November 1, 1999
THE MOTHER OF ALL BROWSER WINDOWS IS A HIT
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amSkimming 20 newspapers on the web over morning coffee has become standard practice for anyone living on Internet time - entrepreneurs, journalists, day traders, even students. Frustrated by all the...
RUGGERIO RETURNS; EATERY SET FOR TIMES SQ.
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amDisgraced chef David Ruggerio has a new lease both on life and a 20,000-square-foot space in Times Square. Last year, the former boxer - once considered a heavyweight among those...
FAIRCHILD BOSS MICHAEL COADY IS TOAST ; MERCURIAL AX MAN FEELS THE BLADE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHE one-time "king of Seventh Avenue" is out of a job. Michael Coady, the longtime president of Fairchild Publications, is leaving the company this week as the Newhouse family buys...
FED'S MANY VOICES HIDE INDECISION
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amW HAT the heck has gotten into the Federal Reserve? Why can't they just get along? And why are they all talking so much? The Fed used to be one...
HAUNTED BOX OFFICE; 'HILL' KNOCKS'BEST MAN'OFF THE TOP
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amBox Office By the Numbers C RACK out the candy corn! "House on Haunted Hill" frightened the competition for a sweet $15.1 million opener. Warner Bros. shrewdly withheld "Hill" from...
FLOATING ON 'AIR'
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW I N 1993 an English dramatist wrote a play set in 1809 and in the present in the same space. In interwoven scenes, the 1809 folk and the...
READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP : COSELL SUBJECT OF 'TELLING' DOC
November 1, 1999 | 5:00am"Howard Cosell:Telling It Like It Is"Tonight at 8 on HBO 'T HE things that people would accept in newspapers they were appalled by on television." That could be someone commenting...
NEUMEIER'S FINALLY 'GETTING CLOSER' TO HOME
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW W ISCONSIN-born John Neumeier, the 57-year-old director of the Hamburg Ballet, has for years been one of Europe's most celebrated choreographers. Yet he has worked comparatively rarely at...
UNCOVERING THE BIG STORY : IMAGINE A TV ANCHOR, WEARING A BIKINI, DELIVERING THE NEWS...
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE'S nothing like a bikini for attracting attention. Just ask Jay Schorr of TMR Multimedia in Miami. He's been getting a lot of attention lately for his proposal for an...
'JUDGE JUDY' AWARDED $10.5M
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHE verdict is in - "Judge Judy" is now in a league with "Oprah Winfrey." Ch.4 has reportedly agreed to cough up a whopping $200,000-per-week to keep top-rated "Judge Judy"...
ROCK ON! THIS ONETIME STAND-UP COMIC IS HIP, HOT AND HEADED FOR STARDOM
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: It seems Chris Rock's megawatt grin is everywhere these days. The comic du jour's smile graces the covers of numerous magazines, and billboards promoting his talk show dot the...
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A MOVIE CAN MAKE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThese days it seems musicians spend more time making movies than they do cutting new albums. Rock stars like Sheryl Crow ("The Minus Man"), Mariah Carey ("The Bachelor"), Alais Morissette...
FEUD FEAR AS GOV IS YET TO BOO$T RUDY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amGOV. PATAKI has yet to agree to host a fund-raiser for Mayor Giuliani's planned Senate run - sparking fears of renewed tensions between the state's two top Republicans, insiders say....
CAPTS. OF INDUSTRY LEAVE US FLYING BLIND
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amWANTED: For displaying wanton disregard for human life - the top officials of the Boeing Corp. There was a Boeing spokesman yesterday, chatting on morning TV. "This airplane has an...
JETLINER BUILT DURING A TIME OF LABOR STRIFE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amBoeing 767 jets like the one that crashed off Nantucket have an excellent safety record: until yesterday, only one, an Austrian plane, had been in a fatal accident in which...
DRIVER AWED BY SILENCE ABOARD JFK SHUTTLE BUS OF THE DAMNED
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amHIKMAT Altamer drove the death bus - No. 205. His job, on the surface, was simple yesterday at JFK Airport. He was supposed to drive the grieving family members of...
EXPERTS: BOEING GOING NOWHERE ON WALL ST.
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe crash of an EgyptAir Boeing 767 is the latest misfortune for the world's biggest maker of commercial jets - and financial experts predict it's only going to get worse....
ROCKET SPURS BRIT AIR SCARE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amA terrified pilot thought his plane was under attack when a possibly homemade rocket exploded in the sky ahead of him in Britain. The rocket went off in a green...
DISNEY BRINGING UNABOMBER'S SAGA TO SCREEN
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amDeadly war against technology.Walt Disney is turning from Mickey Mouse to a mad bomber. The Hollywood studio that delighted generations of kids will spend $80 million filming the story of...
AGONIZED KIN HOPE AGAINST DESPAIR ; FAMILIES BEG FOR NEWS AT CAIRO AIRPORT
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amA scene of unspeakable grief played out again and again at Cairo Airport yesterday as families of Flight 990 passengers waited for the news they dreaded. Some wailed openly in...
EGYPTAIR SECURITY: GOOD, NOT PERFECT
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amEgyptAir has a good safety record - and usually puts armed guards on its flights to protect against terrorism. But two weeks ago one of its planes was hijacked by...
LUCKY FEW SO THANKFUL FOR MISSING DOOMED JET
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amA lucky few were counting their blessings after the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 yesterday - grateful for the twists of fate that kept them off the doomed plane. "It...
LIKE ICARUS, WE SEEM BENT ON TEMPTING FATE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amOTIS AIR BASE, Mass. T HE air was a little more chilly, the clouds a little lower but it was the identical ghastly mission - the search for bodies. As...
CITY VIOLENCE CLAIMS 3 LIVES OVER WEEKEND
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amA good Samaritan who chased armed robbers as they fled with cash from a corner-store stickup in Brooklyn was gunned down - becoming one of several victims in sensational slayings...
CRASH A WILD CARD IN MIDEAST SUMMIT
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton flew to Norway yesterday for a Mideast peace summit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders amid heightened fears of terrorism following the crash of EgyptAir flight 990. The crash...
EVENTS POINT TO MIDAIR BLAST: EXPERT ; POSSIBLE BOMBING EXPLORED
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amAn explosion caused by a bomb or mechanical failure is the most likely cause of yesterday's EgyptAir crash, a former top federal transportation official says. "Statistically, at this altitude and...
COAST GUARD $$ DILEMMA SURFACES ; SEARCH-AND-RESCUES STRAIN BUDGET
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The official government Web site of the U.S. Coast Guard carries an ominous warning about its future: "Is the U.S. Coast Guard Going Under?" reads the headline, which...
FEMINIST WEARS THE PANTS ON TEAM GORE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Veep Al Gore said yesterday he'll keep feminist Naomi Wolf on his payroll, advising him on - among other things - becoming a dominant "Alpha male." News about...
N.Y. GRIEF COUNSELOR GOT OFF PLANE - AND LIVED TO DO HIS JOB
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe only passenger who got off EgyptAir Flight 990 in New York before it crashed into the ocean was an airline consultant who counsels the families of accident victims. Ed...
EERIE 'CURSE' HAUNTS NANTUCKET
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amNANTUCKET, Mass. - The crash of Flight 990 just 60 miles to the south has spooked this small island community of year-round residents, who wonder if their waters are cursed....
HORROR SHATTERS NO-NEWS SUNDAY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThere were few facts - just a report that the airliner had disappeared from radar screens. YOU couldn't escape the tragedy, even on one of the most beautiful mornings of...
LOTTO WINNER ONE FOR THE MONEY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amIf you bought a Lotto ticket for Saturday's $45 million drawing and purchased it in Manhattan - check your numbers. State lottery officials say the monster jackpot was won by...
JFK AT GROUND ZERO OF TRIPLE MYSTERY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amFor the third time in 3 years, safety investigators want to know why a trans-Atlantic passenger jet crashed in the ocean after departing Kennedy Airport. Though the investigations aren't complete,...
TERRORISTS GIVING EGYPT FITS ; PRO-WEST GOV'T HAS LONG DRAWN WRATH OF RADICALS
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amEgypt's pro-Western government has fought for years to subdue terrorist groups hellbent on overthrowing their fragile rule in favor of a Muslim fundamentalist regime. In the wake of the crash...
SOME OF THE USUAL SUSPECTS
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe feds keep a close eye on terrorist groups around the globe. The following are some that have a possible motive for a jetliner attack targeting Egypt and the United...
GRIEVING KIN CONVERGE ON JFK ; ANGUISHED CRIES PIERCE KIDS' PARTY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amGrieving relatives of passengers on EgyptAir flight 990 descended on a Kennedy Airport hotel yesterday seeking comfort and answers - just as costumed children arrived for a Halloween party and...
SCHIZOPHRENIA SPLITS SUBWAY-PUSH JURY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amJurors in the murder trial of schizophrenic Andrew Goldstein start their fourth day of deliberations today - apparently still disagreeing over what was in the killer's mind when he pushed...
TWA FAMILIES' SYMPATHY IS TINGED WITH FURY AT BOEING
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amRelatives of TWA Flight 800 victims - furious that Boeing withheld data that might have prevented that crash - last night blasted the aerospace giant as they offered sympathy to...
KIN OF 217 COME TOGETHER IN GRIEF ; ALL FEARED DEAD AS EGYPTAIR BOEING 767 OUT OF KENNEDY GOES DOWN IN ATLANTIC
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amSobbing relatives of the victims of EgyptAir Flight 990 gathered at Kennedy Airport last night, searching for answers in the mysterious crash that killed 217 people - including scores of...
MUSLIMS HERE: THIS COULD HAVE BEEN US
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amEgyptians in the metropolitan area jammed mosques yesterday to pray for the families of victims of Flight 990 - and many said the latest tragedy has left them terrified of...
BUMP IN THE NIGHT!
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amOne unlucky hot-dog vendor won't relish his memories of last night's Halloween Parade festivities - he was knocked on his buns by an out-of-control motorcycle rider. The vendor and the...
REV'S DUTY ALL TOO FAMILIAR
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Rev. James Devine, a Catholic chaplain at Kennedy Airport, was among the first on hand to help relatives of the passengers on Flight 990 - a role he's played...
FEDS ARE LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED IN SEARCH FOR POSSIBLE TERROR CLUES
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amA meticulous and painstaking inquiry has targeted terrorism as a possible - although still remote - cause of the mysterious crash of an EgyptAir jet. FBI agents fanned out in...
H'WEEN PRANK TAKES A TRAGIC TURN IN B'KLYN
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amWhen they confronted the egg throwers, one of the group shot the teen in the chest. A Halloween egg-tossing prank left a 17-year-old Brooklyn youth fighting for his life last...
NAVY SALVAGE SHIP SPEEDING TO SCENE:USS GRAPPLE LED FLIGHT 800 HUNT
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe high-tech Navy salvage ship USS Grapple is expected to arrive in the waters off Nantucket today - kicking the grim search for debris and bodies from EgyptAir Flight 990...
ENDING THE LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amEven as the Yankees' stirring World Series victory recedes into memory, baseball fans across the country can't get over the assault on Pete Rose by NBC reporter Jim Gray. To...
DOOMED PILOT'S L.I. SIS AT INN OF SORROW ; WAILS OF GRIEF STUN CHILDREN AT HALLOWEEN BASH
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amAs soon as she learned of the tragic crash of EgyptAir flight 990, the sister of pilot Ahmad Alhabashy rushed to Kennedy Airport from her home in Nassau County, praying...
MANY PATHS LED TO FLIGHT OF DEATH: VICTIMS HAILED FROM CAIRO TO COLORADO
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThey came from different countries and different walks of life. Some were embarking on the vacation of a lifetime; others were returning home after happy visits with family. The passengers...
SCOTTY: KID'S NO LEMON ; SAYS TRAVERS WINNER IS BEST HORSE HE'S TRAINED
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amH ALLANDALE, Fla. - Working over a sloppy track he detests, Lemon Drop Kid whipped off five furlongs in a tick over one minute flat at Gulfstream Park yesterday in...
OLD HAT FOR NEWMAN: NET VET KNOWS HIS ROLE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amHe's been the new man before as his NBA resume attests. In 1986, he started in Cleveland, then came stops with the Knicks, Charlotte, the Nets (briefly), Milwaukee, Denver, Cleveland...
CHRIS CROSSES LINE IN BRONX : BERMAN'S MONUMENT PARK 'SWAMI' ACT IN POOR TASTE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amABC/ESPN's Chris Berman goes ballistic in response to the oft-stated, oft-written notion that he exploits sports to play a television clown. Then, Berman will go to the great lengths to...
FARRELL IN-D-STRUCTIBLE: LIONS OVERCOME CTK TRICK PLAY
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amFARRELL 14 CTK 9 If Monsignor Farrell's defense didn't attack the ball so well, its win over Christ the King yesterday at St. John's University might not have been so...
SCHULHOFER FOLLOWS PATTERN
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - The pace picked up for Saturday's Breeders' Cup yesterday morning as nine hopefuls worked out over the muddy track at Gulfstream Park. Lemon Drop Kid, bidding for...
HEAVY RAINS COULD WASH RACES OFF TURF
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - Still reeling from the after-effects of Hurricane Irene and inundated with a half-inch of rain Saturday night, the swampy turf course at Gulfstream Park was closed for...
SPREE DEAL HITS A SNAG
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amYet another day went by without Latrell Sprewell's signed contract extension making it into the hands of Knicks' GM Scott Layden. But for the first time, at least there's been...
ANTONIETTE WINS ATHENIA
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amFavored Antoniette took the lead in the stretch and then drew away from the competition to win the 22nd running of the Grade 3 Athenia Handicap by 2 lengths on...
MANY SITES WILL TAKE BC BETS
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Breeders' Cup will be run Saturday at Gulfstream Park and tri-state area fans will have plenty of locations to wager on racing's championship day. At Aqueduct, gates will open...
PETER'S TURN-AROUND IS BIGGEST TRIUMPH
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA -- The Miracle on Broad Street isn't necessarily what happened here yesterday at the Vet, when the Giants turned into Comeback Kids against the Doug Pederson Eagles and boarded...
LATEST JINT WIN JUST D-LIGHTFUL : STRAHAN INT RETURN IN OT SINKS EAGLES
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - The ball was up there - Lord, was it up there. "Forever," Michael Strahan said. All that hung in the balance was the game, the season, all that...
THOMAS LIGHTENS VAN'S MOOD
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amYou don't have to watch Kurt Thomas long to notice a difference. Maybe it's the Dr. J mini-fro he's sporting, or the lighter, leaner frame he's carrying around. Or most...
GIANT 'O' STILL A WOE PHILADELPHIA
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThey were responsible for 10 points, which should not be enough to win most games. They were responsible for futility and ineptitude in the first half and only scattered signs...
3 FROM SYRACUSE STABBED IN MELEE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Syracuse football team was stunned yesterday after five people, including three players, were stabbed outside of an off-campus bar early yesterday morning. All three players are expected to survive....
SEHORN RED-FACED IN BIG BLUE'S WIN
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amPHILADELPHIA - This was strange and different and unwelcome for Jason Sehorn. The Giants' defense was getting credit in all corners of the visitors' locker room at Veterans Stadium for...
O'BRIEN TRIES ARAZI'S RECIPE
November 1, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. Did the next Arazi arrive at Gulfstream Park yesterday? Arazi was the French wondercolt who flew here to win the 1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile in a dazzling performance....