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Kennedy Praises Bush BOSTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) - Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Friday that Republican presidential front-runner Texas Gov. George W. Bush "meets the bar" to be president. At the same time, Kennedy told the Boston Herald he has not decided yet whether to endorse Vice President Al Gore in the Democratic presidential primary race. While criticizing Bush's record on health care, Kennedy suggested the governor run on his strong record of education reform. Kennedy also said Bush's failure to answer foreign policy questions from a Boston television station was insignificant. "The fact is, he's been a ...

A Nashua teacher refers to them as "The 3 Ms" – mudslinging, moral grandstanding and making promises that can’t be kept. A retired writer from Merrimack gets ticked off when they promise too much, lose touch with the electorate and fail to live up to their promises. And a retired program manager from Nashua sums up what turns him off in three, simple words: lie, cheat, steal.

NASHUA — For months, Liam Youens cried into the silence of the World Wide Web, describing his loneliness, suicidal fantasies and vacillating love and hate for a former classmate. But no one heard him. His Web site was filled with tirades in which he hatched plans for a shooting rampage at his former high school, plotted to kill another former classmate, and described his favorite weapon — an AR-15 assault rifle. But no one listened.

The youngest are our poorest citizens. And the consequences to experiencing deep poverty in childhood are severe and lasting. In South Carolina, every hour of the day a baby is born to a teen-age mother. Think of that. At 8 a.m. today, a baby is born to a S.C. teen. At 9 a.m. today, a baby is born to a S.C. teen. When you take a break at 10 a.m., when you check the clock at 11 a.m., when you go off to lunch at noon, a baby is born to a teen. And it is a given that babies ...

Taxes Become Debating Point For Democrats Gore Asserts Rival Would Need Hike for 'Flawed' Health Plan By Dan Balz and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, December 6, 1999; Page A01 BEDFORD, N.H., Dec. 5—Vice President Gore, opening up a new front in his challenge to Bill Bradley, asserted that his Democratic rival would have to raise taxes and therefore put the nation's vibrant economy at risk to pay for a "deeply flawed" health care plan. In an interview, Gore accused Bradley of concocting a health proposal for purely political reasons to appeal to the liberal wing of the ...

Bradley Advisers Calculate Consequences of His Candor By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 6, 1999; Page A01 Bill Bradley's refusal to rule out a tax increase to pay for his health plan is based on his belief that voters are ready for honesty at any cost, according to his advisers, who say they are braced for accusations that his frankness could resurrect the tax-and-spend label that Democrats have worked to shed during the 1990s. Bradley's position on taxes is part of a strategy he has developed for trying to convince suburban voters that it is in the ...

The economy is booming, President Clinton is bragging about the 20 million new jobs created in the United States since he took office, and the Labor Department just announced that the nation’s unemployment rate for last month was at a 30-year low. So why was Arnie Alpert, a resident of Canterbury, among 50,000 people gathered in Seattle last week protesting the World Trade Organization, a Geneva-based body that includes 135 member countries and sets global trade policies? Because of people like Karen Raye Adams and her husband, Michael, two of about 130 people expected to be laid off from General ...

I(insert your name here) do hereby solemnly swear to defend the Constitution Of The United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help me God.

Citing the need to maintain safety and discipline in schools, a federal judge yesterday said officials acted properly in expelling a student for having a toy handgun in a car he drove to Westland High School. "In this day and age . . . school officials have an overwhelming responsibility for security and safety,'' U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley said during a hearing to determine whether Stephen Koser, 17, should be allowed to return to the high school. "Students should not be allowed to threaten administrators,'' Marbley said. "The public interest is served by ensuring discipline and the curtailment ...

FEBRUARY 1997: - FBI Director Louis Freeh is sent to Saudi Arabia again by President Clinton to investigate bombing of American barracks in Dharan in June 1996. Saudi officials eventually execute the bombing suspects without allowing Freeh the opportunity to interrogate them. - White House Counsel Charles Ruff attempts to access FBI intelligence about Chinese attempts to influence American elections while Freeh is away. He uses Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick at Justice Department as an intermediary. FBI officials warn Freeh who then blocks Ruff's request for information. Ruff claims he wanted to inform Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ...

Breaking... Drudge reports tonight that Time is going to press with reports gleaned from medical records that McCain 'at one time' had a genital herpetic outbreak...

The IBM super computer, one of the most capable on the market, is intended for China's Meteorological Administration, a branch of the government, ostensibly for running programs for forecasting winds and other weather more accurately. "It's a legitimate end-use," says a Clinton administration official, who asked not to be identified. "Weather forecasting in the United States uses very intensive computing." But the most common use of super computers is in designing smaller nuclear weapons and highly advance weapons systems. MATRIX CONTROL TED: Today's forecast is for light MIRV attacks over Atlanta, Washington and New York with temperature approaching 10,000 degrees. ...

Gasoline engine will keep us going for years December 6, 1999 BY BOB WYSS THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL The internal-combustion engine dates back to the mid-19th century and even though there have been a number of attempts to retire or outright kill it, the future looks bright for the engine at the dawn of the 21st century. That's the assessment of a range of government officials, car manufacturers and engineering professors. It comes despite dissatisfaction that the conventional gasoline-powered engine not only gobbles up too much fuel but still belches out far more pollution than it should. Everyone from Detroit ...

Children, Teens Blamed In Kosovo Ethnic Violence By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, December 6, 1999; Page A01 VIENNA, Dec. 5—When President Clinton visited Kosovo two weeks ago to speak to a hand-picked audience of parents and schoolchildren, he made a special plea for ethnic tolerance by the province's youths. They should, he said, be spared the burden of their parents' blind ethnic hatred. But on the streets of Kosovo's major cities, human rights monitors have discovered that children are already caught up in the cycle of enmity. Many of the worst acts of ethnic violence in ...

Barak Plan Steps Up West Bank Settlement: Expansion Threatens To Derail Peace Talks By Lee Hockstader Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, December 6, 1999; Page A17 JERUSALEM, Dec. 5—The government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, in office just five months, has sharply accelerated expansion plans for Jewish settlements in the West Bank on the eve of critical negotiations for a comprehensive Middle East peace deal, an Israeli peace group said today. Since taking office in July, Barak's government, a coalition that relies on a settlers' party for support, has approved construction of 3,196 housing units in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ...

It occurred to me today that the John Cochran "Dinner with Al Gore" story is one we should immortalize. If ever there was an explanation of why WE CANNOT EVER agree to a McCain-Feingold-type campaign finance reform, this is it. John Cochran invites Al Gore and Tipper and assorted other "reporters" over for a cosy dinner. ABC finds out and PAYS for it. ABC claims that it is okay because John Cochran and the Gores are old friends. WHERE is the part that explains why, if the Cochrans and the Gores are such good friends, that John Cochran has been ...

U.S-China Pact Opposition to Intensify: Labor, Environmental Groups Stepping Up Campaign Against Trade Agreement By Donna Smith Reuters Monday, December 6, 1999; Page A16 SEATTLE, Dec. 5—The collapse of trade negotiations here may strengthen the hand of labor and environmental groups as they press Congress to reject President Clinton's landmark trade agreement with China. Clinton already was gearing up for a bruising election-year fight in the Republican-controlled Congress over the deal, which would open a wide range of Chinese markets and clear the way for Beijing to join the World Trade Organization. Fresh from victory in Seattle, labor leaders said ...

Sunday, December 5, 1999 Evil times two Together, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown made one very deadly couple By MAX HAINES Toronto Sun Alton Coleman had not been dealt a good hand in life. Still, there are thousands who have drawn similar hands who don't end up like Mr. Coleman. Alton's mother was a prostitute in Chicago's black ghetto when she gave birth to him and his two siblings. His father deserted the family soon after the third child was born. Alton was given up to his grandmother, where he proved to be a bitter, unhappy youngster. The little boy ...

Campaign Reform Could Align Candidates Aides to McCain, Bradley Weigh Joint Event to Highlight Objections to 'Soft Money' By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 6, 1999; Page A10 Aides to Bill Bradley and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) are planning an unprecedented cross-party event to draw attention to campaign finance reform, possibly culminating in a reenactment of the 1995 handshake between President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich pledging to pursue the issue. A joint appearance by the two presidential candidates is still in the talking stage but would be held before the New Hampshire primary on Feb. ...

!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">   China is beginning work on a new strategic submarine that                                       will be targeted against U.S. nuclear forces and carry                                       missiles with small warheads similar to American                                  weapons, The Washington Times has learned.                                       The People's Liberation Army Navy will start construction in                                  the next several weeks on its first Type 094 missile submarine,                                  according to Pentagon and other administration officials with                                  access to intelligence reports.                                       Preparations for the construction were detected by U.S. spy                                  agencies and reported to senior Pentagon officials late last ...