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Just Beat Me....Don't Bore Me...Then Leave Me Alone By Lucianne Goldberg What is it about New York that it has become a dumping ground for Clinton's women? First Monica, now Hillary. However, as a thirty year resident of this extraordinary city I feel put upon for more reason than that. New Yorkers will take a great deal. Climb down into a 135-degree subway at 6:00 p.m. at night with the very real threat that you won't climb out until, oh...with the right kind of fire or power outage, say...10:00 p.m. Try to catch a cab to JFK on a Friday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After 20 years of deciding federal appeals cases in the nation's capital, Judge Patricia M. Wald is headed to The Hague to rule on the fate of suspected war criminals. On Wednesday, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal announced Wald's appointment as one of its judges. Wald, 70, said she is "thrilled'' to be joining the other 13 judges on the panel, which was established by the United Nations in 1993 to bring justice to those responsible for war crimes committed since 1991 in the former Yugoslavia. "It has the opportunity to do something very, very important,'' ...

SHE'D BE NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY CARPETBAG By DEBORAH ORIN WHAT'S in it for New York if Hillary Clinton becomes the Empire State's next senator? Most likely, nothing but tsuris. Which, for visiting Arkansans who don't know Yiddish, means a whole lot of trouble. Democrats have a Rosy Scenario in which Veep Al Gore becomes the next president and Democrats sweep into control of the Senate and House - with Hillary Clinton into a superstar who can really deliver. Don't bet on it. Polls say the most likely next president will be a Republican named George W. Bush who ...

SHE'S THE WORST LADY FOR MOST UPSTATERS By GERSH KUNTZMAN BINGHAMTON. THE only problem with Hillary Rodham Clinton's much-hyped "listening tour" is that she's not listening to guys like Tom Holland. "She knows nothing about New York and we don't want her here," said Holland, summarizing the prevailing sentiment of people upstate - as captured by the huge "Go Home Hillary" banner hanging from a semi-trailer across the street from the airport here. Holland's company, Gagne, Inc., makes photographic equipment and has expanded 1,000 percent over the past decade. That makes him a happy Republican. No wonder Hillary will ...

Richardson Accepts Plan For Nuclear Arms Agency By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 8, 1999; Page A01 After weeks of wrangling, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson agreed yesterday to a Republican proposal to create a semiautonomous agency to run the vast complex of laboratories and plants that research, assemble and maintain America's nuclear weapons. The establishment of the Agency for Nuclear Stewardship (ANS) inside the Department of Energy would be the most significant change produced so far by more than a year of controversy over allegations of Chinese espionage and lax security at the weapons labs. The new ...

The disconnect between the Republican establishment and its grassroots constituency is manifest in the latest fundraising survey from the Republican National Committee (RNC). In the customary hyperbolic rhetoric of mail-order fundraisers, calling it "an urgent message to all Republicans," this mailing is labelled "the single most important public opinion polling project issued by the Republican party this year." In addition to asking for contributions to "support this important polling project," the survey asks for responses to nine questions in bold type and another 14 questions in small type. But they are mostly not the questions that voters want to be ...

Noonan: Hillary's Campaign a "Wake Up Call" for Republicans (CNS) - Peggy Noonan, the former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, is one Republican giving Hillary Rodham Clinton high marks for her almost-announcement in New York yesterday. In an opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal, Noonan says you have to hand it to Hillary -- she had a spectacular day yesterday. "It was as deft and clever a political presentation as I've seen, a marvel of spin and more. She [Hillary] was poised, articulate, both cool and warm and - a first for her-modest," Noonan writes. Noonan notes the lack ...

Richmond seventh-grader Meghan Johnson has learned a great deal about politics -- from President Clinton.

I understand that it can take up to three months to "shut down" a nuclear plant. If these plants aren't ready in Sept., it's a real possibility that they will begin shutting down. That means extra demand will be placed on conventional power suppliers as people who depend on nuclear power are switched over. But not to worry. Bill Clinton and the media say everything is going to be OK as long as nobody prepares for disruptions.... Wednesday July 7 10:42 PM ET List of Nuclear Plants Not Y2K Ready By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Commercial nuclear power ...

Chinese intelligence officers were more significantly involved than previously suspected in efforts to monitor Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung's cooperation with the FBI's campaign finance probe, relaying instructions to a middleman on a near-daily basis. The Beijing-directed operation is described in FBI transcripts of 20 telephone conversations and meetings, along with 22 intercepted fax messages, over four months in 1998 involving Chung and Robert Luu, a Chinese-American who made subtle threats if Chung did not keep silent and offered hush money for his defense if he did. The transcripts, copies of which were obtained by The Washington Times, show that ...

Today's tax tip: the Webb Hubbell System http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- HERE'S A MONEY-SAVING WAY for all you good people out there who work hard, play by the rules and dutifully file your income taxes every year. You deserve a break, and it's time you were let in on a simple but ingenious way save wads of money: Just go right ahead and do just what you're doing, like the good, law-abiding, tax-filing citizens you are. Just don't pay the money. .............Click here for full article.

A SEARCH began yesterday for the remains of a large meteor that exploded over New Zealand's North Island with enough force to shake buildings, leaving a plume of blue smoke that covered hundreds of square miles. Falling debris from the meteor, which eyewitnesses said was as bright as the sun, was blamed for starting a forest fire near Napier, on the east coast. The spectacular explosion was seen by people on both sides of the North Island and from as far north as Auckland to Christchurch in the South Island. Witnesses said the fireball had a long, fiery tail. ...

Taking Hillary seriously http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for senator in 2000 but is surely thinking about running for president in 2004 or 2008. So it's fair to ask what her record tells us about how she would govern in her own right. She has been a national public figure for 30 years, since her speech at the 1969 Wellesley commencement was quoted and her picture run in Life magazine. She may have grown up among the several hundred thousand orange brick bungalows neatly lining grid streets in metro Chicago............Click here for full article.

Clinton’s faustian bargain: our justice http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BILL CLINTON'S presidency has been a very difficult time for conservatives. We have seen our ideas demonized and then shamelessly stolen, our ideals shattered, our values denigrated and our character impugned. Our entire worldview has been turned upside down. But worse than all of this, our thirst for justice has gone unquenched. It has all been a big lie and he seems to have gotten away with it. He talked like a centrist but governed like a liberal. He presided over the largest tax increase in U.S. history and tried to socialize one-seventh ...

Only parents can fix broken families http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- GRAB YOUR CLICHES and hang onto your platitudes -- the great family values stampede is about to begin. Presidential wannabes have never loved children so much. Forget kissing babies. In the next year we can look forward to candidates tying toddlers' shoes, blinking away tedium as they try to squeeze into classroom desks, awkwardly hanging around video game parlors looking for opportunities to bond with teens. If I had a penny to gamble, I would invest in Dramamine. We're going to need boatloads to get through this nausea-fest. Consider a sampling of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A gang member who worked as a campus aide at a local high school was arrested for trying to sell a sawed-off shotgun to a teen-age student, authorities said. Michael Lau, 22, was taken into custody Wednesday when he arrived at work at John Marshal High School. He was booked for investigation of possession of an unregistered firearm. Lau allegedly approached an 18-year-old senior at the school last month about buying the weapon. The student reported the encounter. Authorities said Lau is a member of the Wah Ching, an Asian crime syndicate allegedly involved in ...

Queen Tut? http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S advisers chose an interesting way to introduce her as New York's Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. They carried her from site to site and put her on display, like a political King Tut. She appeared among the people as someone to be seen, not heard; venerated but not touched. As gawking audiences streamed past, she nodded and smiled from her cheekbones. This exercise was designed to demonstrate her virtuosity at listening. Unfortunately, it made her look like The Accidentally Embalmed Tourist -- in shiny new Bruno Magli pumps. If her event planning ...

There's nothing like putting out a newspaper to remind you that perfection is not given us in this world. A misspelled name, a garbled sentence, a transposed figure can spoil a story no matter how much effort went into it. But more troublesome than blemishes such as those are the systemic faults that can make a story, a section or an entire paper off-target from the start. One way publishers and editors try to get their newspapers on target is to encourage "diversity" in the newsroom so that news coverage reflects the community a paper serves. But even that ...

In offering to aid racist, Dershowitz shows his true colors --- of hypocrisy By Matthew Brooks and Seth Leibsohn (JWR) ---- (http://www.jewishworldreview.com) "JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE" is the biblical admonition that adorns the offices of many Jewish lawyers. Indeed, the Jewish legal tradition in America has a long-honored history, with role models such as Louis Marshall, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Felix Frankfurter. All these giants of American law were deeply influenced by both their religious roots and their commitment to American jurisprudence. Principles of universal justice and equality coursed through their veins. It is their shoulders this ...

MEXICO CITY - The man sought as the U.S. ``Railway Killer'' is a suspect in the slaying of 187 women in Juarez, Mexico, The Star has learned. Special Investigator Suly Ponce confirmed yesterday the Chihuahua state police are working with Canadian criminologist Candace Skrapec and the FBI to investigate ``Railway Killer'' suspect Rafael Resendez-Ramirez - the FBI's Public Enemy Number One - in connection with the unsolved Juarez homicides. ``We've been working on that theory since last week,'' Ponce, who heads the state police task force into the murders, said in an interview from Juarez. ``The case is advancing. ...