November 27, 1999
TED WANTS TO BUY A REAL NETWORK
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amTed Turner isn't satisfied just being a cable guy. The billionaire mogul -- who unsuccessfully tried to buy CBS and NBC before selling out to Time Warner -- is once...
THEATER REVIEW; A 'DREAM' COME TRUE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amSHAKESPEARE'S "A Midsummer Night's Dream" can be precious, overdecorated and tiresome. But the play looks brand-new, beautiful and sexy in the hands of adapter-director Joe Calarco, whose production is running...
NOTEWORTHY JAZZ CLUB KEEPS APPLE IN THE GROOVE
November 27, 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...
MALL IS NOT LOST FOR CAR-LESS SHOPAHOLICS
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThis is the second installment of The Savvy Shopper, a regular feature revealing tips and trends for holiday shoppers in what is shaping up as the biggest Christmas buying season...
TIGHT VOTE SEEN FOR N. IRELAND PEACE PACT
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amWorried over outcome.Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant party votes today on the latest peace package and a last-minute poll indicates the U.S.-mediated deal could narrowly fail. The Daily Telegraph survey published...
FOSTER-CARE SYSTEM TO GET LONG-OVERDUE AUDIT
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amT HE city has paid foster-care agencies hundreds of millions of dollars -- but it hasn't conducted a direct audit of them since 1993. Nicholas Scoppetta, commissioner of the Administration...
E-TAILERS IN A FRENZY TO 'NET HOLIDAY CUSTOMERS
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amInternet retailers want you -- badly. So badly, in fact, that they're not waiting for the traditional after-Christmas sales. Many are offering discounts and giveaways right now, hoping they'll lure...
AGGIES TRIUMPH FOR CLASSMATES LOST IN BONFIRE TRAGEDY ; AGGIES WIN AN UPSET FOR BONFIRE VICTIMS
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amRANDY McCOWNEighty-five thousand Texas football fans joined in silent tribute yesterday to the 12 people killed last week building the bonfire that traditionally raises spirits for the annual Texas A&M-Texas...
GOTTI'S BROTHER TAKES OVER 'FAMILY' BUSINESS
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Gotti's elder brother is now running the embattled Gambino crime family for the imprisoned Dapper Don, The Post has learned. Peter Gotti, a retired sanitation worker and reputed Gambino...
RELENTLESS RUSSIANS SLAM CHECHEN CAPITAL
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe Chechen capital of Grozny came under the heaviest assault of the three-month Caucasus conflict yesterday as hundreds of Russian rockets rained down into the city, sending thousands of terrified...
HAIL OF BULLETS ENDS CALIF. FREEWAY CHASE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- Thousands of Southern Californians were glued to their TV screens yesterday as they watched a driver lead cops on a three-hour, 200-mile chase that ended when he...
MODEL-BIZ BIGS RESIGN THEMSELVES TO DISGRACE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe shamed chief of Elite modeling agency's European operations and another top executive resigned yesterday after being featured in a British undercover documentary that exposed pimping, sex and drugs in...
'RAFT BOY' OUT OF HOSP SAW MOM DROWN ON ESCAPE FROM CUBA
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amMiracle kid Elian Gonzalez -- the 5-year-old Cuban refugee who survived two days on an inner tube drifting in the Atlantic Ocean -- finally reached freedom yesterday after just one...
'DEATH' BUILDER KIN AIDED RUDY
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe mother of the contractor on this week's Brooklyn building collapse gave $2,000 to Mayor Giuliani's Senate campaign, records show. Agnes Ostreicher made the contribution -- the maximum allowed under...
'SAMARITAN' CHARGED IN S.I. SLAYING
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amA 41-year-old Staten Island man who told The Post he discovered his elderly neighbor dead has been charged with murdering her, police said yesterday. Detectives said the suspect, Harold Garrett,...
BLACK FRIDAY ; TURN$ TO GREEN ; STORES SWAMPED AS CROWDS GO FOR BROKE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amYes, Virginia, they do take plastic. The official holiday shopping season began with a bang yesterday as thousands of customers flooded into Herald Square businesses. Tourists and New Yorkers beat...
TERROR FROM THE SKY ; TERROR FROM THE SKY FAMILY OF 3 ; KILLED IN PLANE CRASH ; DAD-PILOT LOSES CONTROL OF CRAFT, SMASHES INTO NEWARK FACTORY
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amA Maryland man, his wife and teenage daughter were killed yesterday when their small plane barreled into a Newark factory and exploded in a fireball -- hurling burning shrapnel into...
GRIDLOCK AS DEMOS BLITZ MIDTOWN
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amHundreds of dancing protesters stopped traffic in Times Square yesterday, shouting slogans against international "free trade, anti-people" policies before police ended the party by arresting 45 people. In another protest...
CURTIS, WAGNER ON COLLISION COURSE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amFEW teams would look forward to playing the defending PSAL champion, a squad that hasn't lost a league game all year and has beaten you earlier this year. Despite all...
ROONEY GOES UNDER KNIFE DOWN UNDER
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amPint-sized performer Mickey Rooney got himself a bushelful of trouble Down Under, where he's under the weather at a Sydney hospital, undergoing treatment for a perforated ulcer. The 79-year-old entertainment...
'91 SURVIVOR: IT WAS WRONG TO RISK KID'S LIFE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amP EDRO felt a tinge of anger when he heard about a 5-year-old Cuban boy who survived two days in the water off the shores of Florida, to be discovered...
SON BUSTED IN UPSTATE SLAYING OF PARENTS
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe heroin-addicted son of prominent Long Island lawyers was charged yesterday with stabbing them to death in the family's Woodstock country retreat and torching the house to cover up the...
DREAM HOME BECAME HORROR HOUSE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amIt was supposed to be Seth and Ronna Roberts' dream house. Instead it became their funeral pyre. Seth, 51, and Ronna, 50, were very proud of the $400,000 home in...
DA DROPS KID-FONDLE CHARGES
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amCharges were dropped yesterday against an Empire State Building security guard charged with groping a Georgia youth. Taher Patwary, 43, of Brooklyn, was accused Wednesday of sexually fondling the 14-year-old...
MUSICIANS STRIKE HAS BALLET TAPE-DANCING
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe sugar-plum fairies danced to taped music last night at the New York City Ballet's "Nutcracker" after talks with striking musicians failed to produce a settlement. Of the 3,000 balletgoers,...
FAMILY OF 3 ; KILLED IN PLANE CRASH ; DAD-PILOT LOSES CONTROL OF CRAFT, SMASHES INTO NEWARK FACTORY
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amA Maryland man, his wife and teenage daughter were killed yesterday when their small plane barreled into a Newark factory and exploded in a fireball -- hurling burning shrapnel into...
JERUSALEM MAYOR TO STUMP FOR RUDY
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amJerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert will make several trips to New York over the next two months to help Mayor Giuliani raise money for his Senate run, the Jerusalem Post reported...
STREET LOOKED LIKE SMOKING WAR ZONE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amGeorge Turner was strolling along Newark's Springfield Avenue when he looked up - and saw a plane trailing smoke and fire diving straight at him. Seconds later it hit a...
ISLES BACK AFTER TRIP TO NOWHERE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amFresh off a 1-1-1 road trip, the Islanders return to the Coliseum tonight at 7:00 to face the Capitals for their first home game in two weeks. During their out-of-town...
DEVILS LACKING STAR QUALITY
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amSAN JOSE -- Once again, this time with emphasis, there was daunting evidence that a star is what the Devils can't handle, and don't have. As was exposed in their...
WEEKEND CHANGES ON TAP AT BIG A
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amWith the cancellation of racing after the second race, there will be a few changes with racing the rest of the weekend. There was a mystery mutuel voucher giveaway that...
UNSAFE TRACK CAUSES BIG A WASHOUT
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amRacing at Aqueduct was canceled yesterday after Cryptodiplomacy, the 6-5 favorite in the second race, fatally snapped his left foreleg heading into the far turn over a track turned to...
AFFIRMED SUCCESS SIZES UP CIGAR MILE
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amWhen one door closed in today's Cigar Mile at Aqueduct -- that being the injury that sent superstar sprinter Artax, the race's early favorite, into retirement Thursday -- another door...
JET THOUGHTS RUNNIN' DEEP
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amMessage to the Jets' offense: Go deep. If the Jets are going to have success against the Colts at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis tomorrow, they're going to have to...
VINNY AUDIBLES FOR FIRST TIME ON LUCAS PROJECT
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTESIf you ask Ray Lucas, no one's been more inspirational to him as he's become an NFL starting quarterback for the first time than Vinny Testa- verde, whom he...
TERRAPINS GAIN SOME CONSOLATION
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amMaryland overcame an off night from All-America forward Terence Morris, a huge effort from Notre Dame star Troy Murphy and a stirring comeback from the unranked-but-game Fighting Irish. And when...
IF THEY CARE, IT DOESN'T SHOW
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amPanthers6Rangers2 SUNRISE, Fla. -- The breakdowns started in the net and then immediately attacked the Ranger central nervous system like a fatal disease. When it was over, when the Rangers...
GARDNER BURIES KENTUCKY
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThere's plenty of pressure that comes with being the starting point guard at a big-time college basketball power where you're expected to be the floor general, an extension of the...
NO-POWER NETS TURNED OFF JAX
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- Somehow, you get the feeling that Phil Jackson does not look at the Nets, wistfully shake his head and sadly mumble, "Darn, all that could have been...
THE GAMEPLAN CENTERED ON HACKING SHAQ
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES -- On the basis of statistics, probability and common sense, the Nets wanted to play "Hack-A-Shaq" last night. After all, the Nets lined up against the 7-foot-1, 335-pound...
MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED - ARIZONA, KENTUCKY GET WHAT THEY WANTED
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amThe Kentucky Wildcats and Arizona Wildcats came to New York and got exactly what they wanted - each other. The two met last night at the Garden with the Preseason...
KAMENSKY WANTS BETTER BREAKS
November 27, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: SUNRISE, Fla. - Valeri Kamensky should have known. "Every time I go to a new city it's a tradition that I break something," Kamensky was saying earlier this week....