September 21, 1999
INVESTORS GET A BREAK ON MUTUAL FUND FEES
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amMUTUAL fund fees are moving lower and the timing couldn't be better. Investors are paying less in expenses for actively managed funds at the very time that those funds are...
RUSSIAN: FBI'S GOT PROOF ON BNY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe FBI has evidence indicating Russian companies laundered money through the Bank of New York, Russian investigators reportedly said yesterday. With congressional hearings on the scandal set to start today,...
MICROSOFT VS. THE LAW HEADS INTO LAST ROUND
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amBill Gates faces the moment of truth today, when closing arguments begin in the landmark Microsoft antitrust trial. The proceeding is the dramatic climax of the most-talked about business trial...
COMPLAINT FINGERS REPUBLIC
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe securities arm of Republic Bank of New York will be slapped with a criminal complaint over an alleged $1 billion fraud perpetrated by one of its clients on a...
THE BOSS MULLS IPO - YANKEES OFFERING ON DECK
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner's excellent adventure - aimed at turning his No. 1 sports franchise into an entertainment empire - is getting serious. The Boss is now considering selling a piece of...
GEORGE IS CUT TO 10 A YEAR, SUBSCRIPTION COST SLASHED
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amIn a bid to save George, the political magazine founded by the late John F. Kennedy Jr., Hachette Filipacchi Magazines says it will cut the frequency of the magazine from...
RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS A CLICK AWAY; EXCLUSIVE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amIt's one small step for the Internet, and one giant leap for diners with the newest cybertrend: online reservations. The days of snooty maitre d's and reservationists leaving customers on...
SHORTAGE CHIPS APPLE NET - SUPPLIER DELAYS WILL HOLD RESULTS DOWN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amApple Computer warned Wall Street yesterday that a chip shortage will take a bite out of its fourth-quarter earnings - the first real setback for interim CEO Steve Jobs, who...
WWF SLAMS PLAYBOY WITH SABLE SUIT
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amShe's been called the bodacious bodyslammer, Teutonic tangler and red-hot wrestler, but a suit filed by the WWF against Playboy gives the celebrity formerly known as Sable a new label:...
A BLAST IN SWEDEN - A VISIT TO OLAND, A WINDY ISLAND, AND TO THE GLASS-MAKING OVENS OF ORREFORS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amOLAND is about the same size and shape as Manhattan, but the similarities end there. A visitor still encounters sheep farms, windmills, sleepy country roads and picturesque fishing villages on...
'MISSION': A 'HILL' OF A NEW SERIES
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am"Mission Hill" Tonight on WPIX/Ch.11 ANDY French, a 24-year-old waterbed salesman and aspiring cartoonist, is trying to impress his date. He's showing her his ideas for a TV show. "Oh,...
'ONCE' ISN'T ENOUGH FOR MID-LIFE LOVE STORY : DIVORCED... WITH CHILDREN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am"Once and Again" Tonight at 10 on WABC/Ch.7 "ONCE and Again" attracts us tonight and wins our hearts next week when it achieves something remarkable for television: intimacy. The series,...
WHEN FRAT BOYS WERE IN FLOWER
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am"The Mike O'Malley Show" Tonight at 9:30 on WNBC/Ch.4 Minus ** WHEN a painfully average Joe begins enunciating painfully ordinary thoughts about finally, maybe, thinking about growing up at age...
TV TICKER
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThird coming ABC won't be left out after all. CBS and NBC have movies and minseries coming up this season recreating the life of Jesus. The Disney-owned network has just...
BOWIE'S LATEST A CYBERSPACE ODDITY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amROCK icon David Bowie will again make music history when he releases his new album on the Internet today. Bowie's 23rd album, "Hours ... ," will be available for download...
FAMILY PRIDE IN SAFARI - TWO GENERATION SHARE AN AFRICAN HOLIDAY IN THE BOTSWANA BUSH; REUNION IN AFRICA
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amMY initial response was negative when my father proposed taking the entire family on a safari in Botswana. The last family holiday had taken place 10 years previously and ended...
THE PRICE OF BEAUTY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am'GET that away from me!" Hedvig, a model with short auburn hair snarls backstage at the Matt Nye fashion show as a makeup artist attempts to moisturize her face. Tiny...
IS THIS ART? BUTCHERED ANIMALS, A DUNG-SMEARED VIRGIN MARY AND GIANT GENITALIA SPARK OUTRAGE AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM.
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amAN exhibition with a blood-filled head, oversized sex organs, a religious portrait caked in elephant dung and real animals in formaldehyde has plunged the Brooklyn Museum of Art into controversy....
GROWING HIS NAILS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am*THE FRAGILE Nine Inch Nails Nothing Records On Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile," released today, the band's musical architect, Trent Reznor, has built a monument to discontent and interpersonal treachery...
SHOWTIME FOR #1 CYBERBABE: SUDDENLY TV LOVES SEXY CINDY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amCYBER pinup Cindy Margolis - who calls herself the most downloaded woman on the Internet - is planning on becoming one of the most visible women on TV. Margolis, whose...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amNo putts about it For duffers looking to improve their game, Interlaken Inn's Tournament Boot Camp in Lakeville, Conn., is offering an aggressive training program. Each six-day session is limited...
CONDOR TO HEADLINE CENTRAL PK. TALON SHOW
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amHere's one bird that really wings it. Meet Vidor - an Andean condor with a panoramic wing span of 10 feet. He's the star of the coming "Fantabulous Free Falconry...
ANDRE AND STEFFI ARE PECK-TURE PERFECT
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amHere's the first photo of the kiss so many have been waiting to see: Andre Agassi and his new love, Steffi Graf, in a lip lock. The Post caught the...
CANCER CLAIMS RAISA GORBACHEV - BOLD FIRST LADY WHO SHOOK UP THE KREMLIN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amRaisa Gorbachev, the chic university professor who brought both glamour and controversy to the Kremlin when her husband ran the Soviet Union, died yesterday in a German hospital. She was...
BOB BARKER OK AFTER 3-HR. SURGERY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amGame-show host Bob Barker had emergency surgery yesterday to fix a life-threatening blocked artery on the left side of his neck. Barker was "resting comfortably" last night after the three-hour...
CUBA JAILS 3 YANKS FOR DEADLY ESCAPE BID
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThree Cuban-Americans are reportedly serving stiff prison terms in Havana - including one defendant given a life sentence - for a fatally botched bid to sneak 14 migrants into the...
TIMOR PEACEKEEPERS ARRIVE READY FOR TROUBLE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amArriving troops could see fires still raging in the capital of Dili and flames in the countryside. A heavily armed international force landed without resistance in ravaged East Timor yesterday,...
CLINTON'S BIGGEST CRIME - LEFT INNOCENT MAN IN JAIL FOR 14 YEARS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amIT WON'T be hard to find Bill Clinton in New York today - just follow the traffic jams that his visits always produce. But don't look for his conscience. For...
COP UNIONS RALLY AGAINST STIFF NEW PUNISHMENT PLAN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amPolice unions and NYPD fraternal groups yesterday blasted as excessive and unnecessary a bill before the City Council that would enable Police Commissioner Howard Safir to impose harsher punishments on...
'EL DUQUE' PITCHES IN TO IMPROVE MED CARE FOR POOR KIDS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amYankee hurler Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez spent yesterday at the opening of a pediatric ward at St. Clare's Hospital, saying he feels it "in my heart to make sure poor...
CHARLIE HOPES CAMILLA BOWLS OVER N.Y. SOCIETY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am"The Rottweiler" is loose in New York. Prince Charles has flown longtime mistress Camilla Parker Bowles to the Big Apple in a calculated bid to have her warm up to...
HOLLYWOOD HEIDI GOES FREE TODAY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss is scheduled to be a free woman today. The ringleader of Los Angeles' most infamous call-girl service will walk out of a federal...
EASY WEB PARKING GUIDE IN 'SITE' FOR DRIVERS; EXCLUSIVE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amMotorists can find cheaper off-street parking with the click of a mouse under a new high-tech program being launched by the Giuliani administration. The city's Internet Web site and variable...
TOLL TAKERS' THANK-LESS JOB
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe MTA's politeness police caught nearly a quarter of its toll collectors failing to say "thank you." Undercover staffers in unmarked vehicles found that 22 percent of the toll collectors...
SOPHIE'S KEEPING HER DAY JOB
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - New royal Sophie Rhys-Jones isn't giving up the firm for The Firm. Prince Edward's wife, who reportedly faced an ultimatum from Buckingham Palace to give up her public-relations...
COP KILLS SELF AFTER HELPING FLOYD VICTIMS - HAD WORKED 36 STRAIGHT HOURS IN JERSEY TOWN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amA hero New Jersey cop who worked around the clock to help flood victims during Hurricane Floyd went home after the storm blew over and killed himself with his service...
GOP RIPS FEDS IN FALN PROBE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - House GOP investigators yesterday accused the Justice Department of trying to gag an FBI official set to testify today about President Clinton's clemency for FALN militants. House Government...
TEARFUL GOODBYES FOR TRIO KILLED IN GUNMAN'S CHURCH RAMPAGE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am"She is with the Lord . . . Her joy is unspeakable." THE REV. AL MEREDITH,AT KRISTI BECKEL'S FUNERAL Mourners gathered in Texas yesterday to say a tearful farewells to...
CHOKE-HOLD VICTIM'S KIN: COPS HIT ME
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe brother of cop choke-hold victim Anthony Baez charged yesterday that he was roughed up and choked by police who arrested him for running a stop sign. "I was brutalized...
ENCEPHALITIS SCARE HITS W'CHESTER - MOSQUITO SPRAY SLATED FOR COUNTY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amSt. Louis encephalitis has spread to Westchester from New York City, and helicopters will begin spraying mosquitoes there later this week. Officials last night reported two confirmed cases of the...
FARE'S FOUL IN GROSS-ERIES - IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU TOSS YOUR COOKIES
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amWhat lurks behind those deli counters and meat cases at your local grocery store or supermarket may be hard to stomach. Mouse droppings, cockroaches, festering meat and other sickening health...
REITER: IF I CAN RAISE THE CASH, I CAN WIN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amFRAN REITER is about as likely a woman to cry "sexism" as Hillary Clinton is liable to locate the kitchen in that Westchester mansion. So when Fran - tall and...
STORM ROCKS CRUISE-SHIP PASSENGERS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amAs the northeast continued to clean up after Hurricane/Tropical Storm Floyd, Tropical Storm Harvey was headed for landfall on Florida's West Coast this afternoon, hours after threatening a 1,700-passenger cruise...
VICTIMS LEARN KID-SEX FIEND SERVED NO TIME; NIGHTMARE LINGERS FOR KID-SEX VICTIMS; EXCLUSIVE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amMICHAEL vividly remembers the knife pressed against his throat. He was 11, face down in bed at an upstate summer camp for Jewish orphans, when his partially clad counselor mounted...
MOTHER NATURE WILL TURN ON TAP AGAIN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amMore rain is expected today - bad news for suburbanites who've had hardly any time to dry out from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Floyd. "Everybody's teeth are on edge...
CITY READIES THIRD 'SKEETER BLITZ
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amCity officials plan one more round of spraying against encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes. No schedule has been set yet for the third series of spraying, which officials say will begin sometime in...
UPSETS OF THE WEAK
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S official. This is the season that will lead to the deterioration of major college football as we know it. It began with Penn State blasting Arizona in what we...
JET REPORT CARD: HANGOVER CONTINUES
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amQUARTERBACKS Rick Mirer (13-28, 121 yards) was a non-factor, though to his credit, he didn't make any bad mistakes, such as turning the ball over or making terrible reads. The...
TAGLIABUE TURNS BACK ON JET FANS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe grass-roots movement by New York Jets fans to buy the team has taken one on the chin. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue quickly brushed aside efforts from several prominent city...
O'NEILL GUARDS SUCCESS SECRET
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Ask Paul O'Neill about his hot hitting, which has as much to do with the Yankees winning five of six as anything else, and get ready for a...
YANKS ARE DESTINY'S DARLINGS: BOMBERS KNOW WIN & THEY'RE IN
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amHalfway down the backstretch of what has been an interesting race, the Yankees have a chance to show their fans they can be trusted in October when everything starts fresh....
JET CRASH HAS TUNA WONDERING
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe creases of consternation etched all over Bill Parcells' 58-year-old face exuded the same message in yesterday's analytical aftermath as they did Sunday night in the moments after his Jets...
KING WANTS AN OSCAR - DON'S MAKING HIS MOVES ON DE LA HOYA
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amTHE unmistakable voice of Don King boomed out of the telephone receiver. "If Oscar De La Hoya wants to come with me, I'd take him on," King shouted, magnanimously. "He...
MIRER'S FEELING MORE COMFORTABLE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Rick Mirer believes he's getting closer to leading the Jets' offense where it needs to be, which is in the end zone. This is important, particularly with the...
BILL SAYS EWING INJURY WON'T SLOW KNICKS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing said he won't play until completely healthy, and when that will be might best be determined by a dart and a calendar. Then there is the Chris Dudley...
WALTON: MURESAN BIG PLUS FOR NETS
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amTwo centers already are down, so the Nets' off-season strategy to hoard big men looks better by the day. But even when Jayson Williams and rookie Evan Eschmeyer return in...
AMATEUR HOUR FOR BAYERN MUNICH; WESSELS IS BAYERN'S LAST LINE OF DEFENSE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Wherever he registers on the scale that starts at butterfingers and runs through to brilliant, a goalkeeper often carries the fate of his entire team in his hands....
NL SUPER SERIES OPENS TONIGHT WITH SMOLTZ VS. REED
September 21, 1999 | 4:00am"We have to beat them, and they have to beat us. Whoever wins the series is probably going to win the division."ROBIN VENTURA This is when great seasons are made....
CHAMPS WON'T GO DOWN EASY
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amALL the years of unfulfilled promise have conditioned even some of those on the periphery of the Mets to offer excuses even before games have been played. Is the media...
FASSEL READS GIANTS RIOT ACT
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amYour name is Jim Fassel and you are the head coach of a team that only 24 hours earlier had disgraced the uniform of the New York Giants. It is...
SEHORN PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amJason Sehorn worked for 15 minutes on his coverage technique yesterday and moved another step closer to a return to the starting lineup Sunday night against the Patriots. No. 3...
AL CAN'T WAIT TO FACE MADDUX
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amBelieve it or not, Al Leiter is looking forward to pitching against Greg Maddux. Actually, he is looking forward to hitting against him, which is even crazier. It's as if...
TOUGH-GUY KAMENSKY LIGHTS RANGERS' FIRE
September 21, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rangers paid Valeri Kamensky millions to score, but last night, he ignited them like a goon. The high-priced Ranger acquisitions had managed little in their first Garden exhibition, blanked...