseason. But even the GM couldn't have anticipated Henderson to be leading...
WEIS EARNS FOUL REVIEW: KNICKS' 7-2 ROOKIE COMES UP SHORT IN SUMMER DEBUT
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amWeis was limited to just 17 minutes because of ridiculous foul trouble. BOSTON - Er, Knick fans? Don't expect much from first-round draft pick Frederic Weis for a while. A...
ROGERS TO START TOMORROW - IF...
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amDespite lingering concerns about Kenny Rogers' hamstring, the Mets yesterday announced the newly acquired lefty will make his debut for the team tomorrow vs. Pittsburgh. Of course, that could still...
27-28 SEEMS LONG AGO: MET TURNAROUND AMAZING
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets are not only good enough to unseat the precarious Braves in the NL East, but because they are clearly better than Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Arizona or San Francisco...
JUST WENDELL-FUL :TURK COMES IN TO RESCUE BENITEZ
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amMets 7 Pirates 5 The Mets caught the Yankees last night but they still couldn't catch the Braves. With their 7-5 victory over Pittsburgh last night in the series opener...
ARMANDO TAKES WALK ON WILD SIDE
July 27, 1999 | 4:00amArmando Benitez delivered a run-scoring ball four to Al Martin in the ninth inning last night and put his hands to his knees and stared at the ground. In times...