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Paris, Saturday, June 19, 1999Dealers Fear Gold's Mystique Is GoneCentral Bank Sales Could Finish the Decline That Low Inflation Started By Tom Buerkle International Herald TribuneLONDON - The small meeting room sits about 200 yards from the Bank of England in the offices of one of the City of London's premier investment banks, N.M. Rothschild & Co. Its leather-topped desks, oil portraits and antique clock speak of enduring wealth and stability. The image is appropriate because the room is the home of the twice-a-day fixing of the price of gold. For 80 years, the fixing has helped maintain London ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Cologne Curious About Clinton By ANNE THOMPSON Associated Press Writer COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -- What's he eating? Where's he sleeping? President Clinton has generated quite a bit of curiosity in Cologne, more than any other world leader attending the Group of Eight summit. It's partly because of Clinton's love for mixing among the people -- but it's also due in part to his well known indiscretion with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. ``A double bed for the Clintons!'' was a tabloid headline Saturday, the day first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and 19-year-old daughter ...

Reality Begins to Stutter Tempers Flare Over Reality Stutter "I'm not among those who see all ontologists as envy ridden twits, but they, as a breed, have been extremely reluctant to recognize the important work done by other scientists to substantiate, quantify, and publicize this horrid little stuttering of reality."………..Sir Arthur Reynolds……. Saturday, June 19, 1999. In the three years since Professor Morgan Mughouse of Bristol startled ontologists worldwide with the publication of his first paper on the detection of irregularities in the flow of reality, few outside the ontological community have taken the quickly evolving crisis seriously. But ...

Campaign Finance, Hillary- Style Campaign Finance, Hillary- Style Date: 6/21/99 Trust this White House to further trash campaign finance laws. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's flirtation with a Senate seat in 2000 has taken her to New York 11 times since January. And every trip has been paid for by taxpayers. Last year, Hillary made only nine trips to New York. This year she's on pace to more than double that total. For someone who's never lived there, that's a lot of trips. She could do commercials for the tourism board. Clearly, the first lady is running for the Senate. ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Promise Keepers are coming to Metro Detroit next week, a few days after Father's Day. So we'll get a double dose of attention to the country's under-appreciated gender -- men. Promise Keepers tries to make up for that by organizing men who want to become better husbands and fathers. They're controversial, sure, with critics suggesting misogyny. After all, Promise Keepers built itself on a tradition of men only, says the National Organization for Women, which built itself on a tradition of women only. Can anybody out there spell irony? Some 20,000 ...

"Miranda rights" according to Bill Clinton When making an arrest, the arresting officer must read the accused his/her rights: *You have the right to remain silent. *You have the right to a deceitful lawyer. *You have the right to blame it on a "vast right-wing conspiracy". *You have the right to claim its a "private matter". *You have the right to smear the witnesses against you. *You have the right to "attack" the prosecutor. *You have the right to commit perjury and obstruct justice. *You have the right to debate the meaning of "is". *You have the right to use ...

White House denies Clinton beer remark Saturday, 19 June 1999 11:37 (GMT) (UPI Spotlight) White House denies Clinton beer remark COLOGNE, Germany, June 19 (UPI) - White House aides are pondering (Saturday) a blaring German tabloid headline that quotes President Clinton's toast to Cologne: "Ich bin ein Kolsch - I am a beer." There are many theories, and some question whether Clinton ever said it at all. Maybe it was a misquote, speculates spokesman Barry Toiv: "What he was actually saying was, 'Could I please HAVE a beer." Clinton was last spotted with beer in hand in a Cologne ...

A police officer who regularly pumps iron lifted a 500-pound riding mower off a man who was pinned beneath the overturned machine. Police were called to the home of Terry DeSandre on Thursday after his 15-year-old tractor lost traction, threw him off and tumbled down a hill after him. The machine landed on top of DeSandre in a small ravine, leaving him gasping for air, while the blade was still spinning on the side facing away from him. ``I feel very lucky the tractor came down the way it did, otherwise I would've been ground into hamburger,'' he said. The ...

NOW THAT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC has made yet another agreement with NATO, the Clinton administration has declared victory and its media allies have joined the chorus of congratulation. Yet the question must be asked: What is there to celebrate? Who is better off now -- and for how long? It is not nearly as difficult to get Milosevic to sign agreements as it is to get him to live up to them. Now the Russians have become a wild card in the game, creating new problems from day one. We have NATO and Russian troops facing each other on opposite sides ...

World Magazine http://www.worldmag.com CULTURAL Retail responsibility As Wal-Mart is showing, it's the middlemen who can clean up the cultural marketplace By Gene Edward Veith How can cultural pollution be stopped without violating the Bill of Rights? Maybe the marketplace can be a positive force in the marketplace of ideas. It is censorship when the government prohibits something from being said or published. (Christians need to be leery of state censorship, because, as Milton pointed out, the one thing most likely to get censored is Christianity, as the public schools have shown.) But there is no censorship if a person ...

Former U.S. secretary of state Baker meets with Syrian officials6-19-1999. DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - There is an opportunity for peace between Syria and Israel, but the governments of both nations must work hard to achieve it, former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Saturday. Baker's comments followed a two-hour meeting with Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa focusing on peace prospects between Syria and Israel. ``The fact is that there is, indeed, a window of opportunity now, but it will take the active engagement of all parties to reach a peace agreement,'' Baker told reporters. He warned, however, that ...

Didn't I see a post a minute ago entitled something like: "Conservative joining forces", or something like that? I can't find it.

COMPUTERS AT OUR NUCLEAR LABORATORIES are again being ordered to "stand down." Our most secret work on our most powerful weaponry is coming to a screeching two-day halt. That's because of a line in a report issued this week by "Piffiab," the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: "A nefarious employee can still download secret weapons information to a tape, put it in his or her pocket, and walk out the door." This despite Energy Secretary, Bill Richardson's previous public assurances that the barn door has been locked,now that China has our warhead secrets. When Congress' Cox committee on Chinagate submitted ...

FOUR OBJECTIONS TO GUN CONTROL by Joe Sobran WASHINGTON -- In his syndicated column, Professor Garry Wills accuses the gun lobby of "bad scholarship on the Second Amendment." Unfortunately, his own scholarship is open to question. He says the Second Amendment is only "a militia ordinance," adding, "In all the ratifying debates on the Constitution and on the Second Amendment, the right of the individual to possess guns was not once discussed." Mr. Wills seems to have forgotten that the purpose of the Bill of Rights was to restrain the federal government and to reassure all those who feared that ...

June 18, 1999, 10:09 p.m.   Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. 3 California synagogues burned in half hour; hate crime suspected By HANNA ROSIN Washington Post Three synagogues in Sacramento, Calif., were torched before dawn Friday in what federal officials assume is a hate crime after finding anti-Semitic fliers in one of the temples blaming the "International Jewsmedia" for the war in Kosovo. Investigators have no suspects yet. The fires broke out at different points in the city in the span of a half hour, starting at 3:19 ...

Give war a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free BeerDEDICATIONLike many men of my generation, I had and opportunity to give war a chance, and I promtly chickened out. I went to my draft physical in 1970 with a doctor's letter about my history of drug abuse. The letter was four and a half pages long with three and a half pages devoted to listing the drugs I'd abused. I was shunted into the office of an Army psychiatrist who, at the end of a forty-five minute interview with me, was pounding his desk and ...

No. 606 June 15, 1999 JUVENILE JUSTICE: LEGISLATING WITHOUT ADEQUATE OVERSIGHT OF EXISTING PROGRAMS VIRGINIA L. THOMAS Link to: | PDF (78k) | In the aftermath of the April 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, Congress is looking at ways to translate the national debate into tangible improvements in efforts to prevent juvenile crime. The House of Representatives will soon consider the Consequences for Juvenile Offenses Act of 1999 (H.R. 1501), which would authorize billions of additional dollars for states to prosecute juvenile criminals and deter criminal behavior. Unfortunately, inadequate congressional oversight of existing federal programs will make ...

Careful, corporate, image-conscious Fleet Bank. A proud sponsor of -- the gay pride parade? Well, why not?, says bank spokeswoman Cate Roberts. Since 1995 or so, Fleet has focused on embracing diversity, she said. ``It goes back to our commitment to community -- young or old, gay or straight, people of color,'' she said. ``They all have banking needs, quite frankly. ``We are a bank that's here to make a profit. There's no reason why we would discriminate against any potential customer.'' Whether out of a profit motive, principle or, as Fleet asserts, both, more corporations than ever are ...

Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I rise this morning to address the Senate with great reluctance and many other emotions, because in my belief the process the Senate uses to judge the ethical conduct of a Member's action should be respected. Mr. President, that respect, by me, a majority of the American people, and other Members of the Senate, is now seriously in jeopardy. I rise with reluctance, Mr. President, because some of my closest friends and supporters have advised me not to rise and make this speech this morning, saying that the remarks I am about to make may upset ...

MY FAVORITE ATROCITY STORIES Atrocity stories are the very woof and warp of war propaganda: from Belgian babies bayoneted by bloodthirsty Huns during World War I, to Kuwaiti babies murdered in their incubators by Saddam’s sadistic henchmen, the manufacture of lies has been the growth industry of the 20th century. By now, of course, the public is so inured to exaggeration and outright falsehood that most have developed an immunity to anything but the crudest hyperbole: it is the strong stuff, or nothing. This is why the screaming headlines about the Kosovo “genocide” supposedly being uncovered in the wake of ...