December 7, 1999
MID-CAP STOCK FUNDS ARE THE NEW HOT SECTOR
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amMID-CAP stocks are suddenly all the rage. "We think mid-cap is the best way to go," said Andy Stephens, portfolio manager of the Artisan Mid Cap Fund."They're small enough to...
GREEN BUYS MIDTOWN TOWER
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amMIDTOWN is hopping this time of year -- for tourists and developers alike.Steve Green's SL Green Realty Corp. just plunked down $95.8 million for a managing interest in 100 Park...
LANSING POWERS TO TOP OF WOMEN'S LIST
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amTelevision's queen of talk -- Oprah Winfrey -- is no longer the most powerful woman in entertainment, says the Hollywood Reporter's latest Top 50 ranking. Winfrey, landing at No. 19...
BEAR PLAYS POSSUM ON MADISON AVE. HQ
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amWALL Street powerhouse Bear Stearns is playing it coy about its new tower going up on the block between Madison and Vanderbilt avenues between 46th and 47th streets. It's going...
IVESTER OUT; COKE NAMES DAFT SUCCESSOR
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe fizz is gone. Coca-Cola rocked Wall Street yesterday with a surprise announcement that Chairman and CEO Doug Ivester will step down in April. Speculation immediately mounted that the 52-year-old...
ZIFF SOLD TO EX-PETERSEN HEAD
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amHi-tech publishing giant Ziff-Davis has been sold for $780 million to former Petersen Publishing Chairman James Dunning and Chicago-based Willis, Stein & Partners -- the company's fourth owner in five...
A CONRAN'S REDUX:THIS TIME IT'S A LIFESTYLE EMPORIUM
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amTerence Conran is once again trying to teach New Yorkers how to feather their nests. Sir Terence -- who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his contributions to British style...
EX-VIBE PUBLISHER GETS BLACK RAG MAG
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amFormer Vibe publisher Keith Clinkscales stepped back into the publishing world yesterday, inking a deal to buy the tiny, one-year-old Honey from Harris Publications. Provender Capital and Fred Terrell backed...
METAL + HIP HOP = 'MAYHEM'
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amMETHODS OF MAYHEM Tommy Lee and TiLo ½ MCA Records Hard-rocking, porn-making, wife-beating drummer boy Tommy Lee has teamed up with munchkin-sized punk rapper TiLo for what is one of...
THE STARR REPORT
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amRaggedy Andy NBC has yet to decide the fate of "Today" show "Gadget Guru" Andy Pargh, who was arrested on drug-trafficking charges Saturday in Miami. Pargh -- who appeared frequently...
MARTHA MAKES MERRY WITH MOM FOR H'DAYS; STEWART'S HOME COOKING WITH A DOWEL
December 7, 1999 | 5:00am"Martha Stewart's Home For The Holidays -- The Family Tree" Tomorrow at 8 p.m. on WCBS/Ch.2 1/2 WHENEVER I hear Martha Stewart say, "All you need is a dowel!" I...
CBS NEWS SLOT COMES UP SHORT; NEWSCAST AT 4 P.M. BUMPS COMEDY SHOW TO LATE NIGHT
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amWCBS/Ch.2 is dumping the low-rated "Martin Short Show" at 4 p.m. for a newscast to be anchored by Dana Tyler and Amanda Grove -- the earliest evening news show in...
'MOESHA' FIRES CREATOR ; BRANDY OUSTS HER, WINS BID TO SHIFT HIT'S DIRECTION
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amTHE creator of two of UPN's biggest hits, "Moesha" and "The Parkers" was fired last week after clashing with star Brandy Norwood and her mother about the creative direction of...
'SHYSTER' IS THE REAL DEAL
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amTHEATER REVIEW THANKS to the allure of Hollywood, superior new stage plays by young American dramatists are rare. The good writers, it seems, are all in L.A. making fast money....
ESPN SETTLES MLB SUIT, INKS SIX-YEAR DEAL
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amFacing a possible long summer of Xtreme Games outtakes and tractor pulls instead of baseball, ESPN yesterday settled its federal lawsuit with Major League Baseball. The settlement, a grand slam...
MOONING OVER MARRAKECH ; VISITORS WILL FIND A CITY OF MARKETS, MYSTERIES & MARVELS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amSOME things they don't tell you in guide books. For instance, you can make friends with the people of Marrakech by giving them pens. We never found out exactly why,...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amRoute toot Delta Express, the low-cost wing of Delta, just announced its nonstop service from JFK to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Although the twice-daily flights start taking off on April 2,...
TV DOC DISPENSES ALTERNATIVES
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amJANE Seymour may not be a doctor, but she did play one on TV. Now the former star of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" is using her celebrity status to lobby...
DUAL LIFE OF A PARTY BOY: CHRIS PACIELLO IS A KEY PLAYER IN THE NEW YORK/MIAMI CLUB CIRCUIT
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe following story ran in the Miami Herald. The New York Post's version can be obtained in hard copy. Published Saturday, December 4, 1999, in the Miami Herald S. Beach...
HOPE DIMS FOR MARS PROBE
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amNASA scientists were on the verge of giving up on the missing Mars Polar Lander today after four days of failed attempts to contact the $165 million spacecraft. Gloomy mission...
MORE LAUGHS THAN TEARS AT HIS FUNERAL ; MORE LAUGHS THAN TEARS FOR JOEY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amJoey Adams played his last SRO audience in style yesterday. A star-studded array of friends and fans crammed Riverside Memorial Chapel on the Upper West Side to say farewell to...
JUDGE HOLDS FIRE ON ART DEALER
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amControversial art dealer Mary Boone dodged a legal bullet yesterday -- a Manhattan judge agreed to dismiss charges against her for handing out live ammo as souvenirs at her Fifth...
PALESTINIANS STORM OUT OF PEACE TALKS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amPalestinian negotiators walked out of talks about "final status" with Israel yesterday -- saying they wouldn't return unless there is a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and...
LANDLORD PULLS PLUG ON DEADBEAT EMBASSY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00am"Diplomatic immunity" can shield foreign emissaries from everything from shoplifting to murder. But it's no escape from the wrath of a New York City landlord. The Liberian Mission to the...
NO ONE TO BLAME BUT OURSELVES FOR THESE TRAGEDIES
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amT HE question no longer is, will it happen again? The only mystery that remains is, when? And also, how young? And, how many more will be maimed? Each morning...
MUSEUM EXEC IS DESTINED FOR THE DUNG HEAP
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amI T'S all over now for Arnold "P.T." Lehman, the ringmaster and chief carnival barker at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. After yesterday's scathing front-pager in The New York Times,...
LENGENDARY APOLLO STRIVES FOR OLD GLORY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amEach day until Jan. 1, The Post will take a look at one of New York's landmarks on the eve of the new millennium. We'll talk to people who work...
LIVOTI VICTIM WILL GET 150G FROM THE CITY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe city will pay $150,000 to a Bronx man to settle a civil suit he brought against Francis Livoti, the disgraced cop convicted of choking the then-teenager during a 1993...
WE REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amFrom the Hudson to Honolulu, Americans today commemorate the 58th anniversary of the "date that shall live in infamy," the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Among the...
HILL & DONNA TO FOE-GET DIFFERENCES AT BANQUET
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amPushing the Senate race to the side, First Ladies Donna Hanover and Hillary Rodham Clinton will share the stage tomorrow at a high-powered women's group breakfast in Manhattan. But the...
WE'RE MAKING A LIST . . . OF THE BEST SANTAS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amSavvy Shopper reveals tips and trends for gift-buying in what is shaping up as the biggest holiday season of the '90s.AS A service to prospective Santa-goers out there, the Savvy...
AMERICANS IN CUBA ARE DICTATOR'S ACE IN HOLE
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amIF THE State Department ever knew when to hold or when to fold, they would never be drawn in to a poker game with Fidel Castro. It is totally beyond...
MOSCOW GIVES CHECHENS 5-DAY ULTIMATUM
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe Russian military yesterday gave terrified Chechens in the besieged capital of Grozny five days to leave the city -- or face obliteration in an all-out military assault. The ultimatum...
SCHOOL-BUS HORROR ; MOM WATCHES SON DIE IN QNS. TRAGEDY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amA devastated Queens family today is mourning the death of a little boy crushed under the wheels of a school bus on a rain-soaked street -- just a week after...
KIDS, 8 & 9, BUSTED OVER SCHOOL GUNS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amTwo Brooklyn elementary school students -- 8 and 9 years old -- were arrested yesterday on weapons charges after being caught with a handgun and a bullet on school grounds,...
COURT COULD KO MIRANDA RIGHTS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to decide whether to dump the Miranda warnings that force cops to tell suspects they have a right to remain silent and a...
MORE LAUGHS THAN TEARS AT HIS FUNERAL
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amJoey Adams played his last SRO audience in style yesterday. A star-studded array of friends and fans crammed Riverside Memorial Chapel on the Upper West Side to say farewell to...
DECISION DAY FOR DUFF'S POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe judge overseeing the bruising child-support fight between Ron Perelman and Patricia Duff will go to his scorecard today -- ruling on how much money it takes to raise a...
REV. AL'S HOMELESS PROTEST A 'BUST'
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amAl Sharpton was arrested last night after he tried to pitch a tent in City Hall Park to protest Mayor Giuliani's crackdown on the homeless. Sharpton was handcuffed with nine...
FRUIT SELLERS IN GUN BUST
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amPolice have busted two members of a street gang they say was peddling guns through a Harlem produce stand -- charging them with selling 90 handguns to undercover cops since...
NO HAPPY RETURNS FOR CASTRO AT ELIAN PARTY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amFidel Castro attended a birthday party in Cuba yesterday for 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez -- as U.S. officials said they won't hand over the boy at the center of the raging...
DEAD BOXER'S KIN WANT ; RULES ENFORCED
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe family of boxer Stephan Johnson, who died of brain injuries sustained in a Nov. 20 bout, will call today for strict enforcement of existing rules that could have saved...
TEARS FOR OTHERS SWALLOWED BY SEA
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amCARDENAS, CUBA.AS CUBA screams for the return of raft boy Elian Gonzalez, no one hears the cries of Dagoberto Munero. Munero was denied permission to leave Cuba and attend the...
TOO MUCH OCTANE IN HIS JET-SET LIFESTYLE
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amNurse Ted Maher began unraveling at the seams when he left his wife and three young sons to live among the rich and famous, sources said yesterday. At 41, Maher...
FATAL BIAS IN EMERGENCY TREATMENT? FAMILY BLAMES TWO HOSPITALS FOR SON'S DEATH & DAD'S WOES
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amHELENA JOYNER and what remains of her shattered family are trying to emerge from a six-year nightmare that has cost them the life of one young family member and left...
GOP FOES PAINT BUSH GREEN IN ARIZ. DEBATE
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- George W. Bush's rivals ripped into his lack of experience and accused him of trading on his dad's name at last night's GOP presidential debate in Arizona. Publisher...
DOCS SUGGEST POLIO SHOTS, NOT DROPS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amIt's back to the future for polio immunization. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended yesterday that doctors stop giving kids the oral form of the polio vaccine, and switch back...
'I'M CRAZY,' OKLA. KID, 13, SAYS AFTER LATEST SCHOOL SHOOTING
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amA churchgoing 13-year-old honor student emptied a 9mm handgun into four schoolmates in Oklahoma yesterday -- then told horrified witnesses, "I'm crazy." The scrawny teenager, identified by classmates as Seth...
V WON'T CRACK DOWN ON CLUBHOUSE CARD GAMES
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amBobby Valentine has a prediction for next year, but it doesn't involve the playoffs or World Series. The Met manager predicted there would be a card game in the clubhouse...
ROBIN GETS 'SCOPED
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amMet third baseman Robin Ventura underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder yesterday, but is expected to be completely recovered by spring training. Ventura, who also had torn cartilage removed...
HASSELL'S GRID FINALE IS BEST YET
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amIf you were to ask Curtis football coach Fred Olivieri what he wants most for Christmas, his answer would be simple: Another George Hassell. But then, Hassell is Olivieri's response...
TUNA'S RETURN ON JETS' MINDS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amAs disappointing as this '99 season has been for the Jets, yesterday's post-game get-together represented a bad hangover more than most at Weeb Ewbank Hall. The morning after, Bill Parcells...
PHILLIPPI'S UNDER GUN TO RETURN
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amGIANT NOTESPhillippi Sparks does not know how his pulled groin will respond in practice this week. He does not know how close to full speed he will get. But he...
IT'LL BE PAYTON'S PLAYS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe man credited with breathing new life into the Giants' offense did not make a play in Sunday's 41-point eruption, but he called every one of them. Sean Payton, a...
CASH GETS HIS MAN ; YANK GM KEY PLAYER IN KEEPING CONEY IN PINSTRIPES
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amDavid Cone remained a Yankee because Brian Cashman -- with George Steinbrenner's blessing -- delivered in the clutch. Perceived as losing clout when The Boss named Mark Newman VP of...
'GREAT EIGHT' OFFERS TASTE OF FINAL FOUR
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amCHICAGO -- It's not the Elite Eight, it's the Great Eight. But don't be surprised if four of these eight teams that are gathered in Chicago today and tomorrow have...
WATSON DECIDES TO STAY HOME
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amAllen Watson could have extracted more money from the Indians but the Queens native ultimately decided pitching for the Yankees and Joe Torre was too good to leave even if...
CASH GETS HIS MAN: WINNER IS -- EVERYBODY
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amMR. DAVID Cone, in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire -- 25 times over -- the four possible answers are: A) Stay with the Yankees for one year at $12...
REPUTATION BEING BUILT WITH BRICKS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amNET NOTES We don't mean to beat a dead horse. But what the heck, we're going to do just that and bring up the subject of the Nets' shooting from...
KNICKS A QUICK CURE FOR SLACKER STARKS
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amMORE fascinating than the stale confrontation between Latrell Sprewell and P.J. Carlesimo, and John Starks' first performance at Madison Square Garden since being traded, is the reunion between Johnny Rally-killer...
MSG LOVE-IN AWAITS JOHN
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amAS of early yesterday the powers that be at Madison Square Garden had planned no official acknowledgment of John Starks' return to the court where his NBA career took root....
STEPHON MAKES JASON DISAPPEAR
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amEARLY in the day, at the Kings' shootaround, Jason Williams was talking about his team's need to mature. At the time, it seemed like the kind of talk an 11-3...
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? NETS WIN! NETS WIN!
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amNets109Kings95You might want to make your peace with your higher power. See, the Nets won last night. And they beat a good team. Plus, they beat a good team by...
RANGERS UNITE AND CONQUER ; GET NASTY AFTER CHEAP SHOT TO BEAT FLAMES
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amOVERTIMERangers3Flames2 The Blueshirt Country Club has suddenly become the Ranger Lunchpail Athletic Union. Hardhats required. Large hearts, too. Within four days, the Rangers have taken significant steps toward redeeming themselves...
BUCS' VICTORY FIT FOR A KING
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA -- The new King of Tampa Bay is named Shaun, a local kid from St. Petersburg, who last night threw two touchdown passes in his first NFL start and...
REALITY BITES: DESPITE FASSEL'S OPINION, JINT PLAYOFF HOPES DIM
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amImagine this scene: Jim Fassel and Bobby Valentine, post-game, dining together, relaxing, swapping stories and laughs, both puffing on cigars. Fassel suggesting that Valentine, now designated as a good-luck charm,...
NEWMAN STEPS ASIDE AS GILL REGAINS JOB
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amThe adage is time-weathered and well-respected and almost as logical as "Never wear a tin hat in a thunderstorm." The saying that fit for the Nets last night was "You...
JASON'S THE KING WITH MAGIC WAND
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amSACRAMENTO point guard Jason Williams is a scoring sorcerer. So it should come as no surprise that one of the most electrifying performers in a league that has lost much...
SAVARD DISPUTES RANGER DOG TAG
December 7, 1999 | 5:00amHe played 70 consecutive games for the Rangers last season following his Nov. 5 promotion from Hartford, recording 36 assists to finish third on the team behind Wayne Gretzky's 53...