March 14, 1999
THESE TWO CYBER SALESMEN ARE FULL OF BEENZ
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amA pair of young Londoners are setting out on the most audacious of cyber adventures - creating the web currency. And it's all based on beenz (rhymes with "means"). Sounds...
NFL SCOUTING LAUNCH OF A MONTHLY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE National Football League is exploring the idea of launching a major monthly consumer magazine, to be called NFL Insider. Sources say the league is "about 80 percent there" to...
BEARISH BUFFETT SELLS STOCKS, BUILDS CASH BY BETH PISKORA
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amBillionaire investor Warren Buffett really does think stocks are too expensive, and the proof is that he's let Berkshire Hathaway's investment portfolio pile up a cash position of $15 billion....
'BAND' SHOULDN'T PLAY ON
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amDESPITE the glitz and charm of the unsinkable Bernadette Peters in Irving Berlin's wonderful "Annie Get Your Gun," during the past week or so, Broadway seems to be have struck...
4 QUESTIONS FOR COLIN QUINN: UPDATE ON KID FROM BROOKLYN
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amCOLIN Quinn, the comedian who anchors the 'Weekend Update'' feature on 'Saturday Night Live,'' grew up on the main drag of Park Slope, Brooklyn - Seventh Avenue. Back then, the...
WHY SO MANY PIX PUT KIDS IN PERIL
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am'I hate movies where the plot hinges on a child in jeopardy,'' said Michelle Pfeiffer, who, a few years ago, walked out on 'Ransom'' after 10 minutes. So where does...
AN ODD MIX OF FLICKS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amDISCERNING moviegoers know they don't have to settle for cookie-cutter flicks. There are many off-beat and more rewarding films playing around town. Here are just a few: Lincoln Center's Walter...
TABLE HOPPER: BELLINI
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Didn't Bellini close a few years ago? It did - in 1994, but that was a different restaurant, owned and operated by Harry Cipriani and named after his overpriced...
MEALS & DEALS: DAKSHIN
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Open only a month, Dakshin is already making a name for itself with fine, classic Indian fare. This 60-seat restaurant, with its metallic fabric wall hangings, has upholstered deep-turquoise...
BEST 'INTENTIONS'
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The post party for the New York premiere of "Cruel Intentions," at Henri Bendel, was the spot to see stars and the latest in late-night festive wear. Some of...
STYLE & SUBSTANCE: SARAH FERGUSON
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: For years after she married Prince Andrew in 1986, the fun-loving Sarah Ferguson was royally teased as the "Duchess of Pork." Today, a thinner Fergie is making fans of...
NEW YORK MAN: GUY-GERCOUNTER
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Our roving panelists rate man at his messed - and sometimes, best. Mark Dante
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (1864-1943)
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amGeorge Washington Carver played with his food until the day he died, and the nation will never forget him for it. Born in Diamond Grove, Mo., the son of slaves,...
WORM WILL TURN ... INTO FUTURE'S GRUB
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amFood in the future will be millenni-yummy or milleni-yucky - depending on how adventurous and open-minded you are. If resources dwindle in the future, as many predict, we all may...
SNOOP DOGGY DOGGED BY 150G PRICE AT U.N.
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amHow much is that doggie at the U.N.? More than $150,000 - a year. But it's a bargain, U.N. officials say. After being criticized for spending too much on its...
... BUT IN THE U.S. SENATE,SHE WOULD BE ONE OF THEM
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amFAR from being a campaign of political opposites, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani duking it out for Pat Moynihan's U.S. Senate seat would really be a battle between kindred...
GEN-X DOPES: IT'S OK TO SNORT SMACK
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTrendy young "club kids" - who don't remember the heroin scourge of the mid-'60s - say the drug is relatively safe and "socially acceptable." An informal survey at a series...
KIDS LATEST VICTIMS OF HEROIN CHIC
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amHeroin has become the "in" drug for the city's teens, club kids and young professionals. They're attracted by the drug's high purity and the easy, long-lasting high from smoking or...
NEW PROGRAM LETS DAS TAKE HARD LINE WITH ARMED FELONS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am"These laws can remove armed criminals from the community for the rest of their crime-producing lives."ATF OFFICIAL PETER GAGLIARDI Gun-toting felons who face slap-on-the-wrist sentences in state courts are now...
TV VIEWERS CLICK-ISH: POLL : VIEWERS CHOOSE BY AGE, RACE, SEX
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amCouch potatoes take note: You are what you watch. A breakdown of prime-time TV ratings found that viewing splinters dramatically according to age and gender as well as race. The...
WOMEN FORCED TO WAIT TO HEAR ON MAMMOGRAMS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amSome women who've had mammograms at the city's public hospitals have been forced to wait up to seven weeks to learn the results, The Post has learned. The startling revelation...
CLUB KING CAN'T FIX FACTS OF TEEN'S DRUG DEATH
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amON Sunday, Jan. 24, Jimmy Lyons died at the Tunnel nightclub after he bought drugs inside the 12th Avenue disco. Jimmy Lyons was at the club celebrating his 18th birthday....
GRAND ARMY ON CRASH COURSE
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Grand Army Plaza is a death trap, an accident survivor told The Post. "I'm lucky to be alive," said Roland Gilles, who suffered back,...
PERIL ON THE STREETS ; DANGER'S 'ROUND THE CORNER
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe sounds of screeching brakes, clashing metal, anguished screams and wailing sirens echo daily at 24 city intersections. They are the most dangerous spots in the five boroughs for motorists,...
PARKING OUTRAGE ; FREE RIDE FOR ; OFFICIAL SCOFFLAW ; ED BOARD EXEC STILL COASTING AFTER $2,600 WORTH OF UNPAID FINES
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amA Board of Education executive - taking advantage of the city's fleet-car privileges and a double standard on enforcement - has racked up $2,600 in unpaid parking tickets and fines....
GALS' TENNIS ABOUT SEX, NOT JUST LOVE
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amHot girl-on-girl action - that's the way women's pro-tennis organizers want the world to think of matches played by the new generation of mini-skirted stars. Say farewell to frumpy tennis...
EX-CON BUSTED IN ATTACKS ON MOMS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amA convicted bank robber was charged yesterday in a string of frightening home invasions in which he targeted women and their children, police said. In one of the seven incidents,...
YANKS BIDING TIME TILL JOE DECIDES TO SHOW
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Ailing Yankees manager Joe Torre skipped what would have been his first spring-training visit with his championship team yesterday to spend time with his family. Torre, who was...
BUBBA & 'CHILLARY' DEFROSTING THEIR ACT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Could there be an early spring thaw in the White House chillbox? First Lady Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear with President Clinton at four public events in...
ANOTHER HERO SAVE OF TOT FROM BLAZE
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am"I could see the baby hanging out the window."FIREFIGHTER CLINT EVANS A firefighter plucked a 5-year-old Brooklyn girl from her mother's arms as she dangled precariously out of a third-story...
JOHN PAUL: LET MAN WHO SHOT ME GO HOME
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amPope John Paul II has asked Italy to show clemency to the man who shot him in 1981 and let the would-be assassin return home to Turkey, it was reported...
MISSING WOMAN'S SIS FEELS FOR VICTIM'S FAMILY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe sister of Kristine Kupka, the pregnant Baruch College student missing since October, was overcome by emotion when she heard another missing Baruch student had been found dead. "I just...
CATHOLIC RIGHTS A PRIORITY FOR N. IRELAND NOW
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe new head of Northern Ireland said yesterday he would create a key government position to help the cause of equality for the country's Catholic minority. First Minister-elect David Trimble...
PROFILE OF HARASSMENT BY PORT AUTHORITY COPS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amANDRE STEWART was about to take the escalator down to the World Trade Center PATH station two months ago when a cop grabbed his arm. "We are doing an investigation...
KOSOVO PACT HINGING ON NATO ROLE
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - Ethnic Albanians said they're ready to sign a peace deal tomorrow in Paris as long as it includes NATO troops in Kosovo. But that could be a deal-killer...
KIN RIG BARUCH IN SUICIDE: STUDENT'S BRO-IN-LAW: 'THEY IGNORED US'
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe family of a Baruch College honor student who apparently jumped to her death blasted campus security yesterday for dragging their feet while the corpse lay in a freezing alley...
PREZ: I'LL RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN COPS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amSaying he was "deeply disturbed" about allegations of police brutality and racial profiling, President Clinton announced a plan yesterday aimed at restoring the public's faith in law enforcement. His proposal...
LIBERAL PARTY CHIEF QUITS OVER RUDY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe chairman of the state's Liberal Party has quit because he couldn't stomach the idea of supporting Mayor Giuliani in a run for Senate. "I will not be on the...
NEWBORN OK AFTER MOM TOSSES HIM OUT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amA newborn boy was in stable condition yesterday after his mom tossed him out a first-floor window less than an hour after giving birth, police said. Melissa Olivencia was charged...
FINAL TRIP HOME FOR SLAIN HUNTER STUDENT; LAID TO REST IN ST. LOUIS CEMETERY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe body of a beloved social-work student who was stabbed to death near her Brooklyn home was laid to rest in her native Midwest yesterday in a quiet private ceremony....
COP-CHARITY BOUT MOVES TO IRELAND
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amA controversial charity boxing match for an injured New York cop will go on - two months from now and on a different continent. Officer Daniel O'Sullivan, who was severely...
BRIT DUO TAKE A BLOW BELOW BELT IN TIX RIPOFF
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTwo London fight fans who flew to New York just to cheer on their hometown boxer Lennox Lewis last night said they were sucker-punched by a New Jersey-based ticket agency....
INFAMOUS '70S DRUG KINGPIN OUT OF PRISON
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amNotorious Harlem drug kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes is a free man. Barnes, 66, was quietly released from federal prison in upstate Otisville over the summer after spending 21 years behind...
BRAZILIAN GUEST IS SLAIN IN 50G WALDORF ROBBERY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amA Brazilian guest at the exclusive Waldorf-Astoria hotel was fatally beaten and slashed in his 27th-floor room yesterday - and as much as $50,000 stolen from his locked room, authorities...
'IT'S A DISGRACE!' ; FANS TEAR INTO BOUT DECISION
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amHeavyweight champs Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis fought to a draw at Madison Square Garden last night, with a celebrity-studded capacity crowd booing the stunning decision. "Here at Madison Square...
HAVING ONE CHAMP NOT GOING TO LAST ; LEWIS-HOLYFIELD WINNER CAN'T KEEP THREE TITLES
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE BIG question surrounding last night's fight between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis was not whether Holyfield could live up to his prediction or if Lewis could live up to...
CARR TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE AUSTIN RECALLS TIMES HE WAS TOURNEY KING
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE rest of us turn the calendar to find out it's March. The greatest scorer in NCAA Tournament history feels it in his bones. "It is like a body time...
BRAVE NEW WORLD IN NHL
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE Flames were right to move Theo Fleury, the Canadiens were right to move Mark Recchi and the Rangers will be right if they move Ulf Samuelsson before the March...
LOTTA LESSONS IN MINNESOTA HOOP SCANDAL
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amT HERE are so many important lessons to be gleaned from the latest University of Minnesota scandal that it's difficult to figure exactly where to begin. But we know this:...
REC ANGLERS ORGANIZING
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amNow, recreational fishermen nationwide are joining the fight, worried at seeing fish disappear from their favorite fishing spots. IT STARTED on a small scale about a decade ago, just a...
REED SEEKS PAL HE LEFT BEHIND
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am"They were like a mother and father to me. My parents were confident in Rick."JUNIOR ACEVEDO SANTO DOMINGO - Ten years ago, Rick Reed came to the Dominican Republic to...
SAMMY'S THE MAN IN DOMINICAN
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amSANTO DOMINGO - Considering how popular Sammy Sosa is in this country, it should be no surprise that when the Dominican government and Major League Baseball arranged to have these...
GUGLIOTTA RIPS ME-BURY ; EX-TEAMMATE TAKES SHOT AT STEPHON'S SELFISHNESS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am"Stephon couldn't take being over-shadowed by Kevin Garnett."TOM GUGLIOTTA PHOENIX - When asked why he abandoned the Timberwolves to sign for far less with the Suns, Tom Gugliotta offered only...
KNICKS SHIVER IN COLD SWEAT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThey can't rebound. They can't shoot. They play with no emotion, especially on the road, where they have lost five straight. Their starting backcourt has gone backwards from a year...
ISLES LOOK TO AVOID HUMILIATION
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amOf all the indignities that have slapped the Islanders during another depressing campaign, getting swept in the season series against the Rangers would rank very high. The Isles are well...
TITLE GAME SUITS COACH JUST FINE
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amIt's not about what defense he'll design to stop John F. Kennedy today. It's about what designer he'll wear on the sidelines. Never to be confused for Liberace, Cardozo coach...
ANDY TO TEST ELBOW TOMORROW
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Andy Pettitte will test the only left elbow in the Yankees' rotation tomorrow with a game of catch. Out since he pulled himself from a game a week...
DON'S KEEPING THE LIGHT LIT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - Don Zimmer keeps the light on for Joe Torre by keeping his door closed. Every new manager declares the open office as the metaphor for his ap-proachability. Eventually,...
HE'S TORRE'S KIND OF GUY ; BUT ZIM WILL DO THINGS HIS WAY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTAMPA - This was in the summer of 1997 and is probably the best example of how Don Zimmer has reached thousands of baseball players. Paul O'Neill had extended a...
JOHNNIES STORM INTO SWEET 16 ; BALANCED ATTACK HANDS HOOSIERS WORST NCAA LOSS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am"They talk, they compete, they remind each other of things. This was the most impressive team I've seen all across the board."BOBBY KNIGHT SOUTH REGIONAL St. John's 86 Indiana 61...
RICE ROLLS BACK INTO CHSAA FINAL
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amRice70 La Salle43 Kyle Cuffe likely will be one of the city's most recruited players next season. But as a junior, Rice High School's 6-foot-8 center has had an up-and-down...
TEFLON DON STILL STICKING AROUND
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe real Teflon Don is free and doing business in New York City. He wears a tuxedo, with a huge gold chain dangling below a silk bow tie, and has...
CONFIDENT TULSA SET TO DUKE IT OUT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amCHARLOTTE - A ninth-seeded team can't possibly topple once-beaten, top-ranked Duke, can it? Tulsa, which led by 26 points with less than 10 minutes left in a first-round game against...
TURK HAS 'STROS PITCHIN' MAD
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE - The passion of last September's epic Mets-Astros series briefly spilled over into what is supposed to be the serenity of spring. Turk Wendell hit Derek Bell...
MIKE'S D-CISION PAYS OFF
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amRED STORM NOTES ORLANDO - St. John's coach Mike Jarvis was a master of deception this weekend. On Friday he was asked by an Indiana reporter if he intended to...
HURRICANES PLAN TO GO A LONG WAY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - Coach Leonard Hamilton understands if the city of Miami doesn't immediately jump on his Hurricanes' bandwagon as it rides through the NCAA Tournament. He readily admits it's easy...
HAYWARD'S HEART GIVES UNCC BOOST
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amMILWAUKEE - On this team, its most important, most inspirational, most valuable player doesn't play. Not right now, anyway. When the University of North Carolina-Charlotte plays Oklahoma in today's Midwest...
TERPS POUND CREIGHTON, TAKE ON JOHNNIES NEXT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amMaryland 75 Creighton 63 SOUTH REGIONAL It will be an ACC-Big East showdown in Knoxville Thursday night when Maryland plays St. John's in the Southern Regional semifinals. After the Red...
NETS MIGHT GET THEIR PHIL ; IF CAL GETS BOOT, JAX MIGHT LAND AT MEADOWLANDS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00am"I don't know who everybody is talking to. I've been told [by Nets hierarchy] not to worry."JOHN CALIPARI MIAMI - The Nets could not pick a better time to come...
TYRONE TAKES OVER ON THE BOARDS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amORLANDO - When Tyrone Grant plays like this, a veritable beast, St. John's is a Sweet 16 team, and maybe more. "This morning I woke up and I told my...
VICAR WINS FLORIDA DERBY EDGES WONDERTROSS, CAT THIEF
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - Confirming his victory in the Fountain of Youth three weeks ago, Vicar defended his title as the top East Coast Kentucky Derby contender yesterday with a game...
HUSKIES MAKE MUSH OF LOBOS
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amUConn 78 N.Mexico 56 DENVER - He was asked about the way UConn grabs a team by the throat early and then proceeds to tighten the trip until all life...
RICE 'N' CTK TO BATTLE IN CHSAA FINAL
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amRice70 La Salle43 CTK 79 Molloy59 It was inevitable. For the second consecutive year, and third time in four seasons, Christ the King will battle defending champion Rice for the...
NEW PACT BIG RELIEF FOR KITTLES
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - OK, the real Kerry Kittles can come out now. Throughout this postage stamp of a season, Kittles, the Nets' young shooting guard with the unlimited potential, has shot...
VICAR WINS FLORIDA DERBY NIPS WONDERTROSS, CAT THIEF IN THRILLER
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amHALLANDALE, Fla. - As the horses were leaving the paddock for yesterday's Grade 1, $750,000 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, someone pointed to the tote board and asked trainer D....
KNICKS OPT TO GO SCOTT FREE
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThey can't rebound. They can't shoot. They play with no emotion, especially on the road, where they have lost five straight games. They have spent most of the year in...
YES IT'S TRUE CAPTURES SWALE STAKES
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amYesterday's Grade 3 seven-furlong Swale Stakes for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park won't change the complexion of the Kentucky Derby in May. But it could have telegraphed two top contenders for...
DAVIS' HAWKEYE DEPARTURE IS PUT ON HOLD
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amWEST Iowa 82 Arkansas 72 DENVER - Imagine what a younger coach could have done with the Hawkeyes. If a 60-year old supposed relic like Tom Davis could guide this...
NETS MAY GET PHIL IF CAL GETS BOOT
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - The calls and contact have been made. The interest has been established. An interested Phil Jackson is at the top of the Nets' list to step in as...
GUNG-HO MARBURY WANTS TO BE LEADER
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - It was a simple gesture. During the press conference announcing the signing of Stephon Marbury and introducing him along with Chris Carr and Elliot Perry, Marbury put on...
MARBURY TAKES OVER ROLE OF LEADING MAN
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amMIAMI - It didn't take Stephon Marbury long to assert his leadership qualities on the Nets. He needed one press conference, one game and one post-game locker-room situation. The most...
VARGAS READY FOR PRIME TIME
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amUnbeaten sensation Fernando Vargas was forced to fight hours before Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis took to the ring. It was early on the undercard and deathly quiet in the...
HURRICANES NOT SATISFIED WITH JUST ONE VICTORY
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amBOSTON - Coach Leonard Hamilton understands if the city of Miami doesn't immediately jump on his Hurricanes' bandwagon as it rides through the NCAA Tournament. He readily admits it's easy...
JUSTICE IS BLIND IN MSG ROBBERY BOXING LOSES AGAIN AFTER DISGRACEFUL CALL BY TWO JUDGES
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amTHE fight plan may have been drawn up by the Lord, but the scorecards bore the mark of the devil. "This fight is really what's killing boxing," said Emanuel Steward,...
LEWIS DOMINATES HOLYFIELD, BUT GETS ONLY DRAW
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amThe announcement of the judges' cards came and Lennox Lewis squeezed through the ropes and stormed from the ring, his arms stretched toward the roof and pleading to heaven: How...
INSIDE SCOOP
March 14, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: DUDLEY IS A HERO TO KIDS WITH DIABETES: A major celebrity recently ventured into the Knick clubhouse and was seeking out one player - Chris Dudley. Why? Dudley is...