April 19, 1999
YOU CAN'T LOSE PLAYING THIS EXPECTATIONS GAME
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amHERE'S a riddle. Is a non-recurring charge to corporate profits really non-recurring if it occurs over and over again? This isn't one of those brain teasers like the "if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest" puzzle....
IT'S TIME TO DEREGULATE TV, LEVIN SAYS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amTIME Warner's Gerald Levin raised some eyebrows recently when he joined the major broadcast networks in calling for an end to federal regulation of their business. Levin's company doesn't own...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amSUMMER is coming, and as health clubs remind us, that means bikini season. Glamour and Cosmopolitan are ready. Both magazines serve up a comprehensive bikini-dos and don'ts guide. The swimsuit...
DIS-CONTENT-ED PUBLISHER LEAVES BRILL'S MAG; EXCLUSIVE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe publisher of Brill's Content resigned Friday, becoming the latest high-level defection to rock the 10-month-old "media watchdog" magazine. Sally Preston, who joined only four months ago, is leaving to...
COMPAQ CEO PFEIFFER RESIGNS IN SHAKEUP
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn a stunning shakeup at Compaq Computer, CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer resigned from the nation's No. 1 PC maker yesterday, along with Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason. Chairman and founder Benjamin...
TV TICKER
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amUPN bonanza UPN snagged its best-ever Thursday-night viewership numbers with ''Scared Straight! 20 Years Later'' (8-10 p.m. on Ch.9). ''Scared Straight'' helped UPN notch its highest-ever numbers in homes, adults,...
BRITAIN'S WILL & HARRY TREATED LIKE, UH, ROYALTY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Force is definitely with Buckingham Palace - with the Royal Family jumping whole hog on the "Star Wars" bandwagon. Princes William and Harry yesterday accepted an invitation to attend...
YOUNG TROUPE BRINGS ART OF BALLET TO KIDS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amDANCE REVIEW MANY ballet companies have cadet troupes and for varying reasons - to give promising students professional experience, to keep those students in a holding pattern until a company...
ARNETT AND CNN SET TO PART COMPANY: REPORT
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amPETER ARNETT - once CNN's star foreign correspondent - is about to leave the network, The Washington Post reports today. Arnett, who led the network's coverage of the Persian Gulf...
SHE'S NOT A HAPPY 'NANNY'
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Fran Drescher has some sharp words for CBS, which last week decided to yank the final five episodes of "The Nanny" and air only its hour-long May finale. "I'm...
HOWARD'S END? STERN'S SATURDAY-NIGHT SLEAZE TUMBLES TO DISASTROUS LOW
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: How low can Stern go? REAL low, according to the ratings. Howard scored his lowest number yet - a measly 1.0! - for his sleazy Saturday-night TV show on...
THE VERDICT ON 'VOTE:' IT'S A WASTE OF CRIME
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: It's a year after the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving it to individual states to set the penalty for abortion. The issue has come back to...
IMPROVING THE LOOK OF BASKETBALL: THREE TOP CLOTHING DESIGNERS GUSSY UP THE NBA
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Have you noticed anything sad about the New Jersey Nets this year? (Other than, that is, the fact that they're ranked 14th our of 15 teams in the Eastern...
PATAKI'S NATIONAL EFFORT FALLING SHORT; EXCLUSIVE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki has little to show for his three-month push to emerge as a potential Republican presidential contender, experts say. Pataki's Friday visit to New Hampshire - his...
THREE CASE STUDIES OF PATIENTS-TURNED-PLAINTIFFS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amA consultant recently found Kings County Hospital's OB-GYN unit riddled with medical-malpractice risks. Manhattan lawyer Robert Jackson described three of the cases he won against the Brooklyn hospital. He said...
DENNIS RIVERA'S NEW CLOTHES
April 19, 1999 | 4:00am'When Rivera talks, powerful polslisten closely. But should they? Hisown members ... didn't seem to bepaying much attention last week.' DENNIS Rivera had a lot invested in last week's effort...
BROOKLYN HOSPITAL IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, SAYS SECRET REPORT - CATASTROPHE IS LOOMING AT OB-GYN DEPARTMENT; POST EXCLUSIVE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amA medical-malpractice consultant has labeled Kings County Hospital's obstetrics-gynecology department a "catastrophe" waiting to happen because of poor staffing, equipment and management, The Post has learned. Public-hospital officials insist the...
GOV'S GUY OUT TO TRIP UP RUDY SENATE BID; EXCLUSIVE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amA POWERFUL aide to Gov. Pataki has been working behind-the-scenes to block Republican support for Mayor Giuliani's likely U.S. Senate campaign, The Post has learned. The Pataki aide, chief patronage...
COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD SEES SOMETHING FISHY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amWITH President Clinton about to call up the reserves for the Balkan war, the Gnome made his own call - to Joe McDonald. Who? Maybe you know him better by...
CELINE'S AILING HUSBAND FREEZES SPERM IN BABY BID
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amCeline Dion's cancer-stricken hubby is so afraid that radiation therapy could sterilize him that he's had samples of his sperm frozen to boost the pop diva's chances of having a...
GOD IS THE 'FORCE' BEHIND 'STAR WARS'
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Lucas says he wants his new "Star Wars" movie to do more than entertain - the maverick director wants the sci-fi flick to help make kids think about God....
CREW TO GRILL B'KLYN BOARD ON JOB SCAM
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew has summoned the members of a Brooklyn community school board to his office today to quiz them about a 20-year conspiracy to funnel millions of dollars...
FLUSHING PORPOISE DOING SWIMMINGLY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amFlipper is safe and sound - as in the Long Island Sound. The 4-foot-long harbor porpoise, who was trapped in a waterway near Shea Stadium, safely swam into the Long...
FEAR AND PRIDE FOR N.Y. VOLUNTEERS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amRelatives of the 300 local Albanian volunteers who left to fight in Kosovo were on pins and needles yesterday waiting to hear from their loved ones. "I'm so scared for...
TRAGIC KID CHEERS WEST'S AID - & POWER
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amMehmet Krasniqi "had 10 members in his family, and they are all dead. Only he survived [a grenade attack by Serbs] - but we can't tell him." SADRI SHALA, A...
PEDAL-POWERED TV COULD KEEP KIDS TRIM
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amParents with pudgy preteen couch potatoes might have found a way to help their kids slim down while watching television - a bicycle built for tube. The "TVcycle," invented by...
ABORTION RIVALS TRADE CHARGES OF 'MURDERER!'
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - Dozens of pro- and anti-abortion protesters clashed yesterday - each side accusing the other of murder - as the "Operation Save America" anti-abortion demonstration kicked off. Waving signs...
ANGRY O.J.: HOW DARE THEY THINK I'D MAKE UP STORY?
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amA seething O.J. Simpson is insisting his claim he fought off a berserk gunman is true - and says skeptics who don't believe him are just plain nuts. "How can...
MINE KILLS FAMILY ON BRINK OF ESCAPE - 5 KOSOVARS DIE AS THEIR CAR BLOWS UP YARDS FROM BORDER
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amMOLINA, Albania - Ibish Berisha was a mere 80 yards from freedom. He and six other family members could see the red Albanian flag from the distance. Berisha made a...
RALLY RIPS CROSSES AT AUSCHWITZ
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amClose to 30 protesters - many Holocaust survivors or relatives of those who died in the death camps - demonstrated yesterday against crosses that stand at Auschwitz. They yelled, "Shame...
NEW BUST IN DRUG SLAY OF REPORTER
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amColombian police have arrested the man U.S. prosecutors say was the mastermind behind the drug-cartel killing of crusading New York journalist Manuel de Dios Unanue, officials said yesterday. De Dios,...
MAYOR AGREES TO PAY $22M MUSEUM TAB
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amBeating a quiet retreat, Mayor Giuliani yesterday announced that the city would pick up the entire $22 million government share of expanding the Holocaust museum in lower Manhattan. Giuliani and...
HILL MAY VISIT ALBANIA
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, swinging through New York this week as a possible but still-undeclared Senate candidate, may add Albania to her itinerary, her spokeswoman said. "It's...
COUNTERFEITING CREEP DASHES BOY'S DREAM
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amA Minnesota man and his 12-year-old hockey-fanatic son were cheated out of a chance to see Wayne Gretzky's last game yesterday by scalpers who sold them fake tickets outside Madison...
BLACK COP GROUP CALLS FOR END TO HATE POSTERS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amAn organization of black cops yesterday called for an end to hate-laced protest signs at rallies condemning the shooting of Amadou Diallo. "We clearly believe the jargon and terminology that's...
MAYOR, OFFICERS HONOR COMATOSE HERO COP
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amMore than 200 cops joined Mayor Giuliani at a Brooklyn church yesterday to pay tribute to an officer who was put in a coma by a bunch of teen-age thugs....
NATO HAS EVIDENCE OF 43 MASS GRAVES; NATO HAS EVIDENCE OF MORE ATROCITIES
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - NATO yesterday released fresh evidence of Serbian atrocities yesterday - hours before 24 U.S. Apache helicopters were slated to arrive in Albania promising bloodier fighting. NATO Brig. Gen....
THEY'RE ALL BLUE SEATS AS FANS SAY BYE - GREAT ONE HOSTS LAST GARDEN PARTY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe greatest hockey player ever got one of the greatest send-offs of all time at the Garden yesterday as he skated off into the sunset after an emotional overtime loss...
TRIBUTE WASN'T EVEN CLOSE TO ENOUGH
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amEVERY other hockey player who ever lived had been lapped by Wayne Gretzky so many times, a mere five more around The Garden yesterday to say goodbye were as inadequate...
FUGITIVE NABBED IN '93 SLAY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amA resident of the Dominican Republic has been extradited to New York on 6-year-old charges that he killed a 13-year-old boy in Washington Heights, police said yesterday. Victor Alegria, 28,...
NATO HAS EVIDENCE OF 43 MASS GRAVES; NATO HAS EVIDENCE OF ATROCITIES
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - NATO released fresh evidence of Serbian atrocities yesterday - hours before 24 U.S. Apache helicopters were slated to arrive in Albania promising bloodier fighting. NATO Gen. Giuseppe Marani...
SHAKESPEARE LOVES GWYNETH
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: In a love story the Bard himself couldn't have dreamed up, "Shakespeare in Love" co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes have started playing Romeo and Juliet - or real....
CITY BARES DISCOUNT GUIDE FOR 50+ DINERS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Eating out on a budget just got easier for diners 50 and over. Jules Polonetsky, commissioner of the city's Department of Consumer Affairs, announced a new brochure especially for...
NETS DEEP-SIX IVERSON ; MARBURY BOTTLES UP PHILLY STAR
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amNets 86 / 76ers 79 The game still was on the line. Allen Iverson moved in for the layup that could get the Sixers within three points of the Nets...
STRAW HOPING TO WORK OUT, BUT...
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - As he awaits word from the Tampa legal system, Major League Baseball and George Steinbrenner, Darryl Strawberry is beginning to think about honing his batting stroke. According to...
JEFFERIES TICKS OFF GIRARDI
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - If the World Series champion Yankees have a problem with an opposing player showing emotion after scoring a big run, that's too bad, says Tiger DH Gregg Jefferies....
ZIM ITCHY TO HAND OFF TO TORRE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES DETROIT - Maybe tomorrow. Maybe April 30. Maybe May 7. Those are the dates that Don Zimmer has in his mind for Joe Torre's possible return from prostate-cancer...
SWEPT AWAY IN MOTOWN: YANK BATS TURN TO MUSH
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amTigers 5 Yankees 1 DETROIT - As clubhouse kids packed the Yankees' lumber for a somber trip out of Tiger Stadium, the bats finally produced something they hadn't all weekend...
GOODBYE HAD GREAT TIMING
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amWhat we liked most about Wayne Gretzky's retirement was its timing. It was sudden and slightly surprising. That made it commercially incorrect. Bottom-liners had little time to exploit the moment...
URBINA BEATS FLU AND METS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amThere are few things more frustrating in sports than being a premier closer on a rotten team. Since that has been the case for Ugueth Urbina since he has been...
DEVILS AT PEAK FOR PENGUINS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe Devils' wait for a playoff opponent continued, right to the 1107th and last game of the NHL's regular season. And when Dominik Hasek made 25 saves to lead the...
PICKS RAISE GIANT QUESTIONS ; BIG BLUE GO AGAINST GRAIN
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amTime will tell, as always when assessing how a team did on draft day, but there's no question the Giants left plenty of room for debate after what at first...
WATSON SEARCHES FOR PLACE TO HIDE ; 'SPOS SPOIL MET LEFTY'S HOMECOMING
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amExpos 4 Mets 2 This clearly wasn't the way Allen Watson had planned it. The Middle Village native figured he'd come home the conquering hero, or at least the proud...
METS FIELD MAKESHIFT OUTFIELD
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Met outfield had a decidedly different look in yesterday's 4-2 loss to Montreal, with all three regulars sitting the game out. Mike Kinkade started for Rickey Henderson...
THE AMAZIN'S ARE DOING IT THEIR WAY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amTHE JUNIOR varsity portion of the Mets' early season schedule concluded yesterday. They lost 4-2 to Montreal and waved good-bye to both the Expos and Marlins for nine weeks. For...
THE ENDING REMINDS DAD OF HOW IT ALL BEGAN
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amThe father was dreading the final siren, perhaps even more than his son. "It's an emptiness that's hard to describe," Walter Gretzky said before Wayne's final game yesterday at the...
CHARISMATIC JOINS CAST
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amCharismatic, trained by D. Wayne Lukas and owned by his former top clients Bob and Beverly Lewis (the owners of Silver Charm, who have since made Bob Baffert their go-to...
GARDEN GIVES GRETZ ONE GREAT SENDOFF: MESSIER A FRIEND TO THE VERY END
April 19, 1999 | 4:00am"We've established ... a bond that's next to brotherhood, and we'll be there forever."MARK MESSIER ON WAYNE GRETZKY During yesterday's pregame ceremony, Wayne Gretzky called Mark Messier "the best player...
JETS' QUANTITY MAY LACK QUALITY
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amIn the wake of the Jets' rather nondescript '99 draft, these words apply from the title of the current popular DeNiro/Crystal movie: "Analyze This." Yet with the Jets not taking...
EW COULD LEARN A LOT FROM WAYNE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amSOMEDAY soon, they will have another day at Madison Square Garden, kind of like the one they had yesterday for Wayne Gretzky. It will be in honor of Patrick Ewing,...
GRAVES: PLAYERS WERE MORE JITTERY THAN WAYNE WAS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amRANGER NOTES Adam Graves said Wayne Gretzky "was the best player on the ice" yesterday. It's too bad Gretzky's teammates were so jittery in yesterday 2-1 overtime loss to the...
GARDEN GIVES GRETZ ONE GREAT SENDOFF: 'TEARS OF JOY' FLOW AS WAYNE SAYS GOODBYE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amThere were 40.4 seconds to go in the third period of the final game of the most celebrated career in hockey history when Wayne Gretzky skated to his bench for...
JAGR DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amJaromir Jagr, who scored the OT game-winner in the Rangers' 2-1 loss to the Penguins, stood along the boards with a few of his teammates and watched all of Wayne...
MICHAEL TELLS WAYNE: YOU'LL LOVE RETIREMENT
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amWayne Gretzky said Michael Jordan gave him a call at his house yesterday morning. "He told me that I'm going to really enjoy retirement in a sense that if my...
FACING JAGR WORRIES DEVILS
April 19, 1999 | 4:00amSince the playoffs are often a case of Best Player Wins, the Devils should be quaking. Even the league is tacitly certifying Jaromir Jagr as the best player in this,...