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More suspects sought in assault Felony charge filed against Jefferson City man, 20. By GEORGE MAZURAK of the Tribune’s staff After making one arrest, Columbia police said they were seeking additional suspects in Jefferson City involving racially motivated assaults that injured five people early Sunday outside a Columbia bar. All five victims — four men and the wife of one man — suffered serious injuries, police said. Mark Kleinheider, 20, of 608-A State St. in Jefferson City was charged yesterday with second-degree assault, a felony. He is accused of recklessly causing serious physical injury to one man by striking and ...

I am a student at League City Middle School, I have gone to this school my 6th and 7th grade year. I feel that there are certain things some parents don't know about our school that need to be brought out for the public. I am going "Under Cover" to tell you for fear of being caught. Please understand that I am a student at this school and as a student we are not totally informed and I may get some things a bit wrong. The 98-99 school year was a good one but it had it's rocky times. I ...

I knew that there were anti-WTO protests going on; some of my friends were going to be participating, even, so I knew there'd be some disruption. I packed a sleeping bag and a clean T-shirt into a rucksack and headed off to my downtown office nice and early that morning. Got a fantastic parking space in my overpriced garage. Went to my desk and started working. Around eleven I started hearing about tear gas. I clicked up a live news feed in some horrid streaming video format. They were discussing the nature of the chemical weapons being used two ...

One of us ... abstained I WAS HOLDING A NOTICE FROM my 13-year-old son's school announcing a meeting to preview the new course in sexuality. Parents could examine the curriculum and take part in an actual lesson presented exactly as it would be given to the students. When I arrived at the school, I was surprised to discover only about a dozen parents there. As we waited for the presentation, I thumbed through page after page of instructions in the prevention of pregnancy or disease. I found abstinence mentioned only in passing. When the teacher arrived with the school nurse, ...

.A Vision for the 21st Century A NATION TRANSFORMED Clinton-Gore Administration Accomplishments: 1993 - 1999 Foreign Policy: World’s Strongest Force for Peace, Freedom and Prosperity Promoting Peace and Strengthening Democracy Achieved victory and reversed ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, by leading the 79-day NATO air campaign in Kosovo that successfully compelled Milosevic to withdraw Serb troops, permit an international security force to enter and allow refugees to return to their homes in safety. Restored momentum to the Middle East peace process, brokering the Wye River Memorandum and visiting Israel and Gaza. Led efforts that produced Good Friday peace agreement in ...

Memorandum from John A. Koskinen Subject: Summary of Discussion with Embedded Systems Technicians Attached is a summary of a recent discussion that I organized among technical experts that have been working on testing and fixing embedded systems across the manufacturing, electric power, oil, gas, telecommunications, shipping, bio-medical device, and defense industries. It outlines the discussion at the meeting and makes a number of generally agreed to statements concerning the types of embedded systems that have Y2K risk, when embedded systems will fail, difficulties in testing for Y2K problems in embedded systems, and risks of not fixing the problem in ...

Oj Simpson is staying at a hotel in brentwood calif were a body in a black suv has been found lots of cops and investigators on site Oj was seen talking to polce as he drove up. police are beeing very quietjust something different to talk about.

WASHINGTON -- Moscow's detention and expulsion of an alleged CIA officer is the latest round in an escalating spy war between the United States and Russia, according to knowledgeable U.S. intelligence experts. The public detention this week of Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, followed the quiet ejections from the United States earlier this year of two alleged Russian spies who were operating under diplomatic cover. One of the Russians worked at the United Nations in New York, the other at the Russian Embassy in Washington, said the sources, who spoke only on the ...

When a crime is based on bias, it carries extra weight By Ellen Goodman, Globe Columnist, 12/02/99 It's too bad that we are stuck with the moniker "hate crimes." The label makes it sound as if it were a crime to hate. It has given opponents of hate crime laws a handle for all sorts of cliches: "Every crime is a hate crime." "Nobody commits a love crime." Today it has become politically correct - in the true meaning of that phrase - to disparage laws that make it worse to commit a crime when the motive is bias. It's ...

WASHINGTON -- Across the nation, Gov. Jeb Bush's proposal to replace race preferences in college admissions with a geographically based plan is receiving a positive reaction from African-American columnists and other opinion leaders. On newspaper editorial pages, the New York Times described the Bush plan as a "reasoned basis for the coming debate," and the Chicago Tribune said it offered a "valuable road map for other states to follow as they try to equalize opportunity for all." More enthusiastic praise came from at least two African-American columnists. Clarence Page, a syndicated columnist, called the Bush proposal a "sane, sensible ...

(U-WIRE) GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida universities are giving up too much for the sake of diversity, California businessman Ward Connerly said Tuesday. State officials are in essence saying "diversity for its own sake is more important than the principle of equal protection," Connerly said. He said the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee diversity in state universities, and that to allow the government to draft policies intended specifically to increase diversity is to allow the government to decide what diversity is. "If diversity is valuable for its own sake, how do you define it?" he asked. "Who's going to define ...

Stock Market Valuation - Vegas Crap Shoot? With recent run-ups in Internet Stocks where companies don't even have Price/Earnings Ratios, because they don't have any earnings, investors need to be aware that if these companies continue to lose money, they might be forced into Bankruptcy. If a company files chapter 11 bankruptcy, ALL COMMON STOCK IS CANCELED (e.g. worth $0.00, worthless, wallpaper). Be careful about investing too much of your money in companies that could go belly-up in a recession or Y2K related business failure. In the current market, I would cash out all Internet Stocks and invest only in ...

Executive Orders: A Blueprint for Dictatorship? By Concerned Women for America CNS Commentary 03 December, 1999 "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kind of cool." -Paul Begala, former aide to President Clinton Article II of the United States Constitution grants the president vaguely defined "executive power." It is one of the least specific yet potentially far-reaching powers awarded to the president. Paired with Article II's requirement that presidents "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," the executive power clause provides for a range of "implied powers" with the extent and potency that, if abused, could lead our ...

WASHINGTON -- Texas is pulling ahead of almost all states in the race toward the ambitious education goals set by top state and federal officials for the year 2000, according to the National Education Goals Panel. But the bipartisan panel also reported Thursday that neither Texas nor the nation will reach those goals next year. Texas was singled out for "outstanding progress" toward world-class levels of student achievement. Together with North Carolina, Connecticut and Maine, it was praised for across-the-board progress toward most of the educational goals. Just below those four states were eight others that made "outstanding progress" ...

Murdoch's Australian abuses Republicans — again By Gerard Jackson No. 143, 29 Nov. - 5 Dec. 1999 Cameron Forbes Since arriving in America as The Australian's Washington-based correspondent, Cameron Forbes has not ceased writing as if he is on the Democrats' payroll. Virtually all of his reports, in one way or another, express an evident loathing of Republicans and, in their own way, reveal the contempt for journalistic standards and honest reporting that now prevails at Murdoch's Australian. It is no exaggeration to say that this ideologically driven journalist has frequently distorted the truth and even lied outright. Though all ...

NEW YORK –– Madeline Kahn, an Oscar-nominated actress and comedian best known for her work in "Paper Moon" and "Blazing Saddles," died Friday of ovarian cancer. She was 57. Ms. Kahn first acknowledged the illness publicly just last month, saying she was undergoing "aggressive treatment." She had been battling the disease for the past year, said Jeff Schneider, a spokesman for the William Morris agency. Known for her groundbreaking roles in the 1973 film "Paper Moon" – which won her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations – the actress debuted on the big screen in the 1965 movie "Kiss Me ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tyson Foods executive convicted of giving illegal gifts to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was granted a new trial on Friday. U.S. Judge James Robertson said that Archie Schaffer III probably would have been acquitted had Espy been available to testify in his behalf. Espy refused to testify at Schaffer's trial while his own case was pending but has since been acquitted of corruption charges. At a November hearing, Espy denied that Tyson Foods used a lavish company party he attended in 1993 to influence new meat-safety rules, although he admitted the poultry industry knew ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov Friday that Russian military tactics in Chechnya could "harm the U.S.-Russia relationship" if they continue to result in heavy civilian casualties. Albright "made very clear in that conversation our...concern that the costs of Russia's approach are rising, that there are high civilian casualties, there are refugee flows, and that there is the potential to harm the U.S.-Russian relationship if this path continues," said State Department spokesman James Rubin. Rubin said, however, that Ivanov made no attempt to soften the Russian's stated goal of ...

Al Gore is an inventive fellow. To be more precise, he is a reinventive fellow. Not content merely to reinvent government, he wants to reinvent history. From "Love Story" to Love Canal, with no less than the Internet in between, Gore can't seem to resist taking credit for things with which he had little or nothing to do. We enjoyed a nice little chuckle when he claimed to have been the inspiration for Erich Segal's multi-hankie "Love Story" and an outright belly laugh when he took credit for the information superhighway. But his latest self-professed claim to fame--that he was ...

In a neglected part of his recent and notorious "isolationism" speech, national security adviser Sandy Berger acknowledged that the United States is often seen abroad as an overbearing "hectoring hegemon." But he concluded that, given the disparity of power and influence in the world today, there is not much we can do about it. Well, one thing we could do is keep President Clinton home and his mouth shut. Instead, he goes around the world smugly telling other people how to improve themselves. Clinton has this irresistible urge to pronounce himself on--and thus thrust the United States into--disputes that are ...