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NEW YORK T he cat-and-mouse game that may be the prelude to a Hillary-for-Senate campaign gets more frenzied tomorrow when the first lady registers an exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission. New York's scribes and spinners, all but hysterical over the prospect of their "dream race" -- a face-off between Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani -- will hit the tarmac running when her plane touches down in Albany as she embarks on a five-day swing across the state. Although neither she nor the Republican mayor have officially announced their candidacies, Mrs. Clinton's visit ...

Land use: Officials at renowned San Diego attraction want to tear down adjacent War Memorial Building to make way for a parking structure. Opponents pledge to battle the project. SAN DIEGO--If there are two things revered here above all others, they are the military and the San Diego Zoo. This sunny city never tires of publicly displaying its pride in being home to the world's largest military complex and one of the world's most acclaimed zoos. Downtown streets are often decorated with bright banners celebrating the zoo. Every summer, the city hosts a two-week festival to express respect for ...

Jefferson County school administrators asked Kathy Redmond to design a curriculum for 17 high schools to help coaches and athletes reduce the incidence of violence among "jocks.'' They told her that she should "shoot for the moon'' in proposing a comprehensive program for sensitivity training. "I thought it was strange that they wouldn't give me a budget to work with, but I asked them about that and they said not to worry. "Just give us a year-round, district-wide proposal, and don't worry about the cost,' they said,'' Redmond recalls. She did. Redmond, a nationally recognized authority on violence among ...

Monday, July 5, 1999; Page A20 TO MAKE the numbers come out even when they passed the balanced budget act in 1997, the president and Congress promised, without ever specifying how, that in the future a large category of federal spending would be cut by 20 percent in real terms. The promise was widely recognized at the time to be unrealistic, not to say phony -- something that ultimately neither would nor should be done, given the widespread devastation it would cause. But because it nonetheless purported to be official policy, the budget estimators had no choice but to ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on yesterday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY Be sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

There's a new warning out there for America's corporate executives: Sexual misconduct on the job could get you fired, fast. The recent resignation of the chief executive officer of Chicago-based Florsheim Group Inc. under a cloud of sexual-wrongdoing charges - and a handful of similar oustings in the past few years - hints at an emerging new standard: It used to be too costly for companies to expose such executive misdeeds. Now it's becoming too costly not to. It's a trend driven by tectonic shifts in America's legal standards and cultural attitudes. This decade, courts have heaped liability on companies ...

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole yesterday said Hillary Rodham Clinton's quest for a Senate seat presents a "most unusual situation" to taxpayers who will be footing the bill. "It looks like a lot of our taxpayer dollars will be used in the process should she decide to run for the office in New York," Dole said. "She's going to be traveling back and forth constantly as we pay for the trips and pay for all that goes with it. So it's a most unusual situation," the GOP Presidential hopeful said when asked her opinion of the first lady. "I disagree ...

Washington -- The citizenry is passing serenely through a time of grave peril. Leon Panetta sings from his hideaway in Carmel Valley, California, that "the projected budget surplus will exceed all expectations." He absconded to sunny Carmel from his position as the Boy President's chief of staff after the stench from the Oval Office became too much for his delicate nostrils. He now enthuses that this "unexpected" Federal surplus will in ten years reach nearly three trillion dollars, and in fifteen, "a whopping $5.935 trillion." Actually, the surplus is not all that unexpected. Supply-siders have explained ever since their ...

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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 "serious mistake" if Bush ...

Potential Candidate Hillary Clinton Readies New York Blitz July 4, 1999 Web posted at: 9:19 p.m. EDT (0119 GMT) WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, July 4) -- First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will take a few more steps down the road toward a run for a New York Senate seat this week, with a four-day tour of the state and the expected formation of an exploratory campaign committee. But in a sign of things to come, the Sunday political talk shows were full of debate about whether Clinton can separate herself politically from her husband, whether she should use government aircraft to campaign ...

NEW YORK -- If all it took to become a citizen was knowing what caused the Revolutionary War, Grigoriy Brekhman would be in luck. "The taxes were very high and the Colonies hated England about the taxes because they had no rights," explained Brekhman, a 65-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, when the teacher in his citizenship class posed the question last week. Correct, the teacher said, but not the best response. "At the interview, they are looking for short answers," she advised her elderly Russian-speaking students at Bronx House, a Jewish community center. "If you said, 'high taxes,' that would ...

Due to popular request, schedules for events of both President Bill Clinton and First Lady/Possible Senator Hillary Clinton have been added to "The Campaign Connection," for whatever purposes you find for them. Whether your aspiration is to see two of the most important people (debatable) in the free world, or to demonstrate against either of them, the information is here. Updated as often as possible and neccessary. The URL is http://election2000.8m.com/clintons.htm -- click here.

The Chuck Morse Show Mon. to Fri. 8-10PM EDT, 7-9PM CDT, 6-8PM MDT, 5-7PM PDT. Click Here To Listen The Chuck Morse Show consists primarily of interviews with authors and activists as well as live call-ins. Morse comes from Stereo WNRB 1510 AM, WMFO-FM, Tufts Community Radio, and WBPS AM 890 Sports Radio. At WMFO in Medford, Massachusetts, he hosted "Voices of the First World", a philosophic talk show with a libertarian edge. Focusing on the Constitution, Morse hopes to help his listeners look, not just at the news of the day, but also at the issues under the ...

ZDNet - How MS plans to remake Windows How MS plans to remake Windows By Mary Jo Foley, Sm@rt Reseller & John G. Spooner, PC Week July 2, 1999 2:12 PM PT URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2288004,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014 Microsoft Corp. is attempting to churn out this month its first internal builds of Neptune, the code name for the first consumer version of Windows built on the NT kernel. Neptune is slated as the follow-on to Millennium, the code name for the final version of Windows based on the Windows 9x kernel. Neptune will be Microsoft's first operating system to make use of the ...

These names ring any bells? Morton Abramowitz Saul Bellow Zbigniew Brzezinski Richard Burt Frank Carlucci Dennis DeConcini Paula Dobriansky Geraldine Ferraro Robert Hunter Philip Kaiser Max M. Kampelman Lane Kirkland Jeane Kirkpatrick Peter Kovler Ron Lehman John O'Sullivan Richard Perle Eugene Rostow Donald Rumsfeld Stephen Solarz Helmut Sonnenfeldt William Howard Taft Elie Wiesel Paul Wolfowitz Elmo Zumwalt The Balkan Action Council. I can save a lot of effort here and just recommend that you use your navigator and take a little trip down Madeline and Bill's Balkan Memory Lane: http://www.balkanaction.org/ and especially: http://www.balkanaction.org/media/ We're talking here of articles published in ...

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - Reverend Al Sharpton is out of jail after trying to shut down the Atlantic City Expressway Saturday. Police arrested him and 75 other demonstrators who caused a long traffic jam. It happened in Atlantic City where the expressway meets Baltic Avenue. Sharpton and 75 supporters were arrested for violating the city’s Peace and Good Order law. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.    Sharpton claims New Jersey’s not doing enough to stop racial profiling by state police. This comes after Governor Christine Whitman released a report Friday ...

GOP Presidential Hopefuls Work N.H. Crowds Amid July 4th Hoopla, Candidates Play Down Bush Lead in Polls, Money Race By Leslie Gevirtz Reuters Monday, July 5, 1999; Page A04 AMHERST, N.H., July 4—For most Americans, July 4th is a holiday, but it's a workday for presidential aspirants, and four spent it greeting crowds at Independence Day parades in New Hampshire. Republican hopefuls -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, former Cabinet officer and Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole, conservative activist Gary L. Bauer and conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan -- crisscrossed the state walking in parades and pumping voters' hands. Front-runner ...

Health Care Lobby Targets GOP Senators on Air By Dan Morgan Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 5, 1999; Page A03 Five Republican senators returning to their states for the July 4 recess are in for a surprise welcome home next week: a barrage of television and radio ads aimed at rallying opposition to key provisions in "patients' rights" legislation due for floor debate when Congress reconvenes. The week-long, $750,000 media blitz, paid for by a coalition of businesses and health insurers, takes aim at Democratic proposals that would let workers sue employers for grievances against company health plans. But ...

Bradley Gaining Ground - Money, Strategy Begin Elbowing Gore By Thomas B. Edsall and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, July 5, 1999; Page A01 What the experts said wouldn't happen apparently has happened: former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley has collected enough money and positioned himself strategically to mount a credible challenge to Vice President Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to strategists from both parties. Bradley's surprise performance in raising $11.5 million so far this year -- almost two-thirds the amount raised by the incumbent vice president -- has given him the respect crucial to elevating ...