April 18, 1999
ANOTHER YARDSTICK FOR GAUGING VOLATILITY
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amMY brother laughed at me when I told him that I recently bought $5,000 worth of Amazon.com (AMZN, Nasdaq). He quickly pointed out that if I had only acted one...
YOUR AVERAGE DIRECTOR
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amWALL Street wizards need not apply, but if you're an Average Joe with strong ideas about banking on the Internet, this job's for you. A major financial institution, which prefers...
MUCH ADO ABOUT DOW OPTIONS TRADING
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHAT old "better late than never" adage just hasn't panned out for Dow Jones. After sitting on the sidelines of the options boom, Dow Jones finally agreed two years ago...
THE COOKIE MONSTER GOES TO CITIGROUP
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amCITIGROUP shareholders irate at co-CEO Sandy Weill's high pay are planning a "fortune cookie" demonstration at Tuesday's annual meeting, the first since Citicorp and Travelers Group merged last year. According...
SILICON ALLEY REPORTER BEING COURTED BY THE BIGS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER Alan Meckler's Internet.com purchased @NY last week, Silicon Alley types started wagging about Silicon Alley Reporter. While industry sources say the monthly glossy is being shopped around, Founder, Editor,...
WRIGHT ON HER TARGET ; CARVER'S NEW CEO IS UNDER ATTACK BEFORE SHE EVEN TAKES OFFICE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amDEBORAH Wright left politics for an even nastier game - banking. Even before the former Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development takes over as the new chief executive of Carver...
'DUELING FLORIOS' BURY HATCHET ON B'DAY
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amYOU only turn 50 once - and virtually everyone had a few barbed jokes or words of advice for Conde Nast CEO Steve Florio at a "surprise" birthday bash at...
B'WAY'S HOTTEST SHOW IS 'ICEMAN'
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe most extraordinary event of the New York theater season is unquestionably Howard Davies' staging of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. It's an epic production,...
THE MUSIC'S A RUNNING THEME
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe year was 1977. Disco was the rage, with the Bee Gees, Donna Summer and the Village People burning up the charts. And there, sticking out among the Top 20...
SHOPPING FOR A SUGAR DADDY HERE'S HOW TO MEET AND MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00am( Taxes leave you feeling a little lighter? Well, why not land yourself a sugar daddy who's ready to whip out his wallet whenever you want something? The city's rife...
GOING APE OVER EVELYNE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00am'Mighty Peking Man'' - the 1977 cult fave from Hong Kong - is part 'Mighty Joe Young,'' part Tarzan, part 'King Kong,''part 'Godzilla'' and all Evelyne Kraft. Kraft was the...
DON JOHNSON - A DON JUAN DONE WRONG
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amLast week, I watched the raging Colorado River flood its banks on The Discovery Channel. Here, captured on camera, was the endangered riverside snail. Would the species survive? Who cares?...
TABLE HOPPER: AVENUE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: With its authentic French bistro ambiance, it's hard to imagine that Avenue's space, just over a year ago, housed a shoddy, Gump-ish joint called Fish Shack. That's because owners...
MEALS & DEALS: SASSY'S SLIDERS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Sassy's Sliders' bite-size burgers go down so easy, most folks order them in multiples. If the concept of a mini meat patty topped with onions sounds familiar, it is....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: SUZANNE SOMERS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: To look at Suzanne Somers - best known as the perennially perky Chrissy on the '70 sitcom "Three's Company" - you'd have a hard time believing she's a grandmother...
NEW YORK PET: LOST PAWS: THE MODERN METHOD FOR FINDING YOUR BEST FRIEND WHEN HE STRAYS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: On March 8, a Lab-collie mix named Mandy disappeared from her backyard in Greenville, S.C., leaving her collar and tags behind. Nine days later, she was positively identified -...
ABORTION PROTESTERS SWARM INTO BUFFALO
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amBUFFALO - The biggest anti-abortion protests in years sweep into western New York today - just a stone's throw from the freshly turned grave of slain abortion doctor Barnett Slepian....
HE GETS A LOTTO HELP TO CLAIM $7M PRIZE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Howard Reid may soon become the $7 million man - at long last. Nearly two years after the Hempstead, L.I., cab driver accidentally tossed a winning Lotto ticket,...
TINY SEATS A BUMMER FOR BIG BUTTS ; BUT BOTTOM LINE RULES IN END GAME
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amButts are getting bigger, but seats in airplanes and stadiums aren't. Something's got to give - and in this case it's comfort. The problem has long vexed those with titanic...
HERE'S HOW TO TAKE COMFORT ON THE FLY
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amWhile airlines claim they generally fly only three-quarters full, anyone who has traveled a popular route on a major carrier knows that's not always the case. So do the more...
WHAT IF THEY HAD A RALLY AND NO ONE CAME?
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amI T was supposed to be the start of a new civil-rights movement - a mass, multiracial outpouring of New Yorkers angered not just by the shooting death of Amadou...
AVOIDING THE DEADLY GLUE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amHere's how to tell whether your manicurist might be using methyl methacrylate: *Acrylic nails - often called sculptured nails - should cost $35-$40 a set. MMA nails usually cost $20...
NYPD NIXES WEAPON THAT CAN LITERALLY NET SUSPECTS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD has turned down a controversial weapon enabling cops to catch criminals by firing a Spiderman-like web at them, The Post has learned. Police officials say they'll stick to...
FAKE NAILS A REAL THREAT ; DEADLY TOXIN REAPPEARING IN NAIL SALONS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amWomen who get fake nails could be getting something else in the bargain - a dangerous dose of poison. A toxin eradicated from the beauty industry 25 years ago has...
GALACTIC BATTLE SHAPING UP FOR GALA PREMIERE TIX
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amNobody knows where it will be, who's going and how much it will cost. But the May 16 premiere of "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace," the long-awaited new "Star Wars"...
'YOU'VE GOT TO USE IT OR LOSE IT'
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amAs every musician knows, the way to get to Carnegie Hall is to practice, practice, practice. It's the same for sexual longevity, a Manhattan doctor says. "You've got to use...
AFRICAN JEWS SUE MOSSAD
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM.IN a remarkable court case, about 60 black Jews of Ethiopian origin are suing the Mossad, claiming they were denied pay and pensions due as agents of the celebrated spy...
CHILDREN PORTRAY WAR IN POEMS & PAINT
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amCHILDREN are growing up fast here. The boys and girls who have made it across the border from Kosovo, Yugoslavia, into this neighboring country have seen more in their short...
SLOBBO IMPORTS FOREIGN DEATH SQUADS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amBRUSSELS, Belgium. YUGOSLAV paramilitary leaders are importing freelance killers from neighboring countries to commit some of the worst horrors against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, according to new reports. Mercenaries from...
NO NEXT ONE WHEN THE GREAT ONE SKATES AWAY
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amHE WAS already The Great One when he arrived in the National Hockey League some 20 seasons ago. Right from the start, that didn't seem right. Coming on the heels...
SCHUMER FEARS FOR LIFE OF DETAINED IMMIGRANT
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amA woman who fled her country to escape genital mutilation may die in the Queens detention center where she has languished for two years if immigration authorities don't release her,...
NATO WON'T SWAP YUGO FOR OUR GUYS ; SAYS IT WOULD VIOLATE POW RULES
April 18, 1999 | 4:00am"I would not be optimistic on" exchanging a seized Serb for three GIs.PENTAGON SPOKESMAN MICHAEL DOUBLEDAY WASHINGTON - NATO won't use the captured Yugoslav army officer as bait to win...
SERBS STRIP AND BEAT ITALIAN REPORTER
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amA prominent Italian TV reporter said she was stripped, searched, roughed up and grilled for eight hours after she was nabbed at the Serbian-Croatian border while on assignment. Outraged Italian...
CLINTON WOULD GIVE PARENTS ANTI-JOB BIAS PROTECTION
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton wants to make parents a "protected class" of citizens under job-discrimination laws, White House officials said yesterday. Federal laws currently say minorities and women can't be...
QUEENS HS GANGS IN NEAR-BRAWL
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amA brawl between rival Queens high schools was narrowly avoided when police intervened just before violence erupted, police said yesterday. The would-be brawlers, most of them students from either Flushing...
PSYCHO KILLER FLEES ; CREEDMOOR
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amA dangerous, 322-pound schizophrenic killer is on the loose after escaping from Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, police said yesterday. Maxie Bartelio, 29, who brutally stabbed his aunt to death...
WAYNE: THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GRETZ
April 18, 1999 | 4:00am"I told all the young guys to enjoy [the farewell game]. This is what it feels like to be in the Stanley Cup finals. This is how exciting it can...
KIN GRIEVE FOR SLAIN BROOKLYN MOVIEGOER
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amFamily and friends yesterday mourned a movie-loving Brooklyn man who was shot and killed by a stray bullet during a dispute over noise in a Flatbush theater. Jumaane Cox, 21,...
TUNNEL IN AGONY OVER 'ECSTASY' ; COPS BUST CLUB'S 'DRUG SUPERMARKET'
April 18, 1999 | 4:00am"If you have ever been in one of those clubs ... to see young people being wasted away ... you can only feel that you want to do something about...
BUSH BEATING GORE THE BORE: POLLS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe Gore Malaise index is rising among Democrats, as the third poll in a week shows Republican George W. Bush would whip Veep Al Gore in a presidential race. The...
WERE HS KIDS UNWITTINGLY USED IN PSYCH PROJECTS?
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amSOMETHING weird happened at George Washington HS. Students at the Upper Manhattan school say they were subtly coerced to answer surveys with probing psychological questions. A planned November survey on...
WOMAN HURT IN CRUISE-SHIP SLIP-UP
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amA woman suffered a minor arm injury in a boating accident at the Chelsea Piers yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred when the Spirit of New York, a cruise ship, crashed...
COP-SLAY ARREST AFTER 1ST SUSPECT GOES FREE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amAnother suspect in the murder of a New Jersey cop was arrested yesterday - a day after prosecutors released a man they had wrongly accused of the fatal shooting. Cops...
HIP BROOKLYN CUTIE THE NEW MTV VID JOCK
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe music video channel MTV launched another career yesterday by crowning a hip, young Brooklyn-born woman named Thalia DaCosta as its newest videojock. In a ceremony that had all the...
TRUMP: THE SMARTS OF THE DEAL ; HOW DONALD USES (MOSTLY) OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY TO BUILD A KINGDOM IN HIS NAME
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amCall him the Master Magician of Manhattan. Donald Trump's name is all over the place these days, from Wall Street to the Upper West Side, from hotels to office towers...
OFF-COURSE PORPOISE IS TRAPPED UP SHEA CREEK
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amA cousin of Flipper became trapped in a creek near Shea Stadium yesterday. The 4-foot-long harbor porpoise, a mammal related to the dolphin, swam into Flushing Creek and became caught...
CLOTHES WILL HAVE A DEGREE OF COOL
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amIn the future, clothes will do more than just look nice. The coming millennium will bring garments that cool and warm the body, deliver medicine and even change colors. And...
KIN MOURN SLAIN B'KLYN MOVIEGOER
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amFamily and friends yesterday were mourning a movie loving Brooklyn man who was shot and killed by a stray bullet during a dispute over noise in a Flatbush theater. Jumaane...
TROUBLES TAKE THEIR TOLL ON KING OF CLUBS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThe King of the Clubs has had a bumpy reign. Peter Gatien's night-life empire has been rocked by drug charges, tax fraud, and a grisly murder case -but he has...
STRAW-FUL TRUTH ABOUT THE MEDIA WHEN IT COMES TO JOCKS, PANDERING PREVAILS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amI'm disappointed in my profession. Hell, I'm ashamed. WE'RE supposed to be disappointed in Darryl Strawberry? Disappointed? Are you kidding? For what? I'm not the least bit disappointed in Darryl...
HITTING A GRAND SLAM IN FLORIDA KEYS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amSUGARLOAF Key, Fla. - It takes a span of five months to accomplish the Grand Slam of Golf; get the Grand Slam here in the Keys, you have to do...
PALFFY'S NOT SURE HE WANTS TO RETURN
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amIsles7 Penguins2 PITTSBURGH - Islanders sniper Ziggy Palffy told The Post before yesterday's season-finale vs. the Penguins that he's unsure he wants to remain with the club next season unless...
GOAD TIMES FOR HOLIK
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amNASHVILLE - Opponents are goading Bobby Holik, and the Devils are hoping that proves to be what gets him going for the playoffs Thursday. It worked Friday, and put the...
EWING RETURN NOT ENOUGH
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing had one of life's poignant moments Friday afternoon while watching the emotional Wayne Gretzky retirement announcement on television. ''I was reflecting on the fact that one day that...
TIME IS NOT ON KNICKS' SIDE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amNo Patrick Ewing. No Dennis Rodman on deck. No composure, no baskets down the stretch. In the Land of No, where the Knicks currently reside, they delivered one of the...
ZIM'S REFUSING TO RUSH POSADA
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - While Jorge Posada believed his bruised left calf had healed enough to play yesterday, interim manager Don Zimmer is holding out his No. 1 catcher until the Yankees...
EXTREME PRESSURE FINALLY GOT TO STRAW DARRYL'S RELAPSE IS HARDLY SHOCKING
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amSHOCKED. But not surprised. That is the only reaction a rational adult can have to the ongoing soap opera that is the life of Darryl Strawberry. Throw in saddened, too,...
JETS ON GUARD FOR 2ND ROUND
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amClose your eyes, Jet fans, and say a prayer tonight. Your biggest hope of the 1999 draft rests on a second-round pick, which, based on the team's drafting history, is...
WAYNE'S NEEDED TO OPEN THE ICE ; FOR OPENERS, GRETZKY-ORR COMMITTEE COULD HELP
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHE games were better and so was the competition. Still, the 1998-99 NHL season that ends today without playoff teams in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for a second...
DARRYL'S FATE PUT ON HOLD
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - Until they hear what The Boss has to say, everybody else in the Yankees' family is on hold regarding troubled son Darryl Strawberry. While Strawberry remained in deep...
TWO MORE PREPS ON TAP
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amTwo 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-olds today, the Lexington from Keeneland and the Lone Star Derby from Lone Star Park, should produce another starter or two for the May 1...
A FOND FAREWELL ; TO HOCKEY'S PRINCE ; GRETZKY'S GOODBYE TO BRING CHEERS, TEARS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amIt is a day for celebration, a day to remember, a day to salute, a day to glory in not only The Great Gretzky but in the great sport with...
POOR OL' BOBBY BOO CAN'T CATCH BREAK
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE is a new look to the Mets this year. The clubhouse has been remodeled with the most of the blue paint replaced with black. Of course, the team has...
HE'S A REAL NOWHERE, MAN ; PAULTZ RULE BANS RODMAN FROM PLAYOFFS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER showing up late for Laker practice, minus sneakers and socks, Dennis Rodman went immediately to Las Vegas to lose his shirt. Why is Rodman is ineligible to be comped...
METS PLAY WINNING HAND 3-0 JONES, BENITEZ & FRANCO STOP 'SPOS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amMets3 Expos2 When it works this way, the feeling is of fall. Yes, the way it was yesterday in Flushing, blustery cold with a biting wind, and the Mets winning...
COLT BOMBSHELL RESHAPES FACE OF NFL DRAFT ; INDY'S BOMBSHELL SHAKES UP NFL DRAFT
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amIT WILL be remembered as The Bombshell. Or The Day The Colts Dropped The Ball And Screwed The Giants. The Colts, with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to add a franchise back,...
MCNABB, EAGLES MAKE IT A DAY FOR QBS SAINT SWAP FOR RICKY ALSO HIGHLIGHTS FIRST ROUND
April 18, 1999 | 4:00am"About the fans, all we have to do really is get everything going back to the way it used to be ... then they'll believe it was the right pick."DONOVAN...
SURPRISE! IT'S PETITGOUT ; ND LINEMAN GOES TO JINTS AT NO. 19
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amIn a spot where they seemingly could not provide any more of their feared draft-day surprises, the Giants yesterday did it again. Everyone knew they would use the 19th selection...
JINTS EARN SOME BIG OOS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amGiants fans have grown accustomed to their team drafting first-round busts. So not surprisingly, many were skeptical (and disappointed) about the Giants' first-round choice yesterday: Notre Dame offensive tackle Luke...
CEDENO A HIT AS RICKEY'S FILL-IN
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amRickey Henderson was scratched from the starting lineup for yesterday's victory over the Expos with a tender hamstring. Bobby Valentine says it's "not a big problem." Because of the play...
WARD: KEEP FEMALE SCRIBES OUT
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amCharlie Ward distributed an article to some teammates before the game that advocated banning female reporters from locker rooms. The article was written by Reggie White, who has been in...
YANKS SLIPPERY WHEN WET BOMBERS FALL AGAIN IN MUDDY MOTOWN
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amTigers3 Yankees1 DETROIT - Consecutive losses to the worst team in baseball has the run-starved Yankees a bit testy. And watching the Tigers' Gregg Jefferies celebrate at home plate yesterday...
JETS TAP GUARD FROM MISS. ST.
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amClose your eyes, Jet fans, and say a prayer tonight. Your biggest hope of the 1999 draft rests on a guard named Randy Thomas from Mississippi State. He was selected...
OAKLEY'S MOUTH FLOORS KNICKS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amThat purple dinosaur named Charles Oakley ripped the Knicks before last night's game, saying the acquisition of Latrell Sprewell did not fit the overall plan. "Sometimes you have the right...
IT'S 'GUARDED' OPTIMISM ; THOMAS OUT TO BUCK JET 2ND ROUND TREND
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amClose your eyes, Jet fans, and say a prayer tonight. Your biggest hope of the 1999 draft rests on a guard named Randy Thomas from Mississippi State. He was selected...
OAK DRIVES KNICKS UP TREE GRABS CRUCIAL REBOUND TO CLINCH RAPTOR WIN
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amRaptors93 Knicks90 When it was over, when Charles Oakley pulled down the rebound that had to be gotten, the one that crushed the Knicks last night, the one he outmaneuvered...
GRETZKY NEWS MOVES EWING TO MULL FUTURE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing had one of life's poignant moments Friday afternoon while watching the emotional Wayne Gretzky retirement announcement on television. "I was reflecting on the fact that one day that...
DEVILS SAVOR SUCCESS
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amDevils4 Predators1B NASHVILLE - Reaching records, capturing the conference championship, the Devils have only a day off today to savor all they achieved last night and this season. They are...
INSIDE SCOOP
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: CLYDE SPORTS SECRET GREEN THUMB Walt Frazier is more than a poet on and off the court, the Knick legend and MSG broadcaster is a man who has his...
A REAL BEAR OF A COURSE: JACK'S LATEST WORK IS A MASTERPIECE
April 18, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: If you're into history and you love golf, the Golf Club at Mansion Ridge is an ideal day of recreation for you. The club, an upscale, daily-fee public facility...