October 28, 1999
E-THREAT @SCHWAB FIDELITY HAS MORE ONLINE ACCOUNTS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe war of the discount online brokerages is heating up, with Fidelity Investments besting Charles Schwab Corp. on one important battlefield. As of Sept. 30, Fidelity actually had more online...
SEC BOSS SAYS NYSE'S RULE 390 TO CHANGE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe Big Board is likely to change a rule that prevents some of its biggest stocks from being traded on electronic stock trading networks or other markets, Securities and Exchange...
E*TRADE CRASHES INTO LAWSUIT
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amA woman who says she lost $40,000 on E*Trade is suing the online brokerage, accusing the firm of false advertising for failing to live up to its promises of fast...
8 TO CEMENT PLACE ON WALK OF FAME ; DESIGNERS WILL BE HONORED ON 7TH AVE.
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGeoffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren will be among the first designers immortalized on a new Fashion Walk of Fame - New York's answer to Hollywood Boulevard's...
AN FM STATION ON EVERY BLOCK?
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amBonnie Raitt, the Indigo Girls, and Jackson Browne have joined a grass-roots group that is trying to load up the FM airwaves with thousands of new low-power radio stations. The...
TINA SNARES ST. MARTIN'S EDITOR
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTina Brown may have found the heavyweight she needs to pound some order into the editorial staff at Talk magazine. Yesterday, she hired veteran journalist Robert B. Wallace as the...
PRIMED FOR ROGERS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTom Rogers officially started his new job yesterday - and Primedia's new CEO is ready to shake up the magazine giant the same way he changed NBC. Rogers, who engineered...
BRITANNICA RUES ITS WEBSITE PULLS PLUG
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amEncyclopaedia Britannica has pulled the plug on its new free website, Britannica.com, after being inundated with traffic. Servers at the Chicago-based company had been unable cope with the unexpected traffic...
GEORGE: HACHETTE JOB; JFK JR.'S STAKE SOLD FOR ABOUT $10M
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amHachette Filipacchi Magazines finalized its purchase of George, the magazine co-founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., from the Kennedy estate. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but industry sources...
HARPERCOLLINS BUYS AMISTAD AND BACKLIST
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amHarperCollins Publishers acquired the assets of Amistad Press, a publisher of titles by and about African-Americans, and pledged to publish about a dozen new titles a year under the imprint...
FILM SMOKES OUT THE TRUTH: '60 MINS' GETS BUTT KICKED
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Insider" - a powerful new movie opening next week - is so riveting it should further destroy the public's waning faith in the tobacco industry and television. The film...
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO VY
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amIN a town where there are too many actors chasing too few roles, one Harlem producer is trying to do something about the supply side of the theatrical equation. Vy...
HASSELHOFF DROPS HIS BATHING SUIT
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amBEACH bum David Hasselhoff is finally trading in his bathing suit - for a cat burglar's mask. The well-tanned star and executive producer of "Baywatch" will leave his long-running bikini-and-buns...
THE STARR REPORT
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTrials of Dan Rather A CBS News spokeswoman says Dan Rather has not been subpoenaed to testify in the trial of Shawn Allen Berry, contrary to an Associated Press report....
SWEET MELISSA, STRAIGHT UP
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amROCK REVIEW WHEN you see Melissa Etheridge in concert, there are no layers of hidden woman to peel away, no tortured-artist machinations or cryptic messages wrapped in inscrutable lyrics. In...
NOISE IN THE 'HOOD
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW IF you haven't heard "bitch" or the n-word enough recently, then "Thicker Than Water" might be the movie for you. Both words are featured in virtually every sentence...
LAST MINUTE PROBLEMS DOG CBS "EARLY SHOW" DEBUT - MARIAH CAREY FANS GET THE SILENT TREATMENT
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amA concert by Mariah Carey that was supposed to kick off the debut of CBS' new morning show, "Early Show" on Monday appears to be in jeopardy. CBS has yet...
MORE TEARS IN COLUMBINE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amHIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - A scene that is all too familiar to residents of Littleton this year was re-enacted yesterday as more than 600 mourners filled Christ Lutheran Church in...
WHY ISN'T ONE OF THESE ACTORS THE 'UNEXPECTED MAN'? - A RARE PUBLIC FEUD ERUPTS, KILLING THIS SEASON'S HOT NEW BRITISH DRAMA
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHE cancellation last week of "The Unexpected Man," an eagerly awaited new drama from London, was prompted by a nasty, behind-the-scenes rift between the play's veteran New York producer and...
POPE'S PASSAGE TO INDIA MAY BE MOST PERILOUS YET
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWILL Pope John Paul II be safe in India? There is more reason to worry for the pontiff's welfare as he visits the world's largest democracy next week than there...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK; BY LAWSUIT OR BRIBE, THE ESTABLISHMENT AIMS TO STOP CHARTER SCHOOLS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amHOW ironic it is that Nassau County's Roosevelt Union Free School District is one of the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to strangle New York's fledgling charter-school movement. Roosevelt...
SERBS NOW THE TARGETS IN KOSOVO, OFFICIALS SAY
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amA top Russian general said yesterday the Kosovo peacekeeping effort is failing - and U.N. officials disclosed that a refugee convoy of Serbs had come under ethnic Albanian attack en...
U.S. WINDS UP WITH A $URPLUS FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - For the first time since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the federal government has ended two straight years in the black - collecting more money than it spent....
WILL 'NEW YORKER' HILLARY PAY STATE TAXES?
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amHILLARY CLINTON wants to be New York's woman in Washington, but her campaign refuses to say when - or if - the wannabe senator will pay a penny in income...
DECISION IS DUE ON HAMMER-CASE COPS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe grand jury probing the police shooting of a hammer-wielding man in Brooklyn may vote as early as today, sources told The Post. Gidone Busch, a 31-year-old man with a...
JACKO WANTS STOLEN HOME VIDEOS BACKO
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Jackson says heartless thieves swiped precious home videos of his family and are holding them for ransom. The videos were snatched during one of Jackson's recent trips to France....
EEK! IT'S AN ANTI-NAFTA ISOLATIONIST
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Americans find Pat Buchanan and Al Gore scarier to look at than any of the other presidential candidates - at least as far as Halloween masks go. A...
PET-PEEVED FERRET OWNERS SUING CITY
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amA group of city ferret owners - all criminals in the eyes of the Giuliani administration - have sued the city, claiming the Board of Health does not have the...
TA LET DEVELOPER OFF HOOK: STATE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amATimes Square developer got a multimillion-dollar sweetheart deal last year that allowed his firm to avoid building new escalators at the 42nd Street subway station, a state investigation charges. Rudin...
MANY TOP YANKS WILL BE GOING, GOING, GONE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amSeveral stars - including David Cone, Paul O'Neill and Joe Girardi - may not be back next year.Fans of the Atlanta Braves - who are screaming "Break up the Yankees!"...
EX-OFFICER MOM GETS EARLY START ON NEW LIFE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amOn her first full day of freedom, Patricia Feerick got up at 4:30 a.m. yesterday to feed her infant son, Joseph, at her Long Island home. "It was wonderful. It...
UNION DEAL COULD END TENURE FOR PRINCIPALS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amBig Apple principals may soon give up tenure in exchange for a whopping 30 percent pay hike - and end a bitter four-year standoff with the city, officials said yesterday....
HELMS BOOTS CONGRESSWOMEN
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Ten congresswomen yesterday got booted from a hearing room after confronting Sen. Jesse Helms over his decision to block a world treaty barring bias against women. "It's preposterous...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS' SON IN COKE ARREST
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe troubled son of actor Michael Douglas was charged yesterday with buying cocaine from a suspected dealer being tailed by narcotics cops. Police say they saw Cameron Douglas, 20, and...
PLAN TO TRANSFER FIREHOUSE'S ENTIRE CREW BURNS UNION
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amUnion officials yesterday blasted the "drastic" plan to transfer all 54 firefighters and officers assigned to a Queens firehouse - saying the problem is the top brass, not the performance...
PRODUCE POLICE IN A PICKLE OVER ON-THE-JOB PLUMS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amEight former and current federal produce inspectors at the Hunts Point Terminal Market were busted yesterday for allegedly cheating small farmers around the country out of millions of dollars. "Unfortunately,...
NEW FACES IN PARADE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThree new balloons are joining the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - a blue dog, a beagle in a hat and a big bug, the department store said yesterday. Blue, the...
THREE R'S ARE ROACHES, RODENTS & REFUSE: WATCHDOGS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amMany city schools are plagued by clogged toilets, piles of trash, roaches, rodents and other unsafe and unsanitary conditions, two child-advocacy groups charged yesterday. They released the alarming results of...
SHOCKING "CONFESSION' OF HS SEX SUSPECT
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amOne of three teens charged yesterday in the vicious assault and sodomy of a 16-year-old girl at a Queens high school "wanted to know what it was like to be...
LEARJET PROBE FOCUSES ON VALVE ; REPLACED 2 DAYS BEFORE CRASH
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amInvestigators probing the Learjet disaster that killed golfer Payne Stewart revealed that a valve controlling cabin pressure was replaced just two days before the deadly journey. Yesterday's discovery came as...
100 YEARS - & 25 CHAMPIONSHIPS! ECSTATIC FANS WILL CELEBRATE YANKS' LATEST SERIES WITH 'HEROES' WELCOME
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amCanyon of Heroes, here we come again. The Big Apple is decked out in pinstripes as fans celebrate the Yankees' 25th World Series crown - with plans being made for...
CHEERS AND TEARS FOR TEAM OF THE CENTURY
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHE true Team of the Century finished the 1900s in familiar style - dynasty mixed with misery. They again stand alone at the foreground of their sport while the background...
BILL KEEPS DEBATE VS. GORE ON HIGH ROAD
October 28, 1999 | 4:00am"I understand the disappointment and anger that you feel toward President Clinton and I felt it myself."AL GORE"I think there were obviously some [Clinton fund-raising] irregularities that were addressed. I'm...
DRE$$ED TO THRILL ; MARILYN'S 'JFK' GOWN NETS $1.15M
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amMarilyn Monroe mania gripped Midtown last night as the blond bombshell's famed "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" dress sold for an eye-popping $1.15 million at a star-studded, blockbuster auction. "She would...
JOE CHATS WITH GRAY, INSISTS SNUB WASN'T IN GAME PLAN
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees ended their silent treatment of NBC's Jim Gray last night - and manager Joe Torre said the team never made a group decision to boycott the embattled TV...
BOMBERS ON B'WAY IN PARADE TOMORROW
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amAll hail the conquering Yankees tomorrow at noon - at the Bronx Bombers' third Canyon of Heroes parade in four years. Mayor Giuliani announced the victory parade shortly after New...
O'NEILL PLAYS DESPITE DAD'S DEATH
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amPaul O'Neill referred to his father as "my hero." But in so many ways, the opposite was true. O'Neill was the major leaguer his father could never be and, partially,...
YANK FANS DO SOME SERIES CELEBRATING!
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amPinstriped pandemonium spilled out from The Bronx to the Battery last night as the Yankees won their 25th World Series and fans predicted the Bomber dynasty will continue through the...
PRIME MINISTER SLAIN IN ARMENIA PARLIAMENT SIEGE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGunmen who stormed Armenia's parliament, slaughtering the prime minister and other top officials in a failed coup attempt, surrendered early today and released all their hostages, officials said. They were...
GOP CRIES FOUL OVER HILLARY'S ABSENCE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton skipped the Yankee game last night - and took some brickbats from Republicans for sitting it out. Mrs. Clinton, who six months ago proclaimed herself...
VICTORY-LAP COP IS NURSING A NEW CAREER
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe mounted policeman who gave Yankee third baseman Wade Boggs a famous ride around the Stadium when the Bombers won the 1996 World Series has traded in his mountie blues...
HIS NAME'S DARRYL AND HE'S AN ALCOHOLIC -STRAW FIGHTS TO STAY SOBER
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amAT MIDDAY, he sat in the center of a room with 150 drunks and drug addicts and listened to a man named Dan tell how Alcoholics Anonymous meetings helped him...
BIG M'S PEGASUS DRAWS 7
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amAn evenly matched field of seven was drawn for tomorrow night's $400,000 Grade 2 Pegasus Handicap at The Meadowlands. Forty One Carats and Zanetti, the first two finishers in the...
JINTS CARE LESS ABOUT MCNABB
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES The last time the Giants met up with the Eagles, Doug Pederson and rookie Donovan McNabb were sharing the quarterback position, forcing the Giants to prepare for the...
GIANTS GO WEST, YOUNG MAN - UNHERALDED ROOKIE GETS EMERGENCY START SUNDAY VS. EAGLES
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amAny rookie who has barely played is a mystery, but Lyle West is more mysterious than most. Attached to most every rookie is the unknown, but West seems to be...
LUCAS MAY RETURN AS TUNA'S MAIN MAN
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amBill Parcells hasn't announced it yet. He won't announce anything, in fact, perhaps until game time on Nov. 7, when the Jets play the Cardinals in their next game after...
ISLES SALE WEEKS AWAY; EXCLUSIVE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - The worst period in Islander history is about to end. Within two weeks, a group headed by former Garden boss Bob Gutkowski should be the new owners...
GRAVES: I MUST PLAY BETTER
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe reporter was trying to finesse the question. To Adam Graves, straight-ahead guy, there was no need for finesse. He interrupted and drove straight to the heart of the matter....
CUP SHOWDOWNS LOOM
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe sports world shifts its spotlight from one World Series to another a week from Saturday for the 16th running of the $13 million Breeders' Cup Championship at Gulfstream Park....
DEVILS CAN'T HACK OVERTIME SHIFT
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe new rules make the regular season like the playoffs for the Devils, and that means trouble. As much as anything, the Devils' postseason foldups have been the result of...
JAYSON: SEE YOU IN DECEMBER
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amNET NOTES For Nets' center Jayson Williams, it seemed like forever since the last time he played basketball, meaningful or not. Since fracturing his right leg last April Fool's Day,...
BIG EAST IN N.Y. STATE OF MIND
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amBig East commissioner Mike Tranghese has two words for why he believes his basketball conference is in the best shape it's been in his tenure: New York. "I remember when...
KITTLES & BURRELL BACK IN THE SWING
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe injury-plagued Nets may still be weakened at the center position, with Jayson Williams and Evan Eschmeyer out, but their perimeter game got a whole lot healthier when swingmen Kerry...
PARCELLS: DON'T STICK FORK IN US
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Bill Parcells, saying yesterday that he still believes he can turn the Jets' season around, believes his team is close to breaking out of its alarming slump. "We're...
JAYSON GIVING $2M+ TO SJU IN LOOIE'S NAME
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWe have been accustomed to hearing Jayson Williams amuse us with his quick wit. But today Williams will put his money where his mouth is. The Nets star will announce...
SPREWELL LEANIN' TO 2-YR. OFFER
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amSixers 94 Knicks 86 In a surprising development, Latrell Sprewell said yesterday he is leaning toward accepting the Knicks' risk-laden two-year contract-extension offer as opposed to their maxi-mum five-year $61.87...
VAN PANS WALLACE 'D'
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Nothing's changed since 1996-97. Jeff Van Gundy is still making negative remarks about Knick forward John Wallace's defense. Wallace, drafted by the Knicks with the 18th overall pick...
HIS NAME IS DARRYL ..... AND HE'S AN ALCOHOLIC.
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amAT MIDDAY, he sat in the center of a room with 150 drunks and drug addicts and listened to a man named Dan tell how Alcoholics Anonymous meetings helped him...
KENNY RIPS MATES FOR LACK OF HEART
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amSUNRISE, Fla. - Never mind that the Islanders were without veteran defensemen Rich Pilon and Jamie Heward, who were nursing injuries back in Nassau County last night. Because while their...
DEVILS FIND A WAY TO HANG ON
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe two goals were a bonanza, especially in victory. That's what happens when the Devils snap a two-game losing streak in which they had scored once each. "We won 2-1...
YANKS: LORDS OF THE RINGS! ROCKET FUELS SWEEP REPEAT FOR 25TH TITLE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 4 Yankees 4 Braves 1 Start shredding the news. Fill those bags with tiny computer paper because the Yankees are World Champions again. For the second time in two...
NBC'S GRAY AND YANKEES MAKE UP
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amBefore last night's game, Joe Torre spoke to his team about the Jim Gray situation and admitted to the media he wasn't pleased with Chad Curtis' comments following Game 3....
EX-MET WATSON: DREAM COME TRUE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amDripping in champagne in the Yankee clubhouse was not a position Allen Watson expected to be in when he came to spring training this year, unless it was in the...
CHEERS FOR ROGER HAVE A NICE RING
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amIN THE old and familiar story about a Yankee great of a previous era, Marilyn Monroe, just back from a successful tour of Europe, naively says to her husband, Joe...
KEEP TINO IN PINSTRIPES
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amIF YOU can't feel good about Tino Martinez earning the right to light up his third ultimate victory cigar in four years, then you better put your heart in a...
UNBEATABLE RIVERA KING OF PLAYOFFS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE WAS a happy ending to a week in which the Latino community was robbed by Major League Baseball by having its icon, Roberto Clemente, overlooked on the All-Century team....
TORRE LIKE A FATHER TO YANKS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe gamut of highs and lows, more than any one man should ever have to experience in one day, finally had overwhelmed Paul O'Neill in the midst of the post-game...
STEINBRENNER SAYS CHAMPIONS ARE ALL HEART
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner honored his latest champions by saying, "They had the biggest heart of any team I have been associated with." Steinbrenner accepted the fifth World Series trophy of his...
LEYRITZ HR A REASON TO CHEER
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWhen the Braves scored a run in the top of the eighth inning, Joe Torre tapped Jim Leyritz on the leg and told him to be ready to hit in...
DYNAMITE DEREK CAN'T LOSE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amDON'T FORGET, he missed the team picture this year. Derek Jeter, eating pasta at the Posadas, forgot the camera was scheduled to click at 4 and showed up at 4:20,...
CURTIS: THIS YEAR MORE SATISFYING
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe games are not scripted and neither are the heroes. Chad Curtis moved into a special place into the hearts of Yankee fans with his game-winning home run Tuesday night,...
NO REGRETS FOR BERNIE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe moment was an emotional one that Bernie Williams will never forget. It is one that showed his decision to return to the Yankees this year was one of the...
LEGENDS OF THE FALL ARE BACK
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankees are all about history and there was plenty of living history in the champagne-soaked clubhouse last night after the clinching 4-1 victory over the Braves at the Stadium....
BROSIUS: CLOSENESS HELPED PULL US THROUGH
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amScott Brosius gave Joe Torre an extended, tearful hug in the fracas on the pitcher's mound after last night's 4-1 World Series-clinching win over the Braves last night. The third...
BOSS WANTS TO KEEP CONE, SOURCE SAYS
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner has decided that keeping David Cone should be a priority of the team this offseason, a source close to The Boss told The Post. Steinbrenner has always liked...
TINO SHOULD STAY EVEN AFTER PHENOM ARRIVES
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amTHE YANKEES, more than many whiny small-market organizations care to acknowledge, are a dynasty built on a fruitful farm system first, money-based trades second, free-agent recruitment third. Derek Jeter, Bernie...
THE BOSS" BEST MAN - TORRE A GENIUS, BY GEORGE
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Steinbrenner has seen it all, done it all, been in the middle of it all, but he has never had such a complete manager as Joe Torre. Never. The...
TORRE GOES WITH JORGE'S HITTING OVER JOE'S MIND
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amDespite Joe Girardi's near-perfect night on Tuesday, Joe Torre tabbed 27-year-old Jorge Posada to catch Roger Clemens last night. "It was a jump ball for me," Torre explained. "Both have...
LAST STOP BEFORE CANYON OF HEROES - YANKEES CALL ON ROCKET TO FINISH OFF REELIN' BRAVES
October 28, 1999 | 4:00amWhen the Yankees took the field at Yankee Stadium for Game 4 of the World Series last night against the Braves, they were poised to capture the most prestigious title...