November 17, 1999
SHIPLEY IS WEIGHING ANCHOR AT CHASE:HARRISON WILL BECOME CHAIRMAN IN JANUARY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amChase Manhattan Corp. Chairman Walter V. Shipley is setting sail. Shipley, 64, will depart Chase's board on the first day of the new millenium and will be succeeded, as expected,...
REAL ESTATE BIGS OUT IN FORCE AT RITES FOR LOEWS' JOHN MALINO
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amHundreds of New York's most notable names in real estate packed Temple Israel in Lawrence, L.I., yesterday to mourn the passing of one of their own. Considered by most people...
LOTTERY WIN MAKES TRADE REPORTER...; $6 MILLION MAN
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amFINALLY, somebody is leaving the rapidly downsizing Cahners Publishing of their own volition. Price Colman, a media reporter for Broadcasting & Cable, is quitting after winning big in the Colorado...
A GIANT PARTY POOPER - MISSING MILLENNIUM IN TIMES SQ.
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amONE very tall new arrival to Times Square is going to miss the party of the century. Despite announcements that it would be open by New Year's, the 53-story Planet...
THE EAST IS GREEN ; WTO PACT FUELS 120% RUNUP IN CHINA.COM
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amInvestors looking to capitalize on China's admission to the World Trade Organization sent shares of Internet company China.com soaring 120 percent in just two days. China.com shares soared 26 11/16...
LOW-KEY EXEC GETS FRONT OFFICE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amCincinatti, Ohio-born L.A. Reid founded LaFace Records 10 years ago with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds after years of collaborating and performing together in a band called "Deele." One of their first...
DAVIS IS OUT AS ARISTA CEO - REID TO BE NAMED NEXT WEEK
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amLegendary music man Clive Davis is out at Arista Records, The Post has learned. Rising record-industry star L.A. Reid is expected to be named president and CEO of the famous...
STREET-WALKING NIGHTMARE: PEACHES 16, IS A BEAT-UP EX-PROSTITUTE IN FEAR FOR HER LIFE. THIS IS HER HORRIFYING STORY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amWALKING in downtown Brooklyn, the 16-year-old girl who used to be known as Peaches when she was selling her body to strangers didn't look anything like the typical teenager she...
CITY'S BEEN INSPIRING DIRECTOR FOR DECADES
November 17, 1999 | 5:00am'LIBERTY Heights" is the fourth Barry Levinson movie set in his native Baltimore - the fifth if you count " . . . And Justice for All," which he wrote...
BARRY HITS NEW 'HEIGHTS' : LEVINSON SCORES WITH LATEST BALTIMORE COMEDY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'LIBERTY Heights," Barry Levinson's latest love letter to the Baltimore of his youth, is a touching and frequently hilarious chronicle of a Jewish family's struggle with their self-consciousness...
TONYA HARDING'S MAURY STORY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amBAD-girl figure skater Tonya Harding has apologized for dissing Connie Chung in a 1994 interview. And Harding has used Chung's husband, Maury Povich, as her on-air mediator. "I want to...
WB HAS PULLED THE PLUG ON 'DC'
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amTHE WB and "Law & Order" producer Dick Wolf have quietly canned "DC," a newsie drama about young interns in Washington D.C. Slated for debut later this season, the series'...
THE MINTING OF 'MILLIONAIRE'
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amWHERE was "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" invented? A): On a subway platform. B): In a bathtub. C): In a bar. D): On the back of an electric bill....
FLORENTINE FANTASY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amLOVERS of Italian eats romanticize Tuscan food out of all proportion. Seduced by dreams of farmhouse summers amid olive-dappled landscapes, we want this rustic cuisine to be worthy of its...
THE STARR REPORT
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amBetween Brothers Daily News TV Critic David Bianculli will soon be shopping an authorized biography of The Smothers Brothers to publishers. "I have the total cooperation of [Tom and Dick...
WOLF DOWN ITALIAN DELIGHTS AT LUPA
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amIT's barely 5:45 p.m. on Saturday and already there's a 1 1/2-hour wait for a table at Lupa. The hostess, a picture of calm amid a swelling sea of prospective...
SO WHAT IF THEY HAVE 'ISSUES'? KORN SHUCKS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amROCK REVIEW IT was a rare moment in the history of the famed Apollo theater Monday night, when thrash rockers Korn showcased songs from their new album, "Issues." But these...
NO 'MAYBE' BABY, IT'S A WINNER
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW IS there a right guy out there for the searching gal? Is there a right gal for the searching guy? This eternal question -- a staple of comedy...
ON AN 'UP' SWING
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW DOCUMENTARIES don't get much better than the remarkable series that began with "7 Up" in 1964 and now offers a sixth installment, "42 Up." The latest episode of...
HE'S ARKIN UP THE RIGHT TREE MATTHEW IS A HIT IN'DINNER'
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amTEN years ago, when Matthew Arkin decided to give up a promising career as a lawyer to become an actor, his famous father was less than thrilled. "I spent a...
A PASTIS PREVIEW: RESTAURATEUR KEITH MCNALLY GIVES THE POST A RARE INTERVIEW AND A FIRST LOOK INTO THE DINING ROOM OF HIS LATEST - AND PERHAPS LAST - EATERY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amI'M totally obsessive," admits Keith McNally as he steps around workmen at Pastis, his nearly completed restaurant in the Meat Packing District, while giving The Post a rare sneak peak....
BARRY HITS NEW HEIGHTS: LEVINSON SCORES WITH LATEST BALTIMORE COMEDY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amMovie Review LIBERTY HEIGHTS Starring Joe Mantegna, Adrien Brody and Ben Foster. Written and directed by Barry Levinson. Running time: 127 minutes. Rated R. At the Lincoln Square and the...
BARRY HITS NEW 'HEIGHTS': LEVINSON SCORES WITH LATEST BALTIMORE COMEDY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amLIBERTY HEIGHTS Starring Joe Mantegna, Adrien Brody and Ben Foster. Written and directed by Barry Levinson. Running time: 127 minutes. Rated R. At the Lincoln Square and the Loews Village...
CREEPY-CRAWLY CAFETERIAS DON'T BUG ED. BD.
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amBoard of Education officials yesterday defended school cafeterias as some of the best-run in the country -- despite a Post probe that showed vermin had been found in one-third of...
BATTLE OF THE HOOVES & THE HOOF-NOTS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amSUSY, tall and stout for a 9-year-old, will not be ignored. Posing on Central Park South like the queen of her tribe, she delivers a feisty push with her considerable...
ISRAELI BIRDS MAY HAVE CARRIED KILLER VIRUS TO APPLE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amScientists have discovered that the deadly strain of West Nile virus that swept through New York this year most likely came here in a shipment of exotic birds, possibly from...
SCHOOL GUARD DIES AS KIDS SCUFFLE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amStudents watched in horror yesterday as a beloved security guard collapsed from a fatal heart attack while running to break up a fight at a Brooklyn high school. Orville Williams,...
FORBES RIPS 'ATTACK AD'
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Republican presidential wannabe Steve Forbes -- who ran some of the harshest TV attack ads in 1996 -- is filing a federal complaint against a new ad that...
FIRM OFFERS 195G TO KIN IN '97 CRASH
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amAs investigators focused on the co-pilot of EgyptAir 990 as a suspect in the crash, families of victims of another disaster possibly caused by a suicidal pilot yesterday were offered...
CALL THE COPS -- AND HAVE HALL ARRESTED FOR STUPIDITY
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amTHE tragedy of Egypt Air Flight 990 is a monstrous trip over the cliff by a bunch of twits who think getting a government job is Nirvana. On Sunday night,...
ONE MAN WITH A GUN WHO STOOD UP TO THUGS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amTHE three teen gunmen were swift and violent when they pushed their way into a Brooklyn social club. Peter was shoved to the ground -- one of the teens stepped...
BILL & BORIS TO DISCUSS CHECHYNA WAR
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton huddles with Boris Yeltsin tomorrow, but experts predict he'll go easy on the Russian president over the slaughter of civilians in Chechnya. An administration official declined to say...
FED HIKE SPELLS STEEPER LOAN RATES
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amBrace yourself for higher loan payments in the coming months -- the Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates yesterday for the third time since June. The Fed announced a quarter-percentage-point...
FEDS FOCUS ON CO-PILOT: DID PERSONAL WOES MAKE HIM SEND 767 INTO DEATH DIVE?
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe FBI is focusing on EgyptAir Flight 990's relief co-pilot as the man who may have deliberately flown the jet into the Atlantic, federal sources said yesterday. Gameel Batouti, 59,...
WOMAN HURT IN MIDTOWN BRICK ATTACK
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amA young woman walking through a busy Midtown intersection was attacked yesterday for no reason by a man who smashed her in the head with a heavy paving brick. The...
HILL GOTTA GET MOVING: CAMPAIGN PROS: SHE NEEDS AN A-TEAM TO HALT THE STUMBLES IN SENATE BID
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton needs a dramatic move -- like spending Thanksgiving at her new house in Westchester County -- to lift her Senate campaign off the mat, experts...
BROADWAY CATCHE$ RUDY 'FEVER'
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe Broadway musical "Saturday Night Fever" might be a flop with critics, but Mayor Giuliani last night was banking on the show being a big hit for his Senate campaign....
NEW SCHOOL SEX-ATTACK PROBE: 5 BOYS ACCUSED OF FONDLING GIRL, 12
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amA Brooklyn junior-high girl was fondled by five boys in a stairwell at her school -- but cops didn't arrest the boys until three days later, and investigators think school...
SAT REPORT BARES HUGE ETHNIC DIVIDE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe city's black and Latino high-school students are doing far worse on the SAT college-entrance exam than whites and Asians, troubling new data obtained by The Post shows. Board of...
REV. JESSE BUSTED IN ILL. PROTEST
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested and taken away in handcuffs yesterday for trespassing at an Illinois high school to protest the expulsion of six students for brawling. At least...
DMV TAKES LICENSE WITH WHO GETS PRIMO PLATES
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amOne of the most prestigious license plates in town -- "NYC" -- doesn't belong to the mayor, police commissioner or any other top city official. It belongs to a disgraced...
POST READERS: HITLER WAS MOST EVIL
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe votes are in: Adolf Hitler is the most evil person of the millennium, and Thomas Edison is the most influential, according to a poll of The Post's online users....
'OFFICIALLY' UNFAIR TO THE PUBLIC
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amYou can't have the license plate NYC10 -- but I can. Call the Department of Motor Vehicle's toll-free custom-license-plate hot line and ask for it. An operator will say, "We...
HILLARY'S NOT THE ONLY LOSER - THE BLOOD LIBEL MAY HAVE HURT THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE MORE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amHILLARY Clinton wasn't the only big loser in the uproar over Suha Arafat's poisonous accusations in the West Bank last week. Suha's husband, who dreams of White House pressure to...
THIS LITTLE 'APPLE' IS A BIG THRILL IN QUEENS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amYou can travel where you will in this world, but nowhere -- nowhere -- will you find a larger model of a map than the Panorama of the City of...
OVERDUE APOLOGY FOR COP, 101
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amA 101-year-old New Yorker -- finally cleared of selling secrets to the IRA 71 years ago -- wept yesterday as the Irish government apologized for its mistake. William Geary, who...
IRA WILL DISARM, & RENOUNCE VIOLENCE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe Irish Republican Army will issue a historic statement rejecting violence today -- as well as making plans to get rid of its weapons beginning in January, Irish government sources...
MICHIGAN JURY CONVICTS 13-YEAR-OLD OF MURDER
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amA 13-year-old Michigan boy who became a symbol in the campaign for tough treatment of juvenile offenders was convicted yesterday of killing an 18-year- old. Nathaniel Abraham, who was 11...
THERE'LL BE LOTS OF 'SPACE' AT THIS HOTEL
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amA luxury hotel being planned to open in the year 2017 will provide guests with truly out-of-this-world views -- because it'll be floating some 200 miles above Earth. It's the...
CITY FACING STRUGGLE TO PROVIDE PRE-K SEATS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amCity schools might not have enough money or space to guarantee pre-kindergarten seats for all 4-year-olds in the year 2001, a watchdog report says. The Independent Budget Office (IBO) estimates...
A CURRENCY AFFAIR: NEW ; $5 & $10 BILLS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department yesterday introduced new $10 and $5 bills with bigger portraits of Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln -- and a bunch of hidden tricks to foil...
80TH-B'DAY BASH SLATED FOR CARDINAL
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor will celebrate his 80th birthday in style with a big bash at the Waldorf, where 1,000 guests will honor his 15 years as archbishop of New York....
LENNY-COME-LATELY HURRICANE HITS CARIB
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amLate-season Hurricane Lenny is taking an unusual west-to-east route that was expected to bring its 115-mph winds to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands today. The storm, speeding along at...
PRIME 'CHUK PAYS A VISIT
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe goal-scorer the Devils didn't want back is coming back anyway -- with 13 goals in the Bruin bank. And the goal-scorer they replaced him with cost them reliable Brian...
EWING SCRIMMAGES, SNAPS AT CHILDS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER -- The major revelation that Patrick Ewing scrimmaged with the Knicks for the first time this season Monday night sparked an angry exchange yesterday between the injured center and...
ISLES MAY CUT CAIRNS THIS WEEK
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amIt would hit him like a punch in the face. Even more stinging than the overhead right that Bob Probert popped him with last Friday at Chicago. But for Eric...
ANGRY SPREE WANTS PIECE OF GS
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER -- Golden State coach P.J. Carlesimo will hold a conference call today to discuss facing Latrell Sprewell Saturday night in Oakland. But before last night's game in Denver, Spree...
REQUIEM FOR PAT? THAT'S HIS FEAR
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER -- Perhaps it happened to you the first day you went back to visit your old neighborhood or your old school. You felt at home, but at the same...
LATRELL GETS WELL: SECOND-HALF BINGE HELPS KNICKS SNAP THREE-GAME SLIDE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amDENVER -- Look out P.J.! Latrell Sprewell is out of his shooting slump. After torching Golden State coach P.J. Carlesimo and the entire Warriors organization before the game, Sprewell went...
COETZER'S NO MATCH FOR TAUZIAT
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amAt 32, when many female tennis players are talking about or preparing for retirement, Nathalie Tauziat is playing the best tennis of her career. She's playing well enough to be...
NYC LENDS HUNTERS BIG HAND WITH LAND
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amDEER hunters in the Catskills will have more land available to them when the season opens Monday thanks to New York City. Over 2,200 acres around the Pepacton Reservoir, land...
YANKS TAKE LOOK AT SASAKI
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe Yankees became the first major-league team to work out Kazuhiro Sasaki yesterday while they continue to work out off-season plans that center around David Cone and allow for the...
GIANTS WOULDN'T PAY RANSOM FOR JOHNSON
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amIN A casual conversation that never went much of anywhere, the Giants and Vikings this past offseason talked about Brad Johnson, the sort of quarterback who is rarely available. Let's...
CHEERS FOR BOBBY V
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amDuring a period rife with rumors about trades and free agents, Dodger executive Tommy Lasorda said he was going to start another hot one. "I'm going to start a rumor...
TUNA & TESTAVERDE HELPING LUCAS LEARN
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amThe two men sat together on a bus in the darkness of the early morning yesterday, talking. Well, one of them was talking anyway. Bill Parcells, three-time Super Bowl coach,...
STORM, RAMS SCORE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amTwo of the city's premier college programs, St. John's and Fordham, have scored major recruiting coups, The Post has learned. St. John's today will get a letter of intent from...
STEPHENS BACK WITH BIG BLUE
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amWhat a week it's been for Rutgers football. The Scarlet Knights got their first victory of the season in a shocking upset of Syracuse and Monday night, their former quarterback,...
VALENTINE WON'T MISS AUDITION
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amMET NOTES As of yesterday afternoon Bobby Valentine, perhaps the majors' foremost authority on Japanese baseball, was not asked to come to Shea Stadium to see Kazuhiro Sasaki pitch today...
DON'T AX JOHN, MOVE HIM UP
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amWHILE John Muckler twists in the wind, we presume the persons responsible for his fate contort themselves trying to figure out what to do with the Rangers. If they believed...
FABINI'S ABSENCE PUTS O-LINE IN FLUX
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Just when the Jets seemed to be getting their act together offensively, their offensive line is in trouble with the loss of right tackle Jason Fabini for the...
THE SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD
November 17, 1999 | 5:00amNO. 1 BOBBY THOMSON SLAYS DODGERS IN A NEW YORK MINUTE Fuhgeddaboutit. October 3d, 1951, the Polo Grounds. The greatest, most joyous, most devastating, most memorable moment in New York...