July 13, 1999
FRIEDMAN'S FUNDS KEEP PRICE'S RECORD
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amAS Michael Price's "intellectual heir," Rob Friedman has very big shoes to fill. When mutual fund master Price stepped down from his role as portfolio manager and chief investment officer...
ARNAULT TO LOG IN FOR 27% OF MP3
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amBernard Arnault is continuing his sweep of the Internet. On the heels of his recent Internet acquisitions, the chairman of LVMH said yesterday that he will buy a stake in...
EX-MACY'S HEAD IN NO. 2 SPOT AT LVMH
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amMyron "Mike" Ullman, the man who guided Macy's out of bankruptcy in the early '90s, is now Bernard Arnault's right- hand man - and he plans to help the French...
CHARITY TO BEGIN CLOSE TO HOME FOR FRANKEL
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amA Catholic charity set up by fugitive financier Martin Frankel may end up doing what all of the people who were conned by him believed it would do in the...
MERRILL ROCKED: HERB ALLISON ABRUPTLY QUITS AS PRESIDENT
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amMerrill Lynch President and Chief Operating Officer Herb Allison unexpectedly resigned yesterday, raising questions about the firm's long-term strategy and management succession. Allison, 55, was named president and chief operating...
SEEK SHAREHOLDERS DISS DISNEY DEAL
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amInfoSeek shareholders aren't finding the kingdom of Walt Disney so magical. Shares in the web navigator shaved more than 10 percent off the company's stock on the feeling they were...
TIMES TURNS ON GLOBE, FIRES ITS PUBLISHER
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amAfter a long hands-off period, The New York Times invaded the offices of its Boston newspaper - the Pulitzer-prize winning Boston Globe - and fired a founding family member yesterday...
SSUNDAY MAG RUNNING OUT OF COVER STORIES
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe New York Times may have some tinkering to do closer to home. While it irons out its shakeup at its sister Boston Globe, some Times-watchers are wondering who's minding...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amAccessible city The San Francisco visitors bureau has come out with its updated lodging guide, which includes a handy new section for travelers with disabilities. Thirty-five hotels voluntarily underwent a...
TV TICKER
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amSizzlin' series Both WPIX/Ch.11 and Fox-owned Ch.5 scored big numbers with their "Subway Series" telecasts last weekend. Both Friday's and Sunday's Mets-Yankees matchups notched an 8.0 rating (545,000 households) on...
STILL 'TOONING OUT 'SOUTH PARK': COMEDY CENTRAL SERIES CONTINUES DOWNWARD TREND
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amTHE ultra-gross "South Park" movie has scored nearly $36 million at the box office so far - but on TV the show's ratings continue to go south. Comedy Central officials...
'RENT' CAST: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amOnly two of the players have lived up to that early promise. The rest are working, but still waiting for the big break. IT'S been three years since the runaway...
KIROV BALLET ENDS ON A HIGH NOTE WITH BALANCHINE ACT
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amDance Review THE Russians have departed in a blaze of glory, a blast of Balanchine and, well, yes, just a tiny degree of anti-climax. But let's take all the good...
SHE'S NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE: HOW ONE WOMAN TRIUMPHED OVER A DEVASTATING DEFORMITY
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amJERYL Brunner can recall with vivid clarity the most painful memory of her childhood. "My third-grade teacher asked for volunteers to audition for the school play, so I immediately raised...
CD ROUNDUP: RAPPER RELISHES MUSCLE AND SOUL
July 13, 1999 | 4:00am* CAN'T STAY AWAY Too $hort Jive Records Ask a dozen kids what good rap is and you'll get as many answers. But good rap should have, at the least,...
'ACTION': L.A.'S HIP JOINT
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amFOX'S raunchy fall sitcom "Action" - which features Keanu Reeves in a cameo in the first episode - is now stalking Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis and Cameron Diaz, The Post...
BEAME RELEASED FROM HOSP
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amFormer New York City Mayor Abe Beame was discharged yesterday from the hospital where he was treated after suffering chest pains, said a spokeswoman at New York University Medical Center....
L.I. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MUTILATION-SLAYS OF 3 WOMEN
July 13, 1999 | 4:00am"I am not a coward. God knows I didn't do this. That gives me peace of mind."CONVICTED SERIAL KILLER ROBERT SHULMAN The Long Island postman convicted of beating and butchering...
STEAMY AD IS TOO BAD FOR TV
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe Candie's ad was nixed because of "overt sexual innuendo and the large array of condoms displayed."A TV network and two New York stations have banned a sexy perfume commercial...
A NITWIT JUDGE AND A BIASED PROSECUTOR
July 13, 1999 | 4:00am"This case is an outrage. The governor has to step in right now and set aside these convictions."ATTORNEY GEORGE CERRONE MARK BAKER said it more sadly than simply: "The line...
BRITISH BLOCK BELFAST MARCH
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe British army used steel, concrete and barbed wire to stop a Protestant Orange Order march through a Catholic area in Belfast yesterday during Northern Ireland's most tension-filled day of...
GUARD TIGHTENED FOR MALCOLM KIN AFTER 2ND ESCAPE
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe 14-year-old grandson of Malcolm X who set the fire that killed his grandmother has been sent to a tighter-security facility after escaping twice from a group home, a court...
'TAKE IT EASY' TIME FOR RUDY & HILLARY
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amLike two prizefighters keeping their distance in the early rounds, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton kicks off a swing through the suburbs today while Mayor Giuliani is in Boston to...
GORE CALLS FOR FIREARM OWNERS TO PACK PHOTO ID
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore said yesterday all new handgun owners should have to get photo licenses, as he outlined his own get-tough-on-guns plan just days after Democratic rival...
NO. 7 LINE GETTING SNAZZY NEW CARS
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe new cars feature fancy door systems, more comfortable seats, better lighting, and information screens. Met fans will zoom to Shea Stadium in shiny, new high-tech subway trains slated to...
NAACP TO TARGET GUN INDUSTRY IN LAWSUIT
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe NAACP plans to file suit "to break the backs" of gun-makers and merchants, the civil-rights group's president said yesterday. "The NAACP makes it perfectly clear that we will be...
COPS FURIOUS AS 2 OFFICERS JAILED: CONVICTED IN PAIR OF ILLEGAL 1990 RAIDS
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amNearly 200 cops gathered angrily at a Manhattan courthouse yesterday as two fellow officers reported for jail - nearly a decade after illegally raiding two Harlem apartments for a stolen...
MTA MAY ZAP CON ED FOR SUBWAY OUTAGE
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amLast week's power blackouts cost the subway system millions of dollars - and transit brass said they might press Con Edison to pay them back for disrupted service. But the...
BIRTH-CONTROL PILL FOR MEN SEEMIN' LIKELY
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe company said it has shown a 100 percent success rate in the lab. A new birth-control pill for men has been patented in the U.S. and could tap into...
RETURN ENGAGEMENT IN THE HAMPTON$ SET FOR FIRST LADY
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amLast summer, the First Couple partied with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.WASHINGTON - It's a Hillary Rodham Clinton gridlock alert for the Hamptons next month as Democrats plan a star-studded...
HIT-MAN BRIBE THEORY STUNS TRIAL
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amA defense lawyer dropped a courtroom bombshell yesterday - accusing a hit man of accepting a $50,000 offer from his would-be victim to turn informant and help crack a sensational...
LATE BUDGET IS A PAIN IN SILVER'S NECK
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver put the state's stalled budget talks in perspective yesterday, calling them more painful than his broken collarbone. "I'm never in a lot of pain...
HUSBAND OF JUDGE ADMITS WITHHOLDING PENSION INFO
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amTHOMAS AMONDamaging admission.The husband of a federal judge, accused of losing $147,000 belonging to a pension fund by investing in highly volatile stocks, yesterday admitted keeping key financial documents from...
CO-MAYORS TO RULE KOSO CAPITAL
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amThe United Nations opened the city hall in Kosovo's capital yesterday with a combined staff of Serbs and ethnic Albanians - and a plea for them to heal the province's...
HERO GOALIE: I 'CHEATED' ON BIG SAVE: SAYS SHE STRETCHED RULES TO BLOCK SHOT
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. goalkeeper Briana Scurry admits she stretched the rules in making the diving save that was crucial to her team's World Cup win over China. "Everybody does it," the Los...
MARILYN MANSON'S MUSIC DROVE MAN TO MURDER: COPS
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amMarilyn Manson's violent Gothic rock music helped drive a Queens man to fatally slash and stab an elderly ex-neighbor, police said. "He's warped. He's been listening to too much of...
MAN CHARGED IN BRONX SHOOTINGS
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amA 17-year-old suspect was busted yesterday on charges of killing a Bronx man and wounding two bystanders. Ruben Moye, who lives on Davidson Avenue in the Mount Eden section, faces...
WINSOME WORLD CUP WINNERS TAKE APPLE BY STORM
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amAmerica's soccer sweethearts took the ball of fame and ran with it in New York yesterday, getting star treatment wherever they went from cheering, ecstatic fans. The women's World Cup...
HEART'S OK, SO SPENCER CAN BEGIN HIS REHAB
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amAll signs point to Shane Spencer being ready to jump off the disabled list this Sunday. Spencer, who was hospitalized and shelved due to an irregular heartbeat on July 2,...
SURPRISES REIGN IN COPA AMERICA
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - The raw edge that makes South American soccer a little bit less predictable than its European counterpart was once more in evidence in the latest round of matches...
SORIANO HEADED TO COLUMBUS
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amShortstop Alfonso Soriano - perhaps the best prospect in baseball - will be moved up from the Yankees' Double-A Norwich farm team to Triple-A Columbus "over the next week," vice...
BRITS BASH TIGER FOR RYDER $TANCE
July 13, 1999 | 4:00am"I hope the day never arrives when players get paid for the Ryder Cup."COLIN MONTGOMERIE CARNOUSTIE, Scotland - A few candid words from Tiger Woods about the upcoming Ryder Cup...
ANGRY BOSS LEAVING CASHMAN OUT OF THE LOOP
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - While general manager Brian Cashman is here for the All-Star Game, George Steinbrenner will meet with his Tampa braintrust this morning at the Yankees' minor league complex to...
BEANTOWN BASH: GREEN MONSTER HAS STARS DREAMING OF EPIC FENWAY SLUGFEST
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Like packing a small old shed with thousands of pounds of TNT, venerable Fenway Park will host the 1999 All-Stars, one of the most impressive arrays of power...
STEFFI SAYS IT'S TIME TO HANG UP RACQUET
July 13, 1999 | 4:00am"I've been thinking [about retiring] the last few years because of my injuries."STEFFI GRAF Though she regrets selling her SoHo apartment a few years ago, Steffi Graf seems more certain...
JETER'S A PROUD MEMBER OF ELITE SHORTSTOP CLUB
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - He had heard all about the Green Monster for as long as he could remember and was eager to take his first cracks at it in batting practice,...
LIVAN HIGH ON AMAZIN' WISH LIST
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amWith only a little more than two weeks until the trading deadline the Mets are running out of time to improve their pitching, so options that didn't seem so attractive...
PEDRO STILL SORE ABOUT SNUB IN '98
July 13, 1999 | 4:00am"Last year you had a manager [Mike Hargrove] that was in love with David Wells. This year the manager [Joe Torre] is [a] professional who didn't bring any excuses."PEDRO MARTINEZ...
GONZALEZ GETS LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR NO-SHOW
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Juan Gonzalez did not really get much support for his decision to blow off the All-Star Game if he wasn't going to get voted in. He didn't, so...
PIAZZA IN 7TH HEAVEN
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amALL-STAR NOTEBOOK BOSTON - For the first time in his memory, Mike Piazza is due to bat seventh in a game. National League manager Bruce Bochy of the Padres dropped...
EWING'S ACHILLES HEALED
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amYou can stop worrying about whether 7-foot-2 Frederic Weis will play for the Knicks next season. Patrick Ewing is on his way back. An MRI yesterday morning at Beth Israel...
GRIFFEY STEALS MAC'S THUNDER ; MCGWIRE WINS FANS; JR. TAKES HR CONTEST
July 13, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - More than 4,000 people jammed Landsdowne Street, forming a mosh pit beyond the Green Monster. The attraction? Mark McGwire, of course. Big Mac didn't disappoint. In the first...