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Candidate Bradley has taken far less heat for his service in the Air Force Reserve during the Vietnam era than was applied to George W. Bush or Dan Quayle for their service in National Guard units. Insight set out to discover what political difference, if any, there might be in those types of service. At Princeton University, Bradley won the Sullivan Award in 1965 as the nation’s outstanding amateur athlete. That same year, many young American men began paying closer attention to a distant conflict in Southeast Asia that would claim 58,000 U.S. lives in the decade to come. ...

December 5, 1999 Monitors' Reports Provide Chronicle of Kosovo Terror By STEVEN ERLANGER RAGUE -- Two extraordinarily detailed reports on human rights abuses in Kosovo, drawn from official Western sources, present a depressing picture of an ugly war, full of individual and collective cruelty and crime by the Serbs, followed by an ugly peace displaying many of the same depredations, if on a smaller scale, by the province's Albanians. The reports, obtained by The New York Times from the compilers, are prepared by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from its own interviews. They do not fundamentally alter ...

From the late winter through the early summer, the Keyes campaign in Iowa was building with great momentum. Keyes was conducting three to five events monthly and four Iowan staffers were establishing organizations in each of the counties. All of this came to a halt in mid-August. Since mid-August, Keyes has only entered the State a few times and, today, the only Iowan staffer is a phone receptionist. All organization of counties has ceased. With the resignation of State Chairman Ron Granzow, the Keyes campaign has been forced to send in a worker from Utah to maintain the headquarters until ...

saturday evening update: about 300 protestors still locked up...demos ongoing at the westlake mall and outside the jail...a few hundred total in the demos...teamsters have supplied those outside the jail with blankets, coffee, and pizza...shoppers, that holiest of breeds, have returned to downtown...curfew rescinded...free parking today in many downtown lots, and parking meters suspended...a return to peaceful, laid back nw culture...

Science Unemployment Statistics: New PhDs in Mathematics Note: While this site uses the field of mathematics for purposes of illustration, the collapse of the scientific labor market is largely interdisciplinary. Unfortunately, similar situations can readily be found in: Physics Chemistry Biology We are taught that to become scientists we are obligated to reject theories which fly in the face of experiment. However, begining in the 1980s, the U.S. scientific establishment led by then NSF director Erich Bloch launched an attack on the economists' theory of labor markets. The critique held that it is impossible to have too many scientists. In ...

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This evening on NBC news they did a segment on Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain and the fact that he released his medical records to the media today. This action was taken to counter criticism from his opponents, and the liberal media, that somehow due to his years as a POW in North Vietnam he was, shall we say ... slightly unbalanced. This attributable, in large measure, to a hot temper that he has displayed from time to time. He received a clean bill of health from psychologists and medical doctors according to the NBC segment. Some of them interviewed, ...

McCain, Bush in dead heat in New Hampshire poll December 4, 1999 Web posted at: 6:57 PM EST (2357 GMT) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Arizona Sen. John McCain has pulled into a statistical dead heat with Texas Gov. George W. Bush among likely voters in the Republican New Hampshire presidential primary, a Newsweek poll released Saturday said. The poll showed front-runner Bush leading McCain 38 to 33 percent, within the poll's six percentage point margin of error for likely Republican primary voters. That was a far tighter race than in November, when the same poll found Bush leading McCain 44 ...

Summit planned to set the world under the authority of the United Nations. FULL STORY Excerpts: The new scheme of global governance will empower, and fund, the United Nations to be the supreme governmental authority on the planet. National governments will become administrative units, reporting through the appropriate IGOs, to the supreme authority of the U.N. .......... international law to be enforced through global governance. Our Global Neighborhood, set forth the additional steps that needed to be taken to fully empower the United Nations to operate as the supreme global governmental authority. All the documents are now prepared, or are ...

The original spin on Chanukah By Rabbi Avi Shafran 'TIS THE SEASON to be Jewish; menorahs and latkes abound, and oil (for each, unfortunately) will soon flow like water in countless Jewish homes. Chanukah, thank G-d, is once again upon us. It has become fashionable to attribute the popularity of the Jewish festival of lights -- second among American Jews only to Passover -- to the fact that the winter Jewish holiday tends to roughly coincide with a major Western Christian celebration. But to see Chanukah as nothing more than a foil to another faith's observance is to miss the ...

Just did some quick searching to see what was out there in the trash press about the Senators that went to the WTO meet in Seattle. Not a lot that I could turn up. But here is what Ashcroft was supposed to be there for --- Monday, October 18, 1999 Ashcroft to Push New Exports andJobs at Key World Trade Meeting Appointment to WTO Farm Panel Enables SenatorTo Press For New American Trade Opportunities WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Ashcroft (MO) will serve as a Senate delegate to next month’s meeting in Seattle, Washington of the World Trade Organization, the ...

Need to call in a little help. I'm the captain of my high school debate club and I've been tasked with the least controversial topic of...abortion. Oh man. Being an avid lurker here, I think you can guess which side I have taken. Anyway, I was hoping you guys and gals could provide some good links on the web or books that would help me crush the opposition. Thanks for your time.

The following interview with Tom Eaton, Republican candidate for the District 10 N.H. Senate seat, took place on Monday, Nov. 22, in the offices of The Keene Sentinel at 60 West Street in Keene. The candidate was interviewed by a group of reporters and editors. An abbreviated version of the interview transcript appeared in the Nov. 28 edition of The Keene Sentinel.

If the NH Republican Primary were held today, who would you vote for? [1954 votes total] Gary Bauer (71) 4% George Bush (374) 19% Steve Forbes (134) 7% Orrin Hatch (316) 16% Alan Keyes (636) 33% John McCain (423) 22%

EgyptAir--A Different Interpretation To: Michael Rivero >This is the lesson of EgyptAir 990, TWA 800, Vincent Foster, >Iran-Contra, JFK, RFK, MLK, JFK Jr. Ron Brown, Mena, etc. etc. etc. "In real life I have no idea what you are like but it seems that in your opinion every plane crash that has ever happened is the result of a conspiracy. In fact, you think everything is a government conspiracy." 39 Posted on 12/02/1999 13:07:45 PST by sakic * - * To: metalbird1 "The easiest thing to do in an argument is to make something up and then say prove me ...

PLAY IT AGAIN, CHRIS... By Balint Vazsonyi [First published November 23, 1999, in The Washington Times, under the title "Uncertain freedom to learn"] Last Friday night (November 19) on CNBC’s "Hardball" Chris Matthews recalled his visit ten years ago to the Berlin Wall the second weekend it was opened, soon to be torn down altogether. He showed and commented upon the unforgettable scene — thousands upon thousands streaming through the opening, taking their first breath of fresh Western air and lining up for free biscuits off a bakery truck. "But," said Mr. Matthews, "the greatest deficiency of the fast-dying communist ...

The presidential campaign of Republican candidate Alan Keyes has collapsed in Iowa.On November 29th, the Iowa Keyes 2000 Campaign Chairman, Ron Granzow, resigned his position in protest to the national campaign's incompetence in developing a sound campaign strategy and providing enough resources to succeed in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.Keyes has virtually abandoned campaigning in Iowa since he had his poor showing at the August Straw Poll in Iowa.There is some concern amongst social conservatives in Iowa that Keyes will break his promise to pull out of the race by year's end if his campaign in Iowa failed to gain momentum. ...

Rising Heat My new thermostat was designed by brilliant morons. By Virginia Postrel It helps to explain why we can see computers everywhere but in the productivity statistics: In too many cases, computing power still makes ordinary tasks more complicated than they need to be—or used to be. The old thermostat had a clear knob for setting the desired temperature. It simultaneously showed you how hot the room already was and how hot you wanted it to be. It had two simple switches, one for setting heat and one for setting fan or auto. Henry Dreyfuss and Carl Kronmiller’s ...

I just heard over the local news that the North Dakota National Guard is getting ready to go to Kosovo. I'll watch the 10 O'clock news for more information. Just caught a ten second update. Thought it was pertinant cause someone posted that the MN guard was going also.

Independent voters will be shut out of Arizona's GOP primary Feb. 22 because the state's open primary law does not apply to presidential elections, according to an opinion by Attorney General Janet Napolitano. Napolitano said that, because the open primary law approved by voters in 1998 does not specifically mention presidential elections, it doesn't apply. She argued that the Legislature has traditionally treated primaries separately from presidential preference elections. The opinion was requested by Secretary of State Betsey Bayless. Experts and Republican campaign officials say the opinion is expected to have little effect on the race in Arizona. "Honestly, I ...