March 2, 1999
THIS FUND MANAGER BEAT THE S&P 500 FOR 26 YEARS
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amIN his 26 years as a mutual fund manager, Chuck Albers has managed to beat the overall annual gain of the S&P 500 index by an average of 3.5 percent...
HAIL THE NEW REPUBLIC - SAFRA RESTRUCTURES, CUTS OVER 500 JOBS
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amEdmond Safra's Republic New York Corp. plans to ax 560 jobs in a restructuring plan intended to get the bank out of unprofitable trading activities and more into private banking....
LAUREN SEWING UP CLUB MONACO DEAL
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amDesigner Ralph Lauren - stung by changing tastes for his pricey brands - is buying the hot-shot fashion chain Club Monaco. Lauren said his name or brands won't appear anywhere...
SPIDER-MAN IN TV, MOVIE DEAL
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amSpider-Man is free at last. After being held captive by litigation for the last five years, the Marvel super hero is ready to burst onto the silver screen and TV....
INSIDER PICKED TO RUN DISNEY'S ESPN UNITS
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amESPN has a new boss. Just days after the Disney-owned cable network's chief was promoted to run all of ABC, his No. 2, George W. Bodenheimer, was moved up yesterday....
AT&T MIGHT PUT ITS HQ ON BLOCK
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amTo help pay its $46 billion bill for buying cable giant Tele-Communications, AT&T might sell its landmarked headquarters building in TriBeCa. Brokers who've toured the 29-story building estimated it could...
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER CREEK - THE RESORT IN COLO. IS AS LOW-KEY AS HIGH-END SKIING POSSIBLY CAN GET
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amI HAD always been intimidated by the idea of skiing Colorado, the land of insane downhill runs and mink-coated millionaires strutting the slope. So I never went, not to Vail,...
THE COLORS OF WATER - HEAVENLY SNORKELING IN THE BAHAMAS WITH JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU; IT'S OCEANS OF FUN
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amI STILL have nightmares about the film "Jaws," so when it came to snorkeling in the Bahama Out Islands, I wasn't exactly willing to dive in headfirst - even though...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amLine dancing The Historic Royal Palaces may be must-sees for travelers to London, but the long lines can be discouraging. You can now avoid the wait by buying your passes...
VINTAGE MERLOT WHINES
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amSIGNS OF A VACANT SOUL Virgos Merlot Atlantic You can see it in their eyes - or, at least, in the contact lenses in their eyes - that Alabama's Virgos...
HONEY, I THINK I LOST THE KIDS (SOB, SOB)
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"A Memory in My Heart" Tonight at 9 on WCBS/Ch.2 FORGET the jokes about women getting headaches when they don't want to have sex. Rebecca (Jane Seymour) starts getting them...
TV TICKER
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amSunday best NBC's "Alice in Wonderland" (8-11 p.m.) won Sunday night, becoming the highest-rated network movie - including theatricals - this season. "Alice" averaged a 16.3 (10.1 million households) and...
THIS GUY'S 'SMOKING'
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"I wanted to be somewhere by the time I was 30, so I made this three-year plan, and I've worked every day since my 25th birthday."Guy Ritchie, writer and director,"...
MONICA READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP - AUSSIE WHO GETS IN HER HAIR GAVE SLICK MAKEOVER
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amAUSTRALIAN hair stylist Richard Keogh is the mane man in Monica Lewinsky's life. It was Keogh, a freelance Manhattan hair stylist, who shaped Lewinsky's mane for her big interview with...
IS A ROAST BEEF SANDWICH FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR LEWINSKY'S BLOCKBUSTER ABC INTERVIEW?
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am'Indirectly, the Walters interview will mean more publicity for Monica's various other projects. So it's not a zero-sum game where just ABC gets something out of this.' - First Amendment...
'LANDLORD FROM HELL' JAILED IN SLAY PLOT
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amA man dubbed the "landlord from hell" for plotting to murder two tenants and use arson to drive others from their homes apologized in court yesterday before landing a seven-...
ICE QUEEN PEGGY RELIVES CANCER ORDEAL
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amGutsy skating legend Peggy Fleming says being diagnosed with breast cancer last year was "like getting a kick in the stomach" and forced her to muster every ounce of mental...
WHAT BRIBE-TAKERS GOT FOR THEIR DISGRACE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amOf the 23 IOC members accused of taking bribes from Salt Lake City organizers, four resigned and five were suspended. Here's a rundown of who allegedly got what: Resigned *David...
UNABOMBER SISTER-IN-LAW BARES ORDEAL OF FAMILY
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe sister-in-law of Ted Kaczynski says she knew for years he was severely mentally ill, and gradually convinced her reluctant husband he might be the Unabomber. "It was clear to...
METROCARD MACHINES A HIT
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe new MetroCard vending machines have increased sales by 43 percent in the two subway stations where they've been installed, officials said. "It was a very good start. People are...
LIFE FOR SUBWAY TERRORIST OUT TO 'BURN THE JEWS'
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amA Palestinian terrorist who hoped to "burn the Jews" and free jailed Arab militants by blowing up a New York subway train was sentenced yesterday to life in prison. Gazi...
PACIFIER KIDS BREAST-FEED LESS: STUDY
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amBabies who use pacifiers after the age of 3 months tend to breast-feed less, a new study shows. The study of 265 sets of breast-feeding mothers and their children was...
DOG OWNERS HOUNDED; PARKS DEPT. ENFORCERS UNLEASHED IN TIX BLITZ
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Parks Department has taken its first bite out of dog owners. Parks cops in Riverside and Central parks handed out 127 leash-law violations between Friday morning and yesterday afternoon...
RUDY BLASTS COP CARTOON; CALLS THE NEW YORKER'S SHOOTING GALLERY 'SICK'
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"It's a demonstration of something I have been saying for some time - that there is a virulent prejudice against police officers."MAYOR GIULIANI ALBANY - A steaming-mad Mayor Giuliani yesterday...
BUILDERS FINED 10G FOR SCHOOL BRICK DEATH
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amA Bronx construction firm paid a $10,000 fine yesterday for manslaughter in the case of the Brooklyn teen-ager killed last year when a brick fell from the roof of a...
COP KILLER'S GIRLFRIEND IS GUILTY, TOO: DA
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amPolice Officer Anthony Mosomillo would still be alive if a cop-killer's girlfriend hadn't interfered in a desperate struggle between the two men, a prosecutor charged yesterday. "Her help, at just...
RUDY AND GEORGE WILL BREAK THE ICE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani finally agreed yesterday to a sit-down meeting - even as they avoided what would have been their first face-to-face encounter in months. The...
SO WHERE ARE THE TEARS FOR THIS BRAVE HERO?
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amIT WAS a little like watching barbed wire being slowly dragged through their hearts. There was the immediate family - and the extended family of 120 cops cramming the courtroom....
FIRST FAMILY CUTS SHORT SKI TRIP
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amPresident Clinton and wife Hillary yesterday abruptly cut short their Utah ski vacation with daughter Chelsea a day early - but White House aides insist there's nothing amiss. ''It's just...
FIRST LADY PLAYS SECOND FIDDLE ON SCHOOL ARTS FUNDING: RUDY
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amFirst Lady Hillary Clinton visits a Queens public school tomorrow to highlight her support of arts education - but Mayor Giuliani said his administration has beaten her to the punch....
S.I. YANKS TIX 'A' HOT ITEM
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Staten Island Yankees got off to a running start yesterday. Anxious baseball fans gobbled up more than half of the minor-league team's season tickets during the first six hours...
U.S. URGES ARABS AND ISRAELIS TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"Targeting [Israeli] officers [and] soldiers . . . on our occupied territory will not stop."SHEIK NAIM KASSEM, A HEZBOLLAH OFFICIALThe United States exerted urgent diplomatic pressure on Syria, Lebanon and...
NEW RULE IMPERILS CABBIES' TICKET TO RIDE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 22,000 cabbies with moving violations could lose their taxi licenses if convicted of one more serious traffic offense, under tough new rules that took effect yesterday. The Taxi...
FURLOUGH PLAN PUTS FERRY KILLER CLOSER TO FREEDOM
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amA madman who brutally killed two people and injured nine others in a savage, sword-swinging frenzy aboard the Staten Island Ferry 13 years ago is being released on unescorted furloughs....
OLYMPIC PAYOLA WAS NORM: U.S. PANEL
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"The IOC must be reformed. For too long, it has tolerated the culture of improper gift-giving, which affected every city bidding for the Olympic[s]."ETHICS REPORTThe biggest bribery scandal in Olympic...
NICOLE'S LOST VOICE ENDS 'BLUE ROOM' WEEK EARLY
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"Blue Room" star Nicole Kidman has pushed her vocal chords to the brink, forcing the producers of the smash Broadway play to cancel the final week of sold-out performances. Kidman...
U.S. JETS BLOW HOLE IN IRAQ'S MAIN PIPELINE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amAmerican warplanes damaged Iraq's main oil pipeline for the second time in two days yesterday during one of the heaviest bombing raids since the air war against Saddam Hussein began...
SLOPPY BOOKS COST IRS MILLIONS
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"The IRS cannot do some of the basic accounting and record-keeping tasks that it expects [of] American taxpayers."GREGORY KUTZ, AUDIT DIRECTORThe IRS can't balance its own books and has no...
MURDERS UP 2% IN '99; OTHER CRIMES CONTINUE TO FALL
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amHomicides are slightly on the rise in New York, showing their first increase in six years, even as other major crimes are dropping dramatically, police data shows. In the first...
APPLE EYES '$1' BUY-BACK OF BATT. PK. CITY
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe city is exploring taking control of Battery Park City from the state - a move certain to create new tensions between Mayor Giuliani and Gov. Pataki. Confirming a report...
FIRED WORKER FIRES BACK AT 30 ROCK: COPS
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amA disgruntled maintenance man whipped out a gun and fired a shot yesterday in Rockefeller Center after he was axed from his job. Nobody was hurt in the bizarre outburst,...
PBA HEAD BLASTS DWI CAR SEIZURES
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe city's new policy of seizing drunken drivers' cars is ill-timed, creates needless hostility for cops and probably will be shot down in court, the acting head of the police...
N.J. HIGH-COURT PICK IN JEOPARDY - COP'S RACE REMARKS MAY SINK ATT'Y GEN.
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe outcry over racial comments by the head of New Jersey's State Police threatens to doom a nomination to the state's Supreme Court. The controversy ended the career of Police...
LEWINSKYS WILL MAKE SHOW A FAMILY AFFAIR
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amSexgate siren Monica Lewinsky will be closeted with a select group of family and friends in Los Angeles tomorrow night when she tunes in with the rest of America to...
EDWARD'S FIANCEE IN TOPLESS-PIX FUROR
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amStunning topless photos from the fun-loving past of Prince Edward's fiancee could come back to haunt her in the months before she marries into Britain's royal family, it was reported...
NEW RULES COULD DRIVE CABBIES OUT OF BIZ
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amMore than 22,000 cabbies with moving violations could lose their taxi licenses if convicted of one more serious traffic offenses under tough new rules that took effect yesterday. The Taxi...
KERRY, JINTS SAY ALL THE RIGHT THINGS
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amHis first official, team-sanctioned comment was to apologize for speaking to reporters last week while seated courtside at a Knicks game, when the Giants preferred that he keep a low...
RANGERS FIND WINNING'S FUN
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amA pair of rousing victories against Phoenix and Philly with Wayne Gretzky sidelined has the Rangers' locker room teeming with optimism. Even veteran Adam Graves got to waxing poetic about...
JETS LOCK UP VINNY WITH $19.5M PACT
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe Local Boy Made Good yesterday ... at the bank. Vinny Testaverde became the highest-paid Jet, surpassing Curtis Martin (6-$36 million) and joined the Fortune 500 list of elite NFL...
YOGI IS BACK AND ALL'S RIGHT AGAIN
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"[Steinbrenner] called and apologized. He said the right things. If he didn't, I wouldn't be here today." YOGI BERRA TAMPA - This place is called Legends Field and one of...
GUTKOWSKI MULLS BID FOR ISLES
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amFormer MSG president Bob Gutkowski is amidst negotiations with Islanders co-owner Howard Milstein about purchasing his 45-percent share in the team, a source close to the Gutkowski group told The...
TOM TERRIFIC THINKS IZZY HAS RIGHT STUFF
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amIf you never believed the Mets when they pumped up Jason Isringhausen, then listen to Seaver. PORT ST. LUCIE - If you took off a couple of pounds, touched up...
MANHATTAN FIRES COACH LEONARD
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amJohn Leonard has spent most of his adult life around the Manhattan basketball program, first as a player, then as an assistant and finally as head coach. But that relationship...
TREATMENTS MAKE CONE AN ACU-PITCHER
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Needles the width of hair follicles are David Cone's latest ammunition against the demons that live inside his right shoulder. He has tried mountains of ice, no ice,...
ARTEST GETS READY TO STORM NBA DRAFT; EXCLUSIVE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amSarah Artest sat down at the small kitchen table with her oldest son, Ron, in her apartment in Long Island City Sunday night and it became clear that her son...
THIS CAN'T KERRY ON - KITTLES NEEDS TO STEP UP
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - The collapses have come one after another. They are all too frequent, all too familiar with the Nets. They lead or stand in really good shape in the...
COACH CAL: I'LL ACCEPT SOME BLAME
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - John Calipari showed a bit of a crack in his cool demeanor yesterday morning but quickly regrouped before last night's game and presented a strong face...
METS KEEP HENDERSON ON HIS TOES
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - Rickey Henderson has been in the game so long, it's hard to imagine any baserunning drills he hasn't seen, but conditioning coordinator Barry Heyden has found...
REED SAVORS IDOL TIME
March 2, 1999 | 5:00am"I tried to be like (Seaver). I tried to act like him. I tried to pitch like him. Every guy picks out a guy they want to be like and...
ANDY'S ELBOW OK AFTER BP
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA - One week after experiencing tightness in his valuable left elbow, Andy Pettitte got through his first batting practice session of the spring yesterday. Sticking to fastballs...
JUDGE OKS NEW NYRA HEARING
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amFollowing a long string of legal setbacks since last summer in its vendetta to ban veterinarian Dr. Michael Galvin from the racetrack, the New York Racing Association finally won a...
VG: CAL JOB WATCH 'A JOKE'
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amFrom afar, Jeff Van Gundy has seen the Nets struggle out of the gate and heard the murmurs concerning John Calipari's job. It's not as if the "fire Cal" sentiment...
SPREE AND CLEAR - LATRELL OK'D TO PRACTICE; RETURN CLOSE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThere is no official date for his return to the court, but at least there is an official time for him to begin his comeback. The time is now for...
WARRIORS SHOW RUST
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amFirst there was no justice. And then there was no Peace. By having to share its gymnasium with two other schools, Urban Peace High was unable to schedule a practice...
A BENCHMARK SEASON - TIRED KNICKS NEED SUBS TO COME UP BIG
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE coach, who tried to tough out a virus and wound up with a body drier than a Dennis Scott shooting spell, is off the IV. But when his team...
HUMANITIES RUINS DREAM MATCH-UP
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amAs is often the case in this basketball month, looking ahead to a scintillating individual matchup will leave you upset. Yesterday, in game two of the PSAL Girls "B" second-round...
CALIPARI NOT YET ON THE FIRING LINE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE NBA's 29 head coaches went into this discombobulated season with no illusions. There was no use freaking out over the brief prep time, two-game exhibition season and the speed-dial...
LATRELL OK'D TO PRACTICE; RETURN NEAR
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThere is no official date for his return to the court, but at least there is an official time for him to begin his comeback. The time for Latrell Sprewell...
VAN HORN DOESN'T BLOW IT - NETS BOUNCE BACK ON KEITH'S BUZZER-BEATER
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amNets 99 Celtics 97 "Did any team in this league deserve that ball to bounce and go in more than us?" JOHN CALIPARI BOSTON - Kerry Kittles prayed. Kendall Gill...
KITTLES FINDS HIS STROKE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES BOSTON - For the previous five games, Kerry Kittles had been shooting a spiffy .295 (23-of-78). In case you were wondering, those are not good numbers for a...
JEFF TURNS UP HEAT - WANTS WIN TONIGHT IN MIAMI AFTER KNICKS BURY CAVALIERS; VG: WE NEED TO GET TOUGH ON ROAD, TOO
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amKnicks 85 Cavaliers 78 Consider it a challenge presented to his team, which has a right to be exhausted but will get no breather and no pity tonight against the...
OH, SAY CAN YOU SPREE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amTHE COACH, who tried to stand against a virus and wound up more dried out than his friendship with Pat Riley, is off the IV. But when his team stopped...
VAN GUNDY ON CALIPARI WATCH: IT'S A JOKE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES From afar, Jeff Van Gundy has seen the Nets struggle out of the gate of this shortened season and has heard the murmurs concerning the job security of...
PHELAN'S 800TH PUTS MOUNT IN BIG DANCE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amNEC FINAL Mt. St. Mary's 72 Cent. Conn. 56 Mt. St. Mary's center Melvin Whitaker sailed through the air for an alley-oop dunk in the waning moments, an exclamation point...
JEFF TURNS UP HEAT - WANT WIN TONIGHT IN MIAMI AFTER KNICKS BURY CAVALIERS; VG: WE NEED TO GET TOUGH ON ROAD, TOO
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amConsider it a challenge presented to his team, which has a right to be exhausted but will get no breather and no pity tonight against the Heat in Miami Arena....
PHELAN'S 8OOTH PUTS MOUNT IN BIG DANCE
March 2, 1999 | 5:00amThe picture of Melvin Whitaker sailing through the air for a thunderous alley-oop told a thousand words, and summed up the story of Mount St. Mary's season. For Whitaker, it...