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The owner of a St. Louis cab company said Friday he does not know what action, if any, he can take against a driver who refused to take a passenger to a gay bar. "I'm sorry this whole thing happened," said Jack Seibert, president and owner of Yellow Cab Co. "I deeply regret it. "Our drivers deal with all kinds of people on this earth and they have to take people where they want to go, they have to be as careful as possible and then they have to go on to the next fare." Mike Gentle, 45, a ...

Missed Rush today. Were there any direct quites from Hillary's Communist-Praising college thesis? If not, when, where, will they be available? Thanx

12/12/99- Updated 07:56 PM ET Babbitt: Save the land or step aside By Martin Kasindorf, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is making a holiday shopping list consisting entirely of ornaments - spectacular but threatened places that decorate the vast landscape of the American West. Before urban sprawl engulfs them, Babbitt wants to give these 2 million acres to future Americans for centuries of contemplation. Delivering an ultimatum to Congress, Babbitt has made it clear that, unless the lawmakers act first, he will sign off on a "preliminary" list this month of at least seven environmentally delicate ...

O.K., so I am a dunce when it comes to HTML. Whadda ya expect! I'm a Latin teacher! Yes, I can shut bold and italics on and off, but I cannot post a picture, nor can I post a link to another web site. Yes, I tried going to a tutorial web site. Didn't understand it. Can someone help me with these two simple tasks?

IS Hillary Rodham Clinton, candidate for the U.S. Senate, clueless? This is the hard, relentless indictment presented in a new book on the first lady entitled "Hillary's Choice." By author Gail Sheehy's account, the woman now networking her merry way from the White House to the Capitol is blind to all that stands in her path. The rap sheet of Clinton's oblivion never seems to end. She didn't know about Gennifer Flowers until the president told her last year. She didn't know about Monica Lewinsky, didn't know that Webb Hubbell was stealing from her law firm, never spotted that ...

For the Record, a disturbing report: On a call-in to the George Putnam show today a biochemist Dr. "Mary" outlined 5 points about the current bioterror alert that is in effect for the period during Ramadan: Iraq is at war withthe US. A debriefing of a DOD agent Larry Harris of the Iraqi Mariam Irif has yeilded this info. 120 American cities are being simultaneously targeted on a muslim holy day - the end of Ramadan is the most likely date. 120 Iraqi cell groups of various Iraqi's such as students with visas may be carrying the spores in body ...

http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html Time Is Running Out — Cast Your Vote The Person of the Century Poll TIME's Person of the Century is that person who, for better or worse, most influenced the course of history over the past 100 years. The TIME 100 culminates in the selection of the Person of the Century in December 1999. The definition is shown above. Your submissions will be considered by the editors, who will make the final choice. Whimsical candidates and others who were not alive during this century, or do not fall within the spirit of the title, will not be counted. Fill ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. BEIJING –– About 1,500 auto factory workers blocked traffic in the western city of Chengdu on Monday to protest corruption and the factory's failure to pay them promised stipends, a right group said. Police detained two protesters, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said in a statement. The protesters dispersed peacefully after four hours, the group said. The state-owned factory closed in May because of financial problems and for two months has not paid workers a $23 monthly subsistence stipend, the Information Center said. ...

Israeli Nuclear Reactor Will Be Shut Down New Year's Eve & New Year's Day http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991213/aponline124853_000.htm (AP-Washington Post) The story here: Israel nuclear reactor near the Negev Desert town of Dimona will be shut down on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as a precaution against Y2K malfunctions. Israel says the Dimona facility is used for research, though it is widely believed that Israel stockpiles nuclear weapons there... The prime minister's office said Monday that Israel's nuclear facilities were checked and found to meet the necessary standards to combat the millennium bug, and that safety systems were working...

The criminal trial of Linda Tripp is scheduled for Jan. 18, 2000. Mrs. Tripp, indicted on two felony counts–recording a single phone conversation and allowing a journalist to hear the tape–faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Unwilling to commit perjury on behalf of Bill Clinton, Linda Tripp is the only central figure in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal to face criminal charges. There can be little doubt that her prosecution is politically motivated. Forty-nine Democratic members of Maryland’s House of Delegates sent a letter to the Maryland prosecutors, demanding the investigation of Linda Tripp. Touchingly, their ...

Language, Culture: How Schools Cope Monday, May 18, 1998 Language, Culture: How Schools Cope Home Life Plays a Crucial Role in Students' Success or Failure By ELAINE WOO, Times Education Writer      When Arcadia High School sophomore Johnson Lee gets home, his mother has vegetable sushi and eggrolls waiting on the kitchen table. When he stays up late before a big exam--say, to cram with friends over the Internet--she brews a pot of coffee to keep him going. And when there's just no room in his backpack for a hefty Advanced Placement biology textbook, no problem--she copies the chapters he ...

Just to make sure there is no confusion, Mark Levin, President of Landmark Legal Foundation, will be guest hosting on WMAL Radio in Washington, DC, from 8 to midnight tonight. You can listen on WMAL.COM and call in and join in the fun by calling 1-888-630-9625.

| | | | MONDAY DECEMBER 13 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO The 40-year gun grab '60s disarmament plan still going strong, say U.N. critics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Stephan Archer and Sarah Foster © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com For nearly 40 years, a few groups on the political right have sounded the alarm over a seemingly absurd scenario -- that gun control legislation was actually a key part of a plan for total national disarmament and the eventual replacement of United States troops by a United Nations army as part of the law enforcement arm of a one-world government. The ...

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (Reuters) - Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to President Clinton's impeachment, was never guaranteed protection against state charges she violated Maryland's wiretap laws, an independent counsel's office lawyer said Monday. Investigators from the office of former independent counsel Kenneth Starr instead offered the former White House secretary a grant of immunity that they believed would make it difficult for any state prosecutor to use her recorded conversations as evidence in a criminal proceeding. "We told her the state of Maryland was a separate sovereign (from the federal government) and that they ...

Quebec minister demands French version of Pokemon Game makers told to conform to language law Sean Gordon The Gazette QUEBEC - Louise Beaudoin, Quebec's Language Minister, is poised to stop the Pokemon craze in this province. As a result, the government has told the company that makes the cards -- as well as video-game makers Nintendo, which makes GameBoy, and Sony, which makes PlayStation -- that they have until Dec. 31 to come up with plans for French-language packaging and instructions or face the prospect of going to court. http://www.nationalpost.com/printer.asp?f=991210/148684

Bloomington, IL - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. terminated its contracts with five insurance agents who called for a federal inquiry into what they allege is a companywide pattern of consumer abuse at the largest U.S. auto and home insurer. In identical letters dated Dec. 8, State Farm told the agents that they were being dismissed because they "refused to provide" information or documentation to substantiate their charges. In October, all five agents signed a letter to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, alleging that State Farm forces agents to sell life insurance to people ...

In New York, Writing Between the Lines Print Edition Today's National     Articles Inside "A" Section Front Page Articles On Our Site Top News/Breaking     News Politics Section National Section In New York, Writing Between the Lines By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 13, 1999; Page C01 The message to Hillary Rodham Clinton was loud--very loud--and clear. "DON'T RUN!" screamed the New York Post's front-page headline, with "NYers tell Hillary" in smaller type. The Keep Out sign was based on a Post poll in which respondents, by 53 to 45 percent, said the first ...

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's repudiation of his administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals in the military would likely increase pressure on any future Democratic president to reopen the controversial issue of allowing openly gay people to serve. The question then will be whether Congress will go along, and that depends on its future makeup and mood. Speaking with CBS News over the weekend, the president said that "the policy as implemented does not work." He blamed the military for that failure, saying that his intent hadn't been followed in implementing it. "The original intent was that people ...

Judgment Day, as they called it, was to begin at 11:17 a.m. But the bombs didn't go off. After two minutes, they walked toward the school and opened fire, shooting randomly and killing the first two of their 13 victims. And then they headed into the building. Deputy Gardner was eating his lunch in his patrol car when a janitor called on the radio, saying a girl was down in the parking lot. Gardner drove toward her, heard gunshots and dived behind a Chevy Blazer, trading shots with Harris. "I've got to kill this kid," he kept telling himself. But ...

HOUSTON - Texas Gov. George W. Bush often tells audiences that he has "my daddy's eyes and my mother's mouth," and they always laugh knowingly. "That's just rude!" Barbara Bush protests with a laugh. The former first lady insists that her oldest son, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, is "much more like his father than he is like me." She may deny being the source of her son's occasional smart-aleck tendencies, but the two have a great deal in common, according to the man in the best position to judge. "George and his mother are very, very close," ...