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OK, In your opinion which one deserves the other one MORE? And why? I know most will say it is a dead heat.

OK, In your opinion which one deserves the other one MORE? And why? I know most will say it is a dead heat.

See the House Government Reform Committee Schedule for next week below. Looks like John Huang will be testifying before Congress for 4 days straight. Monday, December 13 Nothing Scheduled Tuesday, December 14 Nothing Scheduled Wednesday, December 15 12:00 noon - 2154 Full Committee Hearing on "The Role of John Huang and the Riady Family in Political Fundraising" Thursday, December 16 10:00 a.m. - 2154 Full Committee Hearing on "The Role of John Huang and the Riady Family in Political Fundraising" Friday, December 17 10:00 a.m. - 2154 Full Committee Hearing on "The Role of John Huang and the Riady Family ...

Being born in the great depression my family had no money for presents or a tree, just enough for some food plus what food we could glean from the farmers fields.My father was laid off the Santa Fe railroad in 1929 and finally got back to work in 1936. We lived near a rail yard and hungry men riding the rails to find work somewhere, would ask at our door for food daily. My father NEVER turned one away even if it made the family short on food. He taught me a lesson in charity that has lasted for a ...

MIDI - HAIL TO THE CHIEF There is a danger…we’d better sound the warning There is no telling how many kids could die We must hold hearings and spend a lot of money Visine is something that could poke out your eye It should be banned or taxed right out of existence Let trial lawyers sue for 10 billion bucks We must control it or our world will be ending We’ll teach the children that Visine really sucks If you’re not careful you will find you’re in trouble You’ll break blood vessels and turn your eye red We must ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful earthquake rocked the northern Philippines early Sunday, cracking walls of buildings, knocking out electricity and seriously injuring several people, officials said. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8, jolted much of the main island of Luzon at 2:03 a.m. and sent residents rushing from their beds into the streets. In Manila, electrical poles were toppled and buildings swayed dramatically, knocking objects off tables and cracking walls. Guests were evacuated from luxury hotels and patients were removed from at least two hospitals. Power was knocked out in much of the city and surrounding areas ...

‘Just a Nuisance’: Bradley Says Heart Condition Will Not Affect Campaign ABCNEWS.com S A N F R A N C I S C O, Dec. 11 — Bill Bradley said today that an episode of an irregular heartbeat that forced him to cancel a fund raiser presents no serious problems for his campaign. Bradley downplayed his condition, which he had previously not disclosed, by bragging of how he regularly works out on a Stairmaster. But he also said he takes medication to ensure a regular heartbeat. "This is just a nuisance, quite frankly," he said Saturday at a press conference. ...

NEW YORK--After spending more than $300 million on plans that include a state-of-the-art command center complete with filtered air to thwart chemical and biological attacks, officials here believe New York is fully prepared to face potential problems as the millennium looms. More than 37,000 police officers will be on duty New Year's Eve, 7,000 in Times Square alone; and officials have stockpiled 50,000 heater meals--add water and the food gets hot--for anyone who needs them, along with extra generators, a three-month supply of batteries and extra suits for protection against hazardous materials. In addition, schools with old-fashioned coal-burning furnaces ...

Bradley's Back On The Beat PALO ALTO, California Saturday, December 11,1999 (CBS) Bill Bradley met reporters in California Saturday morning to deliver one message: that his health is not a problem. The Democratic presidential candidate said he's "feeling great" after a hospital examination for an irregular heartbeat, CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone reports. Bradley said the problem arose when he missed medication he's been taking for a year-and-a-half to control a condition called atrial fibrilation. "There's no anxiety," he explained, "your heart just beats irregularly." CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Emily Senay says "atrial fibrilation is a very common irregular ...

ALBANY -- The majority leader of the New York State Senate is proposing for the first time that lawmakers be barred from accepting gifts from lobbyists, a move to defuse criticism that many lawmakers are routinely showered with free meals, sports tickets and other favors. The proposal, by Joseph L. Bruno, a Republican, represents a shift because he has declined to push similar measures through the Senate in the past. It puts pressure on Democratic leaders in the State Assembly to follow suit, lest they appear opposed to reform in an area that has been a source of great embarrassment ...

'Healthy' Campaigning Saturday, December 11,1999 (CBS) In politics, CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan reports, a healthy campaign means a healthy candidate -- or at least the appearance of one. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley's brief hospitalization for an irregular heartbeat Friday may be as significant politically as it is medically. George Bush found that out after his hospitalization for an abnormal heart rhythm. His case was minor, but it was enough to raise questions about his stamina as he prepared to enter the 1992 presidential campaign. "Next to opening up their tax returns, the next thing candidates open are their ...

Security and Stability Edgar Emmett oetkurumit@immel.org The news of China's imminent entry into the World Trade Organization came hot on the heels of a security conference held from November 30 to December 2 in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Hosted by Askar Akayev, Kyrgyzstan's president, the conference was attended by the law enforcement and security chiefs of the Shanghai Five nations: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. These nations border Eastern Turkestan, home of the Uyghur people and stage for the next ethnic meltdown. The goal of the conference was to tighten the cooperation between these neighboring states on matters ...

A Mother's Ardent 'Project': Disciplined Young Bradley Was Coached to Achieve By Barton Gellman and Dale Russakoff Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 12, 1999; Page A01 CRYSTAL CITY, Mo.—Susie Bradley's unforeseen journey to motherhood began its final leg in a hearse. Her husband of three years, rigid with arthritis, felt unequal to driving the Cadillac. In that wartime summer of 1943, the nearest substitute with a reliable supply of gas belonged to Gentry Politte, the undertaker. A funereal ride up Highway 61-67 conveyed the 34-year-old schoolteacher, in labor all the way, to disappointment. Susie Bradley believed in "mind force," ...

Sunday's TV News Shows ( AP Online ) The Associated Press; 12-10-1999 Lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's ``This Week'' -- Topics: Foreign hot spots and Republican candidates' debate. Guests: National Security Advisor Samuel Berger and Republican presidential candidates Orrin Hatch and Alan Keyes. CBS' ``Face the Nation'' -- Topics: Middle East peace prospects, Chechnya, Cuban boy and Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate bid. Guests: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Harold Ickes, adviser to Mrs. Clinton. NBC's ``Meet the Press'' -- Topics: Russian espionage and the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Guests: Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman ...

Outlook 12/20/99 Stud service, Zappa for Gore, Race card, Ethnic cleansing, Morton's of Italy . . . By Paul Bedard Stud service It was just a matter of time before folks started profiting off Buddy, the first dog. Tom Marney ran an ad in last week's Washington Post heralding that his four chocolate Labs are Buddy's kin. "Sire also sire of Buddy–White House dog." Says Marney: "I thought that would appeal to people." It has, but not to the White House, which plans to ask him to stop mentioning Buddy. Oh, what's a pup worth? $600. Gore Zapped My how ...

Six months to the day after Allied troops moved in, Raymond Whitaker finds a province beset by crime and administrative chaos By Clare Francis "The situation here is very bad and getting worse," said Bajram Rexhepi, his breath coming out in clouds. "Tensions here are very great. We are trying to contain violence and protests, but we will lose our credibility if we can't show any kind of success." It was easy to see what Dr Rexhepi, a medical man turned city administrator, was talking about. If the head of Mitrovica's unofficial, Albanian-created municipal government cannot even heat his own ...

Outlook 12/20/99 By John Leo Gender test at MIT: A faculty committee report on bias seems biased itself Famous universities rarely issue reports pronouncing themselves guilty of serious long-term discrimination. But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to do that last March, releasing a report confessing to "pervasive," perhaps "unconscious" gender bias against its female faculty. The story was Page 1 news in the New York Times and other major papers. Biology Prof. Nancy Hopkins, whose complaints provoked the bias report, was called to the White House and posed beaming with the Clintons. The Chronicle of Higher Education ran three ...

12/10/99 -- 1:04 AM Militia rhetoric watched closely By MICHAEL FECHTER and ACE ATKINS of The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - Authorities are keeping their eyes on antigovernment groups after an arrest of a St. Petersburg militia leader. Wednesday's terrorism and conspiracy indictment of a St. Petersburg militia leader is the latest in a series of law enforcement actions against antigovernment groups whose talk turned to plans for violence. Donald Beauregard, the leader of a militia umbrella group called the Southeastern States Alliance, remains in jail without bail after a grand jury charged him with conspiracy to burglarize National Guard ...

U.S. News 12/20/99 By Gloria Borger Liar, liar, Dems on fire: Guess who's going to raise your taxes? The other guy "To me, it's unfortunate that the vice president of the United States, who knows better, in desperation, would sink to that level. He knows [what he's saying] is false." -Presidential candidate Bob Dole, New Hampshire, 1988 Bob Dole and Bill Bradley, political soulmates. Both suffered attacks in New Hampshire by sitting veeps, both got mad as hell about it. Correct that: Dole was mad; Bradley was "disappointed," says his staff. "I think we've reached a sad day in our ...