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Notes From the Teachers: Poll Finds Problems But Enthusiasm By Steve Twomey and Richard Morin Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, July 4, 1999; Page A01 At the high school where Suzan Falls imparts English, there are more than a few students who don't try, dispatched by parents who seem disengaged. The scent of marijuana sometimes snakes under her nose. Classes can be sidetracked by pupil profanity duels, and "at least once a month" somebody gets physical. With all the PA chatter, the comings and goings, the mini-crises, the building can seem as chaotic as "a MASH unit." So here's how ...

MOSCOW (July 1, 1999 9:49 p.m. EDT A conspiracy to snatch Lenin's body from his Red Square tomb and bury it in the middle of the night so Boris Yeltsin can stay in power? It sounds like the plot of a cheap thriller. But such is the feverish scenario sweeping Russia's media and political circles, amid speculation that Yeltsin is looking for ways to outlaw the Communist Party - his biggest rival. Ordinary Russians are worried that their country is edging toward yet another crisis. "Moscow ... is filled with alarming rumors and expectations about an unconstitutional course of events," ...

Tonight on DRUDGE Ann Coulter gave even stronger indications that she will run for Congress in Connecticut's 4th district next year, opposing liberal Republican Chris Shays. She has some good ideas, and I think we at Free Republic might want to pledge our support to her (campaign) efforts. If you would like to pledge your support to the ANN COULTER for Congress (campaign) efforts, please leave a short post below, along with your email. Ann is the type of candidate we need to hear more about - the young, intelligent, articulate candidfates who will go to Congress and who will ...

As Bush Enjoys a 'Silly Season,' Details Can Wait By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 4, 1999; Page A01 After three weeks on the campaign trail, Texas Gov. George W. Bush finds himself at the center of a political phenomenon unlike any other in recent history. Through careful planning, skillful execution and a good bit of luck, Bush has dramatically reshaped the presidential campaign of 2000. Whether his candidacy is a speculative bubble or the opening phase of a long, steady march to the White House can't be known at this point. But his strategy for winning ...

"Analogy" is a principle of substantive criminal law which permits the conviction of an accused despite the absence of any defined criminal behavior. If the actions of the accused are perceived to be inimical to the socio-political order then he may be found guilty of a defined crime which prohibits analogous behavior. Analogy may also be employed in a more restrained fashion as a sentencing law. If the accused has committed a defined crime which is now perceived to be more deleterios his punishment may exceed the maxium legislatively mandated sentence. Analogy is, therefore, one method of defining and punishing ...

Red Cross calls for tighter controls on small arms 09:27 a.m. Jul 01, 1999 Eastern By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, July 1 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called for tighter controls on small arms on Thursday after a new study found they are being used to gun down civilians in conflict zones. ICRC said its first study on small arms showed rapid-fire assault rifles, pistols and submachine guns are illicitly circling the globe in a booming black market. Often legally sold, they are later recycled and used to wreak havoc in war-torn regions ranging from ...

EDITORIAL OBSERVER : What Is This, the Tammy Wynette Strategy? By GAIL COLLINS ``I made the major pitch, but Mrs. Clinton chimed in." -- Senator Charles Schumer on Hillary Clinton's role in a White House meeting about aid to New York hospitals. Hillary Clinton is making a pilgrimage to Oneonta, N.Y., this week to "visit" with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the man she hopes to replace in the Senate. If establishing an exploratory committee, renting office space and hiring staff are not enough proof that Mrs. Clinton is a serious candidate, this trip ought to do it. Nobody travels to Oneonta ...

Journalists need new roles in the online world, Netmedia was told By Internet Correspondent Chris Nuttall Online journalists have been warned that Net users are taking over their role, forging a new kind of people's journalism. Steve Yelvington, Executive Editor of Cox Interactive Media in the US, told the annual Netmedia conference in London that the rules were changing in the new medium of the Internet. "We are not gatekeepers anymore, the city walls are down, we don't own customers, we don't control information," he said. Slashdot threatens extinction "But they still need us as guides. They need to ...

Reasoning the Fourth It has been 223 years since the first Fourth, the one commemorated on this anniversary, and in that time Independence Day has been celebrated in just about every possible way, with emotions ranging from a throb of sanctity to irate mockery, with fireworks, parades, doubleheaders, hot dogs, speeches, demonstrations, John Philip Sousa and long afternoon naps on what feels delightfully like the second Saturday in the week. This is still the least commercial holiday in the American holiday roster. No one has figured out a way to sell the public on exchanging Independence Day presents, and you ...

Democrats Try Pitching to Maternal Instincts By FRANK BRUNI WASHINGTON -- At a news conference recently in one of the Capitol's many gilded chambers, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., offered a myriad of reasons why a Democratic proposal to give patients new rights within their health insurance plans made sense. She spoke of longer hospital stays, greater access to specialists, better overall care. But perhaps the most intriguing part of her sales pitch was a less technical one. "Health care is a women's issue," Ms. Mikulski told an audience of several dozen reporters. "Women will do anything to make sure their ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. CHINESE REASSIGN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF IMPLICATED IN FUND-RAISING SCANDAL; ASIA: TORRANCE BUSINESSMAN TESTIFIED THAT GENERAL HAD FUNNELED MONEY TO AID CLINTON'S 1996 CAMPAIGN. BEIJING INSISTS MOVE IS NOT A DEMOTION. HENRY CHU and JIM MANN, TIMES STAFF WRITERS Los Angeles Times; Part A; Page 4; Financial Desk July 3, 1999, Saturday, Home Edition The chief of Chinese military intelligence has been reassigned in a move that government officials here insisted was unrelated to his role in the U.S. campaign donations scandal. "It's a face-saving ...

Redefining Bush-League Fund Raising By ADAM CLYMER WASHINGTON -- Even though he has done it faster than anyone else, Gov. George W. Bush is not the first Texan to raise several gazillion dollars to run for president. He is the sixth or seventh, depending on whether you count Lloyd Bentsen. Put aside Ross Perot, as Bush's father would have liked to do in 1992, because the cranky billionaire's chief fund-raising device was his personal checkbook. After that, Gov. Bush's broad-brimmed $36.3 million, even adjusted for inflation, puts most other Texans in the shade, though not Lyndon B. Johnson and George ...

In New York Race for Senate, Pacing Takes Prominence By ADAM NAGOURNEY When Hillary Rodham Clinton shows up at Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's upstate New York farm on Wednesday, offering herself as his potential successor after his retirement next year, it will be a full 489 days until the election. Nevertheless, as of yesterday, nearly 200 reporters and other media representatives from around the world had signed up to record the event, and then to chase the First Lady across central New York for four days of "listening to New Yorkers." Most candidates for the United States Senate would revel ...

The Cox Report is out, and the Media is ignoring it. (like usual) FRee Republic is not going to allow this to go away. With your help Free Republic is going to go where no web site has gone before. We have set our sights on appearing before Congress and give our Testimony on this TREASON that has taken place. We can do this, we can make a difference. We need YOUR help to accomplish everything we need to do to prepare for this historic effort. We are putting out the call for Freepers to step up and be counted. ...

Police use e-mail to nab suspect on weapons charges The Associated Press 07/03/99 3:48 PM Eastern WAKEFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A man who escaped prosecution for weapons charges two years ago when he was declared unfit to stand trial now faces the same charges after he allegedly engaged in a romance over the Internet with an undercover federal agent. The 10-month cyber-romance shows Stephen DiCenso of Wakefield was faking mental incompetence, authorities said. DiCenso, 24, was charged in federal court Friday with possessing a machine gun, unregistered firearms and a gun with an erased serial number. DiCenso had faced ...

In New York Race for Senate, Pacing Takes Prominence By RICHARD L. BERKE WASHINGTON -- Gov. George W. Bush's colossal $36.3 million campaign treasury was built on three pillars: a home-court advantage that allowed him to hit up Texas supporters, enthusiastic support from Republican governors, and the vast fund-raising network of his father, the former President. But it is a fourth pillar that has catapulted the Governor of Texas to fund-raising heights never before seen in Presidential politics: the burning desire of hungry Republicans, made fat by seven years of economic growth and frustrated by Democratic control, to regain the ...

Survey: Public support of news media tumbling in America NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — There is further evidence that the American public is getting fed up with the news media. A majority, 53 percent, of those questioned in a survey sponsored by the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University believe the press has too much freedom. That's an increase of 15 percentage points since 1997. "It's a humbling reminder that fundamental rights of expression can disappear if the press and public are not vigilant,'' said Ken Paulson, the center's executive director. The survey, released Friday to coincide with the July 4th ...

Goodbye Sovereign Switzerland by Jane H. Ingraham With scarcely a murmur of dissent, the seemingly impossible was accomplished. Lacking understanding, the Swiss people voted this spring to end the unique soundness of their currency as well as their country’s financial power and independence. Oblivious to the consequences of abandoning the Swiss franc’s tie to gold, the people of Switzerland — the world’s only direct democracy — approved a new constitution that abolishes the traditional gold convertibility that for generations made the Swiss franc literally "as good as gold."

God Bless all of You!!! Happy Independence Day!!! - Creek National Archives and Records Administration The Declaration of Independence A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the ...