August 22, 1999
SHE WROTE THE BOOK ON ONLINE JOB HUNTING
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amZERO unemployment in cyberspace? Pam Dixon is the author of "Jobsearching Online for Dummies" - one of those floppy yellow books that has to be updated as soon as it...
WE SAW THIS MOVIE FIRST - BACK IN APRIL
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE staff over at the Daily Snooze are turning into regular Rip Van Winkles. You know, he's the guy who fell asleep for 100 years and missed all the news....
BUT LEAVE THE 'RAPTORS AT HOME
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amPOOR Peter Lynch can't seem to get any respect. Given a choice, investors would prefer having dinner with director Steven Spielberg over Lynch and two other well-known investment industry veterans,...
PULLMAN'S NEW PLATTER - BOWIE BOND INVENTOR MAY BE EYEING IPO
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe man behind the Bowie bond is now working on an Elton bond, as well as an IPO. David Pullman, who rocked the bond world two years ago by securitizing...
HE GETS LITTLE MUTUAL ADMIRATION
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amDavid Pullman, the Wall Street whiz kid creator of Bowie bonds, won kudos from his peers when he came up with the brilliant idea to securitize musicians' royalties. But those...
TIME WARNER'S MUSIC MAN - ROGER AMES IS FACING A DAUNTING TASK IN TUNING UP THE BOTTOM LINE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amHE can't leap tall buildings in a single bound. He can't scale skyscrapers without an elevator. And he can't turn into an animal or a pail of water. Roger Ames...
NOV. GEORGE WILL BE A FAT ONE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE October issue of George magazine - acommemorative to fallen leader John F. Kennedy Jr. - is shaping up as one of the most ad-packed since the magazine was launched...
AFTER 31 YEARS, MAYBE HE SHOULD TAKE A BREAK
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER an long and illustrious workaholic career on Wall Street, Nathan Gantcher is finally planning a vacation. The former president of Oppenheimer & Co., who became a vice chairman of...
GADGETS: WATCH WORDS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amSoon you'll be able to retrieve your e-mail anytime - the operative word here being "time." Swatch, maker of funky and fun timepieces, recently announced a Swatch Beat watch that...
TABLE HOPPER
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amROWDY HALL 10 Main St. East Hampton (516) 324-8555 Tucked away in a quiet East Hampton alcove is a cozy pub-like place ironically named Rowdy Hall. Actually, its moniker comes...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: JUDITH LIGHT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMost actresses insist on being seen at their best. So, in a way, Judith Light has done the unthinkable - she's shaved her head. These days you'll find the 50-year-old...
MEALS & DEALS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amPERSEPOLIS 1423 Second Ave. (between 74th and 75th Streets) (212) 535-1100 For Middle Eastern on the Upper East Side, Persepolis may be your place. The food here is familiar enough...
NEW YORK PET: HISS-TORY
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amKeeping a snake is a slippery proposition For those drawn to the exotic, there may be no pet more intriguing than a snake. Majestic, commanding, even frightening, snakes tend to...
FILMS AND FUROR
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe 1999 New York Film Festival is shaping up as one of the most controversial in years, with "Dogma," director Kevin Smith's satire of Catholicism, expected to draw protesters to...
WHO IS THIS ROMANIAN GUY LIVIU-DIETER NISIPEANU?
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN the world chess federation began its championship in Las Vegas last month, only the half dozen names at the very top of the international pecking order who accepted invitations...
'KINGS' IS A ROYAL TREAT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amThis show is a surprise, a treat and a gem. Unless you have an unshakable hatred of old-time rock 'n' roll and sugared-almond harmonies, here is a show to be...
REAL WOMEN REVEAL... WHAT WAS HIS BIGGEST FASHION FAUX PAS?
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amKate Wingard, Athens, GA He wore rolled-up corduroys with a black, see-through knit sweater. That was the last time I saw him. Rhoville Evaristo, Astoria He actually took me out...
INTREPID PIGEON A WWI HERO
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amPigeons aren't the most popular pets in town. But during World War I, one coo-rageous bird performed a heroic mission that put Lassie, Rin Tin Tin and the Black Stallion...
WARMING UP TO ROBO-FIDO
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amIn the next millennium, it'll be raining robo-dogs and computer-kitties. By the end of the 21st century, a quarter of all household pets in America will be robots like AIBO,...
BIN LADEN TARGETS RUSSIA
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amOsama bin Laden, the multi-millionaire Saudi terrorist on the FBI's Most Wanted list, is secretly backing Islamic militants trying to wrest the Dagestan province free from Russia's control - and...
AXED WORKER SUES PUBLISHER - 'BOSS USED ASIAN SLURS'
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amA longtime employee of Family Circle magazine's publisher calls the company "racist family circle" in a discrimination lawsuit that charges her boss used an Asian slur against her and called...
FERRET OWNERS GROWLING 'LAWSUIT' - VOW CAT FIGHT OVER BAN ON EXOTIC PETS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amNow the fur really is flying! Two weeks after the city's ban on ferrets, iguanas and snakes went into effect, owners of the exotic - but, they say, friendly -...
NO ONE KNOWS HOW OFTEN RESIDENTS MIND THE O.R.
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amIt's not uncommon for doctors to break the law by leaving their dirty work to residents - nor to be sued for malpractice when junior docs botch the procedures. Despite...
GEORGE W., GIVE US THE OL' TEXAS SIDESTEP
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amGEORGE, you should have listened to me. This was George W. Bush early last week: "Somebody floats a rumor and it caused you to ask a question and that's the...
THE LAW TIGHTENS NOOSE ON SWANGO
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Swango, the doctor suspected of poisoning 35 patients, could face the death penalty before the end of the year, predicts Pulitzer Prize winning author James B. Stewart, who spent...
MILLENNIUM WON'T BE A BLAST WITHOUT FIREWORKS DEAL
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amWhile fireworks will be lighting up the skies around the world on Millennium New Year's Eve, it looks like revelers in the Big Apple will be left in the dark....
IT'S SQUEEZEY RIDERS IN NEW EXPRESS-BUS SEATS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00am"The seats are too short, too narrow and too low." 6-FOOT-3 PASSENGER ED LOMBARDO Seats on the city's new express buses are cramping the butts and knees of riders. The...
JUDGE'S HUBBY 25G RICHER AFTER PENSION RAP
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amA federal judge's husband, accused in a lawsuit of looting $20,000 from a pension fund and causing it to lose $147,000 in shady stock deals, came away from the case...
GIFT OF LIFE ENDS IN NEEDLESS DEATH - MAN DIED AS TRANSPLANT DOC QUIT EARLY: SUIT; EXCLUSIVE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amEdward Hohl, a 56-year-old retired Nynex executive, intended it as a grand gesture of love. His wife, Dafne, needed a kidney; he offered one of his own. But Hohl's touching...
U.N. OPENS KOSOVO TO ANTI-FAMILY ZEALOTS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amNOW that NATO troops have ended ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, there's reason to fear that the United Nations Population Fund will do what the Serbs failed to: pacify the region...
CHARTER-SCHOOL PARENTS HOPEFUL - 'PIONEERS' GIVE THEIR CHILDREN A FRESH CHANCE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amParents sending their kids to the city's first charter schools have high hopes the educational experiment will fulfill its grand promise. "We are going to be pioneers," said Obot Okoko,...
3 OF FINEST REASONS WHY 'SORRY' DOESN'T CUT IT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amDETECTIVE Anthony Senft was suddenly back amid the blood, bravery, gore and hatred of Dec. 31, 1982 - what a New Year's Eve that was. "Rocco looked like he had...
DOC JETS HOME TO PITCH IN
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amDr. Sait Tarahan saw an earthquake ravage his native Turkey in 1992 - but nothing could prepare him for the devastation he expects to find when he lands there today....
DOWNPOURS HAVEN'T DROWNED OUT DROUGHT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amLet it pour! The quarter-inch of rain that's fallen on the Big Apple since Friday is just a drop in the bucket. "We're a long way from ending the drought,"...
LOVEBIRDS TAKE PLUNGE AT CONEY ISLAND
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amConey Island's famed Cyclone was one emotional roller coaster yesterday when a Brooklyn couple tied the knot on the famed amusement-park ride. "My heart is still pounding," bride Aimee Gardner,...
LISTEN UP! HILL'S READY TO TRASH THAT TIRED TOURING SCRIPT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amEDGARTOWN, Mass. - The first lady's Senate exploratory campaign will shift gears next month, with Hillary Rodham Clinton moving away from scripted "listening events" to holding more impromptu meetings with...
LITTLE LEAGUE CHAMPS GO FOR REPEAT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - We're going to win it all! That's the cry from the Little Leaguers from Toms River, N.J., who begin their quest for a second consecutive World Series...
BILL'S HEART 'TROUBLE' - PREZ TELLS HOW HE FLIPPED FOR HILLARY AT YALE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amEDGARTOWN, Mass. - When Bill Clinton first met wife-to-be Hillary in law school in 1971, he thought she'd be "nothing but trouble," the president says. Speaking to more than 100...
ISRAELI GIRL SURVIVED ON SOFT-DRINK DREAMS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amFeisty Shirin Franko wanted just one thing after spending four days trapped alone in a dark dungeon beneath piles of rubble. "Do you have a Coca-Cola with ... a can...
POLICE BUST TEEN 'BLOOD' IN SHOOTING DEATH OF BOY
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amOne of the men suspected of opening fire on a crowded courtyard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, killing an innocent 11-year-old boy and badly wounding a 17-year-old woman, has been arrested, police said...
$13M WON'T LET OLD FAITHFUL'S SPOUT GO OUT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The government is spending $13 million to make sure America's most famous geyser, Old Faithful, spouts water for another 100 years. President Clinton yesterday announced a deal to...
HELL'S KITCHEN FUMES AT BUSES
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amHell's Kitchen residents took to the streets yesterday to rally against the flood of commercial vehicles that double-park on the neighborhood's streets. The protesters - led by State Sen. Tom...
TURKISH ILLEGALS BETWEEN ROCK AND HARD PLACE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amIllegal Turkish immigrants living in New York are trapped in their own hell, unable to help missing relatives in their homeland for fear of deportation. Hundreds of illegal aliens are...
LIZ FACING 'WEEKS' IN SPINAL WARD
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amAccident-prone star Elizabeth Taylor was in good spirits and "resting comfortably" yesterday after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital with a broken back. "I saw her ... and she...
GEENA MISSES OLYMPIC MARK
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMovie star Geena Davis flubbed her latest "shoot" yesterday - losing her bid to make the Olympic archery team after low scores at semifinal competitions in New Jersey. Still, the...
RESCUERS HAIL MIRACLE IN THE RUBBLE - 6 SAVED BUT TOLL COULD HIT 40,000
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amSix miracle survivors - including four children and a frail 95-year-old woman- were pulled from the rubble in quake-ravaged Turkey yesterday after being buried alive for four days without food...
POLICE BUST TEEN 'BLOOD' IN BROOKLYN BOY'S SLAYING
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amOne of the men suspected of opening fire on a crowded courtyard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, killing an innocent 11-year-old boy and badly wounding a 17-year-old girl, has been arrested, police said...
WOMAN PUSHES B'KLYN MAN ONTO SUBWAY TRACK
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn man on his way to church with his wife was shoved onto a subway track yesterday morning by a woman who told cops she had a history of...
RESCUERS HAIL MIRACLE IN THE RUBBLE - 7 SAVED BUT TOLL COULD HIT 40,000
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amSeven miracle survivors - including four children and a frail 95-year-old woman-were pulled from the rubble in quake-ravaged Turkey yesterday after being buried alive for four days without food and...
COPS BAFFLED BY LOST AND SPEECHLESS TEEN
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amCops last night were searching for relatives of a handicapped teen who was found wandering the lobby of a Midtown hotel. The boy, who is about 5'5", 130 pounds and...
MONTAUK BEACH BECOMES A NEW HOT $POT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amWhen more than $1,000 in small bills mysteriously washed up on the shore of a secluded beach in Montauk, L.I., tourists went loco, scrambling to the surf in scores to...
CAN'T GET STARTED? TRY SOME TAI
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amI felt good about myself after my introduction to this ancient martial art, and feeling good is what working out is all about. THIS has not exactly been my greatest...
RIGHT STUFF, WRONG SPOT SORIANO IS STUCK BEHIND DEREK
August 22, 1999 | 4:00am"I would like to play shortstop, but I know I won't for the Yankees because of Derek Jeter."ALFONSO SORIANO SYRACUSE - The third baseman and catcher had the base-runner caught...
NFL'S REPLAY RULE: BAD THEN, BAD NOW
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe latest stab at removing human error by shifting responsibility to a different layer of humans will provide the very same problems ... that rendered the previous replay rule a...
2 RAISED FISTS STILL BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE enlightening HBO documentary "Fists of Freedom" will be rebroadcast for the final times Tuesday and Friday. Those who haven't seen it should. Those who have seen it should see...
WHITETAIL SITUATION IN DEER STRAITS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHE NUMBER of whitetail deer in New York State continues to grow and while hunters will put a dent in the herd come the fall, it won't be enough to...
AFTER LONG JAIL TERM, AYALA BECOMES ... ; THE TOAST OF SAN ANTONIO
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMen, women and children rushed the ring to pay tribute to Ayala, to hug him, to touch him, to merely make eye contact with him. SAN ANTONIO - Not even...
GIANTS KEEPING MITCHELL UNDER WRAPS: WON'T TURN NEW TE LOOSE UNTIL GAMES COUNT FOR REAL
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amThere's been talk and glaring signs in practice and raised expectations and assurances, but when it came time for some live action, there's been, well, almost nothing. Not to worry....
GRAHAM DOIN' ALL HE CAN TO STAY THE MAN
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES A fast start. It is what Kent Graham knew he needed but something he rarely is able to pull off this time of year. Graham, named the starting...
WARD TAKES EARLY LEAD IN JOB HUNT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES One of the lone bright spots for the Jets in their Friday night debacle of a victory over the lowly Eagles was receiver Dedric Ward, as he pushed...
LEDEE MAKES HIS CASE RICKY'S HITTING HIS WAY INTO YANKS' PLAYOFF PLANS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - At the most crucial time in his career, the quiet kid has used his bat to send a very loud message to the Yankee hierarchy. In the best...
BOBBY V, AS IN VERSATILE
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amHis Mets are many-splendored Everything did not fall right for the Mets, but they kept changing the bad to good. They beat the Cardinals 7-4 because they would not be...
COUNTESS DIANA WILL DANCE OFF WITH THE BALLERINA AT SARATOGA
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The second chapter in one of racing's great comeback stories will be written today at the old Spa when champion Countess Diana, a runaway winner here two...
JUST PEN-SATIONAL! RELIEVERS DOMINATE IN AMAZIN' TRIUMPH
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMets 7 Cardinals 4 Many of the 45,491 ticket-holders who chose to brave the rains at Shea yesterday went to see Big Mac, but what they got was another big...
THE FATHER THEY GO ... GAYNOR ENJOYING ANOTHER MIRACLE WITH TOMS RIVER
August 22, 1999 | 4:00am"If someone had told me I'd be in Williamsport this time of year, I'd tell them they were crazy. But you never know with Little League."MIKE GAYNOR WILLIAMSPORT - When...
ONE MORE MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB: X-TREME GOLF IS NO PLACE FOR WIMPS
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amI woke up early yesterday morning and immediately came to the sobering realization that I had a problem. A golf problem. I have a golf problem. Can't get enough of...
'BULLET' CRUISES IN ALABAMA
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Odds-on superfilly Silverbulletday, who never met a racetrack she didn't like, whistled past the "Graveyard of Favorites" yesterday with a spine-tingling, nine-length romp in the Grade 1,...
ALMUTAWAKEL HEADING TO WOODWARD
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amGodolphin Stable's Almutawakel is expected to run in the Woodward for trainer Saeed bib Suroor. The four-year-old son of Machiavellian is expected to arrive on Thursday, Sept. 2 and will...
CHILI'S SCHEDULE ON AND OFF
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - In order to breathe life into Chili Davis' dormant bat, Joe Torre has set up a structured plan to give the 39-year-old DH some rest. "A...
ROGERS: I'LL BE BACK ON WEDNESDAY
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Considering starters Bobby Jones and Rick Reed are still on the DL, the last thing Bobby Valentine needed was to have Kenny Rogers leave yesterday's game with back...
'O' MY! BIG BLUE HAS BECOME A MACHINE: GRAHAM'S 269 YARDS KEEP PRESEASON PERFECT
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amGiants 27 Jaguars 20 Jim Fassel was right all along: There is no quarterback competition this summer. There may be sometime down the road, but not now. No way, no...
ROCKET NO MATCH FOR HOT MILTON
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amTwins 6 Yankees 1 MINNEAPOLIS - Roger Clemens took the Metrodome mound last night looking to build on his best outing of the year. Instead, the Rocket's season-long location problem...
FUMBLES DAMPEN FASSEL'S ENTHUSIASM
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The way Jim Fassel figured it, in the second half last night the Giants would have been better off punting the ball back to the Jaguars on first...
FATHER KNOWS BEST
August 22, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Jim Leyritz' dad pushed him hard when he was young - and for a long time, Leyritz pushed back. But after nearly a decade in the majors, Leyritz now...