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If she runs, Hillary Rodham Clinton can run for the Senate in 18 pairs of new shoes worth around $5000.The first lady had a shoe-shopping experience of the first magnitude in Palermo, Italy. Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos, renowned for her collection of shoes, would have been proud of her.According to Italian manufacturer Bruno Magli, shoemaker to the rich and famous, Mrs. Clinton "took a break from the G-8 summit for a presidential-sized shopping spree" and visited the shop on Via Ruggero Settimo.The street was mobbed while Mrs. Clinton bought a dozen pairs of shoes. She then asked if ...

The New York Times To the Editor: Anthony Lewis (column, June 29) argues that "the Supreme Court term just ended shows us a phenomenon that this country has not seen for more than 60 years: a band of radical judicial activists determined to impose on the Constitution their notion of a proper system of government . . . without a word of support from the text of the Constitution." This reveals more about Mr. Lewis's consistency than the current Court's activism. Mr. Lewis cites the Warren Court as one that "enlarged individual liberty under the Constitution." But one searches the ...

A State appeals panel yesterday uphead a workers' compensation award for a Middletown gym teacher who claimed he contracted cancer fro sharing an office for 26 years with a chain smoker. The teacher's lawyer said the case may be the first in the country in which a court upheld a workers' comp claim based on secondhand smoke. The teacher, Donald Magaw, who contract tonsil cancer in 1994...is entitled to past and future medical benefits, and may be able to claim accumulated sick time...when the district first denied his claim. Magaw had already convinced a workers' compensation judge that his illness ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Columbia/HCA--Wall Street Health Care As the number of uninsured and underinsured Americans grows, the amount of money hospitals spent on care for the poor dropped in 1994 for the first time in over a decade, while profits jumped to a record high. One in four US adults find it impossible to get needed medical care. Some 41 million people, including 10 million children, are uninsured. Money is flowing to a handful of corporate giants now dominating the health care industry, as hospital mergers and acquisitions have occurred at the rate of one deal every three days in the past 2½ ...

Poll: People Feel Loss of Morality By WILL LESTER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Accompanying the hum of computers and the roar of the economy at the end of the 20th century is a nagging feeling among many Americans that something has been lost. They describe it in various ways: an absence of morality, a loss of innocence, a lack of trust in others. Almost two-thirds of the people in a new poll say their families' lives have improved since the 1950s. But fewer than half say the country as a whole is better off now and nearly one-third ...

Modern campaign echoes rhetoric of Nazi health-fascists In the 1930s, the great British historian Arnold Toynbee once compared Gandhi to Hitler. Nowadays, that sort of comparison would be regarded as, if not foolish, then certainly, flippant. On the other hand -- and this was Toynbee's point -- were not both men vegetarian, teetotal, anti-smokers who cared deeply about animal welfare? It's true one was a megalomaniac mass-murderer, and the other a committed pacifist who refused to kill even a bothersome fly, but Hitler and Gandhi shared a dedication to a clean body and a clean mind. Such weird similarities ...

Caracas, Venezuela - Hours after appointing a new finance minister, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez angrily demanded yesterday that the Andean nation's Congress be dissolved. "I'm openly requesting the Constituent Assembly, requesting in the name of the Venezuelan people, that it dissolve Congress," said Mr. Chavez on national television. "Enough is enough." Mr. Chavez was upset that Congress hadn't approved his request for the promotion of several military officers. The president, a former military officer himself, had been pushing for the promotion of certain officers who participated in his failed but bloody coup attempt in 1992. Venezuelans are slated to elect ...

The Court of King George III London, England July 10, 1776 Mr. Thomas Jefferson c/o The Continental Congress Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Jefferson: We have read your "Declaration of Independence" with great interest. Certainly, it represents a considerable undertaking, and many of your statements do merit serious consideration. Unfortunately, the Declaration as a whole fails to meet recently adopted specifications for proposals to the Crown, so we must return the document to you for further refinement. The questions which follow might assist you in your process of revision: 1. In your opening paragraph you use the phrase "the Laws ...

BeCounted.com A Freedom Poll. Below are the three Questions. 1. On this Independence Day weekend, do you believe you are more free or less free than your parents and grandparents were at your age? I am more free. I am less free. There's no significant difference. I don't know, or have no opinion. 2. Do you believe future generations, such as any children or grandchildren you may have, will be more free or less free than you are now? They will be more free. They will be less free. There will be no significant difference. I don't know, or ...

Help! The wonderful changes made to Free Republic posting, coupled with the increase in size of the Downside Legacy since the Cox Report, have created an issue that I am in a quandary to resolve --- and need some FReeper techno-advice! The Downside Legacy is ready to refresh (reissue as of 7/3/99.) The current posting method sends the information to Free Republic, which is returned both as a preview and in posting format, and then when the post button is mashed, it is sent again and returned again. This means it passes the data 5 times. The Downside Legacy ...

Diet, lifestyle are far more dangerous than a loaded firearm Your risk of being murdered is one in 16,666. Actually, for most Americans, it is much less than that. The majority of American homicides involve one low-life killing another low-life. Thus, if you stay out of the drug business, which most Americans do, and if you don't hang out with low-lifes or foolishly wander into bad neighborhoods, your chances of becoming a homicide victim are very small. In short, the danger of firearms is greatly exaggerated by politicians and press alike. In 1997, for example, 15,551 Americans were killed by ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. CANDIDATES' CAMPAIGNS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2000; POSSIBLE FUTURE CANDIDACIES OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON CNBC News Transcripts HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS (8:00 PM ET) July 1, 1999, Thursday President BILL CLINTON: I--I didn't ask Al Gore to become vice president so that he would agree with me about everything. Nobody with a--with a fine mind and a lot of experience, and looking at the world we live in, would agree with anyone else with the same qualities on every issue. It just ...

GOP Pushes $1 Trillion Tax Cut WASHINGTON--Marking the Fourth of July holiday by calling for "financial independence" for America's families, Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., today detailed GOP plans to push for a $1 trillion tax cut. "For too long, you've been asked to sacrifice so that Washington could supposedly do more," Hayworth said in the Republican Party's weekly radio address. "Our common-sense majority in Congress wants to declare financial independence for America's families." Earlier this week, House Republicans said the federal budget surplus is so huge that Congress can cut taxes by nearly $1 trillion and still brace Social Security ...

THE INCOMPLETE FOUNDING Why, we must ask, did the abolition movement of the Founding era stop short? What thwarted the political logic of the Revolution? In one sense, the answer is easy. There is always a gap between one's moral principles and one's actions. In this case we have, in Jefferson's words, "the interesting spectacle of justice, in conflict with avarice and oppression.''42 This meant that even in the North, there continued to be strong support for slavery throughout the Revolutionary period, not only from slaveowners, but from those in New England who profited from the slave trade. Only three ...

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Alexander Hamilton, as He Was Never Meant to Be By PAULINE MAIER It's hard to think of a more outdated concept than "sovereign immunity," which the Supreme Court recently used in three decisions freeing states from lawsuits in state courts for violations of Federal laws. In 1946 Justice Felix Frankfurter described state sovereign immunity as "an anachronistic survival of monarchical privilege," since it derives from the Crown's immunity to prosecution in British courts without its consent. Such a practice has no logical place in a nation that not only rejected monarchy in 1776, but insisted that henceforth everyone, lawmakers included, ...

For a long time Americans have been taught that the Founding was unjust. The Declaration of Independence may have asserted that "all men are created equal," but Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration, held slaves. So did other Founders. This means, we are told, that the Founders were hypocrites: They said equality but they practiced slavery. Or, worse, the Founders did not believe blacks were human. "Men" in the Declaration, some say, really means "white men." It is amazing that this view is so widely believed. Amazing, I say, because it is so easy to show that it is ...

The Ninth Ammendment - It is obvious the framers of our body of laws intended for the government to keeps its hands off our enumerated (listed) rights as well as those not listed (unalienable rights). Not only does our sacred Constitution put our rights into print, but it created the rule of law -FORBIDDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM DENYING OR DISPARAGING (TAKING AWAY OR LOWERING IN VALUE) ANY OF OUR LISTED OR UNLISTED RIGHTS. THE ONLY WAY OUR RIGHTS CAN BE REMOVED OR DEVALUED IS BY ENACTMENT OF A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL AMMENDMENT THAT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES THE ISSUE - not defined ...

Let us pray for our nation that God will restore the morality that our children so desperately need!