February 16, 1999
WHY STREET.COM STAFF DON'T READ CRAMER
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amJames Cramer wants the whole world to know his feelings about the markets, but he's having a tough time spreading the news right where he should have home court advantage:...
INTERNET STOCKS HELPED THESE FUNDS BLAST OFF
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amABEL Garcia's parents showed immeasurable prescience when they named him 50 years ago. In 1998, fewer than 10 percent of all stock fund managers were unable to outperform the S&P...
PLAYERS HOLD BACK BIDS ON CALDOR'S 5 NYC SITES
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe Caldor's empire is being dismantled and buyers are grabbing up the spoils. But New York City's five locations - one each in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island, and...
AOL'S STEVE CASE BRINGS COUPONS TO THE INTERNET
February 16, 1999 | 5:00am"Supermarkets can track the data, and manufacturers know exactly who got their coupons." MIKE SCROGGIE, Supermarkets Online co-founder AOL chief Steve Case is attacking the $1.4 billion coupon industry by...
TIME'S UP FOR OKRENT AS TIME NO. 3; EXCLUSIVE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amDan Okrent is out as editor of Time Inc. New Media, the third-highest editorial job in the company, The Post has learned. But the one-time editor of Life is not...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amEurope on the fly Hopping from city to city on the Continent via rail pass has been a staple for students and budget travelers for years. But if your time...
CORRS' DOUBLE-'TALK'
February 16, 1999 | 5:00am*TALK ON CORNERS The Corrs Atlantic InternationalThe Irish pop tarts the Corrs double dip with what's being billed as a "special edition" of the band's 1997 breakthrough album, "Talk on...
BEWARE OF THE OSCAR BACKLASH: H'WOOD BITES JIM CARREY. IS STEVEN SPIELBERG NEXT?
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S enough to make Jim Carrey manic-depressive - and more than enough to worry Steven Spielberg.Only last month, Carrey ascended the podium at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel to accept...
TV TICKER
February 16, 1999 | 5:00am'Storm' watch ABC's "Storm of the Century" didn't cut the mustard Sunday night. According to preliminary fast-track Nielsens, the first part of the three-part miniseries - adapted from Stephen's King...
COSTAS BOBS BACK TO 'LATER'
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amBOB Costas is coming back to "Later." The surprise announcement came during an interview with Tom Snyder on last Thursday's "Late Late Show" on CBS. NBC confirmed the news on...
COPPING AN ATTITUDE ; NBC HITS BULLSEYE AGAIN WITH 'HOMICIDE,' 'LAW' CROSSOVER
February 16, 1999 | 5:00am"Law & Order"-"Homicide"Tomorrow and Friday at 10 p.m. on WNBC/Ch.4 AS surely as a big sweeps ratings periods bring local news stories about grimy groceries, another chapter in Max Gomez's...
'UPSTAIRS JOHN' TO BE REGULAR GUY ON 'BLUE'
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amBILL Brochtrup is returning to the "NYPD Blue" lineup - this time as a series regular. Brochtrup, who's had several stints playing openly gay assistant John Irvin on the ABC...
DENVER TV REPORTER 'GETS' HIS STORIES - BY MAIL!
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amBARBARA Walters may have snagged Monica Lewinsky, but that's nothing compared to Rick Sallinger, a veteran investigative reporter for KCNC, the CBS station in Denver. Among Sallinger's big "gets" are...
KNOCKED ON ITS CAN; WHO WILL STEP IN TO REPLACE TYSON ON PPV?
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amMIKE Tyson's latest jail sentence has dealt pay-per-view boxing a hard blow below the belt. Over the years, Tyson has proved to be the biggest TV moneymaker ever - and...
IT'S A GUY 'THING'
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTheater Review Kirsten Sahs is sensational as the mother in 'Beautiful Thing,'' Jonathan Harvey's play about a sensitive teen-ager (Matt Stinton) falling in love. 'BEAUTIFUL Thing'' is a sharp, tart...
A DAY'S MIX OF THE BEAUTIFUL & THE BIZARRE: MARC JACOBS SETS A NEW SKIRT LENGTH: BETSEY JOHNSON GOES GOTHIC
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Marc Jacobs is the designer most likely to start a successful fashion trend. (Need recent proof? The accordian-pleated skirt that was knocked off by everyone and thier brother last...
HHC BOSS: MAKE DOCS PAY OWN INSURANCE; EXCLUSIVE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amMunicipal-hospital doctors would be more accountable if they had to buy their own malpractice insurance instead of relying on the city to defend them against lawsuits, the head of the...
POST SURVEY SHEDS BLIGHT ON CITY'S ILLEGAL SCAFFOLDS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amThose dark, dank, dangerous canopies put up to protect pedestrians from construction debris are not only a blight on the landscape - they're often illegal. A Post survey of sidewalk...
INTERNET SCALPERS A .COM-MON PROBLEM
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amInternet auction sites are offering tough-to-get seats to hot Broadway shows and sports events - but some of the tickets may be coming from illegal brokers. "When you see the...
CLINTON CRACKS LIST OF NOMINEES FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amScandal-scarred President Clinton is among 118 nominees for the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, it was reported yesterday. Sources quoted by the news agency Reuters said Clinton, recipient of several past...
RUSSIA SET TO BAN DEATH PENALTY - PART OF DEAL WITH EUROPEAN NATIONS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amRussia plans to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment, Russia's justice minister revealed yesterday. Russia promised to abolish the death penalty when it joined the Council...
NEW INSIGHT INTO 1918 FLU
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTests on a frozen corpse from the 1918 flu epidemic that killed up to 40 million people worldwide show the virus resembled the common swine flu and took years to...
PAIR PULLED FROM ICY LAKE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTwo ice fishermen dramatically rescued a couple whose snowmobile plunged through thin ice and into the bone-chilling waters of upstate Saratoga Lake. The victims and another couple were zooming across...
RUDY, IT'S TIME TO LISTEN TO THIS VOICE OF REASON
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amURBAN League President Dennis Walcott is the class of black leadership in this town - thoughtful, constructive, nonpartisan. He has an expertise in police-community relations. Walcott was the chair of...
IRAQ: WE'LL BOMB TURKEY BASE USED BY U.S. JETS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amIraq threatened yesterday to attack neighboring Turkey for allowing U.S. warplanes to use an air base to launch attacks on Saddam Hussein's air defenses. But Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit...
GRAND JURY SET TO HEAR CASE AGAINST 4 SLAY COPS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amA Bronx grand jury may begin hearing evidence as early as today against four Street Crime Unit cops who killed unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo in a fusillade of bullets nearly...
SERBS REJECT NATO PEACEKEEPERS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amSerbia extinguished hopes of a quick Kosovo peace accord yesterday by adamantly ruling out the use of a NATO force to monitor a cease-fire in the separatist-minded province. Serb President...
WAR FOR WOMEN'S CABLE - LIFETIME TAKES OUT LEASE ON LAYBOURNE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe battle to gain the upper hand in women's cable programming ratcheted up yesterday as Lifetime, the current leader, hired a television station chief as its new top executive. Carole...
MARV TO DO HIS BIT FOR CABLE - HE'LL CALL NBA GAMES ON TURNER
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amDisgraced sportscaster Marv Albert is ready to sink his teeth into the national market - with a new job calling NBA games on cable. Albert will be the new announcer...
BY THE WAY, THERE'S AN ELECTION IN 3 DISTRICTS TODAY
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amLittle noticed by the public, three special elections today for openings on the City Council have turned into political slugfests. In Brooklyn, the race to fill a vacancy left by...
SUPPORTIVE PREZ SAYS SEN. HILLARY SOUNDS 'TERRIFIC'
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton said yesterday that Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a "great" senator - but he quickly added she hasn't decided whether to run. In Merida, Mexico, for talks with...
FAITHFUL 'BROKENHEARTED' OVER QUEENS CHURCH FIRE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amStunned parishioners of a small Queens church wept yesterday after a raging fire gutted their beloved house of worship just two days before Ash Wednesday. It took 158 firefighters to...
COMPARED TO CLINTON'S COMEBACK, ALBERT'S IS SANE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amI mean, if Clinton can get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, then surely I want Marv Albert doing his thing. IF YOU'VE ever had broken ribs - and I...
'VICIOUS' RAPE-SLAY SUSPECT VANISHES WITH TEEN: COPS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amPolice are searching for a "vicious" suspect in a string of rapes and murders who disappeared over the weekend with a 16-year-old Brooklyn girl. Investigators said Arhon Kee, 25, was...
POLICE 'FAMILY' RALLIES AROUND ONE OF ITS OWN
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amHero Officer Matthew Dziergowski grew up in a tight-knit police family - and it was the huge extended family of cops yesterday that drew together to comfort his shattered widow...
DAD OF JET QUARTERBACK TESTAVERDE DIES AT 66
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTriumph has turned to tragedy for Jet quarterback Vinny Testaverde, whose father died of a heart attack Sunday. Testaverde was at his Tampa home, one week after playing in the...
WATERGATER EHRLICHMAN DIES AT 73
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - John Ehrlichman, who went to jail for 18 months for his role in the notorious Watergate cover-up, died Sunday at his home in Atlanta. His son Tom said...
STUNNING LOSS TESTS SISTER'S STRENGTH
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amCONAKRY, Guinea. LAURATOU Diallo held tight to her two brothers as she stood on the tarmac of Gbessia International Airport yesterday and awaited the Air France jetliner bringing home the...
LAWYER: TESTS PROVE DRIVER IN COP'S DEATH WASN'T DRUNK
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amA New Jersey man was neither drunk nor speeding when his sports utility vehicle smashed into a police car, killing a beloved Staten Island officer, his lawyer insisted last night....
TEARS AND PRAYERS AT DIALLO'S SAD RETURN - WAILING PALS AND KIN PACK GUINEA AIRPORT
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amCONAKRY, Guinea - A huge crowd of mourners received the body of slain immigrant New Yorker Amadou Diallo in his native Africa yesterday with a chorus of piercing wails and...
BX. RAPIST AT HEART OF DIALLO TRAGEDY STRIKES AGAIN: POLICE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amThe Bronx rapist who was being sought by four cops when they shot Amadou Diallo to death has struck again, raping two women at gunpoint in a Manhattan elevator, police...
LATEST CHAPTER IN TRIPP SAGA - HINTS SHE'LL WRITE A TELL-ALL
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amSexgate rat Linda Tripp last night hinted she may have the last word on the scandal - by writing a book on her ordeal. In a wide-ranging TV interview, Tripp...
ARSON SUSPECTED IN QUEENS CHURCH BLAZE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amStunned parishioners of a small Queens church wept yesterday after a raging fire gutted their beloved house of worship just two days before Ash Wednesday. Firefighters called the blaze suspicious....
MARV'S RECOVERY IS WELL-DESERVED
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amA YEAR and a half ago, the brightest light in New York sportscasting history hadn't merely been dimmed, it had been punched out. The shattered pieces were lying right there...
YOU GOTTA LOVE 'AMOR' AT AQUEDUCT
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amCarta de Amor crowned herself queen of Aqueduct's inner dirt track yesterday with an impressive, front-running romp in the Grade 3 Rare Treat Handicap at a mile and an eighth....
BURNT-OUT SACCHI BIDS FAREWELL TO JESUS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amL ONDON - Jesus Gil, president of Atletico Madrid, is in many ways the George Steinbrenner of Spanish soccer, hiring and firing coaches almost at will. During his 12 years...
POINT COSTS GILL POINTS ; TIRED KENDALL MISFIRES AFTER MOVE TO LEAD GUARD
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The shooting numbers in his previous game were very Net-like, but very un-Kendall Gill-like: 2-of-14. "Fatigue," said Gill, following the workout in Miami Arena, where the Heat last...
STORM INTENSITY FADES IN STRETCH
February 16, 1999 | 5:00am"These kids have played a lot of games ... and the reality is it's hard not to look ahead to the conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament."DICK VITALE It all...
METS, BENITEZ IN MONEY WAR
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amAs of today, all Mets contractual business for 1999 will finally be settled. The Mets, who somewhat surprisingly came to terms with Rey Ordonez Sunday, were also surprisingly headed in...
FLEURY HEADS LIST OF LIKELY RENT-A-DEVILS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amFive weeks remain until the trade deadline, and the Devils are believed to have decided upon Theoren Fleury as the man they want - if they're going to bolster their...
CBA ALUM JONES GLAD FOR A SHOT
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES MIAMI - Damon Jones, the newest Net, nailed a string of mid-range jumpers in a solo practice after the morning workout. He dropped back beyond the 3-point arc...
TIED-UP ISLANDERS FLOGGED BY ZIGGY
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders 3 Lightning 3 Although Ziggy Palffy scored two goals yesterday, he saved his best shots for afterward. Palffy vented following the Islanders' hideous 3-3 tie against the pitiful Lightning....
THIS KNICK WIN WELL D-SERVED: OAK'S GRITTY LEGACY LIVES ON AT GARDEN
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amOakley's legacy lives on . WHEN Charles Oakley is introduced tonight as a starter for the Toronto Raptors, he will receive a much-deserved ovation from a sold-out Garden for his...
HILL COULD USE HOUSTON'S HELPING HAND
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amOne day when Grant Hill retires, people will clamor to compare him to some of the greats who have ever played. But if things stay to form they may end...
GRAHAM LOOKIN' LIKE JINTS' NO. 1
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amWith each passing day, it grows more and more evident that the quarterback who will begin next season as the starter for the Giants is the same one who ended...
EX-MATES EXPECT POUNDING FROM CHARLES
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amCHARLES OAKLEY Will be fired up. Charged-up Charles back . Charles Oakley is back tonight - and the Knicks know this old Oak Tree will stand tall and flatten some...
THIS KNICK WIN WELL D-SERVED:EWING & CO. SMOTHER PISTONS IN GRITTY GEM
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 78 Pistons 69 "We feel if we continue to play the kind of defense we are capable of playing and our offense catches up to us, we will be...
YANKS GIVE JETER THE BUSINESS ; CRITICIZE HIS POWER STATS IN ARBITRATION
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Go deep more often, young man. Add inches to the biceps and strengthen the forearms. That's the message Derek Jeter absorbed yesterday after spending 4 hours in an...
RANGERS SEE WHAT CLOU CAN DO
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - Dan Cloutier finally got a chance here last night to start what he finished on Sunday - that is, a game. For when the Rangers made their first...
GRANTED, HILL'S BEEN TAKING SOME LOCKOUT HEAT
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Grant Hill wasn't pro-union during the lockout and he admitted after the Knicks' 78-69 win over the Pistons yesterday that his stance is causing some hard feelings. After...
NOW JAYS WANT WELLS FOR ROCKET
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Wisely, Gord Ash wants to rid the Blue Jays of Roger Clemens before the Rocket becomes baseball's No. 1 spring training distraction. Therefore, the Blue Jays' GM has...
NEIL WORKING ON LEETCH, GRAVES PACTS
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - The Rangers are moving ahead on contract negotiations with Brian Leetch and Adam Graves, who both are eligible to become unrestricted free agents on July 1 but who...
BOSS AND STRAW STRAIGHTEN IT OUT
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - One local phone call was all it took for Darryl Strawberry and George Steinbrenner to settle a classic case of miscommunication yesterday. When Strawberry didn't attend an autograph...
MARBURY THE AIR TO BULLS' THRONE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amIT was a labor of uselessness for the Bulls to start the season 1-4 in order to demonstrate they're lottery-bound. The four leftover Jordanaires, if nobody else, previously suspected as...
LOU MIGHT 'RENT' FLEURY
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amFive weeks remain until the NHL trade deadline, and the Devils are believed to have decided on the Flames' Theo Fleury as the man they want - if they're going...
NEW PACTS FOR LEETCH, GRAVES ON FRONT BURNER
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - The Rangers are moving ahead on contract negotiations with Brian Leetch and Adam Graves, who both are eligible to become unrestricted free agents on July 1 but who...
STORM GET BACK TO FINAL 4 FORM
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's 104 Providence 70 The look is back. The feeling is back. The intensity is back. St. John's is back - back among the nation's elite; showing their stuff...
FRIARS' BUBBLE ABOUT TO BURST
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amFriars in bubble trouble The Bubble. It's the ethereal name given to those teams waiting until Selection Sunday to find out if they've made the NCAA Tournament. Some go on...
NETS LEFT IN MOURNING ; ALONZO, HEAT EMBARRASS CALIPARI'S LAST-PLACE CREW
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amHeat 95 Nets 72 MIAMI - What you must realize is the Nets led this monstrosity, 28-16, early in the second quarter. That's an eight-point lead. If only they had...
DEVILS JUST KNOT GETTING IT DONE
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amDevils 3 Maple Leafs 3 This Devil homestand is looking more like a Last Stand. Even their pride is now under attack. Oh, the Devils earned a precious point for...
SEIKALY FEELS GOOD IN RETURN
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - Well, Rony Seikaly and Eric Murdock were back for the Nets. Not that it mattered. Seikaly, returning from a sprained left ankle to play his first game of...
RANGERS AVERT DISASTER
February 16, 1999 | 5:00amNASHVILLE - It was the perfect time for John Muckler to trot out the famous line that goes, "It hurts too much to laugh and I'm too old to cry."...