April 13, 1999
KILLING THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amWall Street experts worry that any policy that could dry up the strong 401(k) flows could also hurt the overall market. IS corporate America getting ready to kill off the...
MARTS SHRUG OFF TECH WORRIES, POWER TO RECORDS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. stocks ignored a profit warning from Compaq Computer Corp. to power ahead to new highs. The Dow Jones industrial average, after a hesitant opening, soared 165.67 to 10,339.51, a...
TIME WARNER, DJ RISE ON PROFIT HOPES
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amRosy profit prospects from Time Warner's box-office hit, "You've Got Mail," and bulky ads in The Wall Street Journal helped push up stocks of the two media companies yesterday. Dow...
OVITZ' HOPED-FOR MUSIC DEAL FALLS APART
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Ovitz won't be getting into the music business - at least just yet. The Hollywood superagent and former Disney president has failed to come to terms on a deal...
DE NIRO STUDIO GAINS FOR B'KLYN MEAN STREETS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amRobert De Niro took center stage at City Hall yesterday to nail down the millions of dollars he needs to open a high-tech movie studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard....
REAL DEAL FOR IBM - INKS MUSIC PACT WITH REALNETWORKS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amRob Glaser's RealNetworks has surged to the forefront of the growing battle to sell music over the Internet. RealNetworks leaped ahead of the competition announcing a deal with IBM to...
SONY MUSIC SEEN CLOSE TO GETTING LOUD
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amLoud Music chief Steve Rifkind is close to inking a new joint venture deal with Sony Music, The Post has learned. Rifkind's label is home to such artists as the...
ROAMIN' FELINES: COLONIES OF CATS ARE GIVEN SANCTUARY AMONG THE RUINS OF ROME
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amT WILIGHT is creeping over the spooky, sunken ruins known as the Area Sacra (Sacred Area) di Largo Argentina in one of Rome's oldest neighborhoods. Virtually on top of the...
'ECHO' SURE TO RESONATE WITH FANS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00am*ECHO Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Warner Bros. RecordsTom Petty is one of those lucky artists who doesn't have to explain himself. He doesn't have to follow or even set...
EWOK ON THE WILD SIDE FOR DWARF DAVIS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amFOR such a small guy, "Star Wars" actor Warwick Davis has had more than his share of big controversy.Davis, a 29-year-old dwarf, reprises his role as the Ewok character Wicket...
TV TICKER
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amJoy in Metville Ratings were encouraging for the Mets first game on Ch.11, Friday-night's victory over Montreal. Friday's game notched a 4.3 rating (293,000 households) - 10 percent ahead of...
'PARTY' OVER FOR STAR NEVE - ... AND MAYBE THE SERIES
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amNEVE Campbell says she is tired of "Party of Five," and is preparing to leave after her contract expires next year. Campbell is the latest cast member to indicate she...
DAN WINS YUGO RACE - FIRST ANCHOR IN BELGRADE CHASING SLOBBO SITDOWN
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amCBS' Dan Rather has become the first network news anchor to get into Belgrade, Yugoslavia to cover the nonstop NATO bombing campaign. The veteran war reporter now hopes to be...
JENNY TAKES 'GAY-SLAY' STAND
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amJENNY Jones didn't think Jonathan Schmitz was humiliated when he heard another man describe sexual fantasies he'd had about him during a taping of "The Jenny Jones Show," Jones testified...
DELIGHTED 'WIT' HER PULITZER
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Atlanta kindergarten teacher Margaret Edson heard the news shortly after she sent her 5-year-old students home for the day - her play "Wit" had won the Pulitzer Prize for...
THE LASSO THERAPY: PRAISING ARIZONA'S RANGE OF OPTIONS, FROM SWANK HOTEL TO COWBOY RETREAT
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Say you have a hankering to hang around cowboy country. Or maybe your idea of a good time is lunging about a swanky hotel pool. There's a destination that...
DYING MAN A LIFESAVER FOR HIS NATION
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amTHE eyes of Carlos Ramos show death lurking in his path. The 56-year-old Ecuadorean man is on his back at a city cancer hospital with a fast-moving and malignant tumor...
SIX REASONS WHY SAFIR'S GOT TO GO
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amIT IS time for Police Commissioner Howard Safir to go. This arrogant abuser of power should resign for the sake of the city. Safir's problem is that he lives like...
NATO MISSILE SLAMS SERBIAN TRAIN - YUGO SAYS 10 DIE IN 'CRIMINAL ATTACK' ON RAILROAD BRIDGE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amA NATO missile sliced a passenger train in two in southeast Serbia yesterday, derailing several cars and killing at least 10 people, Yugoslav officials said. NATO officials acknowledged an alliance...
MAGICIAN MAKES IT OUT ALIVE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMagician David Blaine made his long-awaited return to the living yesterday as he was unearthed after being buried seven days in a Plexiglas coffin. Several hundred fans - including mentalist...
MISSING S.C. STUDENT TURNS UP AT BELLEVUE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe South Carolina college student who disappeared in Midtown has turned up disoriented but unharmed in a Bellevue Hospital psychiatric ward, police said yesterday. A hospital staffer called cops Sunday...
DOCS: TOMATOES MIGHT STALL PROSTATE CANCER
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amEat that pizza. A new study has discovered the first direct evidence that tomatoes might protect men against prostate cancer. Lycopene, the nutrient that makes tomatoes red, may shrink prostate...
TRAGIC PAYBACK FOR RESISTANCE; TERRIBLE PRICE FOR RESISTING THE SERBS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00am"We heard some gunshots and then a scream and then the Serbs burned down the house." BLERINA MIJHXHIRT DURRES, Albania. MERGIN LLESHT, 11, is probably an orphan, but no one...
TRAGIC PAYBACK FOR RESISTANCE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amDURRES, Albania. MERGIN LLESHT, 11, is probably an orphan, but no one around him has mustered up the heart to tell him his parents are likely casualties of the Kosovo...
EXCELLENCE ON ICE AND TRUE LOVE IN LIFE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amHe's The Great One, she's The Glamorous One - and together, Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones are one of the world's coolest and sexiest couples. The Michael Jordan of hockey...
RUDY ONE STEP CLOSER TO MAKING IT OFFICIAL
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday stepped up the pace of his undeclared campaign for the U.S. Senate, while potential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a swing through the state next week. Giuliani,...
'SAY IT AIN'T SO,' CRY LITTLEST FANS - YOUNG SKATERS LAMENT LOSS OF HERO
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amYoung hockey players reacted in icy horror to the news their puck-swattin' hero Wayne Gretzky is retiring. At the Chelsea Piers' Sky Rink, pint-sized athletes from all over the city...
N.Y. BOXING BILL WOULD K0 CONVICTED KILLER KING
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Boxing promoter Don King would probably be barred from staging any more fights in New York under a bill introduced yesterday to keep felons out of the business...
GR00M M0URNED AS 'MADE FOR HEAVEN'
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe young groom-to-be killed by a speeder after his bachelor party was "made for heaven, and that's where he is," the priest who was to marry him said yesterday. The...
PATAKI LAUNCHES 'AIR' WAR AGAINST JERSEY OVER PA $$
April 13, 1999 | 4:00am"I cannot continue to support decisions that generate billions of dollars in investments for New Jersey while allocating an unfair proportion of port dollars to New York." GOV. PATAKI, IN...
WAYNE'S REIGN COMING TO AN END - THE GREAT ONE WILL RETIRE SUNDAY AFTER RANGER SEASON ENDS; EXCLUSIVE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amWayne Gretzky will retire after Sunday afternoon's Ranger season finale at the Garden, The Post has learned from unimpeachable sources in whom The Great One has confided. Despite his denials...
WHITEWATER SUE FINALLY GOES FREE - BEATS 'OBSTRUCTION' RAP
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Susan McDougal was a free woman yesterday after an Arkansas jury acquitted her of obstructing Kenneth Starr's Whitewater probe and a judge declared a mistrial on two other...
MARLA'S A NO-ING WITNESS IN SHOE TRIAL
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMarla Maples repeatedly shrieked "No!" on the witness stand yesterday as her shoe-loving ex-publicist tried to portray her as suicidal - and as much more than just his client and...
SAFIR: I NEEDED COPS AT DAUGHTER'S WEDDING
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amEmbattled Police Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday defended using eight detectives as drivers and bodyguards for his daughter's wedding - and Mayor Giuliani supported his top cop. Safir and Giuliani, at...
AT 35, PROGRAM WAS JUST A PUP
April 13, 1999 | 4:00am"Another World" is one of the longest-running shows on television today, but is barely middle-aged compared to some other TV titans still going strong: *"Meet the Press": Debuted in 1947...
JUDGE SAYS BILL LIED ABOUT MONICA - HE'S HELD IN CONTEMPT IN JONES CASE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A federal judge yesterday said President Clinton lied when he denied having sex with Monica Lewinsky, slapping him with a contempt citation that could cost him millions. Judge...
RULING ON BALLPLAYER MAY IMPERIL PRE-NUPS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amA California appeals court threw out the prenuptial agreement of baseball star Barry Bonds yesterday in a ruling that could invalidate thousands of other prenups in the state. The decision...
BUBBA TROUBLE BOILS ANEW
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amANALYSIS WASHINGTON - It's baaaaack. Just when President Clinton thought Sexgate was over, just as he started looking presidential over Kosovo - Sexgate has come back to haunt him and...
CENTRAL PARK COYOTE TO BE KING OF QUEENS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe wily coyote who eluded cops in Central Park last week has found a new home - in the Queens zoo. Parks Commissioner Henry Stern said yesterday the spotted gray...
SHARK WILL NEVER MASTER THIS MAJOR
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - This is going to be an unpopular theory, but sometimes the truth hurts. It's more apparent now than ever that Greg Norman will never win the Masters. Norman...
IT'S A DAMN SHAME - CLUELESS RANGERS NEVER KNEW HOW GREAT THEY HAD IT; RANGERS WASTED GRETZKY
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMAYBE the next time the Rangers acquire the greatest player in hockey history they will have some idea of what to do with him. Because it has been clear to...
VAN HORN PLANS TO STAY; VAN HORN WAITS FOR NET OFFER
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amNot that there was even the slightest doubt for the past six weeks or so, but the Nets again are assured of a losing record. Official playoff elimination could come...
NOW, CAMBY'S CONTRIBUTING
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMarcus Camby has begged for minutes all season long. Now that he's been granted some vital playing time from Jeff Van Gundy, Camby has responded. On Sunday he scored 19...
NBC TO AIR 'ROAD TO THE CUP'
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe creme de la creme of New York racing will go coastal on network TV late this summer and fall in a deal announced yesterday by NBC, the Breeders' Cup...
DEAL FOR TRIBE'S SPRADLIN POSSIBLE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While their starters have been almost unhittable, there is room for improvement in the Yankees' bullpen before they get to closer Mariano Rivera. That's why they have again...
YANKS DANDY WITHOUT ANDY - BUT PETTITTE MAY JOIN ROTATION SATURDAY
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amTheir projected No. 2 starter has been out of action since March 7 when Andy Pettitte's left elbow began to hurt. Hideki Irabu, pegged as the No. 5 hurler, has...
OH, BROTHER! EL DUQUE WATCHES LIVAN LOSE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amHis older brother was seated not far behind the visitors dugout, watching younger Livan Hernandez pitch live, in person, for the first time since the two were living and playing...
NABOKOV GETS BIG CHANCE IN 'TRYOUT'
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amIslanders GM Mike Milbury can only hope new callup Dmitri Nabokov gets along better with Bill Stewart than he did with coach Frank Anzalone in Lowell. Nabokov, whom the Isles...
CHECK THIS OUT: CARPENTER'S LEARNED
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amNow 18 years removed from being the Can't-Miss Kid, Bobby Carpenter wouldn't have liked himself as he is today. He's learned. "I had no respect for that job [as checker]...
MARLINS JUMP ON METS' BANDWAGON
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amA year ago, the Mets inability to capture a wild-card playoff bid and win more than 88 games could be traced directly to their paltry performance against some of the...
FOR AMAZIN'S, IT'S HOME SWEET HOME - JONES' STRONG PITCHING, HR SPARK METS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMets 8 Marlins 1 Met fans who have been waiting since October to see Mike Piazza were disappointed not to see their injured hero hit yesterday, but they got something...
REED JOINS PIAZZA ON 15-DAY DL
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amAlthough his injury wasn't as bad as originally thought, Rick Reed was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday in order to make sure his injured left calf muscle heals...
DISASTER DOWN BELOW - RAW SEWAGE FLOODS REFURBISHED CLUBHOUSE
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets spent about $225,000 to renovate their clubhouse and manager's office, but didn't even get a full day's use out of them before disaster struck. A pump...
BONILLA RAISES HEAD ABOVE WATER
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amSEVEN YEARS later, things have certainly gotten better around Shea Stadium for Bobby Bonilla. Yesterday, the water was only up to his ankles. Last time, it was up around his...
LOW-KEY JONES GIVES METS A NATURAL HIGH
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amTHE plumbing backed up in the Mets' clubhouse yesterday, flooding the place, making the home opener something of a dress rehearsal for an October champagne celebration. It looked a little...
HERE'S THE POOP: METS TOPS, SHEA'S A DUMP; METS IMPROVED, SHEA'S A DUMP
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Mets provided a home opener of pomp, circumstance and raw sewage. In the pregame, they welcomed back Tom Seaver - was that pomp or pompous? During the game, they...
THE GREAT DEPRESSION - LIFE WITHOUT GRETZKY A PAINFUL THOUGHT
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amI can't remember a time in 27 years in the business ... that I have felt such a personal loss. I'M NOT ready for this. Hope he is. Until the...
STEPHON KNICKS HIMSELF
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK ENVY can be a terribly debilitating affliction. If you're keeping score at home, Stephon Marbury obviously is ailing from at least one deadly sin. Agent David Falk is diseased...
THE RICH GET PITCHERS - YANKEE ROTATION OFF TO FLYING START
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amTheir projected No. 2 starter has been out of action since March 7 when Andy Pettitte's left elbow began to hurt. Hideki Irabu, pegged as the No. 5 hurler, has...
PETTITTE'S READY TO REJOIN BOMBERS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amPettitte hurled five scoreless innings for Single-A Tampa last night in Sarasota, striking out eight. The strongest part of the best team in baseball is about to add more muscle....
ISLES' FELIX 'THE CAT' HAS 55 LIVES
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amIt was so sensational, it may have brought a tear of joy to Islander GM Mike Milbury's eye. Goalie Felix Potvin was "The Cat" and "The Man" last night for...
WAYNE SALUTES GARDEN FANS AFTER VICTORY
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amAfter his NHL seventh-best 52nd assist of the season had helped the Rangers to a 2-1 Garden win over the Lightning in the penultimate home game of his career, Wayne...
LACK OF SCORING PUNCH KOS DEVILS
April 13, 1999 | 4:00amIslanders 4 Devils 2 The biggest of those little weaknesses the Devils will take into the playoffs next week cost them dearly last night. The team that didn't get a...