December 30, 1999
EXECS SCORE IN MEIGHER SALE ; INVESTORS LEFT WITH NOTHING
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amInvestors are fuming over a fire-sale agreement to sell Meigher Communications to World Publications that leaves them with virtually nothing while company execs get big payouts. The limited partners have...
PARTIES FINALLY GET 'N SYNC ON BOY-BAND CONTRACT LAWSUIT
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe longstanding lawsuit against the all-boy band 'N Sync by the group's former guru and BMG Entertainment has finally been settled out of court. After months of vicious verbal attacks...
GET ONLINE FOR IPOS ; MORE CLIENTS WILL BYPASS UNDERWRITERS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amAs the number of online brokerages exploded from zero to 200 over the past five years, traditional full-service Wall Street firms have been forced to change in ways unimagined at...
BENETTON GETS BOOST FROM INTERNET SALES PLAN
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amBenetton, Italy's biggest clothing company, known for its controversial ad campaigns, saw its stock surge nearly 13 percent yesterday after its chairman announced plans to start selling on the Internet....
FINANCIAL DOOM FOR FRUIT OF THE LOOM: BVD MAKER SLIDES INTO BANKRUPTCY COURT
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amAiling Fruit of the Loom declared bankruptcy yesterday, after reporting four straight quarters of losses and warning that another was coming. The largest U.S. maker of underwear and T-shirts had...
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR SAFE DRIVING
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amTHIS is the day the list of what you want to get from Santa Claus turns into a list of what you want to keep for the New Year. Here...
PAX PLUGS Y2K HOLE
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amPAX TV's plans to air a $44 million worldwide Millennium extravaganza have collapsed after funding for the project went south. PAX will now be forced to air 25 hours of...
THE STARR REPORT
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amStop him! This guy just won't go away. IRS man John Carpenter, who became the first million-dollar winner on ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," will reappear next Friday...
LION QUEEN TAMES 'TITUS'
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amJULIE Taymor doesn't look the part of a Shakespearean revolutionary: a person who, with her first, amazingly ambitious film, has singlehandedly rescued a play from relative oblivion and demonstrated that,...
AILEY'S DOVE STILL SOARS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amDANCE REVIEW THE death of an artist before his or her time sometimes seems particularly tragic, partly because of what the world was cheated of by way of lost creations....
BLACK BOOM, BLACK BUST: WHILE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS ENJOYED A HUGE YEAR IN FILM, THEIR FEMALE COUNTERPARTS WERE MISSING IN ACTION
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amSIXTY years after Hattie McDaniel took home an Oscar for Mammy in "Gone With the Wind," great roles for black actresses have all but vanished into thin air. While 1999...
MIND YOUR MILLENNIUM MANNERS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amFORGET about the Y2K scare - forget about planes falling from the sky and the stock market going haywire. There's a far more serious issue to worry about as we...
JAPAN FREES CULT BIG JUST IN TIME FOR Y2K
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe former spokesman of the cult suspected in the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway was released yesterday and is eager to rejoin his comrades -- raising more...
LOTTERY TIX GOING AT 4G A MINUTE
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amSome lucky winner will celebrate 2000 a whole lot richer -- with the "New York Millennium Millions" jackpot at $100 million, lottery officials said yesterday. "Sales are going very well,"...
DON'T LET THIS GOLDEN AGE OF ; NEW YORK BE DESTROYED BY STUPIDITY
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amFIVE years ago, this outing would have been highly unlikely. A decade ago, completely impossible. But here the boys came, from Texas and England, aged 14 and 11. And there...
SHRINKS E Y2K HOOP-BLAHS - ACUTE POST-HOLIDAY DEPRESSION PREDICTED
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amGet ready for the latest Y2K horror: nothing. The fear that something terrible might happen -- a terrorist attack, worldwide computer shutdown, widespread champagne shortages -- is about to be...
LANDMARK HOTEL A SUITE SPOT TO RING IN NEW YEAR
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amNobody wears white gloves, top hat and tails on New Year's Eve anymore -- but, if they did, they wouldn't be out of place at The Carlyle. Since 1930, the...
COP-SHOOT FUGITIVE ONCE DATED VICTIM'S SIS: POLICE
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe fugitive ex-con who nearly killed an off-duty cop in a wild Bronx gun battle yesterday once dated the wounded officer's sister, investigators said. Authorities last night were still hunting...
CABBIES RISK LICENSES IF THEY JACK UP THEIR PRICES
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe Giuliani administration is warning cabbies: Don't even think about soaking drunks and other Millennium Eve revelers with inflated fares. The Taxi and Limousine Commission will have 50 inspectors --...
BAIL DENIED LEE IN NUKE-SPY CASE
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amA scientist charged in a scandal over missing nuclear secrets was ordered held without bail in New Mexico yesterday by a federal judge who said "enormous harm" could befall the...
APPLE'S READY FOR THE BIG 'EVE'NT - NYPD ENCOUNTERS 1ST COMPUTER GLITCH
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amBig Apple officials are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst as Y2K approaches -- even as the first millennium glitch surfaced yesterday in an NYPD computer. "We...
HARD-LINE FOES SOFTEN A BIT IN HIJACK DRAMA
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amIndia today reportedly agreed to release some jailed militants in a bid to end a seven-day standoff with deadly Kashmiri terrorists who hijacked an Indian Airlines passenger jet. The reported...
RUSSIA: CHECHEN WAR NEARING END
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amChechnya's rebel guerrillas conceded yesterday they had retreated from key positions in Grozny as Russia claimed the four-month military campaign was nearly over. "The operation in Chechnya is nearing completion...
BABY EMILY LEAVES HEART HOSP
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amBaby Emily Mendoza was discharged yesterday from a Long Island hospital after lifesaving surgery that repaired a hole in her little heart. Her beaming mom, Evelyn Veintinilla, 18, from Ecuador,...
THE VICTIMS SHARE THE BLAME ; N.Y.C. PARENTS GET THE SCHOOLS THEY'RE WILLING TO PUT UP WITH
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amTHERE was Mark Green the other morning, right where you can always find him: Mugging for the TV cameras. This time the public advocate had hauled himself over to the...
HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS CANCELED AT ZERO HOUR
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amFear of flying over the millennium weekend is turning the friendly skies into the quiet skies. Airlines across the nation have canceled hundreds of flights because people who might otherwise...
MONICA'S SPOTS AID JENNY CRAIG STOCKS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amMonica Lewinsky's thin new figure is quickly fattening up Jenny Craig's stock price. At yesterday's close, shares of Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centers on the New York Stock Exchange were...
DOT'S SHOWBIZ: ABC DEMANDS CASH UP FRONT
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amIt's rough being a dot.com at Super Bowl time. Ponying up $2 million for each 30-second ad spot during the big game has got to hurt, but ABC-TV has added...
SUBTENANTS FROM HELL GAVE HER A NEW LEASE ON STRIFE - COUPLE LOCKED WOMAN OUT OF APT. FOR 11 YRS.
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThey're the subtenants who wouldn't leave. Susan Teeman gave Stuart and Susan Levy one month's notice to move out of her East Side apartment in March 1985. They left 11...
DAVE RUNS SMACK INTO HILL'S FLACK
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amUnable for the past six weeks to land Hillary Rodham Clinton on his show, David Letterman took out his frustrations on the first lady's spokesman, telling his audience: "I just...
TRIPP GETS SNIPPED BY PLASTIC SURGEON
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amLinda Tripp has undergone a top-to-bottom plastic surgery makeover in an attempt to go from frumpy to fabulous. The woman who nearly brought down the White House by recording Monica...
BIZMAN: MOB LEAK MEANT TO SMEAR RUDY
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amA former fund-raiser for Mayor Giuliani yesterday blasted the leak of a confidential FBI report linking him to the Russian mob as an attempt to discredit Hizzoner's likely bid for...
RUDY: NEW CHIEF OF SCHOOLS MUST DESTROY OWN JOB
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe next city schools chancellor has to be a "hero" who is willing to work within a "system that stinks" while advocating its destruction, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. Repeating his...
WEDDED DISS AS NYERS LOSE ITCH TO HITCH
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amMore New Yorkers are living longer -- but many are living alone. The number of weddings in the Big Apple has dropped to a 21-year low, new city figures show....
JUNK-JUSTICE COP KILLER: I'M INNOCENT - EXCLUSIVE
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amDeclaring "I'm not a monster," cop killer Albert Victory yesterday spoke out for the first time about his bitterly criticized parole -- insisting he is innocent of killing a rookie...
PALSY KID'S UNCLE: HE WASN'T ABANDONED
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe wealthy Pennsylvania couple accused of abandoning their disabled son were at their wits end when they left him at a hospital with a note saying they could no longer...
JURY SELECTION TO BEGIN JAN. 31 IN DIALLO CASE
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amIn his first official action as judge in the Amadou Diallo murder trial, Albany Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi set a Jan. 31 date for jury selection. Teresi set the...
JUDGE SETS 35G BAIL FOR PUFFY PAL
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amA Manhattan judge set $35,000 bail yesterday for the Puffy Combs protégé accused of sending three bystanders to the hospital in Monday's hip-hop club shoot-'em-up. Rapper Jamal Barrow, 21, charged...
UPS SUSPECT IS A BEATEN MAN
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amA rogue UPS worker who stole clothes, electronic equipment and other goods received a harsh penalty - a brutal beating by two men who apparently knew he had the goods...
WE'LL KICK YOU OUT, AFGHANS TELL HIJACKERS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amAfghanistan's ruling Taliban regime yesterday insisted on a quick settlement of the Indian Airlines hijack crisis - warning terrorists who pirated the jet last week they could get booted out...
KOHL CAMPAIGN-CASH PROBE INTENSIFIES
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amGerman prosecutors said yesterday they had found enough grounds to launch a full investigation of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl for accepting illegal campaign donations. The announcement cleared the way for...
L.I.E. OFFERS STICKIEST APPLE JAM
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe Long Island Expressway is New York City's most congested highway, a state survey shows. About 207,000 vehicles daily crammed onto the LIE in Queens last year, according to figures...
HEY, JAYSON: JUST SAY NO! FRIENDS BEG NET TO SIT OUT SEASON
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amTHE calls are coming daily from Charles Barkley, Charles Oakley, Mark Jackson, Shawn Kemp, Tyrone Hill, Paul Silas, Lou Carnesecca, and Wayne Chrebet. They all are calling Jayson Williams with...
RED STORM EYE BIGGER GAME
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's 95 Sacred Heart 66 The question was on everyone's mind -- the coaches, players and media. Is St. John's ready for Big East play? So before Mike Jarvis...
DEVIL KIDS SHOW THE WAY
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIME Devils 5 Bruins 4 Eras are ending, but the Devils' youngsters are making the future look prosperous, no matter the century, or owner. The self-proclaimed Decade of the Devils...
ISLES IMPRESS GORING IN LOSS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amLeafs 2 Isles 1 This wasn't your typical Islander loss. There was no crumble in the third period, no lack of effort, no reason for pessimism. Instead, before 10,362 fans...
MCLEAN GETS POINT IN RARE START
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amDALLAS -- So here was Kirk McLean, last a starter in nets for the Rangers on Nov. 20 and a spectator for all but 37 minutes of relief in the...
SAME OLD STORY EWING SHOWING SIGNS THAT HE'S LOST TOUCH
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe Knicks have four months to get it right, so it is not time yet to push the panic button, but the first two months of the season have shown...
STEVENS EYES LIFE WITHOUT RACE RIDING
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amLike any great athlete who retires suddenly in the prime of his career, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, 36, now faces a stiff challenge: To focus on the promise...
BIG BLUE IN FOUL MOOD:EMOTIONS RUNNING LOW AS JINTS PREP FOR BOYS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amSo much for the sentiment that if the Giants are sinking, they would like nothing better than to drag the hated Cowboys down with them. So much for any cute...
HALL GETS KICK OUT OF PARCELLS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amTwo games ago, he booted the game-winning field goal with 1:35 remaining in the game to propel the Jets to a stirring 22-21 thriller win in Dallas. After the game,...
HOLMGREN ON TUNA: HE'S THE BEST
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Mike Holmgren doesn't mince words around his team and he didn't mince them while talking about Bill Parcells, who along with the Jets stands in the way of...
JINT CENTER MULLS QUITTIN'
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Brian Williams yesterday sounded like a tired, physically-drained player who is seriously contemplating retiring. The 33-year old center, who made a dramatic comeback this season after missing the...
MIG SET TO RETURN TOMORROW
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amRichard Migliore, who hasn't ridden since breaking his right arm in a fightening spill on July 17, makes his return to the saddle at Aqueduct tomorrow. He is named on...
KNICKS WAIVE DEMARCO
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amAnother link to the Ernie Grunfeld-Ed Tapscott draft era was erased yesterday when forward DeMarco Johnson was waived by the Knicks. Johnson was a second-round pick in the 1998 draft...
FAIRER SEX UNFAIR GAME ; TREAT KURT LIKE ROCKER FOR SLUR VS. WOMEN
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S always a case of Our bum vs. Their bum. Their bum should go to hell, by popular and official decree. Our mayor should lead the campaign and his press...
1999: THE YEAR IN SPORTS
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amfrom Page 74 The Nets, who showed signs of emergence in 1998, were the busts of the year. The lockout gave them an unprecedented opportunity to fall on their face...
ST. ED'S HOLDS OFF POLY PREP
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amH.S. BASKETBALL St. Edmund 46 Poly Prep 44 St. Edmund's head coach Brian Mullen didn't have a good feeling when Poly Prep's Ray Corrigan lofted an arcing three-pointer at the...
CAPT. SCOT[[U4]]T FEARS REFS' RETRIBUTION
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amThe Devil captain fears he stuck his skate in his mouth and will pay the price on the ice. In two straight games, Scott Stevens was critical of the officiating....
FAMILY FIRST FOR BRENDL
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amDALLAS - Jamie Lundmark is over in Sweden competing for Canada in the World Junior Tournament. In fact, the pivot, selected ninth-overall in June's Entry Draft, scored a pair of...
STREAK HAS GORING A LITTLE BIT GIDDY
December 30, 1999 | 5:00amFor many teams, a two-game winning streak is hardly a big deal. For the Islanders, it's celebrated like a medical breakthrough. "I really feel our team is on the upswing,"...