January 8, 1999
IMPEACHMENT WILL BOOST THE EURO
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amTHE euro is your enemy. I know there's been a lot of nice stuff written lately about the new unified European currency. The fans say it's going to create a...
SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN FOUNDER DIES AT AGE 72
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe founder of Wall Street powerhouse Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Zalman Chaim Bernstein, passed away on Wednesday, at the age of 72. The cause of death was complications from...
BANKS PUSH AILING CALDOR TO THE BRINK
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amBankrupt discounter Caldor Corp. has been pushed to the brink. Fed up with the continued underperformance of the 145-store chain, Caldor's banks are pushing to put the company out of...
BULLISH ABBY TURNS BEAR
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amGoldman guru cuts stock allocation Blame it on the women. Stocks could not sustain their record-breaking run in the face of bearish comments made by Goldman Sachs market guru Abby...
ECHOSTAR TO BROADCAST PSEUDO.COM
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amPseudo.com, which produces television shows for the Internet, has added another broadband distribution channel. The New York-based company has teamed up with EchoStar Communications, which will broadcast Pseudo.com's 'Net-TV programs...
WITNESS WARNS OF 'M'SOFT WORLD'
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Tempers flared at the Microsoft antitrust trial yesterday as a government witness passionately warned that everyone would "live in a Microsoft world," unless the courts intervene to curb...
AMERITECH PUTS WIRELESS SYSTEMS ON BLOCK
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amAmeritech is looking to sell its wireless phone systems in Chicago for roughly $2.5 billion, The Post has learned. The Chicago-based local phone giant has hired investment bankers to shop...
AIRTOUCH: IT'S WAR
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amMCI eyes possible $55B bid If there's a phone company on the market, it seems you can bet Bernie Ebbers is ready to drop in his dime. Ebbers' MCI/WorldCom is...
GNC SHARES SOAR ON RITE AID DEAL
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amShares of General Nutrition Companies soared 28 percent after the vitamin retailer said it will open shops in 1,500 Rite Aid drug stores around the country. GNC, which sells vitamins...
DANCE'S DIFFERENT BAG
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amDANCE:DANCE'S DIFFERENT BAG: Every year, the Joyce Theater, one of the nation's most prestigious venues for dance, transforms itself into a very special course for trial runs by dance's most...
ROBINSON CROWES-O
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amROCK:The Black Crowes have flown in many musical directions since they debuted in the late '80s. They've gone into territory owned by classic rockers such as the Rolling Stones and...
THE BEAT GOES ON
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amFILM: Japanese renaissance man Takeshi (Beat) Kitano - TV personality, stand-up comic, filmmaker, screenwriter and hot-tempered movie tough guy - is getting a well-deserved salute by Anthology Film Archives. Through...
MUSICALLY, MOTHERSBAUGH IS STILL KIDDING AROUND ; RUGRATS' TUNESMITH
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amM ARK Mothersbaugh once asked (and answered himself), "Are We Not Men? We Are Devo." Later, he taught us to "Whip It." Now he is treating the next generation to...
ROUGH SLEDDING AHEAD
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amFORGET Variety. For the next several weeks, theater producers are going to be glued to the Weather Channel. Having come off a record-breaking holiday season - total ticket sales topped...
SHE'S GOT THE RAITT TO SING THE BLUES
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amI T has happened to just about everyone. You're walking along, and spot a $20 bill on the sidewalk. Nobody's nearby, so it's obviously yours. You snag it before the...
GOODFELLA GOES BAD: HBO'S DEPRESSED MOBSTER IS REASON TO BE CHEERFUL
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am"The Sopranos"Sundays at 9 on HBO YOU think you're caught in a mid-life funk between job insecurity and family crises? At least you ain't Tony Soprano. Oh, sure, on the...
BELGIANS SHOW THEIR MUSSELS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amNEW Yorkers, get set to meet your waterzooi!They whupped Napoleon's forces at Waterloo. Now they're invading the Manhattan restaurant scene. In other words, if it's January, this must be Belgium....
LOWLY CBS CLEANS 'MORNING' CLOCK
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amCBS News' "This Morning" has hurdled past ABC's "Good Morning America" for the first time in 22 years. The last time "This Morning" beat "GMA" was in 1977, when it...
'GMA' GAL LEAVES IN HUFF
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amCANNED "Good Morning America" co-host Lisa McRee is blasting her bosses at ABC, saying they made "mistakes in every way" in handling the low-rated morning show. "I wish they had...
MOVIEGOERS: '99 LOOKING FINE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amCAUGHT your breath from the Christmas movie rush yet? Here's only a portion of what's coming to theaters in 1999. Release dates are tentative, and subject to change. "At First...
THE WB NET HAS EYES FOR INTERNS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amON the eve of President Clinton's Senate trial, the WB network has ordered a pilot for a new TV series about interns in Washington, D.C. "This will be a non-political...
LOW-BUDGET GEMS SHOW WHAT TALENT CAN ACHIEVE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am'I T Happened Here" - an engrossing guess at what might have happened if England had been occupied by the Germans in 1940 - is an amazingly accomplished amateur movie...
PONY UP TO RACING CHANNEL
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amNEWS Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and Tele-Communications Inc. CEO John Malone are betting on a new horse-racing cable channel they plan to launch this fall, a new report says. The...
WAS THAT A TEAR IN DAN'S EYE? RATHER GETS MISTY ON SOLEMN FIRST DAY
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The star of the show was Strom Thurmond. "Either take your seats or go the the cloakroom!" drawled the 96-year-old senator from South Carolina as his fellow legislators meandered...
THE FINAL FAREWELLS FOR TRAGIC KENDRA
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amDUNKIRK, N.Y. - The vibrant woman whose promising life was snuffed out by a subway madman was remembered yesterday as a "loving and giving" person who had "a smile to...
NEW STUDY: WINE MAY HELP WARD OFF ALZHEIMER'S
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amHealth nuts may want to pack up their belongings and move into a wine cellar. Over the past few years, various studies have shown that drinking a glass or two...
AMERICAN WARPLANE OPENS FIRE BEFORE IRAQ CAN LAUNCH MISSILE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amA U.S. jet fighter fired a missile at an Iraqi anti-aircraft site in the northern no-fly zone yesterday - the fourth military confrontation with Baghdad in 10 days. U.S. officials...
0'C0NN0R LAUNCHES CRUSADE AGAINST B00ZE ABUSE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am"If alcohol adversely affects any part of your life, then alcohol is a problem."JOHN CARDINAL O'CONNORO'CONNOR"So widespread."John Cardinal O'Connor has uncorked a crusade against alcohol abuse. "I have been remiss,"...
SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED 81 IN POLITICAL BLOODBATH: EXILE GROUP
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amIraq executed 81 political detainees in a prison bloodbath on the eve of last month's U.S. and British air raids, an opposition group said yesterday. Eighteen of the Iraqis killed...
WILL MARRIAGE BE 'STRONG TO DA FINISH?'
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amRelationship experts say the marriage of Popeye and Olive Oyl will be long and prosperous - but the nation's top divorce lawyers say don't bet on it. "It goes to...
STEPHANOPOULOS GIVES ARTIST THE OL' BRU$HOFF
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amGeorge Stephanopoulos finds it's not easy being green. Why else would the former presidential adviser and current Columbia prof and ABC commentator pass on a $30,000 portrait painted - in...
NEW SPEAKER HAS FASHION 'CENTS'
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amSupporters of new House Speaker Dennis Hastert say he's perfectly suited for the job - but they certainly aren't talking about his clothes. The Illinois congressman recently picked up a...
NO LONG-TERM HEALTH WOES FROM THE PILL: STUDY
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWomen suffer no long-term effects from taking the birth-control pill, a groundbreaking new study shows. The survey - the largest ever on the subject - says that 10 years after...
WHY, BL0W ME D0WN! P0PEYE T0 WED 0LIVE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amShiver me timbers! Popeye and Olive Oyl are getting hitched! After 70 years of courtin' and canoodlin' without an engagement ring in sight, the spinach-lovin' sailor and his pencil-thin paramour...
CITY HOUSING HONCHO GOES OUT THE DOOR
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amHousing Authority chairman Ruben Franco quit yesterday - two weeks after proclaiming "I have no plans on leaving." "This is not a forced resignation," Franco insisted at a City Hall...
NBA SCRAMBLES TO GET READY FOR FEB. 5 TIPOFF
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amNBA players prepared to hit training camps and the league launched a campaign to woo back disgruntled fans yesterday after team owners voted to end the game's six-month lockout. The...
BILL AND HILL HAD OTHER THINGS TO DO
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The White House pointedly let it be known that President Clinton couldn't be bothered yesterday to watch one nanosecond of the start of the Senate impeachment trial against...
TA WORKERS GRUMBLE THEY DON'T SHARE IN WINDFALL
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThousands of transit workers are furious - both at the Transit Authority and at their own union leadership - that they haven't benefited from the agency's huge surplus. They say...
AMERICANS DON'T BACK GUN SUITS - SURVEY
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amMost Americans oppose government suits against gun companies over violent shootings, a new survey shows. DecisionQuest sampled 1,008 U.S. adults from Dec. 17-20 and found that 66.2 percent opposed governments...
HOW BULLETS LED TO YEARS OF TEARS FOR GRANDMOM
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amC LARA "Ma" Saunders started crying every day - literally - in January 1996. Her tears stopped when she died Dec. 12, 1997, at age 66. The doctors said a...
AGENCY TRIED TO WITHHOLD REPORTS FROM FIRE DEPT.
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amJust days after three firefighters died in a Brooklyn housing project last month, Housing Authority officials barred release of fire-inspection reports - even to the Fire Department, The Post has...
DO YA THINK I'M SEXY? SPLITTING RACHEL: NO; MARRIAGE OVER FOR STEWART
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amIt's splitsville for raspy rocker Rod Stewart and his sexy supermodel wife, Rachel Hunter. The celeb couple, who have been married for eight years and have two young children, announced...
SCORES TRIAL BEGINS WITH TALES OF MOB & MURDERS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amTestimony started yesterday in the Scores murder trial - a case with enough mobsters, loansharks and topless dancers to fill a Martin Scorcese flick. And that's just the prosecution witness...
SEXGATE GRAND JURY INDICTS WILLEY FOE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A Sexgate grand jury yesterday indicted a one-time pal who cast doubt on ex-White House volunteer Kathleen Willey's claim that President Clinton groped her outside the Oval Office....
SENATORS WILL SAVOR THEIR SOUVENIR PENS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am"I'm going to keep mine as a stark reminder of this momentous occasion."SEN. JOHN WARNER (R-VA.) WASHINGTON - All 100 members of the U.S. Senate got themselves a nifty impeachment...
TRYING TIMES FOR SENATE RIVALS; TRIAL STALLS AS DEMS, GOP LOCK HORNS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - The country's first presidential impeachment trial since 1868 stalled yesterday - just minutes after it started - when Republicans and Democrats couldn't agree on how to run it....
COURT REINSTATES CHILD-SEX FIEND'S CONVICTION
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amA serial child rapist, convicted by jury of sodomizing his 6-year-old nephew - only to be set free two years ago by a Manhattan judge - is going back to...
FEDS TO SEEK CHARGE VS. W'CHESTER DA'S HUBBY: SOURCES
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amProsecutors will ask a federal grand jury to bring a tax-evasion charge against the husband of Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro, sources told The Post. Albert Pirro, 49, a real-estate...
INTRUDER'S CRASH PAD IS THE PITT'S
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amLOS ANGELES - A 19-year-old woman climbed into an open window in Brad Pitt's Hollywood Hills mansion, put on his clothes and stayed the night before cops showed up to...
WILLEY'S FLIP-FLOPPING FORMER FRIEND INDICTED
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - A Sexgate grand jury yesterday indicted a one-time pal who cast doubt on ex-White House volunteer Kathleen Willey's claim that President Clinton groped her outside the Oval Office....
THAT MAN IS VILIFIED AT VIETNAM MEMORIAL ; THAT MAN VILIFIED AT VIET WALL
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON. T ALK about a bunch of hookers at a wedding rehearsal. All they did was frit and fret about freakin' detail which guarantees our lives will not be for...
JETS HOLD JAG-GED EGDE ; TEAM TUNA SHOULD ROLL AGAINST JAX
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amPEOPLE who like to bust on Bill Parcells still bring up the Flipper Anderson overtime touchdown that gave the Rams a 19-13 victory over the Giants. But what they fail...
WELSH WINS OVER FRIARS: EX-IONA COACH EARNS PLAYERS' RESPECT AT PC
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amIT took one game for the Providence Friars to accept Tim Welsh as their new head coach. Providence had just dropped its opener, 72-66, to a well-coached Vanderbilt team and...
HALL IS WELL IN AMAKER'S WORLD
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amTOMMY Amaker has a "natural upfrontness" about him, says Seton Hall sophomore reserve Reggie Garrett. "He's point blank," the forward adds. But when Amaker, the Pirates' second year head coach,...
ONE LAST-CHANCE ISLE ; LAWRENCE AIMS TO STICK
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amMark Lawrence knew this might be it. When he was promoted from Lowell on Dec. 15, the 26-year-old Lawrence knew this might his last chance to show he belongs in...
ROUGH DAY IS IN CARDS FOR ROOKIE ; VIKES TARGET CHAVOUS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amHE will be the guy with the black and white bull's-eye covering the No. 25 on his jersey. At least that's what quarterback Randall Cunningham and the Vikings' wide receivers...
IT WAS VOL THAT & A BAG OF CHIPS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amHOW'S that old college football fight song go? Cheer, cheer for old Nostradamus! Frankly, I woke up Tuesday morning surprised that the world was still spinning on its axis. I...
JAGS SHIFT INTO HIGH GEAR ; WITH BRUNELL BACK, OFFENSE SET TO PURR
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amJACKSONVILLE - You are giddy. You might even be thinking of Denver, and plotting: "Well, if the Giants can beat the Broncos then the Jets ..." Because you just know...
SAFE HUNTING SETS THE PACE IN NEW YORK
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amT HIS past big game hunting season was the safest on record in New York State, according to the Dept. of Environmental Conservation commissioner John P. Cahill. There was an...
COURT GIVES GALVIN EASY WIN OVER NYRA
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amDr. Michael Galvin, the embattled veterinarian whose legal donnybrook with the New York Racing Association has dragged on since spring, landed a late-round KO punch Tuesday when the U.S. Court...
REEVES' TROUBLES HIT HOME
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am"My two girls and [wife] Dana are definitely nervous about it, so it's been a strain on our family, no question about it."FALCONS ASSISTANT COACH JOE DECAMILLIS Behind the scenes,...
ARIEL RIDIN' HIGH
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amIt's been a week since hot shot apprentice Ariel Smith began riding at Aqueduct after starting his career in southern California. The 16-year-old son of former jockey Alfredo Smith brought...
TOMMY MEMBER OF JARVIS FAN CLUB
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amTommy Amaker remembers watching the NCAA Tournament selection on television a few years back and seeing a relatively unknown coach handle himself with grace in the face of major disappointment....
WAIVED TIKK MAY FILE GRIEVANCE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Though Esa Tikkanen told Neil Smith and John Muckler Wednesday night he would report tomorrow to the AHL Wolf Pack after having been waived through the NHL, there...
ECLIPSE FINALISTS NAMED
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe finalists for the 1998 Eclipse Awards in throughbred racing were announced yesterday by the National Thoroughbred Racing Associations, with the winners to be announced Feb. 16. Here are the...
YANKS TAKE YOGI'S ADVICE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe words had barely rolled off Yogi Berra's tongue and George Steinbrenner put someone on the case immediately. Berra urged Steinbrenner to get his young players signed during their radio...
RAMS STILL HAVE LONG WAY TO GO
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am"Every game is big, especially when you haven't won a lot of games."FORDHAM COACH NICK MACARCHUK It's been four years in the making and Fordham's adjustment to the Atlantic 10...
WATCH THE 'OTHER' GUYS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amGames like Sunday's all-or-nothing playoff showdown with the Jaguars at Giants Stadium are made for the big-time, big-name players. Curtis Martin, Wayne Chrebet, Vinny Testaverde, Keyshawn Johnson, Bryan Cox, Aaron...
HALL: TUNA'S GOT US GEARED FOR THIS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amNo one knows for sure how a player reacts to his first playoff game. Some excel, reaching greater heights than they'd ever reached in their career. Some crack under the...
NETS WORK TO MEND FENCES WITH FANS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe things-to-do list has never looked busier for the Nets. There are priorities such as re-signing Jayson Williams and Sherman Douglas. There is a crash course in training camp-ology, something...
OUT-OF-SHAPE EWING WORRIES CHECKETTS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amDave Checketts is a realist. He knows the lockout hurt the Knicks more than any other team in one way - it took their leader, Patrick Ewing, union president, away...
TUNA: GLENN'S NOT A LOCK TO START
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amJET NOTES Bill Parcells yesterday revealed for the first time that it was possible Aaron Glenn might not start Sunday against Jacksonville in the Jets' first playoff game since 1991....
NBA BEGINS THE HEALING GAME ; OWNERS OK NEW PACT, SEEK TO WIN BACK FANS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am8KERBERThere was no angry huff. Nobody tore up the new collective bargaining agreement and stormed out of the ratification meeting yesterday. The NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved the deal...
STERN'S STILL KING DAVID: COMMISH WON BIG IN LOCKOUT BATTLE
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amIN the end, as the winds of negotiation rapidly swirled in the NBA's favor, David Stern resisted the urge to commit a flagrant foul on Billy Hunter. Rather than run...
KNICKS' HOME OPENER: FEB 7?
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amNow that the re-new NBA season is scheduled to start Feb. 5, it appears almost certain that the Knicks' first home game will be played Feb. 7. That Garden date...
OAK, BARKLEY SWAP PUNCHES
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe Charles Oakley-Charles Barkley feud came to a head during Wednesday's players meeting at the GM Building when the two hulking forwards threw punches at one another, according to sources....
SURGERY FOR ANDREYCHUK
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amAn awful injury, career-wise, turns worse today when the Devils' Dave Andreychuk undergoes surgery on his fractured right ankle. Andreychuk, 35, is in the final year of his contract and...
CAMBY'S EAGER TO GET GOING
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amWith the NBA back in business, Marcus Camby is eager to prove that the Knicks made no mistake in acquiring him for Charles Oakley. No matter what many skeptics say....
THOMPSON OUT AT G'TOWN?
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amIs John Thompson about to throw in his towel at Georgetown? The definitive answer will come today at 10 a.m. when the Hoyas' coach holds a news conference in Washington....
PAYTON OUT UNTIL APRIL
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amThe cursed career of Jay Payton just continues along the same path. Payton, who already had three surgeries on his right elbow, had arthroscopic surgery done on his left shoulder...
A WELL-DESERVED WHIPPING ; RANGERS DON'T EVEN TRY IN D.C.
January 8, 1999 | 5:00amCapitals 5 Rangers 1 WASHINGTON - Well, the Rangers mailed one in last night; that's exactly what they did. What didn't they do? They didn't play with emotion or energy....
RAM RALLY FALLS SHORT VS. UMASS
January 8, 1999 | 5:00am'It was close. You don't feel good for coming close. The kids play to win."FORDHAM COACH NICK MACARCHUK U Mass 67 Fordham 65 In a season in which Fordham attempts...