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By LARA JAKES, Capitol bureau First published: Wednesday, July 7, 1999 Support for First Lady wanes, Siena poll finds Albany -- Giuliani is supported by 49% and Clinton by 40% of those questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton's potential candidacy for the U.S. Senate now has less support from New Yorkers than it had four months ago, according to an upstate poll released Tuesday. A matchup between the First Lady and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani would see the Republican favorite prevail with 49 percent of the vote, and the First Lady trailing with 40 percent, according to a poll ...

Subject: RESIGNATION To Who it May Concern: I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year old again. I want to go to McDonald’s and think that it’s a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to play dodgeball at recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run ...

Chris Matthews discussing GWB's military record on HARDBALL now. Nothing else follows.

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Panama's president demanded Wednesday that the United States clear out the remains of explosives at military bases being handed over along with the Panama Canal by the end of the year. ``I advise the United States that its responsibility to clean up does not end with the handover and it should respond by indemnifying people who end up injured,'' Ernesto Perez Balladares said in a speech. The United States last week turned over one of the areas used for war exercises and target practice. Two others remain. About 20 percent of the 37,370 acres in ...

NEW YORK, Jul 07 (Reuters Health) -- A vaccine prevented the development of brain deposits associated with Alzheimer's disease in mice, and ``mopped up'' existing deposits, US researchers report. The study findings suggest that a similar vaccine for humans ``may be effective in preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease,'' according to the study published in the July 8th issue of the journal Nature. In patients with Alzheimer's disease, deposits known as amyloid plaques are found in the brain, lead researcher Dale Schenk, of Elan Pharmaceuticals, in South San Francisco, California, explained to reporters at a press conference. Whether these deposits cause ...

The leadership of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) refuses to recognize in full the legal rights of the United Nations civil administration in Kosovo and even threatens to take up arms again if the UN impedes progress to Kosovo's independence. As the Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported, statements made by the leaders of the militants to that effect reflected the KLA reaction to the appointment last Saturday of Bernard Kouchner to the post of the U.N. mission leader in Kosovo. Mr. Kouchner's tasks include the restoration of civilian governance in Kosovo, according to the Wall Street Journal. not for commercial ...

As long as Bush supporters wish to gather together, I shall continue to create links...I love you guys!

"Slime" (To be sung to the Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs") Guv'ment said, "Right-wing, Christian people need not apply." So I buried my views down deep in my heart, and I went in to ask Bill, "Why?" He said, "You look like a fine Left-leanin' young man, I think you'll do!" So I called out to Slick, sang, "It'd make me sick, PUNK, me workin' for you!"...Woah! Slime, slime, ev'rywhere there's slime, Obstructin' inquiries, trashin' what's Right! Do this, don't do that...Lib'rals blow my mind!! And Carville said, "Anybody caught dissentin' best be ready to FIGHT!" So I jumped on ...

South Park was outstanding tonight. A special government lecturer, "Sexual Harassment Panda" visited South Park Elementary, and within about fifteen minutes everyone in the town was suing the South Park School District. Later in the progam Kyle's Dad, a lawyer getting rich on the lawsuits, tries to explain things to his son in front of a giant new house. Kyle's Dad: "You see, Kyle, we live in a liberal democratic society, and Democrats make Sexual Harassment Laws. These laws tell us what we can and can't say in the workplace, and what we can and can't do in the workplace."Kyle: ...

The supreme commander of the NATO forces in Europe general Whesley Clark has declared war against all the military formations that are in operation in Kosovo in statements he made during his short visit to the Serb province. Commenting on the results of his visit to the region where the French peacekeepers are being deployed, he stated that the KFOR troops will proceed with the arrest of all those who bear arms without a permit regardless if they are Serbs or Albanians. not for commercial use

For Editorial and Discussion use only: China Makes Bid For Overseas Chinese Scientists BEIJING, Jul 7, 1999 -- (Reuters) China will spend 600 million yuan ($72 million) over the next three years on grants to lure overseas Chinese scientists to help its modernization drive, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The program, which Xinhua said was China's largest ever government-funded recruitment scheme, aimed to draw 300 overseas Chinese scientists to conduct research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The scientists would be given research grants of two million yuan to work on China's $602 million National Innovation System scheme to ...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A lawyer who helped make former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker a multimillionaire in a bankruptcy scam had his community service sentence cut in half Wednesday. John Haley, a former co-defendant with Tucker in a tax-avoidance case, had also requested that his travel restrictions be eased, but the judge reserved judgment on that issue. Haley pleaded guilty in February 1998 to a misdemeanor for his role as Tucker's lawyer in a $13 million cable television deal in the 1980s. Government prosecutors claimed Tucker, Haley and a third person set up a sham bankruptcy to avoid taxes. ...

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This is reprinted from Hillary's new website, and I've read it twice and I still cannot see any "accomplishments". Is being an "advocate" considered substantive???? Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Champion for Children and Families Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a leader in working to make life better for children and families, from her days in youth religious groups to her years as First Lady of the United States. In Arkansas, she led efforts to increase support for Arkansas Children's Hospital, and served as Chair of the Children's Hospital Telethon. She chaired the Arkansas Education Reform Commission, which resulted in ...

No more Net Tax World Wide Petition. http://www.nomorenettax.com/ Link Petition Sign the World-Wide Petition to Prevent Internet Taxation As of this moment, 16624 people have signed the petition since 1 July 99. 1 July 1999 (Los Angeles, CA)- Right now the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is meeting to decide how the U.S. government should tax the Internet. Not if the Internet should be taxed, but how it should be taxed. The U.S. Government enacted the Internet Tax Freedom act in late 19

((For legal educational use only)) Sunday Jul 04, 1999 July 4th: Unclear on the concept By Emily Gurnon OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER STAFF For many Bay Area students, Independence Day means hot dogs, family picnics, fireworks - and not much else. Out of four dozen teens quizzed in an informal survey in San Francisco, Concord and Pacifica, most knew that the Fourth of July had something to do with America's independence, but less than half could name the country from which we won our freedom. "Japan or something. China. Somewhere out there on the other side of the world," ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday approved a $4.12 billion loan for Mexico that is part of a larger package of credits designed to help the country avert economic turmoil during next year's presidential elections. Mexican officials said last month they had obtained $23.7 billion in international credits and refinancing to protect the country when it holds presidential elections in July 2000. In the past, the country's economy has often suffered during the presidential transition period -- a tendency blamed on the collapse of short-term strategies to prop up the economy during the campaign and investor wariness ...

SALT LAKE CITY — George W. Bush, the Republican presidential front-runner, Wednesday picked up the support of six western governors and said it was time the voice of the West was heard. "I trust these men and women, I value their support and I'm honored to have them on my team,'' Bush told a rally at a downtown hotel as he was flanked by the Republican governors of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt said Bush understands the West and its issues. "I don't know that there is another time when a bona-fide front-running ...

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