May 1, 1999
HITTING THE BOOKS ; AOL, M'SFT STUDY MEDIAONE'S NUMBERS WHILE BOARD MEETS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amAmerican Online and Microsoft are poring over MediaOne's books this weekend, contemplating joining Comcast's bid for the company or bidding for themselves. Meanwhile, MediaOne's board of directors is meeting today...
'ELECTION' CAN GOEITHER WAY FOR TEENS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amRECOMMENDED,WITH RESERVATIONS''ELECTION'' (R): In Alexander (''Citizen Ruth'') Payne's political satire about a nasty race at a Nebraska high school, Reese Witherspoon plays an overachieving blonde who will stop at nothing...
ACCENT GRAVE WHY CAN'T THESE BRIT ACCTORS TALK AMERICAN?
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- THE STEADY FLOW OF BRITISH ACTORS INTO HOLLYWOOD MOVIES BEAR WITNESS TO THE EXCELLENCE OF ENGLISH CLASSICAL TRAINING AND TO THE ABUNDANCE OF DRAMATIC TALENT ON THE OTHER SIDE...
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT- ONCE UPON A TIME - NOT TERRIBLY LONG AGO- THE VILLAGE WASN'T A PLACE YOU WANTED TO TAKE YOUR KIDS. THE PARKS WERE RATTY AND DIRTY, AND THE BOUTIQUES...
AUTHENTIC CONVICTION OVER JFK FORGERIES
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amA federal jury convicted a high-flying paralegal yesterday of forging titillating JFK documents linking the late president to Marilyn Monroe and a Chicago mob boss to finance a lavish lifestyle....
HE'S BATTLED A LONG LINE OF LEGAL WOES
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amPadlocks and police raids are replacing hot celebs and dazzling sights and sounds at Peter Gatien's nightclubs these days. The recent, brief closing of the Tunnel, which city officials branded...
SEX RAP FOR KIN OF CROWN HTS. VICTIM
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe brother of Gavin Cato, the boy whose death in a car accident sparked the Crown Heights riots in 1991, has been charged in a Brooklyn sex-abuse case, police said...
CITY WEIGHS CHARGES AGAINST 5 TEENS IN SCHOOL BOMB 'JOKE'
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amCity lawyers will decide within a week whether to pursue charges against five Brooklyn junior-high students accused of threatening to blow up their school. The teen-age boys - who claim...
CLUB KING PLOTTED TO SELL DRUGS: JUDGE ; NEW RULING COULD COST GATIEN HIS BAR LICENSE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amA Brooklyn federal judge has ruled that club king Peter Gatien took part in a plot to sell drugs at his nightspots - a decision that could topple his embattled...
KENNEDY SMALL FRY'S A 'CHEESE' WHIZ
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amCaroline Kennedy Schlossberg enjoyed some quality time yesterday with her 6-year-old son, John - who's not exactly camera-shy. "Is my picture going to be in The Post tomorrow?" the Camelot...
HILLARY'S N.Y. STUMP STINT KEEPS THE PARTY GOING
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Clinton is getting into the nitty-gritty of New York politics in a special election in Rockland County, fueling speculation she wants to run for U.S. senator, local...
ANGRY CITIZENS TARGETING NRA DENVER CONVENTION
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amFurious protesters will be out in force today when the National Rifle Association opens a scaled-down convention in massacre-scarred Denver. The timing of the group's annual meeting - less than...
JUDGE: STARR CAN SUBPOENA MEDIA
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A federal judge ruled yesterday that Newsweek Sexgate reporter Michael Isikoff may have to testify and turn over his notes in Sexgate prober Kenneth Starr's upcoming trial of...
CASH FOR QUEENS MAY SOLVE SCHOOL BUDGET IMPASSE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe Board of Education will vote next week on a school construction plan that would give more money to Queens, ending a feud that threatened to scuttle the $11 billion...
500 FELLOW COPS SALUTE THE DIALLO 4 AS 'HEROES'
May 1, 1999 | 4:00am"You are heroes, here to support heroes," James Savage, acting president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Society, told the 500 cops assembled outside Bronx Supreme Court. The four officers charged in...
RUDY-RUDY RIFT'S ROOTED IN A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amTHE relationship between Mayor Giuliani and Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew ruptured after Crew agreed in private that the Board of Education had to go - but defended the board in...
BLAST KILLS 2 AT LONDON GAY BAR ; 73 INJURED IN THIRD BOMBING IN TWO WEEKS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amA blast ripped through a crowded gay pub in central London last night, killing two people and maiming scores of others - including several whose limbs were torn off by...
DENVER STATIONS AGREE: 'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE' ; AND 'BOMB DISASTER' MINISERIES IS YANKED
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amIN an unusual display of cooperation - and contrition - local TV stations in Denver say they will spare the Littleton high school students a media circus and will not...
PIX OF STARVED BABY LEAVE JURORS WEEPING
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amJurors fought tears yesterday as they studied heartbreakingly graphic pictures of Tyler Isaac Walrond's skeleton-like body taken after the breast-fed infant starved to death. One female juror at the manslaughter...
PROTESTER IN NYPD GUN-PERMIT ROW
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amA prominent black businessman is suing the Police Department, claiming cops are punishing his activism in the Diallo case by failing to renew his permit to carry a gun. The...
DEAD MAN'S FAMILY SPURNS YANKS' HELP
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe family of a Chilean immigrant who plunged to his death at Yankee Stadium said they rejected an offer yesterday by the ballclub and the city to pay to ship...
SUBWAY-PUSH VICTIM'S WIFE PRAYS FOR 'BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND'
May 1, 1999 | 4:00am"He's a wonderful father and a beautiful husband . . . He's a hard-working man. He's going to be all right. With God's help, he'll get through this."ELIZABETH RIVERA The...
JESSE MEETS WITH YANK CAPTIVES ; BRUISED POWS SAY THEY'RE IN SOLITARY
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Jesse Jackson's mission yesterday revealed the three U.S. POWs held by the Serbs seem healthy but still bruised - and are being held in a military site that...
TAPE SHOWS KILLERS IN BID TO IGNITE LUNCHROOM BOMB
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amVideotape of the Colorado high school massacre shows two gunmen pumping shots at 20-pound propane tank in the middle of the cafeteria, hoping to detonate the device rigged with a...
COPS PADLOCK HIS NIGHTSPOT AGAIN
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amPadlocks and police raids are replacing hot celebs and dazzling sights and sounds at Peter Gatien's nightclubs these days. Cops last night closed the Tunnel - which city officials have...
COPS HUNT FOR 'NEEDLE' SICKO
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amA serial jabber - armed with a needle or sharp object - has stabbed four women in the buttocks in separate incidents at subway stations in Queens and Midtown Manhattan,...
ANOTHER DAY OF BOMBS AND BLOODSHED
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amNATO sharply intensified its air campaign over Yugoslavia yesterday and U.N. relief workers said they had clear evidence that Serbian forces carried out a new Kosovo massacre this week. Alliance...
NEW YORK HORSEMEN SAY IT'S UP FOR GRABS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - New York racetrackers, asked to handicap today's Kentucky Derby, generally agreed on one thing: the race is up for grabs. In an unscientific poll of jockeys and trainers,...
DERBY FORECAST IS FAIR AND WILD
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - There is a silly little song my wife likes to sing to our 2-year-old son that goes something like this: "We're going to Kentucky, we're going to the...
INJURY TO STAR'S NEVER AN EXCUSE IN CUP PLAYOFFS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amIN THE end, nobody particularly cares or remembers which players played what games and which players were injured. In the end, all that matters is which team won. Flash back...
NEW-LOOK KNICKS ON WINNING SPREE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks do not figure to have a healthy Patrick Ewing the rest of the way, but they've got something they haven't had in a long time - an exciting...
ACHING PATRICK MAY SIT IN INDY
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing doesn't know if he'll be able to contribute to the Knicks in the playoffs, provided the Knicks don't fall apart in the last three games. The Knicks moved...
IT'S ALL UP TO THE JOCKEYS ; RIDERS WILL DECIDE WHO GRABS THE ROSES
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - There will be no time to think, only to react, when the gates spring open for the 125th Kentucky Derby today at Churchill Downs. As the cavalry charge...
GORING RETURNS TO ISLES AS COACH
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe last time Butch Goring arrived on Long Island, he was viewed as the "final piece" to the Stanley Cup puzzle. Nineteen years and four Cup titles later, Goring has...
TERRELL READY TO PLAY HERO
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Elway goes out on top tomorrow, with red badges of courage and aches and pains all over his 38-year-old body, to a sentimental Mile High salute. He hobbles away...
REED BETWEEN LINES METS LIKELY TO BRING RICK BACK MONDAY
May 1, 1999 | 4:00am"Rick felt very good. [Al] Leiter's knee I'm not so sure about. I'll have to check with him."BOBBY VALENTINE Rick Reed will be returning to the rotation for Monday's game...
GRAPHIC CORRALS HORSEMEN
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amGraphic Arts11Wash. Irving6 For the first few innings yesterday, Washington Irving was playing better than usual. In fact, it seemed like a different team. And maybe it was. On the...
BAD SPILL MARS FIRST RACE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amFIRST RACE - Heavyweight tried to bear out going into the far turn but couldn't since Manitou was to his outside. They brushed slightly, then Manitou broke down and sent...
JAGR MISSES 4TH IN ROW
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThat Jaromir Jagr, he's no Bobby Baun. For the fourth straight game, the Devils did not have to face Jagr when they took on the Penguins in Game 5 of...
TORRE PLANS TO GRAB REINS IN TWO WEEKS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Joe Torre made it very clear yesterday that he will manage the Yankees when his body allows him to. Yet, Torre couldn't provide a date when he...
SILVERBULLETDAY BREEZES IN OAKS
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - Cheered on by the record crowd of 101,034, Silverbulletday cruised home as the heavy favorite yesterday in the Grade 1, $551,000 Kentucky Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill...
JONES PLOTS COURSE FOR GOLF CAREER
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amSomeday, after Bobby Jones retires from baseball, he plans to make a run at the PGA Seniors Tour. So as part of his preparation for that kind of tournament play,...
ROYALS FANS BOO BERNIE'S BIG-BUCK DEAL
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Since Bernie Williams is the highest-paid player in Yankee history, Royals fans focused on the $87.5 million man yesterday when a protest was held at Kauffman Stadium....
COUNT ON JOE AND ZIM TEAMING UP FOR WAR AGAIN
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - God willing, an increasing consideration with what both Don Zimmer and Joe Torre have gone through, the big payoff will be the stretch drive. Not for the...
ALJABR SCRATCH PUTS FIELD AT 19
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amLOUISVILLE - The maximum field of 20 entered for today's Kentucky Derby was reduced to 19 yesterday when Aljabr, one of the two colts from Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum's Godolphin...
SUN SHINESON CHURCHILL
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe Louisville forecast, provided by the FoxNews affiliate in Kentucky, for the Kentucky Derby today calls for sunny and warm skies, with a high of 76 degrees, and light winds.
REED TO START IN LEITER'S SPOT MONDAY
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amRick Reed will be returning to the Mets' rotation for Monday's game against the Astros, but that was supposed to be Al Leiter's day to pitch, so he will be...
DEVILS WAIT TO RAID BLUES
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amThe Devils will wait for better Blues pickings. GM Lou Lamoriello has decided not to annex the Blues' first-round pick in June, or swap first-rounders with St. Louis, options afforded...
GIANT STEP FOR METS WATSON, BULLPEN KEEP S.F. IN CHECK
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amMets7 Giants2 The Mets have been criticized for not beating up on the inferior teams in the league. At least they can beat the best. The Mets pounded the Giants,...
TORRE & ZIM: SOME TEAM
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - The payoff, says Joe Torre, will be the stretch drive. Not necessarily for another Yankee ring, because both he and Don Zimmer each already have two. Dazzling...
UNLIKE '98, MCKAY'S IN PAIR-ADISE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amSo what's the difference between this Penguin series and last year's Ottawa first-round nightmare? For starters, Randy McKay's scoring touch. McKay is fast making up for his Ottawa playoff drought...
DEVILS SURVIVE ANOTHER LAPSE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amDevils4 Penguins3 It's going to take a miracle for the Devils to fail this time. It has nearly taken one to get them where they are - on the brink...
K.C. GIVES YANKS ROYAL FLOGGING
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amRoyals13 Yanks6 KANSAS CITY - On a night when Royals fans held a demonstration called "$hare The Wealth" at Kauffman Stadium to protest the canyon divid-ing big- and small-market teams,...
ALLEN A NIGHT'S WORK
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amAlthough the 30 or 40 friends and family members who came to see Allen Watson pitch last night saw their man go only five innings, Watson still gave them plenty...
BATTERED YANKS PLOT REVENGE
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Carlos Beltran would be wise to stay loose tonight when the Royals' rookie second baseman steps into the batter's box againstDavid Cone or any other Yankee hurler....
FAN PROTEST A ROYAL PAIN FOR YANKEES
May 1, 1999 | 4:00amKANSAS CITY - Royals relievers better dip themselves in Kevlar during their three-day visit to Yankee Stadium in the middle of August. After the way the Yankees' bullpen was abused...