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The city's world-famous theater district will be blacked out on New Year's Eve, Post columnist Cindy Adams reported today. Anticipating record crowds and the potential for violence they represent, police have ordered all Broadway theaters to close on what is traditionally a big night on the Great White Way, Adams said. You looking to buy Millennium Night seats to "Art," "Lion King," "Death of a Salesman," "Phantom," "Ragtime," etc? Fuhgeddaboudit." she wrote. Police Commissioner Howard Safir told Adams, "Shutting the theater is not only a safety measure, it's a practical precaution. With enormous crowds in the area, theatergoers pouring ...

as of 6/96 a debt of mine was showing as being a profit/loss "write off". since 6/96 I have not heard from the company once! Now 7/99 (3 years later) I have received a notice from a collection agent that the debt has increased from $500 to $1000 and they want me to pay up.

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. ...

Fast action needed in event of Y2K crisis, says report JENNIFER DITCHBURN OTTAWA (CP) - Canadian communities could be plunged into crisis within 24 hours if services like sewage treatment or water purification failed because of year 2000-related computer problems, says a federal report. Electricity outages would have an instant impact on Canadian life, and disruptions in health-care services would cause the blood supply to reach dangerously low levels within a few days. But government officials are less concerned about the immediate impact of a failure in the food supply chain, where the ability to cope with problems is ...

TAKING JERUSALEM: Climax of The First Crusade On July 8, 1099, 15,000 starving Christian soldiers marched barefoot around Jerusalem while its Muslim defenders mocked them from the battlements. One week later, the situation would be astonishingly altered. By J. Arthur McFall "Jerusalem is the navel of the world, a land which is fruitful above all others, like another paradise of delights," wrote Robert the Monk in Historia Hierosolymitana. And, indeed, for centuries Jerusalem, sacred to Jew, Christian and Muslim alike, had been the center of attention for a succession of conquering armies--which made life anything but a paradise for ...

WEST DAVENPORT, N.Y. -- Launching her historic campaign for the Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged on Wednesday to be a "strong and effective advocate on behalf of the people of New York." She was immediately asked to address criticism that she is a "carpetbagger" for choosing to seek election from a state where she has never lived or worked. "What I am for is maybe as important, if not more important than where I am from," Mrs. Clinton said. Mrs. Clinton was introduced by the man she hopes to succeed, retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "I hope she will ...

HAVE BRIEFCASE, WILL TRAVEL Hillary Rodham Clinton is set to announce the formation of an exploratory committee to determine whether she shall seek the office of Senator from the State of New York. She's thinking about it. Can she represent New York? What are its needs? What are the salient facts? Can she passionately articulate the issues most dear to its citizens? These are the issues that others on the way to Washington mightwell be asking. But Mrs. Clinton ain't no "Mr. Smith." She's not looking for a good cause so much as a good client. To get the ball ...

Sherie Ferguson is pictured here with her 15-year-old daughter, Brandi, in their Lakewood, Colo., home Monday, July 5, 1999. As a result of the shooting at Columbine High School, Ferguson has decided to home school her only daughter. It is too early to know how many parents will opt for home schooling, but educators in Colorado said there was a 30 percent to 40 percent increase in interest immediately after Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, went on their rampage April 20. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to ...

The police have been instructed to not allow any protestors or signs when the Rapist visits South Phoenix today.Constitution? What Constitution?

Observing quaint local customs helps us better understand exotic places, people, and their politics. In New York, for example, there is a common (and illegal) street card game called Three Card Monte Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategy is beginning to look like curious political card game. THE MONTE DEALER sets up shop on a very portable surface, usually a cardboard box, on a busy street. He uses only three cards, two black queens and a red one. After loudly announcing the chance to win big money, the dealer shows to the crowd the faces of the cards, then flips them ...

ME-FIRST LADY DELUDED BY SENSE OF GRANDEUR By ANDREA PEYSER THERE is a name for someone like Hillary. A name exists for a person who routinely cuts corners. Who has no problem appropriating the money or labor or talents of others to achieve personal gratification and glorification. There is a name for someone who exaggerates accomplishments. Who believes her innate superiority entitles her to obfuscate, evade and lie. There is something you could call one who is fundamentally incapable of carrying out any task to completion. A person who continually leaves those who count on her for guidance frustrated ...

    OPERATING from a secret Toronto location, the computer-hacker wing of the Chinese democracy movement has plans for destabilizing the Chinese government. The hackers have infiltrated the Chinese government computer networks and gathered classified information from behind the safety of the Canadian border. The Hong Kong Blondes, an underground, computer-based activist organization that hacks in the name of human rights and democracy in mainland China, represents a new electronic stage in the Chinese democracy movement. Ten years after Tiananmen Square, where students used age-old means of protest, China is witnessing the rise of ''hacktivism'' - that is, the use of ...

On the verge of a federal tax cut? July 7, 1999 Last year Republicans chickened out and didn't pass any tax cut, despite the first budget surplus in 30 years. This year? "I'm very optimistic," Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, told us. "The additional revenues will make it difficult for President Clinton to veto a tax cut. Republicans [in Congress] realize they made a mistake in 1998. They got mau-maued by the Democrats on the Social Security issue," when Democrats said the budget surplus should be used to ensure the solvency of Social Security. This year, Mr. ...

Behind the Headlines July 7, 1999 STOP THE PRESSES! Are you sitting down? I hope so, because the following news item is going to make you go all wobbly at the knees: for the first time in recorded history, the recipient of a foreign aid handout has rejected the money and told Uncle Sam, in effect, to get lost: "We will not accept US aid for a change in Iraq," Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), told the London-based daily Al-Hayat. According to Akhbar.com [January 21, 1999], the Ayatollah, ...

One of the things that most makes me bristle about our current vice president is that I deeply resent being talked down to by someone who has the apparent IQ of a medium-sized cucumber. But, I'm beginning to notice of late that the Gore condescending tone and mannerisms are beginning to permeate the entire Clinton administration (or were they there all along, and I am just beginning to notice them now?) A few weeks ago, Secretary of Education Richard Riley announced at a press conference, in a "you had better listen to me, you unthinking idiots, because I have ...

Excess Profits In the past, liberals have insisted on "returning to the people" what they defined as windfall profits or excess profits - whether those profits were generated by oil companies or utilities or whoever. Then it is my contention that we are currently experiencing windfall profits or excess profits in the way of federal income tax revenue and, to insure consistency, those profits should be "returned to the people." But I am certain that the editorial pages of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would not endorse such a thought, in that they support the reasoning that we are currently experiencing ...

The International Monetary Fund has promised Moscow another $4.5 billion, supposedly to promote market reforms. That's too bad, since such a promise bolsters the views of those Russians who blame their current financial crisis on their government's allegedly rigid laissez-faire reforms. Despite having the illusion of reform, Russia's financial system today is in a chaotic state that might be called "Potemkin capitalism." Superficially, the financial system looks market based; however, closer inspection reveals that it remains fundamentally socialist. Russia's unsound ruble has suffered high and variable inflation leading to high interest rates. Unlike the dollar, the ruble cannot be legally ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. Picture yourself in political prison Electronic probes are hooked to your head You've been refusing to vote Democratic So they'll make you wish you were dead That is the vision of someone who cares New York will give her a starting place Get in her way and she quickly will rip off your face Now the Witch from Hell has her website Now the Witch from Hell has her website Now the Witch from Hell has her website She tells New Yorkers that she's ...

THERE is a name for someone like Hillary. A name exists for a person who routinely cuts corners. Who has no problem appropriating the money or labor or talents of others to achieve personal gratification and glorification. There is a name for someone who exaggerates accomplishments. Who believes her innate superiority entitles her to obfuscate, evade and lie. There is something you could call one who is fundamentally incapable of carrying out any task to completion. A person who continually leaves those who count on her for guidance frustrated and empty. Angry. Unsatisfied. The name could be Bill Clinton. ...

Many Americans objected to President Clinton's bombing of Yugoslavia -- without a declaration of war by Congress and with no threat of attack against the United States. You might be one of those who think it's wrong to bomb innocent Serbs for the alleged sins of one man. By attacking a smaller country without provocation, our president invited the resentment of hundreds of millions of people worldwide, as well as the active interest of terrorists who might want to react to such a dangerous foreign policy. Who gave President Clinton the authority to jeopardize our future in this way? Well, ...