December 16, 1999
STOP THE WHISPERS - LEVITT
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amArthur Levitt is getting ready to spill all of Wall Street's secrets. The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday proposed a new rule that would prohibit public companies...
KMART-YAHOO! SITE OFFERS FREE 'NET
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amKmart and Yahoo! are aiming a double wallop at Wal-Mart and America Online -- offering free Internet access, with links to Kmart's newly expanded e-commerce site and Yahoo! Kmart will...
LATEST BIG OIL LEAK: 34,000 JOBS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA holiday bloodbath struck the oil industry yesterday, with giants ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell firing twice as many people as originally expected. A total 34,000 jobs at the world's...
TOMMY HILFIGER TRYING ON THE WEB
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTommy Hilfiger is busting out of his seams and branching out into the Internet -- part of his strategy to turn his fashion empire into a multimedia machine. Hilfiger announced...
MICROSOFT RECORD AS WIN2000 LAUNCHES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amAfter a three-year delay and spending $1 billion, Bill Gates unveiled his new Windows 2000 aimed at capturing backrooms of the .com companies -- sending his Microsoft to a record...
TIME GIVES BACK WEIGHT WATCHERS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTime Inc.'s magazine holdings just got a little slimmer. The company's Southern Progress subsidiary is selling Weight Watchers magazine back to Weight Watchers International for an undisclosed price. It marks...
LVMH'S DEEP BREATH - ARNAULT BUYS $122 MILLION PIECE OF OXYGEN MEDIA
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amBernard Arnault is forking over $122 million for a stake in Oxygen Media, Geraldine Laybourne's multi-media company targeted at women. In return, the head of LVMH gets an unspecified minority...
TAKE PERSONAL SAFETY ALONG FOR THE HOLIDAYS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amBEING aware of your personal safety is just as important driving on errands close to home as when traveling long distances late at night, when you are alone in a...
'SNL' PULLS HANUKKAH SKETCH
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amNBC agreed yesterday not to air again a "Saturday Night Live" sketch in which actors playing Britney Spears and Celine Dion slam Jews. Following a protest from the Anti-Defamation League,...
'AMADEUS' SCORES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amAN implacable and unjust God, the spirit of genius and the mediocrity of mankind are among the concepts floating through Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus," which reappeared at the Music Box Theatre...
THE STARR REPORT
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA Mays landingWillie Mays will be the focus of an upcoming TV documentary. "The Man Named Mays" is being produced by Lee Mendelson. "We're talking to the networks," Mendelson says....
STEREOLAB IS SCIEN-TERRIFIC AT IRVING PLAZA
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amWEIRD science, sonic switch-ups and old-fashioned, hand-on-your-belly samba form the sonic triangle of Stereolab, the Euro-pop band that did a rare live show Tuesday at Irving Plaza. It wasn't perfect...
'PEANUTS' TV SERIES WILL AIR
December 16, 1999 | 5:00am'PEANUTS" creator Charles Schulz's retirement will mean an end to the comic strip -- but not to his TV projects. A 13-episode "Peanuts" series for Nickelodeon and a 50th anniversary...
NANCY BARES HER PAIN - FIRST LADY IN RARE CHAT ABOUT HUSBAND'S ILLNESS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTHE theme was memories -- about keeping them close to one's heart, and the tragedy of losing them. It was an interview conducted with Nancy Reagan, who took C-SPAN's Brian...
FLOCKHART SHOWTIME SPECIAL'S UP HER ALLY
December 16, 1999 | 5:00am'ALLY McBeal" star Calista Flockhart, who has been moonlighting in a live stage production when she is not playing the famous neurotic, mini-skirted lawyer, will appear in a Showtime special...
BABS GIVES 'VIEW' OF LOVE LIFE - SHOWS OFF BEAU WARNER ON TV
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amBARBARA Walters and her boyfriend, Sen. John Warner of Virginia, joked about their relationship yesterday on her talk show, "The View" -- the first time she has publicly acknowledged that...
OSCAR RACE TOO TIGHT TO CALL
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amSO many impressive movies have been released in 1999 - especially in the last two months - that this year's Oscar race may be the most hotly contested ever. Not...
WILL LONGEST 'MILE' HAVE EDGE WITH ACADEMY?
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amWHEN it comes to the Oscars, length really can make a difference. Theaters are currently overflowing with three-hour epics. Could that be the product of a popular theory that says...
E-MAIL MAY BE RUINING YOUR LOVE LIFE!
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amNew Yorker Alison Galardi, 28, broke up with her boyfriend of two years - over e-mail. Her message was simple: things haven't been working out and I'm really frustrated. Sorry....
FLIGHT TO FREEDOM - DEFECTOR TELLS OF LIFE UNDER CASTRO
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amORESTES Lorenzo Perez believes that little Elian Gonzalez should not be sent back to Cuba unless his father reclaims him in the United States. "He [Juan Gonzalez] has no freedom...
WALKING TO WORK WOULD HAVE BEEN A LABOR OF LOVE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amW HEW! I mean, damn! Sorry, but I wish there had been a transit strike. Why? Lest we forget, transit service in this city is a cruel joke -- and...
CHECHENS REPEL GROZNY ONSLAUGHT
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amRussian troops began their long-awaited invasion of the Chechen capital yesterday -- but were beaten back in fierce street fighting. Several burning tanks and armored personnel carriers -- and the...
ODD SHAPE IS WHOLE POINT OF FAMED FLATIRON BLDG.
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amEach day until Jan. 1,The Post will look at a NewYork landmark on the eveof the new millennium.We'll talk to people whowork or visit here abouttheir lives, and their hopesfor...
LEAVE THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER ALONE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTHINGS look bad on the legal front for Linda Tripp-- and that probably makes you happy. You'd sooner find a New Yorker saying a kind word about West Nile-like virus...
PRINCIPALS COOL TO CONTRACT DEAL
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amCity school administrators greeted the handshake agreement that swaps tenure for an across-the-board 11-percent pay hike yesterday by asking: Was this worth four years of negotiations? "I'm very upset that...
HEALTH-CARE BIG NAILED IN $62M MEDICAID SCAM
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA prominent Brooklyn businessman was busted yesterday for the largest Medicaid fraud in state history, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. Lawrence Friedman, 52, was accused of using his huge senior-health-care...
CASTRO FUMES AS RAFT BOY CHECKS OUT MIAMI SCHOOL
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amSix-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez visited a Miami school holding a desk for him yesterday, as Cuban President Fidel Castro blasted attempts to "destroy" the boy's identity. Elian visited the...
BASIC BARGAINS IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe Savvy Shopper reveals tips and trends for gift-buying in what is shaping up as the biggest holiday season of the '90s.THE mere possibility of a transit strike started Savvy...
GILDING THE TIGER LILY - BUICK DEAL PUTS ANOTHER $25M IN GOLF GREAT'S BAG
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTiger Woods moved into Michael Jordan's neighborhood yesterday. The golf phenom signed yet another ground-shaking endorsement deal -- a $20 million to $25 million, five-year deal with Buick -- pushing...
HUANG: WHO KNEW I'D GET CAUGHT WITH FUNNY MONEY?
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Funny-money man John Huang yesterday said he broke the law to drum up illegal campaign contributions for Democrats -- because he thought he wouldn't get caught. "In human...
HILLARY JOINING ROSIE TO KICK SOME RUDY PATOOTIE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton today will dish the dirt with one of Mayor Giuliani's archenemies -- talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell. Clinton will tape a 20-minute segment on the "Rosie"...
DOC: IRONMAN GORE CAN GO THE DISTANCE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Running a marathon, climbing a mountain, and lifting weights have made Veep Al Gore the Ironman candidate in the presidential race -- despite a high cholesterol level. Gore's...
CITY UNIONS LICKING CHOPS OVER TWU'S JUICY RAISES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani warned city workers yesterday not to expect the same raises won by the transit union -- saying it was "much too high" to duplicate for others. The mayor,...
PATAKI MONEY MAN BARTERED PAROLE FOR $$: FEDS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA former fund-raiser for Gov. Pataki was indicted yesterday in a payola-for-parole scandal -- accused of sneaking dirty contributions to Al D'Amato and Bob Dole. Yung Soo Yoo offered early...
'SOPRANOS' STRIKES CHORD WITH JERSEY MOB: TAPES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amSeems like real mobsters know a hit when they see one. Some reputed New Jersey wiseguys have been caught on tape raving about HBO's mob drama "The Sopranos" -- and...
COURT CLERK ARRESTED IN MALCOLM X DIARY THEFT
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan court employee -- described as obsessed with Malcolm X -- was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing the slain civil-rights leader's blood-stained pocket diary from a courthouse safe in...
TEEN SAWYER ONCE CAUGHT ; BILL'S PASSES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amPresidential wannabe Bill Bradley and ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer have a secret: They were college sweethearts. Bradley was a basketball star and senior at Princeton University when he started keeping...
MONICA SET TO TAKE STAND AGAINST TRIPP
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amELLICOTT CITY, Md. -- Monica Lewinsky, who once told a grand jury, "I hate Linda Tripp," gets a chance for revenge today on the woman who turned secretly recorded phone...
ECUADOR BABY JETS IN FOR LIFESAVING HEART SURGERY
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA 2 1/2-month-old Ecuadoran girl, desperately needing heart surgery, got her first wide-eyed look at the United States yesterday as she was rushed through Kennedy Airport and taken to a...
RENEGADES OUT TO DERAIL DEAL - TRANSIT FACTION VOWS 'NO' VOTE ON PACT THAT AVERTED STRIKE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amJubilation turned to jitters for straphangers yesterday as dissident transit workers vowed to derail a proposed contract that averted a crippling subway and bus strike. The New Directions faction of...
LOW BLOWS AS CREW BELITTLES GOP CRITIC
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA short-tempered Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew yesterday blasted a vertically challenged Republican City Council member -- saying the pint-size pol lacked the stature to call for his ouster. "He's too...
SLAY-SUSPECT NFLER BAGGED IN CAR TRUNK
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amCarolina Panther football star Rae Carruth --wanted for murder in the drive-by shooting of his pregnant girlfriend -- was nabbed last night, hiding in the trunk of a pal's car...
HE TELLS HOW HE LURED HS GIRL INTO LIFE AS A HOOKER
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA New Jersey man detailed for cops how he turned an Adlai Stevenson HS student into a $200-a-day a hooker and filmed her having wild sex, The Post has learned....
CAREGIVERS' STRESS IS DEADLY: STUDY
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amOlder people who care for a disabled loved one are shaving years off their own lives, a new study has found. Caregivers are 63 percent more likely to die -...
MAN, 78, DIES IN BROOKLYN HIT-RUN
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA 78-year-old man was killed by a hit-and-run driver at a Brooklyn intersection early yesterday, police said. Joseph MacDonald was crossing 86th Street at 21st Avenue in Bensonhurst when he...
NFL STAR ON RUN IN MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amCops are mounting a nationwide manhunt for Carolina Panther football star Rae Carruth, wanted for murder in the drive-by shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. Charlotte, N.C., cops notified law-enforcement...
SECOND AND LONG - TUNA PUTS JET SOPHS ON NOTICE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amJust three games remain in the Jets' 1999 season. For some Jet players, these games, beginning with Sunday in Dallas against the Cowboys, could mark a beginning to their stalled...
CAMBY BIG LOSER AS KNICKS GRANT PATRICK'S EVERY WISH
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amONCE AGAIN the Knicks are being shortsighted. Once again the only team they are hurting in the long run is the one wearing blue and orange. It's clear that the...
BIG BODIES, BIG PROBLEM - JUGGLIN' JEFF MUST FIND WAY TO KEEP EVERYONE HAPPY
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amDALLAS -- He is now Jeff the Juggler -- a coach now blessed with his full complement of players but with the same amount of minutes to distribute. With Patrick...
GREEN FINISHED FOR SEASON
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES The Jets yesterday placed tight end Eric Green on injured reserve with a herniated disc in his neck, ending his season. Green became the fifth Jets starter and...
METS WAVE YOSHII AT O'S
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amResigned to losing out on Ken Griffey Jr., the Mets yesterday intensified their efforts to pry right-hander Scott Erickson from the Orioles. The Mets, according to sources, are willing to...
TURF PUBLICISTS HONOR LUKAS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amWhat a year it's been for D. Wayne Lukas. He won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Charismatic, became the first trainer to surpass $200 million in earnings, was inducted...
STORM'S EMANUEL ENCOUNTERS SHORTAGE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amROSEMONT, ILL. -- St. John's faced its biggest fear Tuesday night. For the first time this season, the Red Storm came up against a team with a solid big man....
BERNIE: YANKS CAN DO 3-PEAT
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amBernie Williams looked up from his All Star Cafe lunch and thought about the question on the table: Can the Yankees three-peat? As is his habit, the All-Star center fielder...
FOX SEARCHING FOR WAY TO SLOW DOWN MACHINE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amIT WAS only Wednesday, the first real practice day of the week. The game against the most feared, er ... make that explosive, offense in the NFL this season was...
DOC SEES NO WRONG IN ATLANTA STRIP CLUB
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES DALLAS -- Doc Rivers, a former Knick and now the Orlando Magic coach, is still covering Patrick Ewing's back. When the topic of Atlanta's notorious Gold Club strip...
SPARKS SUFFERS SETBACK
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Just when you thought it was safe to believe the Giants' depleted cornerback position was getting healthier, Phillippi Sparks goes and puts a damper on the proceedings. Sparks...
G-MEN: THEY'RE GOOD -- BUT WE'LL SHOW UP
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amAs it stands, the Giants are still scheduled Saturday to depart Newark Airport on a 2 p.m. charter, headed non-stop to St. Louis. They have not announced the need or...
CURTIS HAD ONE FAN IN CLUBHOUSE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amChad Curtis was never going to win a popularity contest in the Yankee clubhouse. Not that the feisty outfielder was looking to win one. If it wasn't his ultra-conservative politics...
NETS SHELVE MURESAN
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amGheorghe Muresan has become the latest long-term casualty from the Nets middle and will be out for at least two months after undergoing surgery yesterday to repair a tear in...
OVERLOOKED DOUGLASS GAINS REVENGE, RESPECT
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amDeVernie Winston was insulted. He felt that he and his Frederick Douglass Academy teammates were being overlooked in the PSAL. Not anymore. "We're playing for respect," Winston said after Douglass...
ELIAS THRILLED DROUGHT IS WATER UNDER BRIDGE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amMONTREAL -- It had become comic, except to the comic himself. Patrik Elias was desperate to silence his teammates, busy laughing so they didn't cry, busy ribbing him so he...
AGENT: PLAYERS STOLEN WITH DATE PROMISES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amA prominent NBA players' agent has accused a former employee of stealing away his entire front line of talent by promising them dates with supermodels. Eric Fleisher, who owns Westchester-based...
PRIMEAU IN NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amKeith Primeau will not be signing a contract with the Hurricanes, Don Reynolds, the agent for the Group II free agent power center, yesterday told The Post. What's more, Reynolds...
TOUGH-GUY KENDALL SENDS CAVS MESSAGE
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amThere's no question how much Kendall Gill means to the Nets. The multi-talented swingman not only gives the Nets offense and defense; last night he gave them toughness and some...
NETS EARN TICKET OUT OF BASEMENT - VAN HORN LEADS WAY WITH 27
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amNets111Cavs101 Today, sixth place. Tomorrow ... Well, let the Nets just be satisfied with sixth place for a bit. After all, they have resided in the dank confines of the...
PRIMEAU FILLS HUGE NEED
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amHOLY ANDERS Hedberg! The Rangers, winners of three out of four by the sweat of their big-ticket brows, were fully prepared to get down and dirty again last night when...
RANGERS HIT RED-LIGHT DISTRICT - UNBEATEN STREAK AT FIVE AFTER BLOWOUT OF KINGS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amRangers8Kings3 The Machine Formerly Known as the New York Rangers has something pretty good going for itself right now, and not a moment too soon. It is also worth noting...
ON-BLOCK POTVIN RIDDLED BY LEAFS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO -- And Felix Potvin wants to stay? Rumbling toward becoming the worst team in the franchise's 27-year history, the Islanders were humiliated again last night, this time by the...
PRIMEAU: I LOVE NEW YORK -AGENT SAYS HOLDOUT IS HIGH ON RANGERS
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amKeith Primeau will not be signing a contract with the Hurricanes, Don Reynolds, the agent for the Group II free agent power center, yesterday told The Post. What's more, Reynolds...
CAGE CAN RELATE TO AINGE'S ANGST
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amLet the cynics doubt the sincerity of Danny Ainge's shocking resignation Monday; but at least one Arizona resident understood what the Phoenix coach was going through. Nets forward Michael Cage...
POTVIN HAS A CASE OF THE DEJA BLUES
December 16, 1999 | 5:00amTORONTO - Talk about an uncomfortable situation. Less than a year after the Maple Leafs traded him to the Islanders, goaltender Felix Potvin returned here yesterday under a cloud of...