October 2, 1999
SUITOR BACKS OFF DISNEY'S TEAMS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amDisney has struck out in its attempt to gain a quick and easy sale of its Angels and Mighty Ducks sports teams. High-tech billionaire Henry T. Nicholas, who had taken...
FREEWWWEB WON'T MAKE ANY CENTS ANYMORE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWhat part of FreeWwweb don't you understand? New York's three year-old free ISP is tearing up the tab and going totally free, The Post has learned. Buoyed by the recent...
EURYTHMICS EDGY AS EVERIN REUNION GIG FOR 'PEACE'
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amAT the Kit Kat Klub, in front of a tiny audience, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart - best know as Eurythmics - gave a reminder of what sweet dreams are...
NORM TO SOLO FOR 'SNL' : HOSTING SHOW THAT AXED HIM
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amNORM Macdonald, the sarcastic "Weekend Update" anchor who was fired from "Saturday Night Live" just 17 months ago, is returning to the show. He will host the Oct. 23 show,...
FEELING 'DOGMA' BITE; DIRECTOR: UPROAR HAS BEEN 'HORRIBLE'
October 2, 1999 | 4:00am'I'M really glad we kept the scene with the elephant-dung Madonna," Kevin Smith joked at a New York Film Festival press conference yesterday after a screening of his controversial religious...
JOB-HUNGRY VOTERS GET TASTE OF HILL CAMPAIGN
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWATERTOWN - Today's youth have forgotten about the "work ethic," First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as she brought her campaign to this economically depressed upstate region. "I don't...
TIMOR MILITIAS SNARL AT FOREIGN PEACEKEEPERS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amInternational peacekeepers in East Timor moved closer to a confrontation with pro-Indonesian militias yesterday as the foreign troops pressed into the hostile border area near West Timor. Several hundred Australian...
ALL CLEAR AFTER NUKE NIGHTMARE : RADIATION IS SUBSIDING AT JAPAN PLANT
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amRadiation levels returned to normal yesterday at the site of Japan's worst nuclear accident and 300,000 people living nearby were told it was safe to leave their homes. But Japanese...
WEST FEARS FULL-SCALE WAR OVER CHECHNYA
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amRussia declared yesterday it no longer recognizes the government of Chechnya, alarming Western leaders who fear the crisis in the Caucasus Mountains is heading for a full-scale war. A day...
HOSP HIT WITH BIRTH-BOTCH SUIT
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe parents of a newborn girl left severely brain-damaged and partially blind after birth are suing Lenox Hill Hospital and top docs for $100 million for allegedly failing to follow...
B'KLYN'S BRAVEST DELIVER
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe name of a baby boy hand-delivered by a batch of Brooklyn's Bravest was pulled out of a hat yesterday - and it's the same as three of his heroes....
HOW MORGY GOT INVOLVED BEHIND THE SCENE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Brooklyn Museum's war with Mayor Giuliani over the "Sensation" exhibit has sent a shock wave through another major museum, where Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau heads the board of trustees....
MANHATTAN EYE WIDE OPEN, FOR NOW
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amAttorney General Eliot Spitzer has won another reprieve for the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, persuading a judge to stop its directors from closing it down. And doctors who've...
COUNCIL SEES RED OVER LACK OF PARKING SPACES
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amCity Hall Park re-opens next week after a spectacular makeover featuring restored 19th-century fixtures, a new fountain - and a scorching dispute over parking spaces. City Council officials are up...
LOUIMA, DIALLO TRIALS TO BEGIN ON SAME DAY
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn judge yesterday scheduled the trial of three officers charged with covering up Abner Louima's torture to start on Jan. 3 - the same day the Amadou Diallo shooting...
PARKING PIGS IN 'DOUBLE' TROUBLE : NEW TICKET BLITZ TARGETING DRIVERS WHO BLOCK STREETS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amHere we go again! In the latest effort to get traffic flowing in and around the city, Mayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday announced yet another ticket blitz...
GOP HOPEFULS MAKE RIGHT TURN TO COURT CHRISTIANS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopefuls waved their most conservative banners before the Christian Coalition yesterday - favoring abortion bans and displaying the Ten Commandments in school. Addressing a coalition convention,...
SKEETER-WAR RE-SPRAY FOR QUEENS AND MANHATTAN
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe city was scheduled to douse the West Nile fever "hot zone" in Queens with insecticide last night - and hit parts of Manhattan today - as health officials confirmed...
HE IS SULTAN OF SOTHEBY'S : $700M ART COLLECTION ON BLOCK
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amCash-strapped Prince Jefri of Brunei, the profligate playboy brother of the world's second-richest man, is reportedly selling off his art collection hoping to raise up to $700 million. The first...
RAPPER IS SHOT AT OUTSIDE PUFFY'S MIDTOWN STUDIO
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amA rapper was beaten and shot at - and a woman friend badly cut by flying glass - outside the recording studios of rap mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs yesterday, cops...
BADILLO'S RIGHT ABOUT EDUCATION GAP: RUDY
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday defended CUNY chief Herman Badillo's controversial remarks about unschooled Hispanic immigrants, saying Italian-Americans also "missed a generation" in education. "When I was a young boy, my father...
PERELMAN TAKES BATH 0N WALL ST.
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amRon Perelman had a bad day yesterday - a quarter of a billion dollars bad. Ellen Barkin's billionaire boyfriend watched his stake in Revlon plummet $256 million as the company's...
FBI RAIDS N.J. FAT CAT IN FUND-RAISER PROBE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amFederal agents last night raided the New Jersey office of a big-money political donor implicated in several fund-raising scandals involving both Republicans and Democrats. The FBI apparently removed some items...
BILLIONAIRE'S LOSSES NOT JUST COSMETIC
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amRon Perelman, whose company-buying sprees made him an icon of the 1980s, has hit a rough patch. Before the latest drop in Revlon stock, Forbes estimated his net worth at...
TWO COPS GUILTY IN B'KLYN BEATING
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn jury yesterday convicted two cops of beating a restaurant worker - who an hour after the attack apparently committed suicide by jumping on subway tracks. The verdict came...
FOES WANT 'THE BODY' PINNED OVER PLAYBOY FLAP
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Outraged Reform Party chairman Russell Verney yesterday tried to body-slam wrestler-turned-politician Jesse "The Body" Ventura out of the ring - while a defiant Ventura vowed to stay put....
GORE GOES SOUTH IN HOME-STATE POLL AGAINST GEORGE W.
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore is an underdog in his home state of Tennessee - where a new GOP poll shows George W. Bush trouncing him. Just as Gore...
AMAZIN' VICTORY ALIVE AND KICKIN'
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWe've lived to fight another day. That's what diehard Mets fans were saying last night after the Amazin's defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 and stayed alive in their chase for...
BOONE: I GOT ROUGHED UP BY COPS AT GALLERY
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amManhattan art dealer Mary Boone - jailed on charges of passing out live ammo at her swank Fifth Avenue gallery - claims cops were "violent," even throwing her against the...
DAD WON'T FACE DEATH PENALTY IN SON-SLAY TRIAL
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amManhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said yesterday he will not seek the death penalty for a Greenwich Village man accused of hacking and bludgeoning to death his two young sons....
GORE'S GOT TENN-UOUS GRIP ON HIS HOME STATE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON Veep Al Gore is an underdog in his home state of Tennessee - where a new GOP poll shows George W. Bush trouncing him. Just as Gore declaring himself...
HILL HAMMERS HOME YOUTH WORK ETHIC TO JOB-HUNGRY VOTERS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWATERTOWN - Today's youth have forgotten about the "work ethic," First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday as she brought her campaign to this economically depressed upstate region. "I don't...
MEXICO WAS SPARED A WORSE QUAKE TOLL
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe death toll from Mexico's earthquake hit 20 yesterday, but officials said they were spared a greater tragedy because most of the damage was limited to sparsely populated areas. "We...
339G REWARD FOR HOSP WHISTLE-BLOWER
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amA woman who blew the whistle on suspected Medicare fraud at Mount Sinai School of Medicine won a $339,300 federal reward yesterday -part of a total $2.2 million settlement. Judith...
LEHMAN LOOKING AT NASTY TEST FROM WAGNER
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER LEHMAN blew out Midwood to start the PSAL season, it barely squeaked past August Martin last week. Things don't get any easier for the Lions tomorrow when they face...
SMITH COULD HELP JETS TURN CORNER
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amDENVER - He's not likely to carry the Jets on his back to their first victory of 1999. But every little thing helps, and Otis Smith will be back on...
FASSEL: TOO EARLY TO SAY 'MUST WIN'
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amThere are must-win situations, and then there is what awaits the Giants this weekend. A loss tomorrow to the Eagles at Giants Stadium would be a devastating blow to a...
TOOMER'S NOT QUITE IN ZONE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amThe achievement passed without as much as a notice from anyone, which is understandable. It doesn't seem as if Amani Toomer is setting any record-breaking pace, but, in fact, he...
KNICK REJECT KOCH TRIES LUCK WITH NETS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amTo tell or not to tell, that was the dilemma for J.R. Koch when he began summer workouts with the Knicks, who had drafted him on the second round. See,...
DEVILS' QUEST STARTS IN APRIL
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - They skate around the league with a new logo, a hand clutching the throat, a reputation they can no longer dodge. The Devils can't do anything about it...
EX-JET PICK: GANG GREEN SURELY GOING THROUGH HELL
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amDENVER - Guard Doug Karczewski, a former Jets' draft pick, is now with the Broncos' practice squad and represents the only Denver player who has played for Bill Parcells. Because...
'SUPER' WEEKEND ON TAP
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amA pair of one-mile grass stakes, the Grade 3 Noble Damsel for fillies and mares and the Ashley T. Cole Handicap for New York-breds, will be run today at Belmont...
GORING ALREADY DESPERATE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amTAMPA - Before even arriving here yesterday, Butch Goring was sounding a lot like this city's most famous resident. In simple Steinbrennerian fashion, the Islanders' first-year coach said it's crucial...
FLOOD-RAVAGED PIRATES ARE SET TO INVADE WEST POINT
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amEast Carolina football players spent the week before the biggest game of their lives on the road, sheltered in a South Carolina hotel as Hurricane Floyd battered their homes hours...
FRONT-RUNNERS HAVE A FIELD DAY
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amSpeed ruled yesterday at Belmont Park with six of the first eight winners racing on the early lead, several of them at big prices, while the other two winners chased...
KNICKS NEVER WANTED SCOTTIE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWhile GM Scott Layden temporarily resuscitated the rumor of a Scottie Pippen-for-Latrell Sprewell swap by curiously refusing to flat-out deny it Wednesday, the Knicks absolutely had no interest in that...
GARDEN TRIBUTE IS GREAT ONE'S CALL
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amEDMONTON - Wayne Gretzky was sincere back in April when he said he didn't particularly want the Rangers to stage a number-retirement ceremony for him at the Garden before Mark...
RICHTER STEALS OPENING POINT: NEW-LOOK RANGERS STILL LACK ON ATTACK
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amRangers1 Oilers1 EDMONTON - Eight of their 18 skaters were wearing Blueshirts for the first time ever; strangers trying to come together as Rangers, if you will. And so, on...
LOOK FOR JOE TO BLAST OFF WITH ROCKET
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - When Joe Torre announces his Game 1 starter today for the AL Division Series that begins Tuesday, Roger Clemens is expected to get the call. And since...
ROBIN'S EXTRA EFFORT : AMMAZIN'S CUT CARD DEFICIT TO 1 GAME
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amFaintly, but steadily, the heart still beats. As incredible as it may have sounded 24 hours ago when the Mets playoff hopes were lying motionless on a gurney, they have...
DARRYL'S MIGHTY BLAST LIFTS YANKS
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - As impressed as everybody was with Darryl Strawberry's colossal homer last night in the Yanks' 11-7 win over the Devil Rays, all voices wished the monster were...
CONE MAY SHED HIS PINSTRIPES
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - When David Cone takes the mound tonight against the Devil Rays there is a better than even chance the heart and soul of the Yankees will be...
AMAZIN' SCRAMBLE AS PHONES GO DEAD
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amWith all the things to keep track of last night, the last thing the Mets ever expected was to have to rely on a human telegraph system to communicate with...
BREWERS STUN CINCY IN 10TH
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - If the Mets make it to the playoffs, they might want to send Marquis Grissom a share. The Brewers center fielder made a spectacular game-saving grab in the...
UMP SAVES FRANCO
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Franco's 3-2 delivery to Adrian Brown dropped deeper than the hole Shawon Dunston wanted to climb into on Thursday night. It was lower than not only the knees, but...
PHILLIPS TO FANS : I FEEL YOUR PAIN
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amGoing into spring training, everyone from ownership to the fans had one goal: to make the playoffs. After the Mets' wild 3-2, 11-inning win over the Pirates last night, that...
PURDUE OUT TO PROVE IT'S BIG LEAGUE NOW
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amANN ARBOR, Mich. Are the Boilermakers for real? It's a question that haunts every new-kid-on-the-block program. And it's one Purdue (4-0), ranked eighth by The Post, gets a chance to...
REDS GO INTO CLINCH MODE
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Greg Vaughn sat at his locker wearing his "clinch face," staring straight ahead and squeezing the sawdust out of his bat. Sean Casey was five lockers away, smiling...
METS ARE ZOMBIES ON NIGHT OF LIVING DEAD : AMAZIN'S FACE GRIM FINAL TASK
October 2, 1999 | 4:00amIt was a quiet, almost grim group of Mets that took the field for batting practice yesterday. The reality that the Mets were still mathematically alive for the postseason was...