November 19, 1999
GREENSPAN USING RATE HIKES TO FIGHT GREED
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amGO down to Wall Street these days and you can almost hear the chanting: "Screw the Fed. Screw the Fed." That's exactly the opposite of the traditional stock market wisdom...
NEWMAN FORMS SKINFLINT POSSE ; GROUP WILL PUBLISH LIST OF MISERS AND ANGELS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amCorporate Scrooges be forewarned: They're going to name names. Led by actor Paul Newman and a group of top CEOs, a new organization to encourage philanthropy in the business world...
IT'S 'GARBAGE IN' FOR GATES; INVESTS $114M IN HUIZENGA'S REPUBLIC
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amBill Gates isn't putting all his eggs in the high-tech basket, investing $114 million in garbage dump giant Republic Services. Gates, whose Microsoft Corp. holdings make him the world's richest...
REID IT & WEEP, CLIVE ; LIKELY ARISTA HEAD TO POCKET $50M
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amL.A. Reid isn't just about to get the top job at Arista Records -- he's about to get a whole lot richer. As part of a deal he's working to...
GOLDMAN STILL IN $1T TOURNEY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amGoldman Sachs is still in the race to become the first investment bank to advise on $1 trillion worth of takeovers in a year. A London judge yesterday ruled the...
JILTED NEW YORK TIMES BEGS DEAL WITH ABC
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York Times is courting ABC after being left on the multimedia altar. The paper's earlier partner in cable TV and Internet news -- NBC News -- spurned The...
CLASSIC BALLET WITH A TWIST
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW FAST approaching the end of its two-week season at the Joyce Theater, Garth Fagan Dance continues to explore Fagan's own distinctive repertory. Fagan, the Tony-winning choreographer of "The...
'PUPPETS' WITH STRINGS ; HETFIELD'S METALLICA GOES ORCHESTRAL ; -- WITH NO REMORSE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amWHAT'S next for Metallica, the kings of alternative metal? How about a one-night stand at Madison Square Garden Tuesday, when the louder-than-plaid rockers will appear with New York's very refined...
GROWING UP GAY IN GERMANY: A YOUNG TURK'S TALE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'LOLA and Billy the Kid" is a decently acted, out-of-the rut coming-of-age story set in Germany's gay Turkish community. Baki Davrak, who looks a bit like Leonardo DiCaprio,...
'MOTHER' SUPERIOR
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW LIFE has rarely imitated art as beautifully or entertainingly as in Pedro Almodovar's intricately structured "All About My Mother," which showcases no fewer than six of the year's...
SO PEACEFUL, IT'S JUST PLAIN DULL
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amA FORCE MORE POWERFUL "'A Force More Powerful" means well, but it's a less-than-compelling documentary about the history of nonviolent resistance movements. Writer-director Steve York, who has produced documentaries for...
THE STARR REPORT
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amWhatever suits yaCh.9 is suing its own insurance company for not covering the station's prospective losses in the Sara Lee Kessler case. Kessler, the former Ch.9 anchor, was awarded $7.3...
CARTMAN'S 'MOM' COMMITS SUICIDE IN L.A. ; ACTRESS VOICED FEMALE 'SOUTH PARK'-ERS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amTHE actress who provided the eccentric female voices for "South Park" committed suicide last week. The body of Mary Kay Bergman, 38 -- who voiced at least seven characters on...
KISSES FOR 'KATE'!
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW DON'T be late, or I'll you berate, for it's wildly great, this "Kiss Me, Kate."I'll stop. Such is the wit and bounce of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate,"...
FILMMAKER HOMES IN ON WEB OF CONFUSION
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'HOME Page" is a strange, disorganized, self-involved film about cyberexhibitionists and Internet gurus, circa 1996. Documentarist Doug Block had a vague idea of making a film about the...
BYE-BYE, MATT DRUDGE ; FOX CUTS HIM LOOSE FROM CONTRACT AFTER HIS APOLOGY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amCYBERGOSSIP Matt Drudge and Fox News Channel have parted ways, ending his two-year-old weekly TV show immediately. "We are ending on amicable terms," Drudge said in a prepared statement issued...
TIGHT SHORTS A THRILL
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'SPIKE & Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation" is the duo's latest compilation of animated shorts, ranging in length from 2 to 7½ minutes and employing techniques from...
LUPONE SIGNS ON FOR 'JOLSON' ROLE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amKEEP your fingers crossed that this one comes together: Patti LuPone has agreed to star in "Jolson Sings Again," a new play by Arthur Laurents that is aiming to open...
'DEFENSE' SLOW ENOUGH TO BE OFFENSIVE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW "SECRET Defense" is a kind of Ironman Triathlon for cinephiles, a pretentious French film so torturously long and slow that just to getting to the end is a...
CBS LOCKS UP11-YEAR NCAADEAL FOR $6.2B
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe Tiffany network has retained its grip on a jewel of a sporting event. The NCAA has chosen CBS's staggering $6.2 billion, 11-year offer to air its national basketball tournament,...
ROKEN UNION
November 19, 1999 | 5:00am'HOME Improvement" star Tim Allen has separated from his wife. Allen and his wife, Laura Deibel, filed for separation in Los Angeles on Wednesday. They've been married for 15 years....
VISUAL TRIUMPH IS 'HOLLOW' VICTORY FOR BURTON
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW 'SLEEPY Hollow" is a visual tour de force: It's every bit as dreamy and atmospheric as you would expect from a movie by Tim Burton - the near-genius...
A STRONG BOND : BROSNAN FINDS HIS FOOTING IN 007'S "'WORLD"
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMOVIE REVIEW THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH Starring Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench and Denise Richards. Directed by Michael Apted. Screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and...
THUGS TAKING BACK GROUND WE HAD WON IN CRIME WAR
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amLOCK by block, street by bloody street, the good people of New York fear they're losing their newly won grasp on this city. The attacks at first seem isolated, random....
BILL AND BORIS SPAR OVER CHECHEN WAR
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton led world leaders yesterday in blasting Russian leader Boris Yeltsin for Moscow's bloody crackdown in Chechnya. Yeltsin fired back with angry words, and left Istanbul early, but he...
FAME IS A BUST FOR HONOREES IN BRONX HALL
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amEach day until Jan. 1, The Post will take a look at one of New York's landmarks on the eve of the new millennium. We'll talk to people who work...
VICTIM'S 'FURIOUS' MOM LEADS THE CHARGE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amT HE young man remembers how his sister-in-law's daughter entered the Brooklyn apartment last Friday. "She came home crying to her mother," he said about the 12-year-old girl who was...
RENEWED HOPE AS N. IRELAND TALKS ADVANCE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amMediator George Mitchell yesterday called on the IRA to begin disarming on the same day a home-rule government is formed -- moving to eliminate the last major snag in Northern...
BOY AWARDED $3.8 MILLION FOR LEAD POISONING IN CITY APT.
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amA jury yesterday awarded more than $3.8 million to a Brooklyn boy who suffered severe learning problems linked to lead paint in a city-owned apartment. Judy Powell, the mother of...
FIRST LADY'S AIDE TELLS NEW YORK ; DEMS: DON'T HURRY HILL
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's chief political adviser yesterday rejected the advice of two top state Democrats -- saying "there's no need" for the first lady to quickly announce her candidacy for...
BONFIRE PYRAMID CRUSHES COLLEGE KIDS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amFor the third time in three months, cursed campus Texas A&M is mourning its own -- at least nine students killed in the freak collapse of a 40-foot log pyramid...
BANK EXEC ACQUITTED IN '83 GANG MURDER
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amA bank executive is off the hook for a 16-year-old Chinatown gang murder after jurors yesterday rejected the sole evidence against him -- the word of two stoolie gangsters trying...
ERASED IRS TAPE GIVES PROBERS PAUSE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- A suit to find out if the IRS is conducting politically motivated audits has taken a Watergate-like twist -- with the tax agency claiming a secretary taped over...
FRIENDS BACK AT HOME MUST WAIT -- AND PRAY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amATHENS, Texas -- In an Austin medical clinic, a week before Thanksgiving, Julie Stansfield sits and waits. Just a few days ago, she was happily organizing a holiday reunion with...
EX-KOCH AIDE NABBED IN JET STINK
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amAn ex-top aide to former Mayor Ed Koch was busted yesterday on charges of setting off stink-bombs aboard two TWA flights between New York and France. Federal prosecutors say Victor...
HOUSE APPROVES $385B BUDGET
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Democrats and Republicans in the House joined last night to adopt a $385 billion budget -- although 135 lawmakers voted no and many others criticized the pork-laden package....
AGGIES ARE NO STRANGERS TO TRAGEDY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amTragedy has dogged the campus of Texas A&M this fall. Five members of a skydiving club popular with college students and alums were killed on Sept. 18 when their airplane...
NTSB'S NOT GREAT -- BUT IT'S ALL WE'VE GOT
November 19, 1999 | 5:00am'NO, I am not pissed off at you," James Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told me over the phone in his Southern accent. Considering I have called...
CANCER KID RARIN' TO GO ON HER NEW 'LEG'
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amA feisty, cancer-stricken 7-year-old Queens girl took her first step yesterday after an operation to replace her thighbone with a device that will "grow" with her. "I want to Rollerblade,"...
BROOKLYN TEACHER IS BOOKED ON HEROIN RAP
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amA veteran junior-high school teacher was charged with heroin possession yesterday after she was stopped in a Brooklyn subway station for using her daughter's student MetroCard, police said. Myrna Lichter,...
PREZ AND GOP WIN, GORE LOSES
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON -- President Clinton won most of what he wanted in the budget, but Republicans say they won, too -- by dodging a lot of bullets for the 2000...
DEVOTED BEAU NOW ; DARES TO HOPE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amBrick-attack victim Nicole Barrett was unconscious but waging a brave battle for her life last night, her shattered boyfriend told The Post. "She's still critical but she's fighting," Robert Moran...
GIRL SEES WORLD IN A FLASH BEFORE BLINDNESS SETS IN
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amA brave 7-year-old girl, slowly losing her sight, is getting a poignant present from her heartsick parents -- a whirlwind sightseeing trip around the world. Rebecca Veeck, granddaughter of the...
U.S. AND EGYPT WORKING TOGETHER :STUDY FINAL WORDS OF CRASH PILOT
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amEgyptian and U.S. investigators warring over the probe into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 will work together to come up with a definitive transcript of the jet's cockpit voice...
SCHOOL BIG GETS BOUNCED; OFFICIALS PROBE ATTACK 'COVERUP'
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe dean of a Brooklyn middle school was removed from his post yesterday as school investigators probed whether he tried to cover up a gang-sex attack on a female student....
TAX MAN IS QUIZ SHOW'S FIRST $1M WINNER
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amAn IRS employee from Connecticut was feeling like a million bucks last night -- after becoming the first person to win it all on ABC's "Who Wants To Be A...
GRUESOME FIND IN EX-MOB HAUNT
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amThe grisly discovery of a human skeleton in the basement of a former Bonanno crime-family meeting spot is probably tied to a mob-related murder more than 20 years old, police...
FLIGHT FRIGHT AS AIR HOSE EXPLODES ON BOEING 767
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amTerrified passengers prayed for their lives yesterday when an air hose exploded in the passenger compartment of a New York-bound American Airlines Boeing 767, forcing an emergency landing in Palm...
YOUNG LIVES SNUFFED OUT IN AN INSTANT
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amJeremy Frampton was a tall, athletic college senior who looked forward to the annual Texas A&M bonfire as "one of the big activities in his life," a friend said last...
CD CON ARTIST FACES MUSIC FOR MAIL FRAUD
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amCall him the CD con man. A New Jersey man fooled the computers at two music clubs for four years by using 1,630 aliases to buy CDs at introductory prices,...
TENNIS STAR JIM COURIER IN DWI BUST
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amJim Courier - once the top tennis player in the world - was busted on a drunken-driving charge yesterday at the University of Georgia campus, police said. "It was one...
MATURING BOND THREATENING TO CALL IT QUITS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amPierce Brosnan blasts bad guys and romances bad girls in the new James Bond flick opening today - but the hunky actor may be about to hang up his hat...
SHOCKED STUDENTS LEAN ON EACH OTHER
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amCOLLEGE STATION, Texas - All through a terrible night and long day, college kids - faces blank and eyes swollen with tears - gathered in groups to hug one another,...
DOG DAY AFTERNOON; TAKE JETS VS. BILLS, GIANTS OVER REDSKINS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amWITH Ray Lucas behind center, the Jet offense no longer is the dead zone it had been with Rick Mirer. Lucas, a beginner, certainly doesn't make all the right reads...
OH, DEER! THAT TIME AGAIN
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amAT SUNRISE on Monday deer hunters throughout the southern tier of New York State will take part in another opening day, and it will be a season that deer experts...
ISLANDERS WAIVE GOODBYE TO FERRARO
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amYou can go home again. Just not for long. Long Island native Chris Ferraro, who signed with the Islanders during the offseason, was placed on waivers yesterday. If, as expected,...
NBA WRONG TO PLAY IN POLITICAL ARENA ; NBA SHOULDN'T PLAY IN POLITICAL ARENA
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amFROM most accounts, the fund-raiser held at Madison Square Garden for Bill Bradley's presidential campaign on Sunday was a rousing success. An estimated 7,500 supporters helped gross approximately $1.5 million...
STORM REFUSE TO GET FRAN-TIC
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amALBUQUERQUE--It's not about playing against Coach Fran. Nor is it about playing in The Pit, the 18,000-seat House of Horrors. If Fran Fraschilla isn't yesterday's news in the minds of...
SOME JOCKEYS MAKE THEIR MOVE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amJockey Jose Espinoza will be away from New York the next couple weeks. He received a good offer to ride a horse in Saudi Arabia. He rides that horse in...
CASEY NOT TOO WORRIED ... YET
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON -- The record is dismal and disappointing. The contract is only for one year. But the coach is not worried. In fact, Don Casey was surprised when the subject...
KNICKS HAVE BIG PROBLEMS ; FRONTCOURT INJURIES ARE TAKING THEIR TOLL
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX -- Marcus Camby sat in the Delta Center's visiting locker room late Wednesday night grimacing in pain as Knicks trainer Mike Saunders taped black wires and an electronic stimulator...
OH, TO BE YOUNG AND STARTING FOR JETS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amIt was Saturday when Ryan Young first got the official word. He could hardly contain his 6-foot-7, 320-pound self. Young rushed to the phone and started burning up the lines...
LUCAS: VINNY HAS PRESENCE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Ray Lucas will be taking Vinny Testaverde to the games with him until further notice. Testaverde, who according to Bill Parcells "begged" to be with the team at...
EX-TEAMMATES TELL SPREE TO GET OVER IT
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES PHOENIX -- Two Golden State players took knocks at Latrell Sprewell for still being bitter at the organization and P.J. Carlesimo. Ex-Knick Terry Cummings, sent to the Warriors...
KING DENIES PEDRO CROWN POST WRITER BLEW IT BY OMITTING MARTINEZ
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amIN KEEPING with the spirit of teamwork, 1990s style, I have this to say about Pedro Martinez getting rooked out of the American League MVP award: Don't blame me, it...
METS HAVE NO PLANS TO BRING BACK KENNY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Kenny Rogers threw the final two pitches way outside to Andruw Jones in the 11th inning of Game 6 in the NLCS, he all but ended his career in...
SKINS CASH IN WITH STADIUM NAME CHANGE
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amThere'll be a new name taking the field Sunday for the Giants-Redskins game, sources tell The Post. The Skins have finalized their long-expected 27-year, $205 million stadium naming rights deal...
MIGHTY CASEY HAS 2 STRIKES ; COACH WILL GET AX IF NETS DON'T WIN ONE OF NEXT TWO
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amONLY TWO weeks into the 1999-2000 season and already the phones of Don Casey, Danny Ainge and P.J. Carlesimo have been rewired to speed-dismissal, and their seats have been hot-wired....
MYSTERY
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amGulfstream Park has the answers, and trainer Jim Bond wants to know: Who hired the two private eyes that were ejected from the backstretch the afternoon of the Nov. 6...
CHANGES RULE OUT WARD, CHILDS ; RULE CHANGES LEAVE VG FEELIN' POINTLESS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX -- Charlie Ward and Chris Childs have been lined up in the sights of the fans' firing squad ever since they became Knicks. One of the first things Stephon...
RANGERS SHOW WINNING HEART IN TOUGH LOSS
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amBruins 5 Rangers 3 BOSTON -- Payroll aside, the Rangers may not be good enough, big enough, young enough or confident enough to put together 60 minutes of solid hockey....
MORE LEGAL WOES LOOM FOR LATRELL
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amPHOENIX -- Latrell Sprewell, who returns to Oakland tomorrow for a basketball game, may not be out of the legal woods yet in northern California. David Greenseid, the attorney for...
MACLEAN'S BITTER ABOUT BENCHING
November 19, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - John MacLean knew for a day that it was coming. Still, that did not make it any easier on the 34-year-old right wing, a coach's scratch here last...