July 29, 1999
SOLLY BIGS TO OPEN MIDTOWN RESTAURANT; EXCLUSIVE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amFour current and former Salomon Smith Barney bigwigs are investing in a new Midtown eatery they hope will be the next Four Seasons, The Post has learned. Timothy Gaglio, managing...
WALL ST. BIG SHOTS GET BIG BUCKS - NEUBERGER'S PARTNERS OK STOCK ISSUE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amNeuberger Berman is going ahead with a long-mulled plan to go public - and the firm's 70 partners stand to make a fortune. The partners voted to go ahead with...
SOROS GETS E-TAIL BUG; PUTS $10M INTO BLUEFLY
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amBillionaire financier George Soros is sinking $10 million into off-price online retailer Bluefly. The investment will give Soros Private Equity Partners and Pilot Capital a 19.5 percent stake in Bluefly,...
ANOTHER TOP EDITOR QUITS AT GLAMOUR
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amGlamour editor in chief Bonnie Fuller has lost her second top editor in two weeks. Stephanie Dolgoff, the executive editor who had moved with Fuller from Hearst's Cosmopolitan, is leaving...
CHASE ONLINE SERVICE HIT BY SLOWDOWN
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amComputer troubles at Chase Manhattan Bank, the city's largest, have kept customers from logging on to its popular online banking service for three days. "We are having a problem with...
JFK JR. WAS TO SHOP GEORGE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Kennedy Jr. was about to begin a serious search for a buyer for his George magazine when he died. Kennedy had held acquisition talks with one possible buyer, a...
PALM PLANS TO ADOPT RIVALS' TECHNOLOGY - MARKET LEADER JOINED BY SUN, HITACHI, M'SOFT
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"Microsoft has no leverage in this space. AT&T Wireless calls the shots - it basically told Ericsson and Nokia to get in line." SEAMUS McATEER, Analyst at Jupiter Communications. The...
ONLINE BOSS AT BORDERS STEPS DOWN
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe head of Borders Group Online resigned, just three months after the CEO at the No. 2 bookseller quit. Borders said Cedric Vanzura, online president, resigned "to pursue another opportunity;"...
RESCUE OFFER TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWheeler-dealers are coming out of the woodwork to capitalize on the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. But whether they're on the level is a question among investment advisers. One...
GOLDMAN FIGHTING FOR ABBY - SEEKS TO BLOCK SALE OF MARKET GURU'S NAME
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: What's in a name? Big bucks, if you're planning on using it on the Internet. One month after Barry Diller and his USA Networks sued three men who were...
TECHNOLOGY MAKES CARS SAFER
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Year 2000 models are on the assembly line and headed to dealer showrooms. As you check the bank account to decide whether and which one tobuy, it's a good...
TV TICKER
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am11's exclusive Ch.11's 10 o'clock newscast will air exclusive interviews tonight and tomorrow with Shyteek Johnson (a.k.a. Nushawn Williams). Johnson, who is HIV-positive, tells Jonathan Dienst that he had sex...
'NIGHTLINE' SERVES AN EARLY BIRD SPECIAL
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"Nightline in Primetime:Brave New World" Tonight at 10 on WABC/Ch.7 PUT that remote down and sit back for a smart and engaging look at what instant gratification says about us,...
KORN SPROUTS THE MOST MTV AWARD NOMS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amCALIFORNIA rap-metal band Korn topped the list of nominees for the 16th annual MTV Video Music Awards announced yesterday. Korn, more used to lurking on the fringes of the mainstream,...
WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS DIANE SAWYER? - MYSTERY GROWS OVER 'GMA' ANCHOR'S DISAPPEARANCE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am'It was very much about a feeling that I had, some personal obligations' - Diane Sawyer PASADENA - "Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer came under attack yesterday for missing...
LEGAL EAGLES TO COLLEAGUES: SHUT UP ALREADY! - PROFS: TV TALKING HEADS SHOULD BE MUZZLED
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - It's their job to explain law to the masses. But do legal talking heads well . . . talk too much? They do. Or at least they...
PARTY LINES - PUBLISHING PEOPLE, PHONE PALS PLAY
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amAT the office we develop relationships with voices, dozens of friendly, faceless souls from other companies with whom we constantly talk on the phone yet never meet in the flesh....
RUDY'S GRIT'S GOT SOUTHERN APPEAL
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWhen you can cite statistics proving to your mama that she'd be safer walking through Manhattan after midnight than in Baton Rouge any time of the day, you make a...
BOB TOPS PAUL AT MSG
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT strange bedfellows time makes. Paul Simon and Bob Dylan, a couple of songwriters who started on Bleecker Street, became music stars, did movies, made millions and managed to stay...
YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE THIS MAN DIE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amIT IS not a violent death, but that doesn't make it any easier to watch. Bed-ridden cancer patient Herbie Mowes basically stops breathing, the muscles in his face visibly relax,...
BOLSHOI IN LONDON: 'SWAN LAKE' SINKS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - This is obviously the year for "Swan Lake" to get a ducking. Three major productions have swum in - Peter Martins' staging for New York City Ballet, James...
LUXURY CO-OP TO RISE ON SITE OF OLD HARLEM FISH MARKET
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amBuoyed by Harlem's resurgence, developers are poised to build a tony high-rise co-op complex near St. Nicholas Park. The 50,000-square-foot project, called The Strivers, on Frederick Douglass Boulevard between 134th...
LADY WRESTLER SETTLES LEGAL FIGHT OUT OF RING
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amGorgeous grappler Rena Mero, a k a Sable, has settled her no-holds-barred, $100 million lawsuit against the World Wrestling Federation. The buxom, blond bombshell - who charged that she was...
PALESTINIANS RIP BARAK AS 'WORSE THAN' BIBI
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian officials bitterly criticized Ehud Barak yesterday for the first time since he became prime minister - saying he might be "worse than Benjamin Netanyahu." Barak's aides tried...
PATAKI TAKES NO PITY ON PIGEONS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Pigeons got some bad news yesterday. At Mayor Giuliani's urging, Gov. Pataki vetoed legislation that would have allowed the city to ban the killing of pigeons with poison....
COMING ATTRACTION AT THE GW BRIDGE BUS DEPOT: MOVIES!
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe George Washington Bridge bus terminal soon may be home to blockbuster movies. The Port Authority plans on selling a developer air rights to build a $20 million multiplex movie...
CREW WEIGHS JOB OFFER IN SEATTLE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew is being pursued for a top-level education post in his home state of Washington - and he's shown enough interest to talk to the county executive...
DO TEACHERS SEE PENSION GOLD IN TROUBLED SCHOOLS?; EXCLUSIVE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"It shocked me. It tells me they're only in it for the money." PRINCIPAL HARRIET FORTSON Principals at 40 low-performing schools taken over by Chancellor Rudy Crew say they fear...
PREZ: OUSTING NATO CHIEF ISN'T PAYBACK
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House yesterday insisted President Clinton's decision to dump NATO Commander Wesley Clark isn't a way of punishing the general for urging a ground-war plan during the...
RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH MAY LEAD TO CANCER CURE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"If we can somehow rebuild one of the steps in the tumor cell, then we may stop the evolution of the tumor cell." RESEARCHERS MOSHE YANIV & JONATHAN WEITZMAN In...
KENNEDYS' STAR IS RISING AGAIN - AND THIS TIME IT'S IN MARYLAND
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amSUDDENLY, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the new heir to the Kennedy mantle - Maryland's lieutenant governor is being talked up as her state's next governor, if not Al Gore's veep...
EARLY PROBE DETECTS NO PROBLEM IN JFK PLANE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amFederal investigators still have found no evidence of mechanical problems in John Kennedy Jr.'s private plane, but they are weeks away from focusing on pilot error as the cause of...
'WATCH' WHAT WE CAN REALLY DO, SAY TOP LIFEGUARD GALS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"Baywatch" babes beware! Real-life beach beauties from across the nation churned up the surf at Jacob Riis Park in Queens yesterday at the 15th Annual All-Women Lifeguard Tournament. About 149...
DEAD-IN-THE-WATER GOWANUS CANAL MAKING A COMEBACK
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"We've brought back life. To see crabs and fish means we've accomplished the first step." ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMMISSIONER JOE MIELE IT looks like The Chicken Man is going to need...
'PORNO' PEE-WEE SPEAKS - KID-TV STAR COMES TO GRIPS WITH '91 ARREST
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"I was a wreck [after the arrest]. I was convinced people were listening in on the phone." PAUL REUBENS Breaking his silence for the first time about his arrest, disgraced...
10G REWARD OFFERED IN HIT-RUN DEATH
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani has posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the hit-run driver who killed a pregnant St. John's University sophomore last Monday. Tanya...
HIZZONER'S CITY COUNCIL CRITICS RAISE FLAG STINK
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe flap over flying the Arkansas flag at City Hall had flustered elected officials fighting with Mayor Giuliani yesterday. City Council Speaker Peter Vallone fired off a letter "respectfully" ordering...
(C)OLD FARMERS' ALMANAC - WEATHER BIBLE SAW A 'COOL' SUMMER
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe nobody could have predicted this would be the hottest and driest July ever in New York - but the Old Farmer's Almanac didn't even come close. "Overall, June through...
JUDGE: VOLPE STATEMENT WON'T FREE LOUIMA COP
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn federal judge yesterday shot down convicted Abner Louima torture cop Charles Schwarz's bid to get out of prison and get a new trial. Schwarz's lawyer, Stephen Worth, had...
IT'S THE SILLY SEASON HERE, TOO
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amACROSS the pond in Europe, newsmen call it "The Silly Season" - a time when anything can make news. Barring the tragedy of national disasters, I can tell you what...
SHABAZZ KID NABBED IN NEW ESCAPE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amMalcolm Shabazz, the 14-year-old grandson of Malcolm X who set the fire that killed his grandmother, was back in custody yesterday just hours after he bolted from a Westchester detention...
'HANOI JANE' GHOSTS SCARE FONDA FROM LAWYERS CONVENTION
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amJane Fonda has backed out of a pledge to speak at the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta after protests from angry veterans - but "Hanoi Jane" says she had...
SCIENTISTS SAY THIS IS NEWS THEY CAN USE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amThe war against cancer is far from over, but scientists finally have the enemy in clear sight, experts said yesterday. "You have to know your enemy, because knowing your enemy,...
CLINTON ACCUSER WASN'T PAID OFF, SAYS STARR MAN
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's own special prosecutor concluded in papers released yesterday that there's no basis to charges that President Clinton's chief Whitewater accuser was paid off. The...
FIRST LADY WON'T TOUCH BANNER FLAP WITH A POLE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday refused to rally 'round the Arkansas flag. The day after New York City Councilman Bill Perkins claimed it symbolized "racist messages" of slavery, Clinton, who lived...
CARGO-JET DRUG RING BUSTED: FEDS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amFederal agents on Long Island have busted an alleged multimillion-dollar drug ring that smuggled cocaine into the United States from South America aboard cargo jets. The ring, headed by Diego...
BERNSTEIN NEARLY GAGS ON 'DEEP THROAT' THEORY
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWatergate sleuth Carl Bernstein and ex-wife Nora Ephron are getting heartburn over a report their son, Jacob, fingered a former FBI bigwig as the mysterious Deep Throat. Bernstein told The...
SENATE SET TO APPROVE $792 MILLION TAX-CUT BILL
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amDemocrats succeeded in a motion to end the tax cut after 10 years. WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans last night showed they have the muscle to pass a huge tax cut,...
SEHORN EMERGES FROM SECLUSION; SEHORN PUMPED UP FOR COMEBACK
July 29, 1999 | 4:00am"I was just taking care of my life. I wanted to make sure by the time the summer was over and football was ready to go that I was ready...
KENNY BETTER EQUIPPED FOR ACT II
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amJUST beyond noon yesterday of Act II, Scene I, of Kenny Rogers in New York, the lefty warmed up oblivious that a sharp Met employee had chosen The Verve's "Bittersweet...
BUC RELIEVER BLOWS GAME AND HIS COOL
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amReliever Marc Wilkins took the loss for the Pirates in yesterday's 9-2 Mets win. But, in reality, it was Jason Christiansen who sounded like he lost the game - and...
UMPS ARE WAITING FOR BASEBALL'S CALL
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amBaseball umpires continued to learn about some major league hardball yesterday as a final round of letters was expected to be mailed to the men in blue, letting them know...
YANKS, BOSOX CAN'T BELIEVE MERCURY METS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amThose wacky Mercury Mets uniforms worn by the Amazins' Tuesday night and the futuristic program adopted by the team have become the latest joke for many teams around baseball. Some...
FONZIE THE SILENT ASSASSIN - AMAZIN' 2B N.Y.'S BEST KEPT SECRET
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amMAYBE a few blown ground balls would blow Edgardo Alfonzo's cover. Certainly five seasons of screaming line drives haven't shouted to the world New York's best-kept sporting secret. "A couple...
SPA, 'MYSTERYCAT' ENJOY FLYING START
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The golden goose named Saratoga laid another golden egg for the New York Racing Association yesterday when the curtain went up on the 36-day stand that runs...
AT 5-4, SHAWNTA IS COMING UP BIG
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Golden State GM Garry St. Jean watched 5-4 Nets hopeful Shawnta Rodgers scoot and dart around the court at the Pro Summer League here yesterday. The comparison was...
STRAW DECISION IS DUE TODAY
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - One week after telling Darryl Strawberry that he was going to review his 120-day suspension, commissioner Bud Selig is expected to reduce that sentence today after talking with...
DEMARCO HOPES TO STICK AROUND
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - DeMarco Johnson, the Knicks' second round pick a year ago who spent a season overseas, is a good player, the organization believes. But a good player where, here...
BOSS WON'T LET BOMBERS LET UP
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Now that every other team in the majors can only see the backs of the most famous uniform in sports, George Steinbrenner isn't going to drop the whip....
JUMBO: BILL AND I ARE ON SAME PAGE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amEmbattled Jets' left tackle Jumbo Elliott checked into training camp yesterday, a day before the players are required to be in the Hofstra University dorms and ready for two-a-day practices,...
METS' MR. ROGERS NOT SO NEIGHBORLY - NEWLY ACQUIRED LEFTY 1-HITS BUCS OVER 6 IN DEBUT
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amIn his first outing as a New York Met, Kenny Rogers learned several things. He learned yesterday was the fifth anniversary of his perfect game and he learned his right...
TOOK 'EM ALL SEASON TO ROLL A 7
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets needed only one run to take the lead in the eighth inning yesterday, but broke out for seven to crush the Pirates and their bullpen 9-2....
FUTURE DUDS NOT BIG HIT IN THE SEATS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amA few fans who saw the futuristic uniforms worn by the Mets and Pirates Tuesday night liked the idea; but almost none liked the reality. Almost every single fan polled...
FOR OPENERS, SPEED SCORES
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Early in the card, it was obvious there is a bias on the dirt course and all handicappers need to adjust to take advantage of it. The...
ANELKA REMAINS IN HOT WATER
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Nicolas Anelka is 20 years old, a fairly gifted soccer player and he wants $75,000 per week to play in Italy. With agents seeking ever-heftier percentages of multi-million...
LUKAS, PLETCHER SET FOR SANFORD BATTLE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The Jedi master and his star pupil square off again here this afternoon when trainer D. Wayne Lukas sends out Dance Master in the Grade 2, $100,000...
BUCS' MORRIS A SAD SECOND SACKER
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amWhat Warren Morris wouldn't give to have played John Olerud's liner just a little bit better; what he wouldn't have done to have Rey Ordonez' shot stay just a millimeter...
BOSS LIGHTS FIRE UNDER BOMBERS - WANTS YANKS TO GO FOR KILL
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Now that every other team in the majors can only see the backs of the most famous uniform in sports, George Steinbrenner isn't going to drop the whip....
JET ROOKIE A SHORE THING - CONTI HOPES TO FOLLOW IN CHREBET'S FOOTSTEPS
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amAt 5-foot-8 and 175 pounds dressed in soaking-wet sweats Eddie Conti stands as a symbol for what the 1999 Jets' training camp, which begins tomorrow, will be all about: Wide-eyed...
KNICKS' WEIS NOT HALF BAD IN DEFEAT
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - As bad as he was in the Pro Summer League opener for the Knicks, Frederic Weis was that good - at least for a half - last night....
POUNDED PETTITTE CLOSER TO DOOR - BUT TORRE HEDGES ON POSSIBLE TRADE
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Prior to watching Andy Pettitte struggle against the White Sox at Comiskey Park last night, Joe Torre painted a picture in which Pettitte wouldn't be moved before Saturday's...
PETTITTE MAKES IT EASY FOR WHITE SOX
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Andy Pettitte arrived at the set position knowing he was going to challenge Chris Singleton with a third straight curveball. Why wouldn't he, after the former Yankee minor...
STRAW SHOULD GET GOOD WORD FROM SELIG TODAY
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - One week after telling Darryl Strawberry that he was going to review his 120-day suspension, commissioner Bud Selig is expected to reduce that sentence today after...
CONFIDENT FASSEL PUTS PACT ON HOLD, EYES STRONG SEASON
July 29, 1999 | 4:00amThis would appear to be a huge season up ahead for Jim Fassel, entering the third year of a four-year contract, especially given the Giants firm belief that a head...