February 1, 1999
WHY NO ONE BELIEVES GREENSPAN ANYMORE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amI F investing in Internet stocks is like buying a lottery ticket, then putting your money into a bloated stock market that has a price-to-earnings ratio higher than ever is...
CBS EYEING POSSIBLE 'NET DEAL
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amCBS has caught Internet fever. It wasn't long ago that CBS execs considered developing their Internet presence a low priority. One thing that may have changed their minds is the...
MAXIM'S GOLIN BEING WOOED FOR DETAILS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amInsiders at Conde Nast say that Mark Golin, the editor of sizzling hot men's magazine Maxim, has been approached to become the next editor of Details. Sources say Conde Nast...
TOM CLANCY LOGS ON @ WWW.MAFIA.COM
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amTom Clancy's 'Netforce' TOM CLANCY made himself a millionaire by exploiting his peculiar paranoia in books that were readable, uncannily prescient and built for the movie screen. Whether his heroes...
TV TICKER
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amSally forth WNBC/Ch.4 is changing its daytime schedule today, moving "Sally Jessy Raphael" back to its old 3 p.m. timeslot and shifting "Roseanne" to 11 a.m. Numbers tell the story...
TV NEEDS MONICA TO KEEP TRIAL FROM GOING FLAT
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amIF court shows are so hot these days, why is the Clinton impeachment trial such a dud? "This is not 'L.A. Law,' this is not 'Judge Judy'," Sen. Chris Dodd...
IMMIGRANT'S VIET FILM WINS TOP SUNDANCE HONORS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amTONY Bui, a 26-year-old American immigrant who returned to his native Vietnam to film his debut feature "Three Seasons," took two of independent filmmaking's top awards last night at the...
TWO WITTY FAMILY TALES
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW 'BLUE Heart" is the umbrella name for two short plays - "Heart's Desire" and "Blue Kettle" - by Caryl Churchill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Feb....
VINTAGE FRENZY: THE SALE OF OLD CLOTHES THAT DRIVES N.Y. DESIGNERS CRAZY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amWhat does it take to get Donna Karan to drop $30,000 in less than an hour? The answer, of course, is clothes - but not the Madison Avenue variety. We're...
DRAIN THE POOL, 'MELROSE' CALLS IT QUITS THIS SEASON
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Say goodbye to steamy "Melrose Place." Fox and "Melrose Place" executive producer Aaron Spelling are pulling the plug on the campy Monday-night melodrama after the end of this season...
MTV BAD BOY JAILED: 'PUCK' STOPS BEHIND BARS FOR BASHING HIS GIRLFRIEND
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Talk about "The Real World." Puck, the obnoxious, one-time star of MTV's hip young series "The Real World," is experiencing something far more real these day -jail. Puck, whose...
CITY SEIZES CARS OF INNOCENT DRIVERS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Taxi and Limousine Commission has been confiscating the autos of innocent drivers wrongly accused of operating illegal "dollar cabs," The Post has learned. The city, which is weighing an...
SADDAM'S NEW WEAPON: TERROR; COURTING BIN LADEN & NIDAL: U.S.
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amSaddam Hussein - battered, humiliated and increasingly isolated - plans to resort to terrorism in revenge for U.S. airstrikes against his country, the Clinton administration believes. U.S. officials say the...
REPORT BLAMES TA FOR WORKER'S DEATH
February 1, 1999 | 5:00am"In the end, this tragedy will make it safer for employees to work in what is inherently a dangerous environment."TA SPOKESMAN AL O'LEARY A scathing report blasts the Transit Authority...
WHAT'S RUDY CREW DONE FOR YOU?
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amNow this ostensibly reform-mindedmayor is firmly aligned with a fellow who talks a good reform game -but who never delivers. T HEIR styles are as different as their personalities, but...
DISABLED HAVE TROUBLE GETTING LIFT ON 350 BUSES
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amWheelchair lifts on 350 city buses - 9 percent of the city's fleet of 3,800 - don't work right and must be repaired, The Post has learned. The Transit Authority...
'IRAQI PROVOCATIONS' SPUR NEW ATTACK
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amU.S. and British warplanes fired on two Iraqi defense facilities yesterday after an Iraqi warplane entered the country's southern no-fly zone. The eight fighter jets attacked the military sites in...
TRAGIC BEAUTY'S EX CLAIMS HER BODY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amDetectives yesterday continued their frantic search for the severed head of slain New Jersey beauty Julie Scully as her grieving ex-hubby arrived in Greece to claim her mutilated remains. Timothy...
COPS: JOHNNY BUSTED FOR DEPP-LORABLE CONDUCT
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amHotel-trashing hunk Johnny Depp was busted in London over the weekend after he allegedly threatened to smash photographers with a large wooden plank. The 35-year-old heartthrob was taken into custody...
AIDS STUDY CONFIRMS VIRUS' LINK TO CHIMPS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amResearchers said yesterday they had finally nailed down the origins of the AIDS virus - which they believe was first transmitted to humans from chimpanzees in Africa. Scientists have long...
NATION LOOKS BACK WITH PRIDE ON BLACK HISTORY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amBlack History Month begins today as the nation commemorates centuries of African-American contributions to our society. Locally, the Big Apple will be hosting hundreds of cultural events zeroing in on...
DESPERATE COLOMBIANS FLEE QUAKE-RAVAGED CITY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMeanwhile, the ground continued to shake from aftershocks in the devastated coffee-growing region. Thousand of devastated families poured out of the Colombian city of Armenia yesterday in a chaotic mass...
MOM BARES ANGUISH; RIPS GATIEN OVER SON'S DRUG DEATH - EXCLUSIVE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00am"[Jimmy's friend] told me these kids get dehydrated from all the drugs and dancing, and they sell them water for $5 a bottle. If they don't have the $5, they...
MERRY 'WIDOWS' GIVE SEASON THE BOOT
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amAfter five months of loneliness - from pre-season hype to yesterday's gridiron battle between the Broncos and Falcons - football widows celebrated the end of pigskin-mania with cheers and champagne....
STATE WARY OF BILL'S MEDICAID PLANS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amNew York officials yesterday predicted President Clinton's 2000 budget, officially out today, will spell "status quo" for the Empire State - but some fretted he'll try to stick the state...
PRESIDENT MIGHT BE ENMESHED IN CLASSIC SPY YARN
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMONICA Lewinsky today will be questioned on something either stolen from an old Tony Curtis comedy - or something straight out of a real- life James Bond movie. Both scenarios...
HUSH-HUSH HIKE$ FOR TOP GOV AIDES; 16% BOOST PUTS PATAKI'S SECRETARY AT 150G - EXCLUSIVE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amGOV. PATAKI, whose austere new budget raises state spending by only 1.8 percent, secretly gave his top aides 16 percent pay hikes just a few weeks ago, The Post has...
HEAT'S OFF CROOKS AS PARKS DEPT. KEEPS COLD COPS COATLESS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amBEING a cop on the beat in winter is never easy. But this winter, it's even harder for rookie Parks Enforcement Patrol officers. That's because the city's 66 rookie PEP...
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER'S SANITY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amChess legend Bobby Fischer - the reclusive grandmaster known for his oddball behavior - has come out of hiding to claim he's being persecuted by "the Jews," it was reported...
WHITE HOUSE NERVOUS AS LIEBERMAN EYES 'LIES'
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amA key Senate Democrat - Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut - yesterday said he's open to Republican proposals for "findings of fact" that could state that President Clinton lied to the...
PRESSURE MOUNTS OVER KOSOVO
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amWestern diplomats yesterday continued pressuring both sides in the Kosovo conflict to attend peace talks in France - or face airstrikes and invasion by NATO forces. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...
TIGER LADY'S CAT-&-MOUSE WITH COPS ENDS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Tiger Lady who claims a 431-pound Bengal tiger that ran loose in New Jersey for hours wasn't hers is reportedly cooperating with officials who want to count the cats...
MONICA TODAY COULD HOLD CLINTON'S FATE IN HER HANDS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amToday is Monica Lewinsky's date with destiny. The video will roll as the world's most famous intern gets quizzed about sex, lies - and, above all, whether President Clinton obstructed...
TEEN SLAIN IN SUBWAY GANG MELEE ; THREE OTHERS STABBED IN UNION SQ. RUMBLE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amA Brooklyn teen was stabbed to death and three other men were injured when rival gangs squared off with knives and bullets in a bloody battle on a Manhattan subway...
A REAL 911 EMERGENCY; COPS, FIREFIGHTERS SCRAMBLE AS CITY HOT LINE CRASHES
February 1, 1999 | 5:00am"But at this point, it's more important to figure out how to make sure it doesn't happen again."MAYORAL SPOKESMANMATTHEW HIGGINSHundreds of calls to 911 went unanswered yesterday morning when the...
COMMERCIAL BLITZ FALLS WAY SHORT OF GOAL
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amSUGGESTION for Super Bowl advertisers: Next year, don't try so hard. The annual big-commercial binge is becoming a blur. We can remember when it was fun to review the commercials....
MAN DIES DURING CITY'S 911 BLACKOUT; HEART ATTACK FELLS HIM AS EMERGENCY SYSTEM FAILS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amA man died of a heart attack in Queens yesterday after his frantic girlfriend couldn't call for help because the 911 system had crashed, officials said. The citywide emergency switchboard...
JET FANS GREEN WITH ENVY OVER BIG BRONCO WIN
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amNew Yorkers cried in their beer at sports bars yesterday as they watched the Broncos feast on the Falcons and dreamed of what might have been. "I felt heartbroken knowing...
HE CHOREOGRAPHED 'DIRTY' DANCE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The best-known dancer of the Dirty Bird is Jamal Anderson, but he wasn't the one to unveil the funky steps that have symbolized the Falcons this season. Before...
SALAAM KEY TO SOARING FALC ATTACK
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amSUPER BOWL NOTES MIAMI - The Falcons have come this far for many reasons, none of which takes a back seat to their effectiveness running the ball with Jamal Anderson...
FALC IN EPISODE OF MIAMI VICE?
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amRobby's Supe-eve sex rap a shocker "I just don't believe it. ... I just don't believe something like that. I got faith in him. There's more to it than what...
HODGSON'S SUPER SUNDAY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amRutgers senior perfect in romp Rutgers 87 W. Virginia 61Defining a perfect game in basketball is not an exact science, but Rutgers forward Rob Hodgson gave a pretty good example...
IT'S NOW OR NEVER FOR NEIL
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amThe Ranger GM is going to have to make a choice, maybe even as soon as this week at the NHL general managers' convention in Palm Springs. And what Neil...
NO ONE EVER TOLD LT TO STOP
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amJUST wondering. If the same media folks and fans who pandered to Lawrence Taylor this week hadn't also pandered to him years ago, when he first showed an inclination toward...
SALO SOLID, BUT FELIX GOES TO POT
February 1, 1999 | 5:00am"The mental aspect is so important for [Felix Potvin]. He's got to get his first win to feel better about himself."STEFAN LUNNER, Isles' goalie coach Islanders assistant Stefan Lunner is...
RED WINGS BRING BACK SLAVA'S MOTOWN MEMORIES
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amDevils assistant coach Slava Fetisov has been waiting all season for this game. Just seven months ago, Fetisov was on the ice at Washington's MCI Center, in his red Red...
RED STORM'S WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amWE'VE become spoiled. We've lost our perspective. St. John's is exactly where it should be after Saturday's 78-74 loss to Connecticut. Clearly, we have forgotten just how far this program...
CLOCK'S TICKING ON EWING'S KNEE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amThis is the bottom line right now for Patrick Ewing. He's out of step. And behind a step. A frantic season is fast approaching and time is running out. Ewing...
CAMBY'S BACK AT WORK
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES The education and toughening up of Marcus Camby continues. Camby, who sat out Friday night's loss against the Nets with a blister on his left foot, practiced yesterday....
FALC IN EPISODE OF MIAMI VICE? IF STORY'S TRUE, ROBINSON'S A SUPER FRAUD
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amM IAMI - Turns out, we might have been fooled all along by the Falcon safety, frozen by a Super Bowl hypocrisy so great it is worthy of roman numerals....
VELASQUEZ BELTS 4-BAGGER
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amCornelio Velasquez was the riding star at Aqueduct with four winners on the card as compared to just 13 for the entire meet before yesterday. Jose Espinoza also had a...
DAN GIVES CREDIT TO SHANAHAN
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Getting back to the Super Bowl as the runner-up is easier than getting back after winning, according to Falcons coach Dan Reeves, who was a part of his...
BRONCS DANCE THE TWO-STEP
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amBroncos 34 Falcons 19 MIAMI - The party began one play into the fourth quarter and it's sure to last into this week and beyond. That's when the Broncos, showing...
FALCS CAN'T GET IT DONE WITH RUN
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - They would not have been here without a punishing, dominating running game, an attack that produced big plays and little ones. The Falcons entered Super Bowl XXXIII with...
THE NETWORKS NEVER LEARN
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amBUSINESS as usual. TV has long put the superfluous in Super Bowl, and yesterday's Fox presentation was no exception. No, the telecast wasn't awful. But, by design - a design...
DAN TIRED OF SUPER BEATINGS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - It is the time of night that Dan Reeves says he gets tired, the week of the year he is tired of losing. It's four defeats for him...
TUGGLE STRUGGLES ON BIG STAGE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - He is Mr. Falcon, and so it was appropriate that he mirrored his team last night with the way he played in the first Super Bowl for the...
SHANAHAN WILL WORK ON ELWAY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00am"We got a bunch of guys in there trying to talk about a three-peat, and I don't know if they're getting to [Elway] or not."MIKE SHANAHAN MIAMI - Broncos coach...
DWIGHT DID HIS PART, BUT ...
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - He burst onto the scene like a blur from the moment he slipped on his Falcons uniform. He never stopped turning on those jets that make it appear...
CHANDLER RUES HIS UNLUCKY DAY
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - It was suggested to Chris Chandler during the past week that the Falcons had an edge at quarterback in Super Bowl XXXIII, as Chandler was playing at a...
BRONCS IN SUPER ENCORE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - John Elway had pitched his perfect game on football's grandest stage, climaxing his second consecutive Super Bowl championship and - likely - capping his storied 16-year career. And...
TD PREFERS VICTORY OVER MVP AWARD
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Terrell Davis wasn't the Super Bowl MVP this time. Didn't matter. "This win was much sweeter," Davis said after Broncos 34, Falcons 19. "In the first win, some...
REPENTANT ROBINSON SAYS ALL RIGHT THINGS
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Then, it turns out, we've been fooled all along by the Falcons free safety, frozen by a Super Bowl hypocrisy so great it is worthy of roman numerals....
FALCS: ARREST HAD NO EFFECT
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The way the Falcons played last night, they would have loved to have had an excuse to explain why they were pussycats on defense and too charitable on...
GOOD GRIFF! BRONCS GET SURPRISE LIFT
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Howard Griffith had touched the football a total of 21 times in the Broncos' 18 games entering last night's Super Bowl XXXIII, so how could the Falcons have...
EX-JET WASHINGTON: UNBELIEVABLE
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Marvin Washington didn't even dare dream these dreams while he toiled for eight seasons with the Jets. But here he was, dressed in a suit with sweat beading...
FALCS' SHORTCOMINGS STUN JAMAL
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - There was no hesitation by Jamal Anderson, the Pro Bowl running back who usually hits the right hole, when he was asked the exact word to describe the...
ELAM'S NOT HAUNTED BY MISSES
February 1, 1999 | 5:00amNOTEBOOK MIAMI - This could have been one of those nightmarish Scott Norwood games for Broncos kicker Jason Elam, who missed two field goals in last night's Super Bowl. Fortunately...