November 24, 1999
MITCHELL'S LIQUID ASSETS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Sen. George Mitchell -- who made headlines for negotiating peace in Northern Ireland -- is quickly becoming an international businessman. The one-time majority leader and Maine Democrat played a...
STEINBERG HIRES FINANCE WIZ
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe wealth of Saul Steinberg's prominent New York family has plunged so sharply that Steinberg has hired a turnaround artist to help save the family empire. The family's business --...
OPRAH MAG DEBUT IS FULL SPEED AHEAD
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amFIVE months from blastoff, the new Oprah Winfrey magazine from Hearst is taking shape -- even if it still doesn't have an official name. There's also been no prototype, but...
M'SOFT JUDGE SAW SPLIT BETWEEN U.S., STATES
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The coalition of federal and state regulators that has pummeled Microsoft in court may be splintering. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust case told lawyers he appointed a...
MIFFED TIFFANY THROWS ROCKS AT E-TAILER
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amDon't mess with Tiffany. Fledgling online retailer Camdens.com has cut short a campaign that took a swipe at the Fifth Avenue institution, after the New York Times pulled the ads...
MAXWELL MONEY WOES, PART TWO
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLike father like son. Kevin Maxwell -- son of the disgraced publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell -- has been making a pretty penny from his debt-ridden, cash-starved, money-losing telecommunications start-up. Securities...
SEX SELLS: CALVIN GUY 'AD' IT AGAIN
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amYou'd think the man behind the ad world's sex revolution in the 1980s couldn't top himself in these jaded times. But Sam Shahid -- who got Brooke Shields into her...
CHANUKAH, THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE are festivals in many cultures that celebrate a victory over oppression -- Bastille Day in France, Fourth of July in the United States. Chanukah, which begins at sundown on...
TYROLEAN THRILLS IN BOULEY'S TRAPEZIUM
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amJUST when you think New York has seen everything in the way of restaurant "concept," "theme," and "spectacle," along comes Danube. Its chemistry is mischievously askew: Mitteleuropean cuisine that is...
ROUGH HABANA SPIN-OFF LACKS ORIGINAL'S GUSTO
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amWALKING into Cafe Habana, the taco-sized eatery is enticingly fragrant with aromas of corn, cheese and garlic. Still, our immediate concern's not food but rather how to gracefully wriggle into...
CONTRIVED CLICHÉ-FEST'S FAR FROM 'FLAWLESS'
November 24, 1999 | 5:00am'FLAWLESS' is anything but, notwithstanding the presence of Robert De Niro as a conservative stroke victim who learns to communicate by taking singing lessons from a flamboyant drag queen. De...
TEACHER! TEACHER! - LETOURNEAU'S SIDE OF AFFAIR WITH STUDENT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amHERE'S the first look at the TV movie that had a hard time getting made -- "The Mary Kay Letourneau Story: All American Girl." The movie, on the USA cable...
REBELS WITH A CAUSE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHE "Devil" in the title of Ang Lee's ambitious and wonderfully acted Civil War epic "Ride With the Devil" is William Quantrill, who led his Confederate guerrillas in a notorious...
DAILY LIFE WAS HIS STAR - A NEW PORTRAIT OF ROCKWELL
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHE stars of a new documentary about Norman Rockwell are the paintings. The artist who chronicled American life on canvas for more than 60 years has been dead since 1978,...
MAKING OF 'DEVIL' A WILD RIDE FOR CAST & CREW
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S not real until a Missouri tick bites you.At least that was the level of authenticity director Ang Lee achieved while in the Show-Me state filming his Civil War epic...
THE STARR REPORT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amQueen-sized change A total of 12 people were let go last Friday from "Queen Latifah," the freshman talk show produced by Telepictures. "Clearly there were some staff changes made," said...
DARK 'BORKMAN' SHINES ON STAGE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amIBSEN'S "John Gabriel Borkman" is a stark tale of lives crumbling one winter night outside Christiania (later Oslo) in 1876. Written late in the playwright's career, the play is as...
MIRE AND BRIMSTONE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00am'END of Days" starts off creepily enough, with dark hints that it will turn out to be an updated, high-testosterone version of a 1970s religious horror film like "The Omen"...
BYRNE GOES TO 'MOON'
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amGABRIEL Byrne will co-star opposite Cherry Jones in an upcoming Broadway revival of "A Moon for the Misbegotten," productions sources said yesterday. Byrne will play James Tyrone Jr., a washed-up...
MORTON'S MAN
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amWHY did Allen Bernstein buy Morton's, the chain of Chicago steakhouses? "It was the only way I could get a reservation," he half-jokingly declares during our lunch. "Whenever I'd travel...
HAMAS BOSS: HOLY WAR AGAINST ISRAEL WILL GO ON
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amHamas chief Moussa Abu Marzook vowed to continue a holy war against Israel despite his militant group's leadership being booted out of Jordan. "The jihad will continue. It will remain...
TOP CUNY REFORMER CAN GIVE SHARPTON A LESSON
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNOW that Al Sharpton has finally lost Tawana Brawley's address and seems to want to be an adult, he should stand up and attack the real acid of racism that...
THEY ASKED FOR A CRACKDOWN - BUT STILL COMPLAINED WHEN RUDY MOVED AGAINST CABBY BIAS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNow that the immediate media hoopla over actor Danny Glover's bias complaint against a New York City cabdriver has subsided, it's worth taking a look back at the curious way...
LET'S GIVE THANKS FOR THE N.Y. FOUNDLING HOSPITAL
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHE nursery is sparkling clean and fully stocked with teddy bears. More important, it is safe. Safe enough to allow little kids to dream. In a bed by a window,...
BRANDY TO SKIP TREE-LIGHTING HERE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amPop diva Brandy's sick-leave agony has forced her to drop out of the Rockefeller Center Christmas-tree lighting festivities. The 20-year-old star of the sitcom "Moesha" backed out of co-hosting NBC's...
ATT'YS MAKE $13M GRAB IN HOLOCAUST SETTLEMENT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLawyers for the Holocaust victims in a landmark suit against Swiss banks have submitted a $13.5 million bill that will come out of a fund earmarked for their clients, The...
W'STOCK COPS MAY HAVE KNIFE IN L.I. COUPLE SLAY
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amWOODSTOCK -- A 12-inch serrated bread knife was found between the charred bodies of a Long Island husband-and-wife legal team at their upstate vacation home here, sources said yesterday. It's...
EX-PAROLE BIG GETS 2 YEARS FOR PERJURY
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amA former state parole commissioner was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday for lying to federal agents investigating parole-for-campaign cash allegations. Sean McSherry, 47, was convicted earlier this year...
FIRMS BOOST RX STUDIES
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amResearchers for drug companies are studying 75 percent more medicines for treating women's health problems than they did in 1991, the pharmaceutical industry says. In a report to be released...
'POISON' SUHA IS AT IT AGAIN
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe State Department yesterday blasted Suha Arafat for expanding her charges that Israel was trying to poison Palestinians. Spokesman James Rubin said Mrs. Arafat's latest comments were "baseless ... outrageous...
PROBATION IN DEADLY CRASH OF AMBULANCE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amAn ambulance driver who killed three young children in a Brooklyn crash sobbed uncontrollably in court yesterday -- saying she would always live with a "life sentence" of guilt and...
BLOOMIE'S CLERK BUSTED IN CREDIT SCAM
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amA Bloomingdale's sales associate has been arrested for using a rigged, hand-held computer to steal credit-card numbers from unwitting customers making purchases, authorities said yesterday. Authorities said Tania Ventura, 26,...
HEAT ON ED. BOARD IN SEX-ATTACK SCANDALS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan state legislator warned yesterday that he'll force the Board of Education to institute a comprehensive sexual-assault reporting and counseling system unless it does so voluntarily. Citing The Post's...
CITY DIDN'T INSPECT SITE AFTER EARLIER ACCIDENT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amCity building officials never inspected the shaky Williamsburg construction site that claimed a life yesterday -- despite a collapse three months ago that sent three workers to the hospital. On...
HS GUARD IN DRUG BUST
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amA school safety officer at Lafayette HS in Brooklyn was arrested in Coney Island Monday night on charges of cocaine possession. Police said Sharon Walbrook, 45, bought two plastic bags...
COMA BOXER SHOWING NO IMPROVEMENT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amCritically injured boxer Stephan Johnson remained in a coma yesterday -- surrounded by worried family and friends. "He's resting comfortably, but there's been no change in his condition," said Gleason's...
CITY UNVEILS BID TO RID THE GRID OF 'LOCK'
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amMotorists better be good, for goodness sake -- 'cause the traffic crackdown is coming to town. Mayor Giuliani yesterday unveiled a pack of plans to ease the city's gridlock. The...
WE'LL SOON BE FULL OF BALLOON-EY
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amSome of America's best-loved inflated egos are getting their flying orders for tomorrow's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Three brand-new giant helium balloons -- Millennium Snoopy, the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee,...
STRONG STATEMENT WAS ONLY WAY TO SLOW DOWNSLIDE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amANALYSIS Hillary Clinton shifted her sputtering Senate campaign out of neutral yesterday simply by saying aloud what her aides have been whispering for months. Until yesterday's announcement that she will...
IT'S POKE-CIDAL MANIA -WEB SITE LETS FOLKS KILL KIDDIE CREATURES
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amPokémon-haters are flooding a Web site that lets them decide the best way to kill the annoying but wildly popular creatures -- sawing them in half, mauling them or putting...
PREZ IN KOSO: 'FORGIVE SERBS'
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- President Clinton yesterday told Albanians in Kosovo that "you must try" to forgive Serbs for their murderous ethnic cleansing under Slobodan Milosevic -- but his plea won little...
JAVITS 2000 BASH EYEING N.J. ARENA
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amCelebration 2000, the megabucks New Year's Eve extravaganza at the Javits Center axed because of mini-interest, could be reborn at the Meadowlands. The producers, who abruptly canceled the lavish show...
BRAIN-DAMAGED BOY WINS $79M AWARD FROM HOSP - 24-HOUR CARE NEEDED AFTER POST-OP GOOF
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amA 13-year-old Westchester boy who suffered permanent brain damage while undergoing post-operative treatment at New York Hospital has been awarded a $79 million jury verdict. The Manhattan state Supreme Court...
CONSTRUCTION TRAGEDY - BROOKLYN WORKER DIES IN COLLAPSE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe upper story at a troubled Brooklyn construction site collapsed as workers poured a concrete floor yesterday, burying a dozen men in nearly a ton of wet cement, bricks and...
CHANGING 'CUSTOMS': AIRPORT DRUG BUSTS PLUNGE; EXCLUSIVE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amHeroin seizures at airports nationwide fell 35 percent this year -- and many agents blame new directives that make them gun-shy about conducting personal searches, The Post has learned. Customs...
NYC BALLET CAN'T DANCE TO MUSIC
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amThe New York City Ballet's fund-raising gala at Lincoln Center was thrown into chaos last night when its orchestra went on strike just one hour before a scheduled performance. And...
2 KILLED IN L.I. COPTER CRASH
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTwo people were killed and two were critically injured when an Army National Guard helicopter crashed at Long Island-MacArthur Airport last night, officials said. The helicopter, a UH-1H Huey, was...
HILLARY SAYS, 'THE ANSWER IS YES' - HEEDS ADVISERS & TOSSES HAT IN RING
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Clinton yesterday stopped "listening" and started talking -- announcing she is definitely running for the U.S. Senate. "It's time to get moving and get started," she said....
UNDERCOVER COP SHOT IN BX. BUY-AND-BUST
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amAn undercover narcotics cop, conducting a buy-and-bust operation, was beaten and shot last night in a Bronx building -- but saved from serious injury when the bullet his his cell...
BRADLEY DELEGATES COVER ALL THE BASES IN N.Y.
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic 2000 presidential candidate Bill Bradley yesterday said he has full delegate slates for every district in New York - a show of strength despite opposition from the...
BAND STRIKES CHORD WITH KIDS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNew York City public-school students took a field trip yesterday - to meet Metallica at Madison Square Garden. Twenty-five choral students from Midwood HS in Brooklyn took their studies to...
GOBBLE UP THE BOYS - DALLAS WON'T BE TURKEYS AT HOME VS. FISH
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE was a time not long ago when Dolphins-Cowboys would have been an offensive show, three hours of fireworks and bombs filling the air. But on Thanksgiving Day in Dallas,...
TWO ANGLES TO FEAST ON
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amAqueduct opens its gates tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. for its 10-race Thanksgiving card. First post is 11 a.m., with the last race scheduled for just after 3 p.m. The Fall...
HUNTERS, CHIP IN TO SAVE THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE was a time that one in every four trees in the eastern U.S. forests was an American chestnut, a tree that produced at least two bushels of nuts every...
DEVIL POWER PLAY TRIES NEW 'ZIP' CODE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amANAHEIM -- Their road power play goose egg remains unbroken, and that's no yolk to the Devils as they open a three-game Western scramble here against the Mighty Ducks. That...
GANG GREEN GENIUSES - BELICHICK & CO. TRUE DEFENSIVE WIZARDS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amGOOD defense -- even great defense -- is sometimes difficult to decipher for the untrained eye even as it's played out in front of you. In the case of the...
NIT FIELD: SEMI-TOUGH
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNever let it be said the Preseason NIT lined up patsies or cupcakes for tonight's final four. The four-team semifinal includes such powerhouses as No. 9 Arizona, No. 10 Kentucky...
LOSING IS A TAXING SITUATION
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amHEY, Jets and Giants fans. Next time you're commiserating with friends over how disappointing this season has been, take heart, it could be worse. You could be living in Cincinnati...
EAST MEADOW'S DOHERTY PUTTIN' FIGHT BACK IN IRISH
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amHe has basketball degrees from the nation's top institutions. In playing under Dean Smith at North Carolina and coaching under Roy Williams at Kansas, Matt Doherty has learned from the...
MUCKLER & NEIL GET VOTES OF CONFIDENCE; EXCLUSIVE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA -- John Muckler's job will not be on the line here tonight when the Rangers meet the Lightning, nor will it be on Friday when the Rangers face the...
ND STAR MURPHY ON TOP OF WORLD
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amForgive Notre Dame's Troy Murphy if he feels the need to pinch himself, or wonder if there really are leprechauns roaming the campus in South Bend. The Fighting Irish's star...
LATRELL'S MOUTH FACING FOUL CALL - X-RATED REPLIES TO HECKLERS MAY DRAW FINE, BAN
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- The NBA is on Latrell Sprewell's back again. NBA security phoned Sprewell early yesterday morning, waking him up at the Knicks' Beverly Hills hotel to question him...
WHY I LEFT PEDRO OFF MY MVP BALLOT; MVP VOTING ISN'T LIFE & DEATH ISSUE
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amEVEN if I wasn't thunderstruck from a near-death experience when I returned from Anguilla, the crown jewel of the Caribbean, I wouldn't have understood the flap that LaVelle Neal and...
YANKS FOCUSING ON CONE, LEFTIES
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNot having met face to face in two weeks, George Steinbrenner gathered his Inner Circle in Tampa yesterday for a meeting. The Boss wanted an update on baseball's ever-changing financial...
KERRY HOLDS FASSEL'S FATE - COACH ROLLS DICE WITH QB PROJECT
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amJIM Fassel's future with the Giants will be determined by what happens next with Kerry Collins. The rise or fall will be played out in the coming six weeks and...
LJ HEARS GOOD NEWS ABOUT BACK
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- It was another false alarm for Larry Johnson, who was diagnosed yesterday with a pinched nerve in his back, unrelated to the herniated disk he suffered five...
STORM HAS A PIC-NICK - STORM EAT MACARCHUK'S SEAWOLVES FOR DINNER
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNick Macarchuk is a lot like a sales rep at a new housing development. His office is a trailer, adjacent to the product he's trying to sell: Stony Brook basketball....
OUTBURST PROVES SPREE'S A TURKEY
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- On this Thanksgiving, Latrell Sprewell should give thanks for all the second chances he's been given. Instead, he's wondering, why me? Again. Sprewell got a wake-up call...
NBA'S THORN TURNS DOWN CHANCE TO RUN NETS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES SACRAMENTO -- Losing enters the picture, changes follow. And the Nets, mired in losing, tried to make a change by luring NBA Senior VP of Operations Rod Thorn...
KNEE FORCES CAMBY TO SKIP THE CLIPS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES LOS ANGELES -- Marcus Camby approached Jeff Van Gundy after yesterday morning's shootaround at the Staples Center and told him point blank: He said he wasn't going to...
KINGS CLOBBER COURT JESTERS - WEBBER RULES 1-10 NETS
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO -- Just two years ago, the Nets were viewed as the league's promising up-and-coming studs, the exciting and fun-filled young guns primed to make noise in the East, if...
THEY'RE HALF-NOTS - STINKO START DOOMS HUGE KNICKS RALLY
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- The Knicks were without Marcus Camby (knee), Larry Johnson (back) and Patrick Ewing (getting in game shape) in last night's trip-ending 100-95 loss to the Clippers. But...
STARTING FROM SCRATCH - MACARCHUK BUILDING STONY BROOK FROM GROUND UP
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amNick Macarchuk is a lot like a sales rep at a new housing development. His office is a trailer, adjacent to the product he's trying to sell: Stony Brook basketball....
VH GETS GROOVE BACK - AFTER STARTING SLOW, KEITH ROUNDING INTO TOP FORM
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO - Beyond a whole big bunch of victories, the need is simple for the Nets: get a consistent third scorer. Stephon Marbury and Keith Van Horn are producing their...
JINT RESERVE SUSPENDED
November 24, 1999 | 5:00amLyle West, a rookie safety for the Giants, was suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league's policy on anabolic steroids and related substances. Apparently, West was taking...