February 21, 1999
NOT ALL INTERNET COMPANIES EQUAL GETRICHQUICK.COM
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amOPEN Market is an intriguing company in that it is an Internet stock that has not been part of the mania surrounding any company involved in online commerce. In the...
LEAP INTO A SAFER WAY TO BUILD AN EQUITY PORTFOLIO
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"Many people believe that options, especially 'puts,' are a form of insurance."'BRAD ZIGLER, Pacific Exchange Investors who've watched with amazement as their stock portfolios grew by leaps and bounds in...
FACE-OFF OVER FITNESS GURU'S BOOK
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amMARTIAL arts fitness guru Billy Blanks, the Tae bo trainer to the stars, is shopping an autobiography that already has a $1 million offer on the table, say industry sources....
PAPER DRONES ENVY RICH INTERNET COLLEAGUES
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amTHOSE toiling in the ink-and-paper media world have a case of Internet envy. Particularly when they see former colleagues move to executive positions at cyber start-ups and then make a...
'CAPTAINS' IS A ROUGH SEE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amIT'S a strange thing, but around last weekend you could, within the course of a few days, have seen the Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical - or at...
FALSE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENTS
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am'OCTOBER Sky'' looks like a late '70s, mid-'80s independent movie - a la ''Heartland'' and ''Matewan'' - but this flick hails from the venerable Universal Pictures. ''Sky'' is the latest...
A ROSE-IE LOOK AT LIFE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am'I think he wanted to save it for Valentine's Day, but it was burning a hole in his pocket,'' Rose McGowan says, showing off the antique diamond ring boyfriend Marilyn...
FOR ONE WOMAN, GETTING SLIM IS A LOSING BATTLE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe battle of the bulge has been a lifelong struggle for Robin Kabakow. As far back as she can remember, she's been on one diet or another. She's tried the...
'NET YIELDS DRUGS ON DEMAND ; BUT OFFICIALS POWERLESS VS. SITES
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amIt's a prescription for disaster. Hypodermic needles, codeine, Propecia, Claritin, Demerol, fenfluramine - The Post ordered all these potentially harmful medical products over the Internet without seeing a doctor. State,...
TERROR FEARS PUT BRAKES ON NEW TRANSIT MUSEUM
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amSecurity concerns at City Hall have derailed plans to convert an abandoned but spectacular cathedral-style subway station into a new transit museum, The Post has learned. "The police were always...
BIN LADEN PLOTTING NEW ATTACKS: U.S.
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amU.S. and Israeli policy makers believe Islamic terror chief Osama bin Laden has fled his mountain base in Afghanistan and gone underground to launch new attacks on American targets. The...
TOSSING HATS IN A NEW RING ; MORE WRESTLERS SEEK PUBLIC OFFICE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Wrestlemania is looking to put a full Nelson on politics as pro wrestlers rush to follow newly elected Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura's lead and start fighting...
SHE MAY HAVE TO PUT NEW FACE ON IMAGE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amIf Hillary Clinton runs for a New York Senate seat, she may find her glamorous, high-fallutin' style more of a hindrance than a help. "Hillary doesn't look like an ordinary...
IT'S READING, WRITING & RUNNING ; FEAR REIGNS IN LAFAYETTE HS' HALLS OF HELL
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amWild kids are running amok in a Brooklyn high school. Troublemakers roam the halls of Lafayette HS wreaking havoc - turning the Bensonhurst-Bath Beach school into a living hell for...
EASY DOES IT FOR LAX PRINCIPAL
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amWhen Principal Robert Haberski arrived at Lafayette HS a year ago, the rough Brooklyn high school had a tough, no-nonsense safety plan. It called for regular "hall sweeps," a room...
A VICTIM'S DAD: NYPD RECKLESS, NOT RACIST
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"It was overreaction, bad training and a shoot-from-the-hip disregard for life."PAUL FAVA SR. THE father of a young, unarmed, white man fatally shot by a black city cop in 1985...
WIFE'S ILLNESS BRINGS SHARON TO CITY
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amJERUSALEM. FOREIGN Minister Ariel Sharon flew to Manhattan last week - in the midst of Israel's bitterest election campaign - to get urgent medical treatment for his ailing wife, Lily....
BILL-BASHING GOV HOPES MISSOURI LOVES PATAKI
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amSPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Gov. Pataki yesterday stepped far beyond New York's borders, dishing out the GOP retort to President Clinton's radio address and jetting to a key political state in...
DIALLO-SHOOTING COP WON'T TESTIFY ; LAWYER: GRAND-JURY INDICTMENT LIKELY ANYWAY
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amSEAN CARROLLDraws Sharpton's ire.One of the cops in the explosive Amadou Diallo case won't testify before the grand jury - because he's convinced political pressure makes indictment a "foregone conclusion,"...
JOCELYNE'S GOT HERSELF A NEW MANE MAN
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amMeet the Boyfriend of Wildenstein. Kenneth Godt, a member of Jocelyne Wildenstein's legal team, has been dating the tiger-eyed temptress for two months, sources say. The happy couple shared a...
MONICA BLOWS INTO TOWN; FOR WALTERS CHAT
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amA "perky" Monica Lewinsky hunkered down with Barbara Walters yesterday for her first TV interview - surrounded by props borrowed from an ABC soap opera. Lewinsky arrived at the network's...
MOVE TO EXTRADITE RAPE-SLAY SUSPECT
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amRape-murder suspect Arhon Kee will be in a Miami courtroom tomorrow for a hearing to determine when he'll return to New York to face charges for a terrifying string of...
HEED YOUR OWN ADVICE, RUDY
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amSURROUNDED by cops and paramedics, an injured Ciardi Franklin - who was involved in a car accident that killed a cop last week - sat alone. "Let him die," he...
FIRST LADY STANDS GROUND ; STICKS TO POSITION ON PALESTINE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Clinton isn't backing down from her position that Palestine deserves its own state, even though it could be a losing position in a New York Senate campaign....
ALLIES RELAX DEADLINE FOR PEACE IN KOSOVO
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amAllied negotiators extended to Tuesday the deadline for Serbs and ethnic Albanians to reach a peace accord after the warring sides moved closer to agreement on a self-rule plan for...
TEEN HURT BY FALLING BEAMS
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amA crane accident at a Midtown construction site caused steel beams to suddenly plummet 10 stories, damaging a street scaffold and injuring a teen-age pedestrian, police said. The 10:30 a.m....
CAR RETURN NOT AUTOMATIC IN DWI ACQUITTALS
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani and his top cop yesterday formally launched a controversial plan to seize cars from accused drunk drivers. But in a change from the first proposal late last month,...
YANKS' 'ROCKET' BOOSTER ; CLEMENS THRILLED TO BE PITCHING IN PINSTRIPES
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"I'm going to continue to punish my body and do the things behind the scenes I need to do to be a power pitcher."ROGER CLEMENS His hunger intact after 15...
FILM CRITIC GENE SISKEL DIES AT 53
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amMovie critic Gene Siskel, who popularized film reviews with his thumbs-up and thumbs-down approach, has died, it was reported last night. Siskel, who was 53, underwent brain surgery in May....
'PERKY' MONICA UNZIPS HER LIPS FOR BABA
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amA "perky" Monica Lewinsky hunkered down with Barbara Walters yesterday for her first TV interview - surrounded by props borrowed from an ABC soap opera. Lewinsky spent all day at...
HALL AIDS TWIN SIS IN CANCER BATTLE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amStill reeling from her breakup with rocker Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall is facing another heart-wrenching battle - saving her twin sister from breast cancer. The striking ex-model will undergo blood...
MOMMY-TO-BE SPICE HAS LITTLE BROOKLYN IN HER
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amFirst there was the Brooklyn Bridge - now there's Brooklyn the Spice Boy. Posh Spice has decided to name her soon-to-be-born baby boy "Brooklyn" after the beloved borough where he...
PRISON OUTBURST LANDS IRON MIKE IN HOT WATER
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amMike Tyson may have blown his chances of shortening his yearlong jail term after throwing a television set against the bars of a cell in a Friday-night tantrum. The twice-convicted...
GOP FAITHFUL HEAR PATAKI HAMMER HILLARY
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amSPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Gov. Pataki made a ballroom full of local Republicans roar with laughter last night when he mocked a possible Hillary Clinton run for the Senate in New...
HEARTLESS ROBBER ATTACKS WOMAN, 82
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amAn 82-year-old Harlem woman was stabbed repeatedly yesterday during a robbery by a brazen attacker who apparently then set her apartment on fire, cops said. Thelma Keets was in critical...
WHIRLING DISEASE UPDATE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amTROUT UNLIMITED released last week a comprehensive new report detailing the current knowledge about whirling disease, the parasitic infection that has been linked to dramatic declines in wild trout populations...
FORMER BLACKBIRD SCORING CHAMP AIMS TO FLY WITH CHI
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amKevin Granger, Greg Guy, Brett Roberts, Kevin Bradshaw. None of those names inspires thoughts of greatness, but all of them, like Charles Jones, led the NCAA in scoring. Jones, the...
RANGERS' GREAT WASTE WAYNE BEING ASKED TO CARRY UNFAIR BURDEN
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amTHE problem isn't Wayne Gretzky. The problem is that in the two seasons since Mark Messier's enforced exit from New York, the Rangers haven't given Gretzky the support he requires...
JUST GREED IT AND WEEP ARBITRATION GAME'S ONE UGLY RACKET
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amONCE, just once, I'd like to lose a baseball arbitration ruling. Just once, after a year in which I was paid, oh, $1.4 million, I'd like to demand $4.8 million,...
DREAM TEAM COULD FACE A NO-INVITE NIGHTMARE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amRUDY Tomjanovich's selection as coach of our men's basketball team in the 2000 Olympics is well-warranted. I sure hope the United States qualifies. Thanks to the vindictiveness/ignorance of Billy Hunter...
DEVILS' WISH LIST LEADING WITH MIRONOV
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amThis may become a bidding war between the Devils and Flyers for Edmonton defenseman Boris Mironov. It may be an auction the Devils win. Sources have told The Post that...
EWING LOOKING FOR FRESH AIR ; KNICKS AND BULLS JUST NOT THE SAME WITHOUT MICHAEL
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amThe cold reality there will be no Michael today at the Garden will hit Knick fans in the face like the February wind as the Bulls come to visit.There will...
SURPRISE GOING-AWAY PARTY ; BLUESHIRTS LEAVE ON RARE HIGH NOTE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amWent to a Garden party, and much to our surprise, the Rangers got the first goal, and then they scored five more times. For playing against the Penguins, they were...
SAME OLD DAVEY NEW DODGER SKIPPER IS ARROGANT, UNCONTROLLABLE AND A BIG WINNER
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amA manager sitting in his office, utterly convinced he is right about everything and needing only to point to his record to silence any doubters but not caring enough about...
WEIGH-INS HAVE BECOME SCALES OF INJUSTICE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amLAST night's Felix Trinidad-Pernell Whitaker bout at the Garden may or may not have turned out to be a real fight, but at least it featured something that is becoming...
STEWART KEEPS HIS RIPS PRIVATE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amNo-nonsense Bill Stewart has made one thing clear to the media during his first 12 games as the Islanders' head coach: Don't expect him to fill up your notebooks with...
POSTELL PUTS HURT ON HOYAS
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amSt. John's74 G'town66 WASHINGTON - When St. John's and Georgetown take the court, only the strong survive. You must rise to the occasion and not back down. That is exactly...
BOXING GETS OFF CANVAS ; GOOD FIGHTS IN LOWER WEIGHTS SPARK REVIVAL
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amIt is a feeling unto itself, distinct and succinct, only you thought extinct. How do you describe Fight Night? A nervous heart, a speeding pulse, twitching muscles - and gone...
ROCKET TOUCHES DOWN IN TAMPA MITTS (& EYES) POP AS RAPID ROGER MAKES YANK DEBUT
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"His arm is alive. He has a chance to win a few games."JOE GIRARDI ON ROGER CLEMENS TAMPA - The sound of a Roger Clemens fastball crackled in Joe Girardi's...
SEIKALY'S GOTTA STEP GINGERLY
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"I favored the old injury and I think from favoring it I've [irritated] the right."RONY SEIKALY CLEVELAND - Rony Seikaly awoke yesterday and bounded out of bed. Well, maybe he...
ROCKET ENJOYS PERFECT LANDING
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - When Brian Cashman and Kim Ng arrived at Tampa Airport to greet Roger Clemens yesterday morning, the Yankees' GM and his assistant found the Rocket's plane from Houston...
MR. PIAZZA'S NEIGHBORHOOD ; CATCHER ENJOYING LIFE IN NEW YORK
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Even though he doesn't play for the Yankees, Mike Piazza said that contrary to reports, he was allowed admission into Varuka, a trendy Yankees hangout in...
TO THE VICAR GO THE SPOILS CAPTURES FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - Nine years ago trainer Carl Nafzger lost the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park, one of the year's first major preps for the Kentucky Derby, when...
CLEMENS' CREW ALREADY STRONG-ARMING YANKS
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Randy Hendricks, the representative for Roger Clemens, called it ''destiny'' that the great pitcher of this era would eventually join the great team of this time and all-time....
MIAMI MOTTO: WE CONN DO!
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amMiami73 UConn71 STORRS - Rarely do these games live up to their advance billing. Like the last game between UConn and Miami, the top two teams in the Big East,...
STRAW TIRED BUT HAPPY AFTER WORKOUT
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Wrists powered by vein-bulging forearms and supported by biceps as thick as dock rope moved Darryl Strawberry's bat through the strike zone and sent balls in all directions....
WILPON: PLAYOFFS OR BUST METS' OWNER TALKS TOUGH
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - It was the first day of spring training for the Mets, and Fred Wilpon set the tone for the season in no uncertain terms. A day...
LJ TOUGHS IT OUT ON WOUNDED KNEE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amWith the grind of this abbreviated NBA season not offering any breaks, Knicks forward Larry Johnson and his sore left knee will likely be a day-to-day deal for every game....
PHILLIPS: WELLS IS NOT AVAILABLE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Even though the Blue Jays have made it absolutely clear they have no intention of trading David Wells, the Mets twice made what Steve Phillips would...
CLEMENS' METER ALREADY IS RUNNING
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amBut all indications are this will not be a happy-to-stay-a-Yankee discount deal like with Scott Brosius, David Cone and Paul O'Neill. T AMPA - Randy Hendricks, the agent for Roger...
JAYS TO AMAZIN'S: WELLS NOT AVAILABLE
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - While the Blue Jays say they don't intend to trade David Wells, former Cy Young Award winner Pat Hentgen is available - though it doesn't appear...
WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS ; MACLEAN REALIZES HE MAY BE DEALT
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amEDMONTON - In March of 1996, just months after having signed unrestricted free agent Ray Ferraro as an unrestricted free agent, the Rangers traded the center to the Kings (with...
CASSELL CAN'T HALT NET SKID
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"It's terrible that a team of this caliber, this talent should have a record even remotely close to this record."RONY SEIKALY CLEVELAND - Jayson Williams was assessing the overall situation...
DEVILS RUE 'DISGRACE' OF A DEFEAT
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders3 Devils2 If Y2K is anything like the Devils' Y99 version of meltdown, this world is in for chaos and calamity. It's upgrade time for the Devils, or they'll be...
SMOLINSKI BREAKS OUT IN BIG WAY
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amIslanders forward Bryan Smolinski was thisclose to getting benched six days ago. After Smolinski's wondrous game-winner with 2:59 remaining that beat the Devils 3-2 last night, coach Bill Stewart has...
BY UNANIMOUS DECISION, OSCAR'S STILL CHAMP
February 21, 1999 | 5:00am"T HE winner, and STILL welterweight champion of the world..." Oscar De La Hoya. Last night was supposed to be Felix Trinidad's night to show the world that he, too,...
TRINIDAD POUNDS ON PERNELL
February 21, 1999 | 5:00amPernell Whitaker shook his head yes. It had to be pride making him say he beat Felix Trinidad, that he was defrauded again and cursed by the worst of luck....