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Clinton-hating pinup girl, talk-radio poobah, George magazine columnist and possible congressional candidate Ann Coulter recently lamented that she was having trouble getting dates in the nation's capital -- a situation rendered even more poignant by a recent report in Glamour that "One in four D.C. dudes expects to do the nasty on date No. 1, the highest percentage of any city surveyed." Herewith, as part of Salon's attempt to promote national reconciliation and sexual healing, we offer some tips for Ms. Coulter. June 25, 1999 | I read your piece in George magazine on the difficulties of dating in ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Cindy Parlow scored the first goal, and Michelle Akers added the insurance goal as the U.S. defeated Brazil 2-0 Sunday in a Women's World Cup semifinal match in front of 73,123 fans at Stanford Stadium. The win puts the U.S. in Saturday's final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., against China, which defeated Norway 5-0 on Sunday night. Parlow's goal in the fifth minute was essentially a gift from Brazilian keeper Maravilha, who let a Julie Foudy cross from the left corner go through her hands. Parlow headed in the loose ball, giving the ...

WASHINGTON - Lawrence Summers was sworn in Friday as the nation's 71st treasury secretary in a private ceremony at the White House. Summers, with his wife, Victoria, three children and parents watching, took the oath of office from Vice President Al Gore. President Clinton and other members of his economic team, including outgoing Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, were present for the brief ceremony in the Oval Office. Summers had been confirmed by the Senate on a 97-2 vote Thursday. Summers joined the administration in its early days and has served as one of the architects of many of the ...

By NIKO PRICE -- Associated Press PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- For a place where many government offices have been bombed and most of the rest have been looted, Kosovo suffers from an odd affliction: too many governments. There's the government of Hashim Thaci, the Kosovo Liberation Army chief who says a coalition of political parties picked him as "prime minister" to lead the province to freedom. There's the government of Bujar Bukoshi, since 1991 the "prime minister" of the unrecognized "Republic of Kosovo." And there's the government of Zoran Andjelkovic, the Yugoslav governor of Kosovo before the bombing started. And ...

Behind the Headlines   July 5, 1999 DISARMED AND DANGEROUS As the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) burned, pillaged, and raped its way across Kosovo, KFOR commander Lieutenant General Mike Jackson held a press conference announcing that he was fully satisfied that the KLA was carrying out its pledge to disarm. A much-touted agreement, signed by Jackson and Hacim "the Snake" Thraci, mandates that the KLA start disarming by June 21. Never mind that the "figures given by both sides show that the KLA has fallen short of its commitments," as a June 29 Agence France-Presse dispatch put it. Even ...

The first of a nine-part in-depth series/analysis of the betrayal of America and its military personnel during the Viet Nam War. LFCT

POZAREVAC, Yugoslavia--The bulldozers groaned, the welders sweated rivers, and a feverish army of Serbian laborers poured concrete, gravel and paint Saturday as the son of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic personally orchestrated the furious pace of construction.      But in a nation where NATO bombs and missiles left a wasteland of broken bridges, smashed factories, ruined railways and impotent power plants, this madcap activity took place at none of the above.      It was at Bambi Park, six acres of kiddie pools, skateboard runs, mini-car courses and a pirate ship playground--along with the centrally located "Extreme Bar" for parents--all in the heart of ...

The question is simple: To repair America, will we have to have another revolution against government???

SALEM, Illinois (CNN) -- A man thought to be the gunman who targeted minorities in a deadly drive-by shooting spree that started in the Chicago area and spread to other Illinois towns and Bloomington, Indiana, died after a high-speed chase Sunday night in Salem, Illinois, FBI sources said. Word of Benjamin Nathaniel Smith's death came from FBI sources in Chicago. Other FBI sources said he killed himself during a high-speed chase in the south-central Illinois town parallel to St. Louis. Smith, 21, described as a white supremacist, apparently was driving a van that had been carjacked after ditching his light ...

FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA: RUBIN TAKES THE BAIT By JAMES KELLEHER Robert Rubin isn't even out of a job as treasury secretary for a week, but already the fish are getting nervous. That's because Rubin, a sport-fishing fanatic, is likely to celebrate his release from the government grind by slipping off to Montana or Alaska for a week or two of fly-casting before he heads back home to New York. Like a lot of hard-charging corporate types, Rubin, the 60-year-old former co- chairman of Goldman Sachs, is serious about his fly-fishing. Proof of that came in late 1994, when Rubin, then ...

HEREIN 'LIES' A TALE OF ARROGANCE By STEVE DUNLEAVY AFTER years of studying at the feet of the master, Hillary Clinton is starting to sound like an echo chamber. As co-president, Hillary Clinton learned a telling lesson from "Bill the shill." It is the penchant, as conservative Bill Safire said of her husband, "to lie even when he doesn't have to." Yesterday, New Yorkers spoke their minds in a new poll that addressed Hillary's claim that she has always been a Yankee fan. New Yorkers were asked whether they believe her. The result? Sixty-eight percent replied "no" - they didn't ...

HOSPITAL RODHAM CLINTON Hillary Clinton's stout defense of New York's wastrel ways in hospital spending has now put her crosswise of her husband. And for once in a dispute between the philanderer and his long-suffering wife, he's in the right. The First Husband's administration proposes trimming some fat out of hospital spending in New York to ensure the long-term soundness of the Medicare program. The problem is physician training, a major industry in New York - but one that exists solely by virtue of hugely disproportionate infusions of federal, state and local tax dollars into the state's hospital system. From ...

THE REFORMIST WAR ON DEMOCRACY We don't make a habit of responding to other newspapers' editorials, but The New York Times' commentary on Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's fund-raising success can only be described as irrational - and inadvertently reveals the hidden agenda behind many of the calls for campaign-finance reform. Bush has raised an unprecedented $35 million - in spite of the law that limits contributions to $1,000 each. As a result, Bush may decide to forsake federal matching funds and run his campaign without spending a dime of taxpayer money. The Times says it would be a ...

BUSH DENIES VIET DRAFT 'DODGE' By MARILYN RAUBER WASHINGTON - GOP presidential favorite George W. Bush yesterday defended his Vietnam-era stint as a stay-at-home Air National Guard pilot, declaring, "I served my country." The Texas governor denied he got any "preferential treatment" as the son of then-Congressman George Bush, and insisted, "I met the qualifications" to join. "I was proud of my service. Had my unit been called up, I would have gone overseas," Bush said as he stumped in New Hampshire. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that Bush did appear to get "favorable" treatment in the Texas unit ...

LATEST 'BUZZ' ON HILL'S N.Y. TRIP By Fredric U. Dicker and Marilyn Rauber State Republicans will "welcome" First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to New York Wednesday with an airport "beauty contest" for the best-looking Adirondack fly. "We're inviting members of the public to show up at the Binghamton airport in fly costumes so the First Lady, who obviously doesn't know much about New York, can get an idea what a good Adirondack fly looks like," state GOP Executive Director Brendan Quinn told The Post yesterday. "We're going to offer the person who shows up with the best fly costume a ...

Clinton orders 'cyber-sabotage' to oust Serb leader Clinton orders 'cyber-sabotage' to oust Serb leaderBy Philip Sherwell in Podgorica, Sasa Nikolic in Belgrade and Julius Strauss in Pristina   River of hate divides Belfast of the Balkans PRESIDENT CLINTON has ordered American government computer hackers to break into Slobodan Milosevic's foreign bank accounts and drain his hidden fortune as part of a clandestine CIA plan to overthrow the Yugoslav president, The Telegraph has learned. The controversial operation, which is opposed by some senior political and intelligence figures in Washington, is part of a covert six-point package authorised by Mr Clinton ...

GRACE, The boy stood with back arched, head cocked back and hands clenched defiantly. "Go ahead, give it to me." The principal looked down at the young rebel. "How many times have you been here?" The child sneered rebelliously, "Apparently not enough." The principal gave the boy a strange look. "And you have been punished each time have you not?" "Yeah, I been punished, if that's what you want to call it." He threw out his small chest, "Go ahead I can take whatever you dish out. I always have." "And no thought of your punishment enters your head ...

http://www.best.com/~dolphin/eden/ First appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Volume 18. No. 2, May 1987. Used with permission of Miss Hamblin's sister and executor, Mary H. Ovrom. December 1, 1997.

Mrs. Clinton Begins Listening Tour By H. JOSEF HEBERT .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton embarks this week on a get-acquainted ``listening tour'' across upstate New York as critics question her seeking a Senate seat from a state in which she has never lived. The ``carpetbagger'' charge carried across the television talk show circuit Sunday as the first lady's supporters and critics debated her almost-certain bid to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the 2000 election. On CBS' ``Face the Nation,'' Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., brought along a carpet bag and pulled out items ...

Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not….And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. This attack on the traitorous Republicans comes not from Godless liberals, or from one-issue pro-lifers, but from generally unknown champions of freedom. Voices, crying into the wilderness the words of St. Jerome, "My native land is a prey to barbarism. In it men's only God is their belly. They live only for the present, and the richer a man is, the holier he is held to be." ...