September 2, 1999
H&R BLOCK IS BUYING OLDE FOR $850M
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amWatch out Citigroup. H&R Block is on your tail. In its quest to become a one-stop financial services company for consumers, H&R Block said yesterday that it intends to acquire...
HEARST RAIDED AGAIN - MADEMOISELLE GETS NORWOOD OF UK COSMO
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amConde Nast has poached from Hearst, snatching Mandi Norwood, the brash editor of British Cosmopolitan to be the editor who leads beleaguered Mademoiselle into the 21st century. Norwood, 35, is...
SONY MUSIC HAS EPIC SHAKE-UP IN WORKS; EXCLUSIVE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amSony's struggling Epic Records is poised for a major restructuring, The Post has learned. Company insiders say a major pow-wow is set for next week to figure out how to...
HACHETTE NEW MEDIA REPLACES HEAD
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amNew Media is believed to be making several million a year for Hachette. The president of New Media at Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, James Docherty, is out in one of the...
SLATE TV IN WORKS - KINSLEY FINE-TUNES WEB-SHOW LAUNCH
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amSlate.com's Michael Kinsley is set to make a TV comeback. The former Washington pundit and CNN Crossfire co-host is in talks with media companies about putting out a show to...
INTEL INSIDE MARKETS' REBOUND
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amStocks rallied yesterday after good news from the technology sector unleashed bullish sentiment. Major market indices measuring the health of large-cap and small-cap stocks shot higher when bellwether technology company...
BOAT SHOW IS SMOOTH SAILING FOR NRBQ
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amON a calm Hudson River run, the Tuesday-night blues cruise out of the South Street Seaport rocked and rolled as the venerable garage band NRBQ celebrated its 30th year making...
LACK OF PLAY TIME - TOO LITTLE SEEN OF OUR BIGGEST AUTHORS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA NY short list of the leading playwrights in the English-speaking world would include Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee and David Mamet. It's strange, then, that New York has not seen...
WHO PLAYS TO NEW GENERATION - ROCKERS MAKE COMEBACK ON SOUND TRACKS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT do "Outside Providence," "Summer of Sam" and at least the trailer for the forthcoming "American Beauty" have in common? These recent films all feature the 1971 song "Won't Get...
NEWS LEAK PUTS MSNBC'S GASBAGS OUT ON THE STREET
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA NATURAL gas leak forced NBC News to evacuate a building in Washington D.C. that houses some of its cable-news studios yesterday. The leak - which occurred outside the building...
COMEDIES ON FRONT LINE OF 7-11 BATTLES - GRIM FACE-OFFS FOR LAUGHS ON FRINGES OF PRIME TIME
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amIF the folks who bring you the 11 o'clock news thought "Seinfeld" was a news-killer, they ain't seen nothin' yet. They're about to experience a double-whammy. This fall, the late-evening...
WHAT AN UGLY 'FACE': ANN-MARGRET'S TRUE CONFESSIONS ARE MOVIE MURDER
September 2, 1999 | 4:00am"Happy Face Murders" Sunday at 8 on Showtime YOU know that old saw about truth being stranger than fiction? Well, truth is rarely strange enough for TV. Strange case in...
IDIOT JUDGE WILL BE TO BLAME IF CHAOS ERUPTS; WE'LL HAVE IDIOT JUDGE TO BLAME IF RIOT ERUPTS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amTHE judges don't care. They don't have to. After all, they don't live in Harlem. Khalid Muhammad doesn't need to care, either. He lives in New Jersey, and commutes to...
MRS. CLINTON, MEET MR. RIVERA - HER TAKE ON UPSTATE'S WOES MEANS TROUBLE WITH CORE DEMS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amHILLARY Clinton seems to have a pretty smart take on the New York economy. But it is markedly at odds with Democratic orthodoxy, and so the first lady is now...
CON MAN PREYS ON LOYAL WORKERS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amHe claims to be a lawyer for the boss, who he says has been in an accident and needs money to tow the car.A fast-talking con man has scammed at...
POPE PLEDGES Y2K GESTURES TOWARD JEWS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amPope John Paul II continued to extend an olive branch to Jews yesterday, promising that the Catholic Church would start the new millennium by publicly seeking forgiveness for forced conversions,...
CLOTHES CALL FOR TAX-FREE SHOPPERS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani helped New Yorkers kick off another round of consumer frenzy yesterday at the beginning of a tax-free shopping week. "This is a special week that was given to...
COLUMBUS CIRCLE WILL SHAPE UP BY 2003; EXCLUSIVE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe city will dramatically overhaul Columbus Circle in an attempt to transform it from a traffic nightmareinto a park-like oasis. City Planning Commission Chairman Joe Rose promised the circle -...
'JUNIOR' 250G SHORT AS FEDS' DEADLINE NEARS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amJohn A. "Junior" Gotti has just one more day to fork over a whopping $250,000 before he violates the terms of his plea deal on racketeering charges. Gotti, 35, who...
STABBED TEEN WAS MAKING FRESH START ON LIFE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn teenager was in critical condition yesterday with multiple stab wounds after more than 20 weapon-wielding Latin Kings and their associates attacked him, police said. Cops believe 16-year-old James...
KHALID HAS FRIENDS AND FOES ALIKE IN HARLEM
September 2, 1999 | 4:00am"This man is a disgrace to all black people." ROBERT McKINLEY Harlem residents are bitterly divided over Khalid Muhammad and his controversial Million Youth March. Many say Muhammad is a...
BUSCH KIN: GARY WAS NO MONSTER KIN: GARY WAS NO MONSTER
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe grieving family of police shooting victim Gary Busch yesterday lashed out at Mayor Giuliani for portraying the mentally ill man as a monster, saying the "trigger happy" cop response...
'COLUMBINE PLAN' IN WORKS FOR CITY SCHOOLS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD is helping city schools map out detailed plans of what to do in case of a shooting rampage - to avoid a possible massacre of Columbine HS proportions,...
OFFICER INJURED FROM ROOFTOP
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA plainclothes narcotics cop suffered a deep head wound when he was struck by a bicycle tire rim flung off the roof of a Crown Heights building during a buy-and-bust...
COMMISH WILL BREAK BREAD WITH THE PBA
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amPolice Commissioner Howard Safir is expected to speak today at the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's annual convention luncheon in an attempt to end his deep chill with the city's largest police...
MONICA'S DAD TELLS $OLICITING PREZ TO STICK IT
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - After hitting on Monica Lewinsky for sex, President Clinton is now hitting up her dad to help pay his legal bills. The Clinton Legal Expense Trust yesterday admitted...
POLICE FORCED TO MAKE SNAP DECISIONS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00am'BACK out! Back out!" the officer remembers Sgt. Vincent Musac screaming at fellow cops inside a Bronx apartment in 1984. The cops were retreating from the apartment of Eleanor Bumpurs,...
PREZ'S PUTTERING PLOPS HILL'S SENATE HOPES IN THE ROUGH
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amMAYBE President Clinton is devoting so much energy to cheating at golf these days that his political skills have gotten rusty - because he is knocking wife Hillary's Senate bid...
FACING UP TO MAN IN THE MIRROR
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amIT WASN'T until the final minutes of Darryl Strawberry's press conference yesterday afternoon at Yankee Stadium that he finally owned up to where the blame belongs for what happened in...
GOP SUBPOENAS CLINTON'S FALN CLEMENCY REPORTS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republicans yesterday rained down subpoenas and demands that the Clinton administration cough up documents to justify the president's clemency offer to 16 members of the FALN terror group....
COURT GIVES MUHAMMAD A GO-AHEAD & A WARNING
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA federal court yesterday ordered the city to let Khalid Muhammad hold a four-hour rally in Harlem on Saturday, but warned organizers they would be hit with contempt charges if...
SETTLED! CLINTONS BUY CHAPPAQUA MANSION
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe house-hunt is over. President and Hillary Clinton have finalized a deal to buy a 110-year-old white Colonial mansion in Chappaqua, about an hour's drive from Manhattan into Westchester County....
STRAW BACK FOR MORE - MAY START FOR YANKS TODAY
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA fit-looking Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry got back into pinstripes last night to the delight of diehard fans - vowing he was on "the right track" and looking forward to...
COP ACCIDENTALLY KILLS CARJACKER IN STRUGGLE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA man returning from his Criminal Court arraignment tried to hijack a livery cab in Harlem yesterday - then was accidentally shot to death fighting a decorated cop, police said....
MARSHALS SEIZE FBI'S SECRET WACO TAPES
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. marshals last night impounded previously undisclosed FBI tapes of the botched 1993 federal assault on the Branch Davidian compound - that reportedly include a recording of an...
FAMILY OK AFTER CAR SMASHES SCAFFOLDING
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amFive people - including a 9-month-old baby - miraculously escaped serious injury yesterday when their car was buried in scaffolding in front of an Upper West Side building. Daniel Saunders...
CLINTONS GLAD-HAND THEIR WAY THROUGH FINGER LAKES
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amSENECA FALLS - President and Hillary Clinton yesterday sped across the scenic Finger Lakes region on a fast-paced sightseeing tour that took them to 19th-century historic sites honoring women and...
PARENTS ON ALERT AS SCOUTS GET MALARIA ON L.I.
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amA Boy Scout camp on Long Island has been closed after two campers contracted malaria from mosquitoes, authorities said. The malaria outbreak at the Baiting Hollow Boy Scout Camp -...
DENNIS BACK TO BATTER CAROLINA
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amDennis, reduced from a hurricane to a tropical storm, continued to misbehave yesterday, returning to North Carolina's Outer Banks to further pound Hatteras Island and leave thousands stranded. After battering...
U.S. TOURISTS IN AFRICA PLANE TRAGEDY
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amTen American tourists were feared dead last night after their charter plane crashed in mountains in Africa. The victims were described as three couples and a group of four from...
PENS TAILOR-MADE FOR MARIO TAKEOVER
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amNow that Mario Lemieux is the majority owner of the Penguins, pending today's expected court certification, the retired six-time NHL scoring champ would be his own best asset for re-filling...
WINGATE RE-UPS WITH KNICKS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amDavid Wingate, Patrick Ewing's compadre from Georgetown, re-signed with the Knicks yesterday, bringing the total number of players signed for the 1999-2000 season to 12. Wingate, a 13-year veteran, played...
MORE THAN READY TO MISS HOPEFUL
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Undefeated 2-year-old sensation More Than Ready, who loomed the heavy favorite for Saturday's Grade 1 Hopeful, spiked a fever and will not run, trainer Todd Pletcher said...
'DOC' SCORES SARANAC TRIUMPH
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Phi Beta Doc, a two-time stakes winner earlier this summer who finished a good second last time out to highly regarded Marquette in the National Museum of...
NO CONTRACT, NO WORKOUTS FOR MORRISON
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amToday, tomorrow, and then ... limbo. That's Brendan Morrison's hockey horizon. Last season's Devil Rookie of the Year candidate is skating with his past - and he hopes, future --...
MICKENS GROWING ON TUNA
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amIn his constant button-pushing at the control panel representing the psyches of the Jets' players, Bill Parcells usually puts a little extra elbow grease behind his tweaking of Ray Mickens....
HOPEFUL STARTS 'ROAD TO CUP'
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - NBC Sports' live coverage of Saturday's Grade 1 $200,000 Hopeful (2:30-3:30 p.m.; post time 3:12 p.m.) launches a new series of five network telecasts from Saratoga and...
LUKE LEARNING ON FLY - CONSISTENCY'S KEY FOR JINTS' PETITGOUT
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amJim Fassel doesn't have to worry about Luke Petitgout getting complacent. The rookie guard said he watched film on all of the 50 or so plays he participated in last...
MARVIN'S NEXT ACTION LIKELY WILL BE OPENER
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES It looks as if Marvin Jones, who sprained his right ankle in last Saturday's game against the Giants, won't play tomorrow night against the Vikings, though Bill Parcells...
MILBURY: WE'VE MADE FINAL OFFER TO LINDGREN
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amIslander GM Mike Milbury said he has a drawn a line in the ice and will not increase his contract offer to restricted free agent center Mats Lindgren. With training...
COLLINS JUST GLAD TO GET SOME WORK
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Unless Kent Graham goes down with an injury or suddenly starts playing like oh, say, Bubby Brister, Kerry Collins probably will get his last shot at extended playing...
BROOKLYN BASHER PASSES FIRST TEST
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES He grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where tennis courts are as prevalent as cow pastures. So with a racket and a token, Levar Harper-Griffith toured the city...
STADIUM CREW FEELS SORRY FOR BRETHREN
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe umpires on the crew for the Yanks-A's series are not in danger of losing their jobs today, but they are far from relieved. "I suppose I'm fortunate for my...
YANKS MAKE DARRYL FEEL RIGHT AT HOME
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry is from LA, owns a house near Palm Springs and is in the process of moving to Tampa. Yet at 2:30 yesterday afternoon Strawberry returned home to Yankee...
HINGIS: VENUS' DAD WILL EAT HIS WORDS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00am"It's not my job to understand the crowds; it's just my job to win the match." VENUS WILLIAMS The headlines of Papa Williams guaranteeing an all-braided, all-black, all-Williams U.S. Open...
TORRE STILL UP OVER DOWN CLEMENS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Yankees got Roger Clemens thinking they had someone who would give them the kind of consistency that they feared they wouldn't get from David Wells. With Clemens in the...
22 UMPIRES WALK PLANK - TOOTHLESS UNION CAVES IN ONE-SIDED SETTLEMENT
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amAfter marathon talks with Major League Baseball over two days, the umpires' union struck out in its attempt to save the jobs of 22 brothers in blue. The veteran bunch...
JOE HAS HIS EYES ON LEDEE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe thought crept into Joe Torre's mind more than once during last night's 7-1 loss to Oakland. He tried to push it aside and hoped he was wrong. As the...
TRICKY OLIVARES BAFFLES BOMBERS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amBalls with funky spins. Balls that dipped down. Balls that started outside and finished on the hands. Say hello to the arsenal A's right-hander Omar Olivares used to dominate the...
YARNALL MAY START SUNDAY
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amYANK NOTES With David Cone working once a week to keep his right arm fresh for the postseason, the Yankees need a starter Sunday against the Angels in Anaheim. While...
LONGSHOT MAHOMES CASHING IN BIG TIME
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Pat Mahomes was in a major league rotation at the age of 21, then was swallowed into the Bermuda Triangle of pitching prospects, otherwise known as the Minnesota...
DUMPED DAVIDSON GETS OREL SALUTE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The final out of the game settled into Shawon Dunston's mitt and Bob Davidson's 18-year career as a National League umpire was over. Davidson, who worked the plate...
AMAZIN' CALL-UP PLANS TOCA PARTY
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amHOUSTON - The feeling of "Oh no, what have we done," spread through certain corners of the organization when Mets officials got their first look at Jorge Toca, the Cuban...
DARRYL IS BACK WHERE HE BELONGS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amDarryl Strawberry is from LA, owns a house near Palm Springs and is in the process of moving to Tampa. Yet at 2:30 yesterday afternoon Strawberry returned home to Yankee...
STRAW DOESN'T NEED COUNSELOR
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amRon Dock, a substance abuse counselor in the Yankees' minor league system, has been with Darryl Strawberry since Aug. 4 when Strawberry began playing for Columbus. However, unlike Dwight Gooden...
IT'S OFFICIAL: 22 UMPS OUT - TOOTHLESS UNION CAN'T SAVE JOBS
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amAfter marathon talks with Major League Baseball over two days, the umpires' union struck out in its attempt to save the jobs of 22 brothers in blue. The veteran bunch...
PHILLIPS' BLUNDERS HIT HOME FOR FAMILIES IN BLUE
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amHOUSTON - Bob Davidson's paycheck arrived at his Littleton, Colo., home Tuesday. His wife opened the envelope and read a note that detailed the specifics of when his health benefits...
GORAN'S 'GOOD' SIDE TURNS UP IN FLUSHING
September 2, 1999 | 4:00amIt has been self-diagnosed as multiple tennis personality disorder. For much of his career Goran Ivanisevic has seen both sides of the court: The good Goran, who was No. 4...