June 17, 1999
EXECS STUNG BY TAX PROBES AT DEUTSCHE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amDeutsche Bank CEO Rolf Breur and three members of his board of directors are being investigated by German authorities on suspicion that they helped clients evade taxes by setting up...
IGNORE DAILY MOVES & TAKE LONG-TERM VIEW
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amYESTERDAY was one of the those days for which investors exist. By the end of the day, we all felt just a little richer, after the Nasdaq posted its single-biggest...
85 BUSTED BY FEDS IN MOB-CONNECTED $100M STOCK SCAM
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amEighty five people - some with ties to the Italian and Russian mafias - were charged yesterday with a massive $100 million "pump and dump" stock scam network. Brooklyn U.S....
CHRISTIE'S MUM ON 'NET LINKS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amIn the fierce rivalry between auction houses, whatever Sotheby's does, Christie's usually follows - and vice versa. Sotheby's yesterday said it's getting a $45 million infusion from Internet retailer Amazon.com...
FIDELITY PLANS $750M BOND OFFER; IPO NEXT?
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amFueling speculation that it is on the verge of making a major acquisition, Fidelity Investments announced plans to raise $750 million with a bond offering to institutional investors. Fidelity, the...
FLAT CPI SETS OFF STAMPEDE BY BULLS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe markets came roaring back to life yesterday with the Nasdaq chalking up its biggest one-day gain of the year after the release of lower-than-expected inflation figures. The tech-heavy Nasdaq...
GATES ADDS SYGMA TO 'NET ARCHIVE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amBill Gates wants to be in pictures - or at least own them. The Corbis Corporation, a privately-held company owned by the art-hungry Microsoft Chairman, will buy Sygma - one...
QUINDLEN UN-RETIRES TO OPINE FOR NEWSWEEK
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amAnna Quindlen is back. Newsweek has lured the former New York Times columnist and best-selling novelist back to journalism, ending a five-year self-imposed "retirement." The 18-year veteran of the New...
STAX OF FAX TO WRONG NO. DRIVING CONSULTANT BATS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amAmy Neustein is truly a fashion victim, but it's not because of the way she dresses. Neustein, who runs a high-tech consulting business out of her E. 54th Street apartment,...
TWAIN PULLS OUT ALL STOPS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSHANIA Twain used flash, flesh, song and magic to seduce sophisticated New York. Making her Madison Square Garden debut in front of a sold-out house Tuesday, shapely Twain met the...
MORE NEWS THAN YOU COULD EVER USE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amCNN has tweaked Headline News. How? you ask. Why? we ask. The new look was unveiled at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Basically, CNN has taken Headline anchors out of the closet...
TV TICKER
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amDoc(ked) pay ''ER'' producer Warner Bros. is heatedly denying published reports that George Clooney is being paid $2 million-per-episode to return for several episodes next season. ''While the producers of...
FOX REMAKES DARK CLASSICS:JASON PRIESTLEY BACK TO STAR
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am'9/0210" star Jason Priestley is directing and starring in "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye," the first in a series of made-for-TV adaptations of film noir classics. The new Fox series, "Kiss, Kiss,...
MTV GETS NAKED:'REAL WORLD' CAST IS WI-KINKI IN HAWAII (AND BOSS LIKES IT)
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amTHE steamy season premiere of MTV's "The Real World" was jam-packed with sex, nudity and lots of sweat - all within the first 10 minutes. Within the first minutes of...
BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS: DIGGING UP, THEN KILLING OFF TV LEGENDS IS SERIES' SCHTICK
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amEMMANUEL Lewis is making an explosive return to TV. In a sequence certain to shock even the most hard-boiled TV viewer, the actor formerly known as Webster is blown to...
ZANY GOINGS-ON IN TWIN HOUSES OF 'GEMINI'
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am'GEMINI" is a gelato of a play for a hot summer day, a delicious summer refreshment.The 1976 comedy by Albert Innaurato about Italian-Americans and other ethnics in South Philly is...
'TARZAN' SWINGS - DISNEY'S NEW FILM IS ITS BEST SINCE 'THE LION KING'
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amDisney's "Tarzan," which opens tomorrow, is not only the summer's most thrilling mainstream movie so far, it's also the best animated feature the studio has put out since "The Lion...
THE PRIVATE PAIN OF DREW NIEPORENT: THE TOP RESTAURATEUR REVEALS HOW HIS SON'S ILLNESS HAS CHANGED HIS LIFE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amDREW Nieporent's 'office'' is a truly mobile facility. When his phone rings - and when doesn't it? - he simply answers 'Headquarters,'' be it on a crowded street corner or...
BUS-STOP SIGNS TO BE LESS OF PAIN IN NECK
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's towering bus signs are being knocked down a peg - 10 inches to be exact. "I think it's time we start looking at making these a little more...
HILL COULD CASH IN ON PREZ'S $$ BASH
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton is coming to New York this month to make his first pitch for campaign megabucks that could help elect wife Hillary to the U.S. Senate. Clinton will be...
DOC MOVES O.R. FROM CAVE TO HOSPITAL
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amHis operating tools were handmade from spoons and ordinary kitchen knives. All the antibiotics were gone. Wounded patients had no painkillers. UROSEVAC, Kosovo. DR. BESIM HOXHA had to conduct emergency...
JAILHOUSE ROCKER TOMMY THANKS HIS LUCKY BARS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amEx-con rocker Tommy Lee says the four months he spent in jail for bashing ex-"Baywatch" babe Pamela Anderson were "a blessing," and he believes everybody should do it. "More people...
DISCOVERY CHANNEL GETS DINO-SORE AT BARNEY LOGO
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amBarney the purple dinosaur was accused yesterday of prancing around with the Discovery Channel's "Explore Your World" logo to trick consumers and increase profits. The Texas-based Lyrick Corp., which manages...
NATO PLEA FALLS ON DEAF EARS AS KOSOS STREAM HOME
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amBELGRADE - Thousands of ethnic Albanians ignored NATO warnings and poured back into Kosovo yesterday, while the last Yugoslav troops left Pristina, and panicked Serbs fled with them toward northern...
INDIA: PAKIS KILLED POWS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amIndia accused Pakistan yesterday of violating the Geneva Convention by torturing and killing an Indian pilot and six soldiers captured during the fighting in Kashmir. Pakistan immediately denied the charges....
AT 100, 'NICE GIRL' RECALLS GETTING THE RIGHT TO VOTE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amIt was not something nice girls talked about. Yes, Ethel Hall knew the significance of that November morning in 1920 when 8 million women became the nation's first female voters...
HOLY WAR HEATS UP OVER MIRAMAX MOVIE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amCall it "Wag the Dogma." A high-powered lawyer representing movie moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein has warned leaders of a Catholic group to watch their mouths when protesting the controversial...
LITTLE HOPE 'COSBY KID' CAN AVOID SECOND TRIAL
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amLawyers for Autumn Jackson, the self-proclaimed love-child of actor Bill Cosby, have tried to persuade prosecutors not to retry her on extortion charges but are "not optimistic," The Post has...
GOV FLOATS UNLIKELY BILL TO REFORM FUND-RAISING
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki proposed sweeping changes to New York's campaign-finance law yesterday - but state lawmakers privately declared the plan "dead on arrival." Pataki, who set fund-raising records running...
'NOT NEWT' LABEL FUELING BUSH'S GOP STEAM-ROLLER
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amGEORGE W. Bush Superstar must have an Achilles heel that will trip him up, right? But what is it? Democrats are desperately seeking that weak spot after Bush's smooth-as-silk campaign...
TORRE: DOCS REMOVED 'AGGRESSIVE TUMOR'
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Yankee manager Joe Torre yesterday revealed that doctors found an "aggressive tumor" when he underwent prostate surgery, but said he is "fine" now. Torre, at a Senate hearing...
MENDING POPE PAYS EMOTIONAL HOMETOWN VISIT
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amPope John Paul II shook off the flu yesterday, paying a nostalgic visit to his birthplace in Poland where townspeople greeted him with shouts of "Welcome home, welcome home." Crowds...
OH, NO! I (ALMOST) MISS BUBBA ALREADY
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSO NOW we've heard the first campaign shots fired from the limp muskets of Al and Liddy and Danny and W. The first is disloyal. The second, disingenuous. The third...
DOLE RIPS VIAGRA JOKES AS MEDIA 'CHEAP SHOTS'
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bob Dole is fed up with being made fun of over his new role as the Viagra poster boy. The former GOP Senate leader lashed out yesterday at...
IT'S AD-VANTAGE NBC AS NBA DEAL PAYS OFF
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amAs the NBA Finals begin, NBC's four-year, $1.75 billion megadeal with the league is looking like a winner. Advertising rates for the Finals grew between 8 percent and 12 percent...
'SENATOR RUDY' WON'T COMMIT TO FULL TERM
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSaying he values "integrity and honesty," Mayor Giuliani said yesterday he would not commit to serving a full six-year term if elected to the U.S. Senate. "I think it's unrealistic...
MAGS IN FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO GO RICKY-LOCO
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amPrimedia, the publisher of "Tiger Beat" magazine, has launched a courtroom catfight to stop Sterling MacFadden Partnership from putting out a "one-shot'' Ricky Martin magazine. The lava-hot Latino, a former...
BROOKLYN BRIDGEWORK TAKES TOLL ON TRAFFIC
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe city will start emergency repairs at the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday - meaning construction work will be underway on all three toll-free East River spans connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan....
GORE'S RUNNING - AWAY FROM BILL - TRASHES SEXGATE IN KICKOFF
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amCARTHAGE, Tenn. - Vice President Al Gore declared his candidacy yesterday - and his independence from President Clinton, sort of. Gore blasted Clinton's Sexgate shenanigans as "terribly wrong" and "awful"...
CHARTER-SCHOOL PLEDGE: WE'LL DO BETTER ON TESTS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am"We will outperform the other public schools. There's no reason to exist if we're not going to be better." CHARTER-SCHOOL INVESTOR STEVEN KLINSKY Operators of a soon-to-open charter school in...
FEARS OVER MILITARY'S SURPLUS AMMO
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSome 100,000 surplus sniper bullets unloaded by the U.S. military were resold to gun dealers - and officials fear the ammo could end up in the hands of criminals gunning...
HEARST GANG SUSPECT NABBED AFTER 23 YRS.
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amA member of the Symbionese Liberation Army - the bank-robbing radicals who kidnapped Patty Hearst in the 1970s - was nabbed yesterday in Minnesota after 23 years on the run,...
BUSH SAYS IT AGAIN: I NEED GOV & GIULIANI
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amTexas Gov. George W. Bush confirmed yesterday he had asked Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani to work together. Bush spokesman David Beckwith said the GOP presidential front-runner "told both of...
BIN LADEN BOMB ALERT
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amOsama bin Laden is putting the finishing touches on plans for a bomb attack on a U.S. facility - but officials don't know where or when he'll strike. In a...
ED, SOPHIE REQUEST GIFTS THAT COST KING'S RANSOM
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Some of the guests invited to this week's royal wedding are reportedly snubbing the high-priced gifts on the couple's registry for less pricey presents. The items on the...
KNICK FANS: WE'LL GET 'EM IN GAME 2
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amKnick fans vowed to cut the Spurs off at the pass with a victory in Game 2 of the NBA Finals - after their team dropped the series opener 89-77...
DERANGED DRIVER SPRAYS BX. STREET WITH GUNFIRE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amWhen asked why he was speeding around the block, the driver got out of his car and opened fire, hitting two men in the arm and grazing a third. A...
DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE HARD WORK, NOT DESTINY, GOT KNICKS TO FINALS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks are here, purely and simply, because over the last five weeks they have been the best basketball team in the Eastern Conference.SAN ANTONIO - There are two insults...
COMMISH IN NO RUSH TO RULE ON STRAW
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSo what's taking Bud Selig so long to announce Darryl Strawberry's suspension? According to multiple sources, baseball's commissioner is wrestling with several factors. One, he would like to flex his...
STEWARDS MEET FIGHTIN' RIDERS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe stewards will hold a hearing this morning at 11:30 into a ''boys will be boys'' altercation in the jocks' room after last Saturday's fourth race. Shane Sellers, visiting that...
METS LOSE A 'V' AND GAIN A 'W':BENEDICT'S METS PREVAIL
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amMets 5 Reds 2 CINCINNATI - Wearing his second disguise in the past eight days, Bobby Valentine watched as his team continued to play like a team not masquerading as...
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AT OPEN: EUROS MIRED IN 0-FOR-29 SLUMP
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Slowly but surely, the 29 years of failure have festered into something between an insult and a mind-bending hex for the Europeans. It was 1970 when Brit Tony...
YOSHII GIVES STAFF ANOTHER SHOT IN ARM
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES CINCINNATI - Masato Yoshii recorded his second consecutive strong outing in the Mets' 5-2 win yesterday, raising his record to 6-5 and lowering his ERA to 4.95. Also,...
SCOTS LACKING BRAVE HEARTS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Some teams you just have to watch because of their infallible ability to shoot themselves in the foot. Scotland is a shining example, heroically clawing its way to...
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FINALS' MALIGNED POINT GUARDS GET LAST LAUGH
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amWard, Childs and Johnson didn't give up on themselves when told they initially couldn't play in this league. Now they're in the NBA Finals. That's worth admiring. S AN ANTONIO...
WE'VE EARNED RIGHT TO BE IN THE FINALS, ANNOYED COACH SAYS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am"This is all about a shortened year and our team getting it together through two major injuries. But because of the short year, people try to make this out to...
SPREWELL RIPS SI; SAYS HE'S FINE WITH COACH VG
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Latrell Sprewell said yesterday he has no problems with Jeff Van Gundy and that he has no plans on asking for a trade to the Hawks. This...
MR. CONE-SISTENT ; BOMBERS CAN RELY ON DAVID
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amAs calm as David Cone's nerves are, as professional as his demeanor is on the mound, as consistently as his competitive fires burn, none of those things most impresses manager...
MONTY RIDING A WAVE OF CONFIDENCE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES PINEHURST - Colin Montgomerie not only offered a prediction for this week's Open, but he spoke about how confident he is entering what he calls his favorite tournament....
BROSIUS IS FINALLY ENJOYING LIFE AT TOP
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When ninth-place hitter Scott Brosius saw the lineup posted in the Yankee clubhouse with his name in the leadoff spot, he had the same reaction most Bomber fans...
KING-HBO BATTLE DWARFS MSG CARD
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amPity boxing. Even when there's a heavyweight bout on the horizon that figures to be a tough, hard-hitting, old school affair worth watching, the garbage of the game draws away...
BETTMAN CAN'T MAKE ZIG A RANGER
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amT HEY are cutthroat, cheap, unethical, devilish. The Islanders owners are bums. However, they proved they are not insane. We wrote here last week that something fishy had to be...
SPREE LOVES NEW YORK LATRELL WANTS TO BE KNICK FOR LIFE - AGENT
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm hoping he becomes the next Walt Frazier."ROBERT GIST, SPREWELL'S AGENT Now that his wish has been granted and he's been moved into the starting lineup, Latrell Sprewell has long-term...
DAVIS NOT IN LOVE WITH FAVORITE TAG
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amPINEHURST - Part of Davis Love III's youth was spend here at Pinehurst and that's had people asking him all week whether he should be considered the favorite based on...
UNCLE JOE: VOTE FOR JETER, A LOT
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amYOU need votes in New York, there isn't a more important guy to have in your corner than Joe Torre, beloved manager of the Yankees, classy voice of reason, toast...
WELL-RESTED SAN ANTONIO SHRUGS OFF RUST
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Their last game, so it seemed, was somewhere back around Valentine's Day. For the Spurs, who had hung out for 10 days, waiting for the Knicks to...
RANGERS BACK IN PALFFY MIX: COMMISH VETOES ISLES-KINGS DEAL
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amGary Bettman yesterday asserted his authority in standing up for the Islander franchise, Islander fans and the integrity of the NHL. Irate over ownership's attempts to negotiate side deals with...
SABRES WEARING ON STARS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Using short shifts, the Sabres have their chances at their first Stanley Cup down to short strokes. They are keeping them to 40 seconds, the approximate length of...
KNICKS NOT SHOCKED BY LJ'S GAME 1 START
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The unexpected news that Larry Johnson, despite a painful knee injury, was set to start last night at power forward for the Knicks against the Spurs in...
YANKS WAITING FOR ROCKET LAUNCH
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amFor a guy who had won 20 straight decisions, a two-game streak of awful pitching seems an eternity. Roger Clemens, who faces the franchise that came runner-up to the Yankees...
'NEW' SEAN ELLIOTT SHARPENS SPURS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am"Sean, I think, is a big key to this series. Everybody talks about Dave and Tim, but I think Sean is big."MARIO ELIE SAN ANTONIO - There is the old...
VG PUTS CHECKETTS ON HOLD
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am"I wouldn't want to talk about anything in the future right now."JEFF VAN GUNDY NBA FINALS NOTES SAN ANTONIO - Jeff Van Gundy revealed yesterday that Garden president Dave Checketts...
HELLING NIGHT AT STADIUM AS RANGERS ROLL
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amRangers 3 Yankees 0 The 28,555 fans at the Stadium last night were stunned. It was as if they had seen pigs flying overhead or hell freezing below. And they...
TORRE MAKES BROSIUS LATEST LEADING MAN
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES When ninth-place hitter Scott Brosius saw the lineup posted in the Yankee clubhouse with his name in the leadoff spot, he had the same reaction most Bomber fans...
LJ START NO SHOCK TO MATES
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The unexpected news that Larry Johnson, despite a painful knee injury, was set to start last night at power forward for the Knicks against the Spurs in...
ROCKET LOOKING TO GET OUT OF RUT
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amFor a guy who had won 20 straight decisions, a two-game streak of awful pitching seems an eternity. Roger Clemens, who faces the franchise that came runner-up to the Yankees...
JOE WANTS YOU TO VOTE 'JETER'
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amF ORTUNATELY for new 100-meter dash world-record-holder Maurice Greene, nobody had a stopwatch on Joe Torre and assistant trainer Steve Donahue in the fifth inning of last night's game against...
DUNCAN POWERS SPURS' CAKEWALK WITH 33 POINTS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amGAME 1Spurs 89 Knicks 77 SAN ANTONIO - Mario Elie says the Knicks are the "weakest" team the Spurs have faced in the playoffs. That may be, but there is...
BRONX BOO-BIRDS SERENADE BERNIE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amIt is probably a testament to Bernie Williams' grace and consistency that he rarely, if ever, hears the jeers that accompanied his final at-bat last night. It seemed all of...
IT'S AVERY BAD SIGN: CHILDS, WARD LOSE BATTLE WITH SPURS' JOHNSON
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The focus of these 1999 NBA Finals has been on the big men and more specifically whether the Knicks had enough muscle and fouls to contend with...
HEIGHT OF FRUSTRATION: KNICKS JUST CAN'T HANDLE SPURS' SIZE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amTHE first quarter, it turns out, was an illusion, born of inactivity and overconfidence on the part of the team that conventional wisdom says will wind up the NBA champion...
DIVING DEREK'S OK
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amEvery fan in the Stadium - and all the TV viewers not watching the Knicks - took a deep breath when shortstop and MVP candidate Derek Jeter seemed to injure...
FOUL START PUTS KNICKS IN A BIND
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - There were 84 seconds remaining in the first half and already, the Knicks were in a desperate situation. It wasn't that they had lost touch with the...
RUSTY SPURS KICK INTO HIGH GEAR
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The Spurs' last game, so it seemed, was somewhere back around Valentine's Day. And it looked that way for a quarter last night. "It took us a...
LJ'S PLAY 'WILL GET BETTER'
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - It wasn't until just before game time that Larry Johnson figured his injured right knee was sound enough to play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals....
SPREE LETS JAREN GO FREE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The ball went into David Robinson and Latrell Sprewell slowly approached him, not with a rush but with some hesitant steps. Sprewell then moved closer, got tangled...
JAREN'S SHOT PUT DAGGER INTO KNICKS
June 17, 1999 | 4:00am"In the second half, JJ took over."PAUL POPOVICH SAN ANTONIO - Jaren Jackson insisted he was just taking what the Knick defense gave him. And the Knicks were perfectly willing...
UNFAMILIAR SPOT ; FIRST TIME KNICKS 2ND OUT OF GATE
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - It's a feeling and a predicament the Knicks have somehow managed to avoid throughout their unexpected playoff run. They gained admission as the No. 8 seed and...
DUNCAN, ROBINSON PUT A BIG HURT ON KNICKS IN OPENER
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - Mario Elie says the Knicks are the "weakest" team the Spurs have faced in the playoffs. That may be, but there is no doubt the Spurs are...
KNICKS VOW TO GET DEFENSIVE IN GAME 2
June 17, 1999 | 4:00amSAN ANTONIO - The Knicks need a little more of their mid-decade form of full-contact defense if they stand any chance of containing San Antonio's twin towers. At least that...