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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton, hoping to bring some discipline to her fledgling Senate campaign, today picked a veteran New York political operative to serve as her campaign manager. Bill de Blasio has been serving as regional director of the New York-New Jersey office of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is politically close to HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, the son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. "I am very excited to welcome Bill to the campaign,'' Mrs. Clinton said. "His broad knowledge of the state, extensive experience in New York politics, and strong ...

http://BSNNOnline.net Dec. 3, 1999 NASHUA- After a hard day of campaigning Bill Bradley needed to unwind, so he went to a local tavern to drink a Miller Lite. After a few beers Bradley noticed a photograph of Bob Dole taken when he was there during the 96 campaign. Bradley began pointing at the photo and shouting, "That stupid son of a bitch is why we have had to put up with a second Clinton-Gore term. If I had only been a Republican in 96 then I could have been President." After changing his clothes Bradley returned the the bar and ...

Story ran on December 2, 1999 Suspects sought in attack near bar By GEORGE MAZURAK of the Tribune’s staff A large crowd in the street outside a downtown Columbia nightspot formed the backdrop for assaults on three men and a woman that two victims contend was racially motivated. The victims are white; their assailants were black. Police today continued investigating the beatings that occurred about 1 a.m. Sunday outside TP’s Bar & Grill, 119 S. Seventh St. No one had been arrested as of late this morning, but assistant prosecutor Mark Flanegin said he filed a second-degree assault charge naming ...

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) - A woman who was videotaped buying 85 cents worth of gasoline was charged today with dumping it on a 9-year-old boy and setting him on fire as he walked to school. The boy, Vincent Williams, was expected to be released today from Crozer-Chester Medical Center. Vincent was attacked Thursday morning outside Weatherill Elementary School, where he is in fourth grade. Authorities said he avoided serious injury when he remembered his ``stop, drop and roll'' training, ripping off his jacket and rolling on the ground to quell the flames. He then walked to the principal's office, where ...

A HOMELESS BABE? NOT QUITE, MRS. C By JAY NORDLINGER HILLARY Clinton, who has long lived in a separate reality, has her own version of the Christmas story. On Tuesday, she was beating up on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for his policies toward the homeless. The upcoming season, she said, was intended to commemorate "the birth of a homeless child" (that would be Jesus). Apparently, this is something of a Clinton administration line. Al Gore, too, has made the claim that Jesus was "homeless" -- you know, just like the Wild Man of 96th Street, Billie Boggs and the brick ...

I WANT TO BE A MOM by Bethany Patchin "How many of you want to be at-home moms?" The question, from my tenth grade English teacher, was directed at the females in the room. We made up over half of the class of 25 sophomores. I proudly raised my hand, then waited for at least a few others to join me. The room was completely still. Everyone stared at me. Four years later not much has changed. Marriage is closer than ever for my peers, yet only a few of the young women I come into contact with admit they ...

KOPPEL: It's nearly a year away from the presidential election. The first Primary is still a couple of months away. Most folks don't yet give a rat's ass damn about the elections. That is why tonight on Nightline we will bore you to tears with an analysis of the latest Republican Presidential Primary Debate. Our two analyst commentators are David Gurgle and George Steppinupolis. GURGLE: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. KOPPEL: David, wake up! STEPPINUPOLIS: Good morning, Sam. Thank you for inviting me on This Week. KOPPEL. NO! NO! Wrong show! You need to wake up too, George! This is NIGHTLINE! Not THIS WEEK! ...

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Is Christianity a 'hate crime'? 100,000 Southern Baptists determined to meet in Chicago, despite opposition -------------------- By Frank York © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Chicago's rebuff of the Southern Baptist Convention's plans to meet in the Windy City next summer, on the grounds that the large Christian group might foment "hate crimes" against minorities, is sounding alarm bells among Christians who fear that merely speaking openly about their core religious beliefs will soon be considered a crime. The Southern Baptist Convention -- with a membership of 15.8 million and representing more than 40,000 churches nationwide -- has been planning for two years ...

News - December 3, 1999 Today's Page One Editorial: Forbes for President Steve Forbes is The Union Leader's choice in the Feb. 1, 2000, New Hampshire Presidential Primary. This is a promising but also a very challenging time for the United States. It demands steady, intelligent, conservative leadership. That leadership must be grounded in respect for free enterprise, wariness of big government, and an understanding of and ability to deal with the dangers that still threaten America. Just as important, it must be leadership that is God-fearing, respectful of innocent life, and determined to restore a sense of decency to ...

The Enterprise Mission - Economist Calculates the Odds The Enterprise Mission Economist Calculates the Odds on Egypt Air Flight 990 Ritual Alignments CONTACT INFORMATION: MICHAEL BARA  lunaranomalies@uswest.net  (Note - I am not able to respond to all e-mails, but I will read them -- MB) RICHARD C. HOAGLAND  - The Enterprise Mission P. O. Box 1130 Placitas NM 87043 FAX - (505) 771-0820  © 1999 THE ENTERPRISE MISSION Egypt Air logo of Horus the Falcon god. One of the ongoing projects at the Enterprise Mission has been the accumulation of data on "Ritual Alignments," the repetitive pattern of certain ...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, one of the Clinton administration's staunchest allies, yesterday offered a surprising defense of GOP presidential front-runner George W. Bush while declining to endorse Vice President Al Gore. In a meeting with Herald reporters and editors, the Massachusetts Democrat dismissed criticism of Bush's lack of foreign policy expertise and acknowledged that the Texas governor's record on such issues as education reform is strong. ``He's the governor of an important state,'' Kennedy said of Bush. ``I don't want to be giving him an endorsement, but I think he certainly meets the bar, the standard, to . . . ...

Curbing the online ramp A St. Louis mall forbids ads for Internet sales By Chris Stamper Retail luddites Many brick-and-mortar stores feel threatened by e-commerce, but the Saint Louis Galleria has taken one of the most drastic steps against online competition: Its management told its 170 tenants that all signs, decals, advertising, and displays about Internet sales were forbidden. That sent retailers buzzing. An educational toy retailer, The Right Start, threatened to sue. The Athlete's Foot had to figure out what to do with a seven-foot sign encouraging people to "shop online anytime." Stores like Eddie Bauer and FAO Schwartz ...

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1) ABC reporter John Cochran's dinner date with Tipper and Al Gore stirred controversy but he insisted it was a "working dinner." ABC fired Bob Zelnick for writing a book about Gore. Cochran claimed he has a "fair and tough" record, but the MRC documented his history of liberal reporting. Al Gore called Cochran "a friend." 2) Scolding Bush from the left, Newsweek's Howard Fineman found two faults in Bush's Meet the Press answers: praising Antonin Scalia and ruling out a meeting with Log Cabin Republicans. 3) Dan Rather ominously warned about a "whispering campaign" aimed at Hillary Clinton ...

Tales of the heart The controversy at Hillsdale College shows the real shortcoming of standard conservatism By J.B. Cheaney (Editor's note: The police report released last week in Hillsdale, Mich., was clear enough: "The daughter-in-law of Hillsdale College's former president appeared despondent over their alleged affair only hours before she committed suicide." But the sadness that has swept through America's best-known conservative college (see WORLD, Nov. 27) is far from over. Many students are trying to come to grips with reports, apparently accepted by Hillsdale's board of trustees, that George Roche III, Hillsdale president for 28 years, was for many ...

BUSH OFFICIAL FURIOUS AT NETWORK POLL THAT NAMED KEYES BIG WINNER OF DEBATE! "This is bullshit!" roared a furious George Bush campaign official late Thursday night in Texas. "What is this poll? Why do they keep showing it on TV?!" Controversy erupted just hours after a New Hampshire debate between Republican presidential candidates when a network repeatedly aired results of a poll that showed Alan Keyes the big winner of the night -- with nearly a 2 to 1 margin over the GOP frontrunner, Texas Governor Bush! The VOTE.COM website, run by former Clinton adviser Dick Morris, polled viewers in ...

China Naval Experts Ponder Need For Aircraft Carrier By Lester J. Gesteland ChinaOnline News (12/02/1999) While a China-made aircraft carrier might garner the country some international prestige, it is not clear such a weapons platform is truly needed, a naval expert in China said. In an interview published in the Dec. 1 Zhongguo Xinwen She (China News Services), a naval expert – whose name was withheld – said that whether or not China develops an aircraft carrier of its own "depends on the country's naval strategy, which should be in compliance with the country's overall military and [economic] development strategy." ...

THE Federal Reserve is being driven to distraction by Y2K. Even as the Central Bank has been publicly tightening monetary conditions through three interest rate hikes this year, it has been quietly pumping money galore just in case the Millennium madness being predicted actually does happen. Michael Belkin, a Fed expert who writes the Belkin Report, says Alan Greenspan has allowed $70 billion in cash to flood the U.S. monetary system in recent weeks and has created something called a "repo option." These options could leave the monetary system awash in another $426 billion in additional emergency cash in the ...

One incongruous thing about the Seattle riots is that they've been sparked by a subject as non-sexy as trade. The World Trade Organization's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, with us since 1947, has long been known as the most soporific subject in journalism. Somewhat like the hypnotic word "Canada" in an American newscast, the mere mention of it could be counted on to put people to sleep. Another incongruous thing is that many of the same rioters who are raising their voices, not to mention brickbats, in the name of national sovereignty against the ...