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Girl Meets Boy Birds do it. Bees do it. And so does that highly secretive species known as the American college student. But just what exactly do they do and how do they do it? It's one of the perplexities of our culture's obsession with "tolerance" that we know more about the courtship and mating rituals of virtually every form of wildlife other than young men and women on campus. As a new study suggests, we ought to be paying more attention. Society has a stake in how its young people relate to one another. "Hooking Up, Hanging Out ...

In light of the airing of a movie on TV about Ruby Ridge ( no, I did not see it, but my wife did, and what she gleaned seemed to be fairly factual- surprise! ) I thought we'd return with some links to the events there.Comments, opinions, and other links are invited-- First, a link with many more links:Ruby RidgeRuby Ridge. In 1992 a federal force of US Marshals, FBIand BATF agents conducted a murderous assault ... The Ruby Ridge Prosecutions, by Blackman & Kopel... The Ruby Ridge Prosecutions. by Paul Blackman & David Kopel. Which is better: lettingcriminals go ...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - A small gathering of conservative activists held signs outside the U.S. Capitol Thursday calling on U.S. Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) to resign for having allegedly lied to police about his affair with intern Chandra Levy, who disappeared over three months ago. Members of the Free Republic, the Internet gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatives, organized the event, also calling on Congress to eject Condit if he refuses to resign. Kristinn Taylor, organizer of the mini-protest, called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to remove Condit from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and to force ...

Why won't Gary Condidit take the police lie detector test? He is on the edge of being forced from his job by public and congressional pressure, yet good ol' Gary Condit won't take the test. If he is not guilty, why won't he take the test? Gary says he does not know anything about where Chandra is even though he knows most people think he's not telling the whole trutth, but good ol Gary won't take the test. ........................WHY?

A woman writing a book about the slaying of a Texas millionaire's wife has become a federal prisoner in a battle pitting prosecutors against the freedom of the press. A judge jailed Vanessa Leggett on July 20 for refusing to hand over her notes to a federal grand jury investigating the slaying of the wife of a reputed bookie. Leggett, 33, was found in contempt of court in a closed hearing. Prosecutors asked her to give up all her notes, tapes and material — originals and copies — related to the 1997 death of Doris Angelton. In a statement ...

Police say a car bomb that injured seven people in west London was the work of Irish dissidents planning "mass murder". The bomb - which contained up to 40kg of homemade explosive - blew up near Ealing Broadway railway station seconds after midnight. It was left in a grey Saab saloon near a busy pub in Uxbridge Road, about 100m from the underground and mainline railway station. We are fortunate indeed that we are not dealing with mass murder The area - which is lined with bars and restaurants - was still busy with late night drinkers as the car ...

CAN a publicist who lies about her age be trusted about more important matters - such as mising intern Chandra Levy? Marina Ein, the PR guru trying to salvage Rep. Gary Condit's reputation, ducked six phone calls from Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove, whose paper had cited her age as 48. The Daily News shaved a decade off, and called her 38. But Grove reports Ein graduated in 1969 from Bryn Mawr, where records show she was born on July 9, 1949. That makes her 52.[snip] Monica victim? MONICA Lewinsky won't respond to charges she once whacked lawyer Victoria Toensing ...

ROSSOSH, Russia (AP) -- A Russian court on Friday approved the parole recommendation for John Tobin, an American Fulbright scholar serving a one-year sentence on drug charges, clearing the way for his early release as soon as Friday, judge Boris Gladko said. Gladko told The Associated Press that Tobin could be released later Friday. He said the court was preparing documents needed by the prison administration to let Tobin go. Tobin became eligible for parole Thursday, the halfway point of his high-profile sentence, and the parole board unanimously recommended release, satisfied by his behavior at the prison in the ...

Let's end the two-term limit on Presidents, and let's do it quickly. With Bill Clinton outpolling President Bush, why should the American people be denied their choice of chief executive? Why should a 22nd Amendment passed by Republicans to get even with Franklin Roosevelt stop 21st century Americans from having the President we want? Just look at the media jamboree attending Clinton's return to the spotlight. All he did was open an office in Harlem, and it was like Napoleon just back from Elba, kissing the flag of France. It's called democracy. People like leaders who are (a) full of ...

Congress has produced a burst of pre-vacation activity that will shield it against a "do nothing" label while providing President Bush some victories to savor during his upcoming Texas retreat. This week's legislative action does not mean Mr. Bush has suddenly become an LBJ-like political colossus. Yet, defying many predictions, he struck a compromise that may pave the way for a patients' bill of rights and won House approval of drilling in an oil-rich Alaska wilderness. Added to the tax cut that remains his signature initiative to date, these represent much-needed victories that have perhaps reinvigorated the president's standing. ...

In the weeks before she vanished, Chandra Levy was more and more intent on getting Rep. Gary Condit to leave his wife, according to a friend who spent hours strategizing with the love-struck intern. Despite warnings, Levy was determined to "have this confrontation" with Condit, pal Sven Jones is quoted as saying in a Talk magazine article. "She was not the type of woman who was going to be the little mistress waiting home on the couch," he said. Jones, a spokesman at the Bureau of Prisons who became fast friends with Levy during her internship there, said he warned ...

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ROGER COSSACK, GUEST HOST: Tonight, an exclusive sneak peak at the secrets and lies in the lives of Chandra Levy and Gary Condit. What was the beautiful intern determined to get from her married lover in the weeks before she vanished? "Talk" magazine's Lisa DePaulo reveals the results of more than two months of digging, including details of Chandra's intimate confidantes to her ...

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DAVID ECKERT, WETIP PROGRAM DIRECTOR: We just received an anonymous tip giving information about the possible location of the body of Chandra Levy. (END VIDEO CLIP) It would have to be information that was known firsthand. They described the surroundings and some details of where the body might be buried that if it were a hoax, it was quite elaborate. ROGER ...

Any $50-a-day crackhead can tell you why politicians of both major parties so blindly support America's war on (some) drugs. What is more perplexing/ discouraging/ frightening is why – in a purportedly free society – there is so little debate in our mainstream media about how and why our drug war is being fought after three decades of obvious failure. It's a shame, not to mention a national disgrace, that no important American magazine – or newspaper, or TV channel, or cable channel talking head – has found the brains and the guts to do what Britain's Economist does ...

CLINTON PROBER MIGHT SOON BE MARY GO By DEBORAH ORIN and BILL SANDERSON Mary Jo WhiteNathan Edwards August 3, 2001 -- Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White may be replaced before she completes her probes of President Clinton's last-minute pardons and Sen. Robert Torricelli's fund-raising, a Justice Department official said yesterday. The official could not say when President Bush would replace White, a Democrat holdover from the Clinton years. "I don't think they would fire her [White] outright, but they would come to some agreement with her," said a source familiar with the situation. The source also said White ...

Convicted by parable The Washington Times www.washtimes.com Convicted by parable Diana West The Washington Times Published 8/3/01      The Fourth of July is over but Bill Clinton – remember him? – just might want to light one more firecracker to celebrate American independence from Great Britain. Had things gone the other way 200-plus years ago, he might be in jail.      The thought of Mr. Clinton amid these tranquil (or not) summer days may be about as welcome as sand in the sunblock, but news from England this summer brings the former prez to mind. Why? As Mr. Clinton finishes moving ...

Were the Founding Fathers Secessionist Monsters? by Ryan McMaken Slavery and secession are for some reason, two concepts which it is difficult to divorce from each other in American political discourse. Some Americans simply cannot get past the fact that the states that attempted secession in the 19th century also happened to be states that used the admittedly unjust institution of slavery. Although it was only one part of a multifaceted conflict between Northern states and Southern states, it was indeed a situation where political entities with a large slave population attempted to secede from a political entity with a ...

Gephardt hits Bush's foreign policy The Washington Times www.washtimes.com Gephardt hits Bush's foreign policy Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 8/3/01      House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt sharply criticized President Bush's foreign policy yesterday in a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, decrying the president's "go it alone" attitude.      On everything from global warming to international treaties and ballistic missile defense, Mr. Gephardt portrayed the administration's approach as unilateral and perplexing to the rest of the world.      "Europeans are worried that America is on the sidelines," he said. "They think the Bush administration has embraced a go-it-alone ...

One of Massachusetts' largest Boy Scouts councils was trying to be too clever by half when it adopted a so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy last month regarding the admission of avowed homosexual scoutmasters into its ranks. The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that the board of the Massachusetts Minuteman Council, which is an umbrella organization of 330 Scout troops with 18,000 Scout members in Greater Boston, "quietly and unanimously approved the bylaw on July 19. … The policy bars exclusion of anyone on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation," according to Brock Bigsby, Scout executive for the ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hours after a U.S. senator announced the abrupt cancellation of a ceremony to swear in recently freed Chinese prisoner Gao Zhan as a U.S. citizen, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service said no such event had been scheduled. "There never was a naturalization ceremony scheduled for today," said INS spokesman Bill Strassberger. He refused further comment. Senior Justice Department officials also refused to explain the confusion. The INS comment contradicts a statement earlier in the day by Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia who Wednesday had announced plans for the ceremony. "The formal swearing-in of Fairfax County ...