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Ron Maximilian Lewenberg Ron Maximilian Lewenberg 5 131 2001-09-07T03:50:00Z 2001-09-08T20:14:00Z 1 255 1455 12 2 1786 9.2720 Protest Against Sharpton Speech at Columbia   Al Sharpton will be the Columbia Political Union speaker for the Columbia College Student Council Re-orientation event on Sunday September 9th from 4 p.m. -7 p.m. in Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall. The doors open at 3:30 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccsc/events.html Because of Reverend Sharpton's history of racial incitement, he is an unsuitable speaker and will set back race relations at Columbia. The tacit endorsement by the Columbia Political Union and Columbia College Student Council for Sharpton ...

Belgium suspends case against Sharon while legality checked By Nitzan Horowitz A controversial investigation in Belgium of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for crimes against humanity was suspended on Friday, until an appeals court rules on its legality. The case involving Sharon's alleged role in a 1982 massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut has soured relations between Brussels and Jerusalem and discouraged the Israeli leader from visiting European Union headquarters in the Belgian capital. Belgian lawyer Michel Hirsch, representing Israel, said that the examining magistrate in the case, Patrick Collignon, had suspended his investigation ...

Gore is back. Sort of. But in his irritating I'm-my-own-man-but-it's-sure-hard-to-get-a-fix-on-me way. After months of silence--as George W. Bush passed a tax cut Gore dubbed a "risky scheme," rolled back workplace and environmental protections Gore once championed and dropped a Texas-size turd on the global warming accord Gore helped negotiate--Gore this summer re-emerged ever so gently. He hosted a bipartisan political training seminar in Nashville, hired fundraisers, agreed to campaign for a Democrat in New Jersey and accepted an invitation to speak to Iowa Democrats in late September--moves that triggered speculation that he was prepping for another White House try. But ...

What will happen in Macedonia?   PressInfo # 126  September 7, 2001    By Jan Oberg, TFF director     NATO will not leave Macedonia NATO people emphasise that Operation Essential Harvest in Macedonia is a very limited mission; it will only be in Macedonia for one month and only to collect 3,300 weapons. It is not monitoring, it is not peace-keeping and it is not peace-enforcement. And, as we have shown in PressInfo 125 it is not a disarmament mission. It's a "collect-not-too-many weapons" mission. When NATO's mission approaches its termination, there is likely to be an intensive ...

America’s children have returned to the classroom, and so it is time for their "protectors" to go on alert again. What seems to terrify these protectors most is not the danger of drugs, violence, the sexualizing of young children, or even teacher incompetence—things about which most parents are concerned. Rather, these protectors aim to keep America’s impressionable youth from corruption by—God! Surely, I exaggerate. I wish that were true. However, consider the stance of leftist activist group People for the American Way (PFAW). PFAW, along with the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is a major ...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m U.S. administration names conditions for Bush-Arafat meeting The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush decided after deliberations at the White House on Friday that Bush will meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat at a UN assembly meeting in New York at the end of September. Bush has not met with the Palestinian leader since winning the presidency, although the two have had several telephone conversations. During the White House deliberations, which focused on the Middle East, participants ...

He was having an adulterous affair with Chandra Levy. According to her friend Sven Jones, Chandra was pressuring Condit into leaving his wife Carolyn, and marrying her. Now more mistresses have come forward with the rule Chandra revealed to her aunt. She was not allowed to carry ID with her when she went out on a date with Condit. Condit's wife gets migraine headaches at time that are often triggered by high altitude airline flights, so she tries to avoid flying. It had been a year since Carolyn Condit flew to Washington. She flies to Washington on April 28th, and ...

FORT STOCKTON - A diverse group of residents from all over far West Texas packed the Pecos County Civic Center in Fort Stockton Monday night to address Texas Department of Public Safety officials and state Rep. Pete P. Gallego with concerns regarding perceived harassment by DPS troopers and license and weight officers. "DPS has undergone some transformations over the last few years that do concern me," said Fort Stockton resident John Morrow as he addressed a crowd of nearly 200 people. Gallego, D-Alpine, told the audience that both he and state Sen. Frank Madla, R-San Antonio, have been hearing stories ...

Janet’s World In her element. Mr. Shiflett is a writer living in Midlothian, Va. September 7, 2001 11:45 a.m. Janet Reno's dramatic announcement that she will seek yet another government position, this time the governorship of Florida, has been greeted with scorn and ridicule. As many interested parties have pointed out, this is the woman responsible for the mass roasting at Waco, the betrayal of Elián, and is also guilty of failing to fully investigate the Clinton administration's gangbanging of the rule of law. Besides that, she is hardly a compelling personal or political presence; she would be a ...

A great evil stalks the world–again. Who would have believed, after the Nazi Holocaust and the free world's triumphant Declaration of Human Rights, that anyone would openly again foment hatred of Jews? But that's just what happened at the Durban conference against racism last week. The criticisms of the United States for walking out of the U.N. conference are, in a word, perverted. Durban degenerated into such vileness and hypocrisy, the troubling question is why so many stayed when the mask of "anti-Zionism" slipped to reveal the hideous face of antisemitism. Martin Luther King Jr. saw through the whole repellent ...

The 2001-02 college year may be the last one in which administrators and admissions officers will be able to use racial quotas and preferences. These policies, among universities' most cherished, have become a routine part of campus life, even though they are, by definition, racial discrimination, and racial discrimination is outlawed by the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For a long time, courts have closed their eyes to this obvious fact, relying on the shaky 1978 precedent of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which allowed some use of racial factors in admissions. But ...

Ex-Vice President Al Gore is said to be readying a blistering attack on President Bush, set for public debut at the Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa on Sept. 28. A Gore insider tells next week's U.S. News & World Report's "Washington Whispers" that, "He is focusing on Bush's economic stewardship, foreign policy, and the environment. He has been both sharp and sharp-tongued." Gore has already road tested his Bush-whack in smaller venues in San Francisco, New York and D.C. and is said to be happy with audience reaction. Backers are describing the upcoming Iowa speech as Gore's ...

If any of you want to eventually see justice prevail in regards to Bill Clinton, we can perhaps help the cause by e-mailing Representative Dan Burton a "thank-you" for consistently holding up the rule of law.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS SCHIP: Children's Health Care Program Can't Give It Away Daily Policy Digest Health Issues Friday, September 07, 2001 Virtually every child in a low-income family is eligible for either Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but 24 percent (or about 7.7 million) of the 32 million children in low-income families remain uninsured. Many analysts are puzzled why so many children remain unenrolled in these government health programs. The answer may be that their parents have decided they don't need or want them. The states have not been able to spend all ...

It will be very easy for you to say, "Well, I will do something, some day. When I can afford it, I am going to." But would you let an old "grad" tell you one thing now? Giving is a habit. Get into the habit now, because you will never be able to afford to give and contribute, thus to repay the obligation you owe to those people who made this college possible, if you wait until you think you can afford it. Start now regardless of how small, and in the days to come when you are confronted with ...

China will sell two million cars a year by 2010 as it establishes itself as the world's fastest growing market, but analysts warn manufacturers will face quasi-legal forms of local protectionism. The team of automotive industry analysts also predicted Volkswagen and possibly Toyota Motor will lead the market by then. Car-makers themselves speak more cautiously of the market's development. Cars sell better all the time, they say, but because the mainland's consumer trends and legal policies change so fast it is hard to say what is around the corner. China's entry into the World Trade Organisation, expected before the year-end, ...

Twenty-five plus protester gathered outside the Modesto office of Congressman Gary Condit (D-CA) under sunny warm skies on Saturday afternoon. Sitting in his wheelchair, carrying an American Flag, was our Commanding Officer, Jim Robinson. Citizens from the surrounding area of Modesto carried signs and posters, shouting cheers and jeers to passing motorists, demanding the resignation or expulsion from Congress of the shameful and disgusting Congressman from the 18th Congressional District of California. Passing motorists responded with more and more honking horns and thumbs up signals than we have experienced in past protest. As part of the days events, a letter ...

<p>DUBAI, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has said Arab countries are mulling ways to put international pressure on Israel over its "aggressive policies" against the Palestinians, Saturday's al-Hayat newspaper reported.</p> <p>"There are ideas being discussed by Arabs for a collective move...to press for deterring the Israeli government's policies," Prince Saud al-Faisal told the London-based Arabic daily.</p>

<p>Some years ago, the distinguished Harvard professor Samuel Huntington wrote: "It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in the new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural . . .The clash of civilizations will be the battle lines of the future." (Foreign Affairs, "The Clash of Civilizations," Summer 1993.) He later published a book titled, "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order," which expanded on this proposition.</p>