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. . . When I was a boy (henceforth WIWAB), a youngster began the slow metamorphosis from childhood to manhood when, during such quaint activities as going out to dinner with his family or attending a "semi-formal" dance, he hung up the baseball cap for the nonce and sported a fedora, a smaller version of the one dad wore. Similarly, girls put aside their Scout berets and stocking caps and began imitating their mother's more dignified millinery. The point is not that I am a crank who longs for a return to a better time (actually I am a crank, ...

[NOTICE: Read at ownrisk] Can it be that Bill Clinton is merely a prequel, the horse she rode in on? The election results come to me in dreams. My kitchen table hops and thumps like a flamenco dancer. I ask it, "How do you think Hillary Clinton will do against Giuliani? What about the presidency in 2004?" The table tells me Hillary is a great American story forming. I seem to hear the distant voice of Madonna singing the lead. Perhaps the table is talking me into something. I am a sucker for the opinions of agitated furniture. Sometimes I ...

Hillary Clinton Gets Top Teacher Union Award By Brad Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Greeted with strains of ``New York, New York,'' first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted the National Education Association's top honor Monday at a meeting of the nation's largest teachers union. It was the first time the 2.4-million-member union had given its Friend of Education Award to a president's wife, and Mrs. Clinton used the opportunity to lay out her ideas on education. That included a slap at school vouchers in Florida, where the nation's first statewide voucher plan was signed into law last month by ...

For discussion purposese only. The US women's soccer team did an excellent job of defense in their bid to the World Cup finals against China. I would hope that this team could teach the US Men's soccer team to play as well on the international level. Not to forget the political aspect of the finals, which team will Clinton and Gore root for????? STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- They call her "The Rock." And "The Wall." On Sunday, Briana Scurry earned a new nickname: "The Savior." There were few Fourth of July fireworks by the U.S. team as it qualified for ...

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A couple are fighting to recover their mainland flat after it was taken over by an investment firm and rented to a PLA general. In January this year, Lieutenant-General Chen Kang, 88, moved into a flat in Shenzhen owned by Betty Tsui Kit-wa, 42, and husband Chan Koon-to, 47. The couple paid 560,000 yuan (HK$524,000) in 1993 for the 20th-floor, 940-square-foot flat in the Da Xin Building, Bao An Nan Road, but it was taken over by Jin Tian Investment Company the following year because of a tenant's bad debts. The firm is understood to have paid 300,000 yuan to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton will have to ``get out from under the cocoon of the White House'' and reach out to ordinary New Yorkers if she hopes to win the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic strategists in New York say. Mrs. Clinton planned to filed papers Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission in Washington establishing an exploratory committee for a Senate run. That will allow Mrs. Clinton to raise and spend money for a Senate race. The first lady, who has visited the state frequently in the past few months, will ...

                            THE WHITE HOUSE                     Office of the Press Secretary________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                                      July 2, 1999                                  July 1, 1999                        Presidential Determination                              ...

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Democrats urge Mrs. Clinton to escape White House cocoon By MARC HUMBERT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton will have to "get out from under the cocoon of the White House" and reach out to ordinary New Yorkers if she hopes to win the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic strategists in New York say. Mrs. Clinton planned to filed papers Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission in Washington establishing an exploratory committee for a Senate run. That will allow Mrs. Clinton to raise and spend money for a Senate race. The first ...

Rethink Global Warming Policies Everyday we are forced to read information that screams of an oncoming global catastrophe caused by increases in the average temperature of the Earth. The proof of this however is severely lacking. Instead of rushing into the millenium with our minds filled with doomsdays predictions forecasted by ecologists, let us look at what meteorologists, the true experts in the field, are saying. They are saying that there is no empirical proof that global warming of one or two or even as many as six degrees, will cause the disasters that are being predicted. The issue ...

HAZARD, Ky. (Reuters) - President Clinton visited portions of rural Appalachia Monday to begin a four-day tour of poverty-stricken areas of America to promote public and private efforts to help the nation's estimated 36 million poor. Clinton plans to present Congress with details of a $15 billion plan to invest in economically depressed rural and urban areas over the next five years. The proposal was part of the budget proposal he submitted in February, but no legislation was drafted until now. Clinton began his trip with a visit to Tyner, Kentucky, where he sat on the front porch of a ...

Deseret News Archives Start new search + Search help + Web Edition front page Deseret News Archives, Monday, May 10, 1999 Does the U.N. control our parks? By Jack Anderson, and Jan Moller We didn't really believe the Idaho sportsmen who called our office to complain that their hunting and fishing privileges were being curtailed by the United Nations. The Clinton administration has adopted some unpopular land-use policies in the West, but surely the United Nations does not have jurisdiction over some of our nation's most treasured natural and historic sites? Could a bureaucrat at the world body really tell ...

University and the Aggression on FRY Prof. Dr. Oliver Antic Faculty of Law Belgrade University In the first half of the month of June in the year 399 B.C. Socrates chose death, refusing unlawful salvation offered to him even though he was unjustly convicted. He preferred to die respecting the laws, as he said, then live violating them. About 6% of the vote was needed to dismiss the unjust accusation! Athens killed the truth, but not for long. Soon it regretted its decision. As a gesture of remorse for the crime done, Athenians closed all schools, condemned to death ...

How important should a U.S. presidential candidate's war record be in determining his/her potential for leadership? Quick Poll Scroll down to about the middle of the page; we need some votes -- it's almost dead even 38% yes, 38% no!

Editorials - July 5, 1999 Parades and principles: Celebrating America's unconventional birthday The United States is perhaps the only country that would consult a 223-year-old piece of paper for guidance about appropriate policy in an obscure part of the world. The paper — parchment, really — is the Declaration of Independence and it sets out the circumstances under which a people should become an independent nation. Certainly the conditions laid out by the Founding Fathers of "death, desolation and tyranny" prevailed in Kosovo. The United States was drawn into that conflict less out of national than a pervasive idealism. And ...

How important should a U.S. presidential candidate's war record be in determining his/her potential for leadership? That's the question. Go to CNN to cast your vote. It's about halfway down the page.

Michael Medved announced last Friday that today he would discuss the good, bad and ugly - the history of 3rd parties.

Vice President Al Gore leads former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley by a wide margin among likely Democratic caucus voters, according to a new Iowa Poll. Gore is the presidential choice of 64 percent of Iowans polled who said they definitely or probably will take part in the statewide Democratic caucuses early next year. Bradley, a former professional basketball star who later represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, lags behind in the poll with support from 24 percent of likely caucus voters. Twelve percent say they are uncommitted or unsure. Other poll results suggest that Gore owes his lead ...

THE WAR BETWEEN BILL & AL by their friend Dick Morris: ******************************************************** AL GORE needs to watch his back. Bill Clinton is furious at him. Livid. And why? Because Al Gore, the ever-faithful lieutenant who passionately defended the president through the entire Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment process, has overtly tried to put some distance between himself and the president. What apparently set Clinton off was that, on the night before the official announcement of his presidential candidacy, Gore told reporters that the president's conduct has upset him and that it was "inexcusable." For the record, that makes Gore's ...