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This is kinda old, but still worth checking out... Two dozen sources of Kosovo news, from both inside Kosovo and "outside aggregators," as well. The URL is http://ojr.usc.edu/indexf.htm?/sections/features/99_stories/stories_kosovo_033099.htm

RAMCO ENERGY COMMENTS ON THE FUTURE OF THE CASPIAN REGION AT THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM CONFERENCE TWO-TEN NEWS NETWORK, London, February 18. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Ramco Energy plc. Steve Remp, Chairman and Chief Executive of Ramco Energy plc (Ramco), today spoke at the Institute of Petroleum's high-level international conference on The Caspian Region: The Major Oil and Gas Play for the Next Decade. Supported on the day by speeches by the Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, KCMG QC, a non-executive director of Ramco, plus a number of key industry figures, the conference examines the ...

While he and his aides were still struggling to end the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, President Clinton was agonizing over America's failure to halt an even greater tragedy five years ago. Last month, the president directed his top foreign-policy advisers to study the genocide that took hundreds of thousands of lives in Rwanda to see if the United States could have intervened effectively. Now, as American forces settle in to the job of policing part of Kosovo, Clinton is re-examining the massacres in central Africa, as well as ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo, in an effort to create ...

PRESS RELEASE BIG WIN FOR AMBASSADOR ALAN KEYES IN POLK COUNTY, IOWA, STRAW POLL Keyes' Tally Almost Doubles Bush's Numbers Ambassador Alan Keyes was the big winner in the Polk County Republican Party Presidential Straw Poll tonight. Polk County is the most highly-populated county in Iowa and encompasses the capitol city of Des Moines. Following a family barbecue picnic at the Living History Farms on Saturday evening, June 19th, in Urbandale, Iowa, a total of 344 votes were cast by ticket holders. Results are as follows: Keyes 34% Bush 18% Alexander 17% Dole 8% Bauer 8% Kasich 6% Smith 5% ...

Patrick J. Buchanan, increasingly frustrated in his third presidential bid, has been advised to abandon the Republican Party and instead try to win the nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party. The Reform nomination would provide the populist and protectionist Buchanan with $12.6 million in federal money for the general election against what are likely to be decidedly nonpopulist free traders as GOP and Democratic nominees. "This is really an enormous idea," said Don Devine, an adviser to Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes. Officials of the Buchanan campaign clammed up Friday when asked about it. Bob Adams, Buchanan's spokesman, said he was ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. (very brief musical intro) Oh my papa why do you have that bag of ice Oh my papa have you been bad again Have you attacked another helpless la-a-a-ady Oh my papa you're rapes are up to ten Why won't you get the kind of help you're ne-e-eding Why have you left your victims always bleeding Oh my papa the whole world knows what's going on Oh my papa the blind can even see It's really clear that it is psychological Oh my papa ...

BOSTON-- The parent firm of Post cereal is planning to send a large amount of free cereal to Boston schools, but state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson is far from grateful. The problem? The milk that will be poured over the flakes. Many nonwhites are lactose intolerant, meaning they can't digest milk sugar, called lactose. The lactose ferments in the intestines, causing abdominal cramps, diarrhea and gas. “It's crazy that we should be giving urban children milk for breakfast when such a high proportion of them are children of color,” the Democrat from Boston's Roxbury neighborhood told The Boston Globe. In response ...

I am, and always have been, a strong advocate of the death penalty. I believe that those who callously take a human life either with premeditation or in the commission of another crime in order to avoid being identified, deserve to die. A society of law-abiding people cannot tolerate those who have such a disregard for human life that they could deliberately take one. But I am equally an advocate of fair justice, which means those who stand accused of a crime are entitled to a trial in which ALL of the evidence with respect to the crime* should be ...

Court validates part of dissenter's lawsuit against Gore, others Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press WASHINGTON (June 18, 1999 3:59 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - A federal appeals court held Friday that a woman who dissented from the findings of a White House panel chaired by Vice President Al Gore has the right to the same information as other commissioners. M. Victoria Cummock, appointed by the president to a special commission on aviation safety in the wake of the TWA Flight 800 air disaster, sued Gore and others on the panel, saying she had been denied access ...

Sleeping with the enemy - or rather, living, working and to some extent suffering with them - is always a complicated business morally speaking. Having just got back to London from my three months in Belgrade, I have been going through the post which has accumulated for me. Some letters were very kind, but there was plenty of hate mail from people who didn't want to be told what it was like being on the receiving end of Nato's bombing. Time and again they built up to their final clinching argument: would the BBC have had a correspondent in Berlin ...

It's 3:18 a.m. Urosevac, Kosovo time. A weary-sounding Capt. Glen MacNeil is still at it, taking time to call the Sun, knowing folks back home want to know what's going on. Canadian soldiers sent to ravaged Kosovo have their work cut for them -- more than regular hours in the day allow, none of which they'll ever realize in overtime pay. Many of the 800 soldiers have multiple tours in Bosnia behind them. Few will ever forget the results of hatred they saw there -- mass graves, demolished town after town, surly local soldiers, traumatized refugees. In Kosovo, history ...

© Not so Spicy: Halliwell rarely has sexual relationships Photograph: Fiona Hanson Career women lose sex drive by John Harlow Social Affairs Editor THE boardroom has triumphed over the bedroom. Career women are losing their sex drive due to stress at work, new research has shown. The research, carried out in Britain and the United States, shows that career women still find it much harder than men to balance work and home. Cristina Ferrare, whose study is to be published later this month, based her findings on 2,000 interviews with women carried out by the American Medical Association, and ...

Post your comments here. Meet the Press interview with Rudman (sp?) was very interesting. In an interesting changeover, Meet the Press was a much stronger "espionage" interview than Fox Sunday was. Someone that can transcribe better than I, please post comments from Meet the Press.

Those who saw Diane Sawyer's interview Wednesday night with Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, on the ABC's "20/20," must still be scratching their heads. What exactly did the Gores believe about Monica Lewinsky's relationship with the president? And when did they believe it? Both the vice president and his wife told Ms Sawyer they believed that President Clinton had been telling the truth for nearly seven months about his relationship with Miss Lewinsky after he finally admitted otherwise on Aug 17 - after testifying before the grand jury. Asked by Ms Sawyer if he knew "[President Clinton] ...

Every Sunday-school child knows the story well. Hoping to entrap Him, the Pharisees and Herodians publicly confronted Jesus with an apparently unanswerable question, “Is it lawful [under the law of Moses] to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give?” They had cleverly plotted to place Christ in an impossible position. If He answered “yes,” He would be a stench to the Jews, who hated Roman taxes. If He answered “no,” He would be fomenting rebellion against Caesar, and the Romans would crucify Him.  Jesus, “knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them...bring me a penny....” ...

NRA Used 'Every Weapon' To Kill Gun Bill-Clinton COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - President Clinton accused the National Rifle Association gun lobby Saturday of using ``every weapon in its arsenal'' to defeat a gun control measure he had supported. For the third day in a row on his European tour, Clinton singled out the NRA for harsh criticism for its lobbying tactics, which helped block a proposal in the House of Representatives for three-day background checks of buyers at gun shows. Clinton, in his weekly radio address, said the plea of many parents in the aftermath of the April 20 school ...

Better late than never! It just took me awhile to put it all together and "feel free to hit the comment button and ID yourselves"... just click here to see several photos from the Managers' Rally and Dinner on May 4 in DC.Hope to have White Oak Plantation photos posted soon...rto

Page B07 William Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign distributed pocket handkerchiefs printed with his purported birthplace, a log cabin. Harrison was born at Virginia's splendid Berkeley plantation. Al Gore, who would be the only presidential nominee in history who received most of his pre-college schooling in Washington, D.C., launched his campaign in Carthage, Tenn., vowing to confound those who slide "backward." He said, "I believe we can do better." Gore, a passionate recycler, got that trope by reaching back to John Kennedy's 1960 campaign. There was some beauty in Gore's Carthage speech, as in his reference to his remarkable mother, ...

With Summer in the air , and doing alot of fishing with my kids,I like to keep up with the PETA anti-fishing schedule so as I can assure a wholesome,family outing by making sure the PETA creeps arent there.I accidently ran across this link on the PETA site.Im practicing my HTML still and I am a newbie,so I havent got it down yet sorry. Here it is: www.gorenomore.com

Gore AIDS Scandal Helps Drug Companies Nix Cheap Medicines Al Gore, Internet inventor, hog farmer, and tobacco grower, now has landed in another controversy, leading the charge for pharmaceutical manufacturers against South African AIDS patients struggling to get affordable medicine. An estimated 3.2 million people are infected with the virus in South Africa, where the cost of multi-drug therapies— starting at $1000 a month— is far beyond the means of most patients, the overwhelming number of them poor blacks. The average annual income in South Africa is $2600. "Medicines to treat HIV/AIDS are far too highly priced for the mass ...