July 30, 1999
MARTHA TO MARKET - STEWART IPO MAY RAISE UP TO $100M
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amMartha Stewart is serving up fare that goes far beyond her usual luscious desserts and colorful flower arrangements. After years of speculation on Wall Street, the doyenne of domesticity is...
THIEVES MAKE NICOLE MILLER FASHION VICTIM
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amIn an old-fashioned heist, a Nicole Miller truck with $132,000 worth of clothes inside was stolen from the garment district Tuesday. Police found the empty truck in Brooklyn yesterday. And...
W HOTEL SNARES KEY GUARDIAN LIFE SITE; EXCLUSIVE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe former Guardian Life building at Union Square is to become the city's fourth upscale W Hotel next year, The Post has learned. Starwood Hotels - which owns the Sheraton,...
NASDAQ MOVES A STEP CLOSER TO MARKET
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe board of the National Association of Securities Dealers yesterday approved the idea of spinning off the Nasdaq Stock Market and selling equity in the exchange. NASD Chairman Frank Zarb...
KATZENBERG'S NEW ROLE: DREAMWORKS' UTILITY MAN
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amDreamWorks has suddenly gone topsy-turvy. In a major reshuffle at the Hollywood studio, co-owner Jeffrey Katzenberg has taken on the job of head of production. Katzenberg will temporarily replace Bob...
WORTH HIS WEILL - BEATS REED FOR CONTROL OF CITIGROUP
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amSandy Weill has won the power struggle with John Reed for control of Citigroup. While the two continue to share the title of chairman and CEO, they will no longer...
JUDGE ORDERS MORGAN STANLEY TO NEGOTIATE ITS SEX LAW SUIT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amLawyers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter have been told to hash out their differences in a court case related to a sex discrimination complaint...
MARTS TANK ON WAGE REPORT, RATE FEARS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe markets took a beating yesterday when word of increased labor costs sparked fears the Fed will raise interest rates as soon as next month. The government reported the biggest...
DATEK LEAPS INTO TRADING AFTER HOURS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amDatek Online yesterday became the first brokerage firm to extend trading hours, announcing that starting Monday trading will continue until 5:15 p.m. Sources say other brokerages, as well as the...
FILMMAKER USES WEB TO FIGHT 'JERKS'
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amIF you want to see a depiction of sex the MPAA thinks is unacceptable for children under 17 and then compare it with a version of the same scene that...
'RUNAWAY' BORE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amRUNAWAY BRIDE TWO STARS Starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere. Directed by Garry Marshall. Running time: 114 minutes. Rating: PG. At Loews State, Lincoln Square, Metro Twin, others. 'RUNAWAY Bride" is...
KEEPING 'EM 'X'-CITED - SNOW SETS TONE FOR TV HIT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00am"At its best, music subliminally - and sometimes overtly - brings you so deeply in that you're transported out of the reality of your living room." - Mark Snow "[If...
CREATING AN 'AMERICAN RIVIERA' 70 YEARS AGO WAS... NO DAY AT THE BEACH
July 30, 1999 | 4:00am"Jones Beach: AnAmerican Riviera" Sunday at 7:30 p.m. on WNET/Ch. 13 THERE had never been anything like Jones Beach when it opened up four miles of pristine beach to the...
'SWIFT KICK' SENDS YOU RIGHT BACK TO THE '50S
July 30, 1999 | 4:00am'A Good Swift Kick," at the Variety Arts, is a mildly satirical revue consisting of 20 songs performed by five players. It can't exactly be called "topical," because so much...
TV TICKER
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amNick's nixed Nick Clooney is leaving American Movie Classics after seven years. AMC announced yesterday that Clooney - father of George Clooney - will be replaced by former "Personal FX"...
GRODIN GOES IT ALONE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amCHARLES Grodin is going to the videotape - literally. Beginning tomorrow, Grodin's MSNBC talk show, "Charles Grodin" (8 p.m.), won't be featuring any guests in its hour-long format. Instead, Grodin...
TOWNSHEND LIVE - & KICKIN'
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amHE stood alone, lanky and slightly stooped and still lean. Pete Townshend looked older than his 54 years as he slipped under the strap of a brand-new, fire-engine-red Fender Telecaster....
DENNEHY GIVES 'EM THE BUSINESS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amBRIAN Dennehy, the Tony Award-winning star of "Death of a Salesman," lashed out at two noisy latecomers Wednesday night, refusing to go on with the show until they stopped talking...
WHY THE 'SEINFELD' FINALE SECRECY?
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amTHE finale of "Seinfeld" was the highest-rated show of its season and the most-anticipated single episode of any series of the 1990s - but Ch.11 is treating it like an...
DOUBLE EXPOSURE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00am'TWIN Falls Idaho" has nothing to do with the potato state.This strange, at times compelling cross between a David Lynch film and one of those disease-of-the-week TV movies is actually...
WE'RE PAYING THE PRICE OF PROGRESS WITH BLOOD
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amAT 2:30 p.m. yesterday, I was having a beer with British insurance man Steve Vivien at Langan's, waiting the arrival of a cop. Vivien suddenly exploded: "Bloody hell, look at...
HILLARY: 'I KIND OF LIKE' N.Y. RESIDENCY RULES
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amHit with a surprise carpetbagger question from an upstate plant worker, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she wouldn't favor a residency requirement for candidates if she is elected...
NO ONE, NOWHERE WILL EVER BE SAFE AS LONG AS LOSERS CAN PACK PISTOLS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON. Jonesboro. Paducah. San Isidro. Buckhead. Your town, USA. Who will be next? The names hit you in the gut like the recoil off a Colt .45 . So many,...
CNN STANDS FOR CAUGHT NAPPING NETWORK
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amCNN was last among the cable news channels to report on yesterday's deadly massacre in Atlanta - even though the shooting happened right in CNN's back yard. Atlanta-based CNN aired...
STOCK GAMBLERS LIVE ON EDGE OF FORTUNE AND RUIN
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe tumbling stock market probably pushed one-time day trader Mark Barton over the edge and into gunning down and killing at least 12 people - nine of them in brokerage...
TRADER'S RAMPAGE ENDS WITH HIS SUICIDE - MURDERS 12 IN ATLANTA SLAY SPREE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amAn Atlanta stock trader who calmly said, "I hope this doesn't ruin your trading day," yesterday gunned down nine brokerage workers - apparently after killing his wife and children -...
LETHAL LUNATICS AN 0CCUPATI0NAL HAZARD - HISTORY SHOWS DEATH STALKS THE WORKPLACE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe killer is usually a loner with access to guns who has years of frustration behind him. Researchers have found that workplace killings like yesterday's Atlanta carnage follow a pattern:...
DEALER GROUP OKS TIGHTER SCREENING
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe board of the National Association of Securities Dealers yesterday approved new rules that would require day-trading firms to screen potential traders. The NASD said firms that let traders use...
'HOPE I DON'T RUIN YOUR TRADING DAY' - THEN GUNMAN CALMLY FIRED AT ANYONE IN SIGHT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe stock market had already plunged 211 points when the man with death on his mind walked into the suburban Atlanta brokerage. Mark Barton was a day trader - someone...
TRADER'S RAMPAGE ENDS WITH HIS SUICIDE - MRDERS 12 IN ATLANTA SLAY SPREE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amAn Atlanta stock trader who calmly said, "I hope this doesn't ruin your trading day," yesterday gunned down nine brokerage workers - after killing his wife and two children -...
CHINA-NUKE DOC: 'IT WAS MY JOB'
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe researcher suspected of passing classified U.S. nuclear secrets to China has admitted he downloaded the sensitive information from one computer to another - but insists it was a routine...
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS NOW SADLY INCLUDE LETHAL LOONIES
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amResearchers have found that workplace killings like yesterday's Atlanta massacre follow a pattern: The suspect is usually a white male in his 40s, a loner with access to guns who...
TRIPP'S LAWYER EXPECTS SEXGATE TAPE INDICTMENT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe tape recordings that helped get President Clinton impeached last year may now sink the woman who made them - Linda Tripp. Tripp's lawyer, Joseph Murtha, told The Washington Post...
FROM STOCKS TO SLAUGHTER - 'QUIET' GUY'S DEADLY PAST
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amMark Barton was a computer junkie who delved into the high-stakes world of Internet stock trading - and a quiet suburbanite with a shady past, whom police had suspected of...
LESS IS MORE AS BRADLEY CAMPAIGN GAINS GROUND
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amWHY is Bill Bradley's minimalist campaign for president catching on? In the nine months since I last reported on Bradley, he has gone from a 100-to-1 long shot, to a...
Y2K WILL GIVE JURORS PAUSE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amState courts will spare New Yorkers grappling with any Y2K glitches the added burden of answering jury-duty summonses for the first couple of weekdays of the millennium, The Post has...
RAPE LIE THREW TEEN'S KIN INTO TUNNEL OF HELL
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Caraballo family knows what it's like to be plunged headfirst into a long and deep Tunnel of hell. The spiral descent began when TV newscasts showed their handcuffed son...
0D KILLED PERP WHO SWALLOWED EVIDENCE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man who died in police custody last week was killed by the cocaine he swallowed in a desperate attempt to avoid drug-possession charges - and was not a...
RAPE PROBE, SUSPENDED COP JOIN W'STOCK WOES
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amState police suspended a supervisor of the troopers who posed for photos with naked young women during the riot at Woodstock '99 - as cops investigated four reported rapes at...
DI'S GOWNS HEADING HOME TO HER PALACE FOR CHARITY EXHIBIT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amA collection of the late Princess Diana's designer frocks-including the famous ink-blue velvet gown she wore for a White House waltz with John Travolta -will go on exhibit at her...
CHINA WANTS CULT LEADER ARRESTED
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amChina stepped up its crackdown on the banned Falun Gong meditation group yesterday, ordering the arrest of its Queens-based founder on charges of disturbing public order and spreading superstition. The...
OLD CANCER PATIENTS IGNORED: STUDY
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amElderly cancer patients often get snubbed when it comes to medical care simply because they're old, a British study concluded yesterday. "Ageist attitudes persist among health-care staff," a team from...
BARAK JOURNEYS TO EGYPT ON A DOVE'S WINGS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak carried his diplomatic campaign to Egypt yesterday - and prepared to take it to Moscow next week - as he seeks allies in...
RUDY: SAVE WATER NOW - AND AVOID RATIONING LATER
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amA day after officials said the city was in good shape to weather the scorching drought, Mayor Giuliani took a different tack - warning New Yorkers that if they don't...
PROSECUTOR POINTS FINGER AT GOV IN PAROLE-FIX TRIAL
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amA top state parole official acted as a corrupt conduit between the governor's office and the commissioners who released a Queens armed robber, a federal prosecutor suggested yesterday. Assistant U.S....
FEDS: Y2K 'FIX' COULD BE WORSE THAN BUG
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amProgrammers hired to fix the Y2K glitch may actually be sabotaging the systems. Who do you trust? Programmers hired to fix the Y2K glitch in corporate and government computers may...
FURIOUS JUDGE ORDERS BILL TO COUGH UP 90G FOR MONICA LIES
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday slammed President Clinton with a $90,686 "misconduct" fine for lying under oath about Sexgate - and wife Hillary stonewalled questions about whether he deserved it. Little...
SENATE READY TO OK $792B TAX CUT, DESPITE VETO THREAT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Senate is poised to pass a huge tax cut today, a day after killing amendments that stood in its way and ignoring President Clinton's veto threat....
JUMBO LASHES OUT AT 'CHARACTER ASSASSINS'
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amJumbo Elliott, charging that he is a victim of widespread character assassination, yesterday launched a heavy-handed attack on his accusers in that bar-room brawl who are suing him and former...
ALL EIGHT COACHES RETURN TO BIG EAST
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amDepending on your point of view, it can be seen as an indictment of the Big East's uncertain past, or proof of the league's slow climb toward stability. But at...
CAMP TUNA NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amYou have to page back a long way in Jets' history books to find a year like this one when the franchise entered training camp with the kind of rich...
'READY' A ROCKET IN SANFORD
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - From Man o'War to Secretariat and Affirmed, the greatest 2-year-olds of all time have raced at Saratoga. After yesterday's tour-de-force in the Grade 2, $100,000 Sanford Stakes,...
TRANGHESE SHRUGS OFF MIAMI ACC RUMOR
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThe Big East held its 9th annual Rumor Mill Day yesterday at Giants Stadium. Oh, formally it was the league's football media day, but the only time commissioner Mike Tranghese...
ISLES SIGN STARS' HRKAC
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amTony Hrkac has won his Stanley Cup ring; now he's looking for some more individual achievement. In going from the penthouse to the outhouse, Dallas' unrestricted free agent center Tony...
IT'S UP TO CHUCK - FINLEY TO BE YANK IF HE'S EXTENDED; EXCLUSIVE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - According to a well-placed Angels source, the only thing standing in the way of Chuck Finley becoming a Yankee is the veteran lefty agreeing to a contract extension,...
NL ACCEPTS 13 UMP RESIGNATIONS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThirteen was indeed an unlucky number for National League umps yesterday. That's how many umpires will be out of a job come Sept. 2 because the league chose to accept...
RICE'S HICKS NIXES NOTRE DAME OFFER; EXCLUSIVE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amHaving coached Rice High to three CHSAA and state titles in five seasons, it was only a matter of time before Maurice Hicks was courted by Division I schools. But...
UNSTEADY KNOBLAUCH SITS AGAIN
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CHICAGO - Chuck Knoblauch missed his second straight game yesterday with what has been diagnosed as a sinus infection that has left the second baseman and leadoff hitter...
BIG BUCKS ON LINE AT SPA
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - With four double-digit horses winning in the Pick Six races yesterday, there is a $241,550.43 carryover into today's card. The longshot winners ranged from 11-1 to 24-1...
NO BLOCKBUSTERS FOR METS - PHILLIPS MAY JUST TINKER AT DEADLINE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amWhen the Mets put out the word last week that they had a major trade to announce, people were seeing visions of Curt Schilling and Alex Rodriguez dancing before their...
TURK'S WORK IS NEVER DONE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES All the talk about Turk Wendell hitting a wall with all the appearances he's had isn't adding up the way his appearances have. Wendell is having an excellent...
COACHES SHUTTER AT THE THOUGHT OF PREGAME CAMERAS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amIN sports television's never-ending quest one day to present all events like MTV's Rock N' Jock softball game, the NFL this season will allow cameras into the locker room before...
'CANES GET PRESEASON NOD
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amBIG EAST NOTES Miami was chosen first in a poll of journalists to win the Big East Conference over Virginia Tech, an interesting ballot considering the Hurricanes have yet to...
BROWN HAS GIANTS WORRIED - RUNNING BACK'S ACCIDENT WAS WORSE THAN THOUGHT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The theme of Giants training camp '99 could easily center on the inspirational returns of several key players from various forms of injury. But on the day the...
MAKOS ARE GRABBING THE BAIT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amFROM HUDSON Canyon to the lower Hudson River, a variety of species were taken by saltwater anglers, some within the shadow of the World Trade Center. Despite gusty winds and...
YANKEES.COM SET TO CHALLENGE AOL; YANKS SET TO CUT INTO NET PROFIT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amCONQUERING the baseball diamond is only the beginning for the New York Yankees. The Bronx Bombers are now embarking on quite an ambitious off-field brand extension trip that will include...
FIREMAN EDDIE CUTS NFL DEAL
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amFireman Eddie has gone legit. The popular Jets fan who leads the J-E-T-S chant from Section 134 at Giants Stadium, has signed a licensing deal with the NFL. It is...
FASSEL VOWS REVVED-UP OFFENSE
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - The most noticeable change in Jim Fassel's third training camp with the Giants is that starting with this morning's first practice, there will be none of...
OH BABY! LUKAS STARS ARE WAITING IN WINGS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas's barn 83 is located at the farthest reaches of the grounds here, across Union Ave. in the outer corner of the stable area...
HERE'S YOUR TICKET TO RICHES IN PICK 6
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The Saratoga meeting is only 48 hours old, and already they've buried enough chalk in the "Graveyard of Favorites" to produce a two-day pick 6 carryover of...
WELL-RESTED MURESAN EYES RETURN AT LAST
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The spirit is willing. Definitely willing. But the body, in addition to being inordinately big, is definitely a little weak. So after sit-ting two years, free agent Gheorghe...
FEICK'S LEANING TOWARD NETS AGAIN
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - Nets. Jazz. Nets. Jazz. And now it appears the Nets are heading Jamie Feick's list of desired working places once again. Members of the Jazz hierarchy...
NOTHIN' DOIN' FOR YANKS
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - Sunglasses masked disappointed eyes as David Cone prepared to stroll across the Comiskey Park outfield. The long walk over a green broiler disguised as grass would take Cone...
THIRTEEN MORE UMPIRES ARE TOLD THEY'RE OUT
July 30, 1999 | 4:00amThirteen was indeed an unlucky number for National League umps yesterday. That's how many umpires will be out of a job come Sept. 2 because the league chose to accept...