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Practical patriot You shall hear of the expense account of Paul Revere By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Correspondent, 12/01/99 aul Revere, American hero and patriot, was also a middle-class businessman who had mouths to feed at home. He had a wife and seven or eight children when he undertook his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, to warn revolutionaries in Lexington and Concord of British plans to quash rebel colonists. So Revere filed an expense account ''for self and horse,'' for several weeks worth of riding on behalf of the Commonwealth in April and May, charging five shillings a day ...

December 1, 1999 Subject: No Room in the Womb? Denyse O'Leary said: "In facing the complexities of gestating and birthing triplets or even octuplets, physicians often advise would-be parents to 'selectively reduce' the number of living embryo in order to give the others a better chance at life. And even in the more common instance of twins. some physicians recommend aborting one of the fetuses when medical complications arise. ... Selective reduction, or multifetal pregnancy reduction, would mean that at around 11 weeks' gestation, a specialist would insert a needle into a fetal heart and inject potassium chloride, causing ...

The Chinese lady posed for a photo with President Clinton at a Los Angeles fund-raising event in 1996. The next day, her Chinese conduit handed a $45,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee to support President Clinton's and Vice President Al Gore's reelection campaign. She even directed fund-raising for the DNC among Asian-Americans in the United States. Although her visa papers showed she was an executive with a Chinese aerospace company called China Resources, that's not all she was. The lady was a lieutenant colonel in the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army — and not just any light colonel, either. ...

The Chinese lady posed for a photo with President Clinton at a Los Angeles fund-raising event in 1996. The next day, her Chinese conduit handed a $45,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee to support President Clinton's and Vice President Al Gore's reelection campaign. She even directed fund-raising for the DNC among Asian-Americans in the United States. Although her visa papers showed she was an executive with a Chinese aerospace company called China Resources, that's not all she was. The lady was a lieutenant colonel in the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army — and not just any light colonel, either. ...

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WTO mess rigged The whole thing seem to have been rigged! On PBS I was impressed that the anchor alleged to Mayor Schell that the police did not react to obvious provocations by criminals. Schell looked so fake and unconvincing in his answer about safety concerns on not getting rioters angry etc… He could not even look at the camera straight. Then a journalist inside WTO "hotel" talked about the funny conspiracies going on around protesters about the formation of this illegal world government, and also amongst visiting WTO member countries saying that the US used the protest on purpose ...

Senators Robert Bennett and Christopher Dodd, co-chairmen of the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem — a.k.a. the U.S. Senate's Jekyll-and-Hyde Tag-Team — and John "Invisible Man" Koskinen, chairman of the U.S. President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, have pulled it off. They have conditioned — anesthetized, Koskinized — the American public into thinking that Y2K is a Crisis Event, not a Chronic Situation, whose troubles will consist mostly (if not entirely) of glitches that will be fixed (if need be at all) in a few days, for Y2K remediation is thought of as squashing bugs ...

LEXIS®-NEXIS® - Document LEXIS®-NEXIS® Times Publishing Company   St. Petersburg Times  View Related Topics  February 24, 1987, Tuesday, City Edition SECTION: NATIONAL; Pg. 6A LENGTH: 515 words HEADLINE: Sabotage check made in space accidents SOURCE: Cox News Service DATELINE: MESA, Ariz. BODY:     MESA, Ariz. - The CIA and the FBI - prodded by former agency    colleagues - are investigating whether sabotage was involved in a    string of failures of defense-oriented space missions, including the    Challenger explosion that killed seven astronauts.       Six launches - four by the United States and two by the French ...

The holiday season is almost upon us. It won't be long until it's time for programs, parties and pageants. Unfortunately, some of these celebrations may be hindered by questions of what is permitted—or prohibited—by the United States Constitution. Although court decisions permit holiday observances, some national organizations have been pressuring local school districts to censor religious expression during Christmas. This article will try to answer the most commonly-asked questions about the rights of students and teachers to participate in these observances.Can students sing religious Christmas carols at school events or in holiday programs? YES. As a matter of fact, no ...

Stung by charges of arrogance because he did not participate in the first Republican debate in New Hampshire, GOP front-runner George W. Bush will be on the stage tomorrow in New Hampshire with other Republican candidates. It's about time. No one should have the high-handedness to assume that the presidential nomination for the Republican Party is a rite of coronation rather than a political contest. The front-loading of the primary season now means that by February-March it is all over, which has brought the campaign into full swing throughout the fall. Whether you like it or not, it's now ...

SEATTLE — Police stamped out fresh protests against global trade talks with mass arrests on Wednesday, as stunned delegates got back to work on how to tear down remaining barriers to world commerce. With President Clinton in town, police arrested about 250 people and took them by bus to a wire-fenced facility on the city outskirts, after the protesters ventured into a downtown security zone protecting a world trade conference. The huge police presence, enforced by mounted officers, armored cars and National Guard reinforcements, emptied the streets of this usually bustling city center and enabled trade ministers to attend the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Americans are riding ``a wave of anger'' over gun violence and need a president committed to turning that energy into a force for gun control, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley said Wednesday. ``I think there's a mood that's changing dramatically out there and what it needs is a leader to step forward and make the case as to why this is important to the country,'' he said. ``I think they want to draw the line and say enough is enough.'' Bradley, in Ohio for two campaign appearances and a fund raiser, said Congress could withstand the ...

the seattle police are now attacking and gassing groups of ordinary citizens on the streets...people coming to and from work...even when no protestors in sight...shop owners are complaining that their shops have been gassed...downtown seattle looks like a police state...the tv commentators are calling the police activity "bizarre"

It's time to trade WTO for policies that benefit all Americans: Charley Reese (an interesting contrast to Rush) Published in The Orlando Sentinel on December 2, 1999. I recently heard an eloquent defense of the World Trade Organization from a man who is part of it. For all his eloquence and intelligence and, yes, benign intentions, it seems to me he misses the point. Human life isn't about the rule of law and economics. That's why no nation should ever turn its affairs over to technocrats or policy wonks or lawyers. Policy, technology and the law must be the servants ...

BBC News | EUROPE | Swedish press warns of Nazi threat Front Page | World | UK | UK Politics | Business | Sci/Tech | Health | Education | Sport | Entertainment | Talking Point | High Graphics | AudioVideo | Feedback | Help | Noticias | Newyddion | BBC News Online: World: Europe Tuesday, 30 November, 1999, 21:15 GMT Swedish press warns of Nazi threat Sweden's four main daily newspapers have published a joint editorial on their front pages, warning of the rising danger to democracy from neo-Nazis. In a co-ordinated decision that took months of planning, the ...

Apparantly, the hotel where Clinton is staying has been put in a lockdown due to tear gas...sorry for lack of follow up but it was posted in red as URGENT on Matt's site...anyone with SPD APB Scanner, maybe you can add some more info. Thanks.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Research using master cells derived from human embryos will be funded by the government for the first time under tightly controlled guidelines proposed by National Institutes of Health. The draft guidelines, to be published Thursday, would ``help ensure that NIH-funded research in this area is conducted in an ethical and legal manner,'' the agency said. The research rules specifically forbid human cloning or mixing human stem cells with animal or human embryos. Groups opposed to abortion immediately objected to the plans. The National Right to Life Committee said the guidelines ``would result in federal sponsorship and ...

I have sworn off the news. I used to be a news junkie. I subscribed regularly to a major newspaper, and watched TV news of some sort almost every day. It all started when I took a political science course as an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia. My professor required that all the students in his class subscribe to a daily major newspaper, on the theory that we should all keep ourselves up to date on political and world events. In fact, it seems to be a common idea — not just among professors — that any ...

John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona and former Navy pilot, has emerged as the leading advocate for normalizing relations with the same government that has repeatedly lied about torturing and killing U.S. soldiers who were captured during the Vietnam War. McCain's high-profile and unrelenting support for a government that brutally tortured and murdered his fellow POWs is causing POW/MIA family members and fellow Vietnam veterans to question the senator and his motivations. They ask what drives McCain, who owes his public life to the tag "former POW," to work so hard for Hanoi and so diligently to discredit any ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 1999 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 FOX NEWS VIOLATES JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND AGREEMENT WITH JUDICIAL WATCH Klayman Had Agreed To Go On O'Reilly To Discuss Libelous Harvey Berkman Hit Piece On Judicial Watch's Form 990, Which Is Posted, Along with Accountants and Legal Reports, on Judicial Watch's Website (Washington, D.C.) In recent days, using its liberal surrogates in the news media, the Clinton Administration has published articles which libel Judicial Watch and Larry Klayman. In response, Larry Klayman sued two of the reporters which the White House likes and who smear Clinton critics, Harvey Berkman ...