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<p>September 9, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - Rep. Gary Condit put out word to House colleagues that he decided to retire last week in a desperate effort to avoid further humiliation of an Ethics Committee probe and being kicked off the House Intelligence Committee, The Post has learned.</p>

Government 'satisfied' at Durban outcome By Herb Keinon and News AgenciesDURBAN - The UN World Conference on Racism concluded yesterday by adopting a declaration that did not specifically criticize Israel, but which recognized the "plight" of the Palestinians and the injustice of slavery and colonialism, after nine days of contentious debate that repeatedly threatened to unravel the gathering. Compromises on both issues were reached only yesterday morning, one day after the conference had been scheduled to end. Even as they accepted the compromise on the Middle East, Arab states registered their reservations that the conference would not directly condemn ...

<p>September 9, 2001 -- The odd practice of Gary Condit's children calling him "Gary" and referring to him as "Gary Condit" suggests family dysfunction and hidden emotional problems, psychological experts told The Post.</p> <p>It also may help the wayward California congressman "feel like a young stud," noted one psychiatrist.</p>

(08:50) Two dead in attack on Jordan Valley teachers' transport By The Jerusalem Post Internet StaffA minibus transporting teachers through the Jordan Valley was attacked by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by shooting around 8:20 a.m. Two people are dead and four wounded in the shooting which took place 300 meters south of the Adam Bridge junction, not far from the border crossing into Jordan, reports The Jerusalem Post's Margot Dudkevitch. Magen David Adom has only confirmed that one victim, a female teacher, was mortally wounded and died on the scene. Terrorists in a vehicle with Palestinian license plates reportedly drove ...

Foreign journalists retained in their hotel of Kabul Sunday September 09 2001 - 5h22 GMT KABUL, 9 seven (AFP) - the taliban prevented Sunday morning the journalists and foreign photographers present in Kabul to leave their hotel, one learned from official source in the Afghan capital. They show them to have taken the photograph day before of the lawsuit of eight foreign humane workers judged for " propagation of Christianity ". The taliban moreover stopped several Afghan interpreters not to have prevented the journalists from taking these photographs. " We will make a decision later ", said a person ...

<p>September 9, 2001 -- Florida feels the fear: Reno's really running!</p> <p>JANET RENO is running for governor of Florida. Great. At least Miami-Dade will now learn how to count.</p> <p>Forget chads. This lady knows - to the dental inlays - exactly how many bodies dropped at Waco.</p>

Sunday September 9, 10:21 AM Poles set to hand electoral humiliation to a divided Solidarity WARSAW, Sept 9 (AFP) - A dozen years after it toppled communism, Poland's Solidarity is set for a colossal defeat in elections later this month which could see it disintegrate as a political movement. When Poles vote on September 23 they are likely to install the ex-communists in power with nearly half of the popular vote, according to the latest opinion polls. Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek's Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) coalition is hovering around the eight percent needed for a coalition to win seats. It ...

I talked with Jill Stanek, a registered nurse, the other day after she was fired. She worked in the labor and delivery rooms at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Two and a half years ago, a nurse colleague told Stanek an astounding thing: A live aborted baby was on its way to the soiled laundry room to die. Yes, Stanek knew the hospital performed abortions in selective cases, which she opposed. But now she was discovering that the hospital was performing abortions where babies were not expected to be normal--abortions on babies expected to be born deformed ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 9 (AFP) - Two Israelis were killed and three wounded when Palestinians opened fire with automatic weapons on a school bus on the West Bank, an Israeli official who was present said. ###

Clintone will show up in Taiwan on the 12th or 13th. The impeached former president will attend a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the United Daily News newspaper and meet President Chen Shui-bian. He will attend a conference called "Our Shared Future : Globalization in the 21st Century" on the 15th. This info is a summary of the Chinese language article in the World Journal, the US subsidiary of the United Daily News, not a translation.

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Ruling party militants occupied a farm Saturday, burning buildings and threatening its white manager in violence that came three days after Zimbabwe's government pledged to restore law and order and stop the seizure of white-owned land.About 150 militants stormed onto Logan Lee Farm in Beatrice, 40 miles south of Harare, and threatened manager Angus Brown and his employees, said Jenni Williams, a spokeswoman for the Commercial Farmers' Union, which represents about 5,000 white landowners. Brown fled.Police refused to respond to calls for help, and the local farmers' association advised Brown via radio to abandon the property after ...

WASHINGTON (September 9) - Senior administration officials recommended to President George W. Bush on Friday at a White House meeting devoted to the Middle East that he meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat at the UN. This is an idea Arab allies like Saudi Arabia have pushed and that has been bandied about as a possibility for weeks. "It's not a formal decision, but it seems that's what they will do," said one diplomat briefed by administration officials about the possibility of a Bush-Arafat meeting. "If nothing too terrible happens before then, it will take place." Bush has so ...

<p>Minneapolis police are investigating whether two rapes in the Phillips neighborhood in July are related to the kidnapping of two women and rape of one of them last week.</p> <p>In separate cases in July, women reported that they were forced with a shotgun, in the first case into a car and in the second, to a secluded area, in the early morning hours by three or four men who fit the same vague description, police said. No suspects have been identified.</p>

<p>Intel Corp. has sued Via Technologies Inc., alleging that its P4X266 chipset illegally uses Intel's Pentium 4 processor bus.</p> <p>Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., filed suit in Delaware on Friday, according to the company. The suit alleges that Via illegally infringed upon five Intel patents in its manufacture of both the P4X266 chipset and the P4M266 chipset, both of which were released earlier in September.</p>

<p>Embattled Rep. Gary Condit -- who tried to quash media reports that he will not run for re-election -- could profit handily from government pensions should he hang on to his 18th Congressional District seat until the end of his term.</p>

Among the terror victims of the recent violence in Israel there is a disproportionately large representation of US citizens. There has been no display of outrage by the US Government, at the murder of innocent American civilians The Anglo community of Israel has been hit especially hard by the Al-Asqa Intifada. Of the 150 Israelis who have been killed during the 11-month uprising, at least 10 have been native English-speakers - more than six percent of the total death toll Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert attributes the disproportionately high figure to the large numbers of Anglos living in settlements close to ...

ROLLA, Mo. (September 8&#044; 10:00 p.m. PDT) - An apparent lightning strike caught Sen. Jean Carnahan's house on fire Saturday night while she was inside, authorities said. No one was injured.The fire broke out around 9 p.m. Saturday at the Democratic senator's home just southwest of Rolla, the Phelps County Sheriff's Department and the Missouri Highway Patrol said.Three fire departments were helping douse the blaze, officials said.A sheriff's dispatcher said initial reports indicate that a lightning strike triggered the blaze. It's not known who else was inside the house.The patrol said the extent of the damage was not immediately known.Calls ...

Now, a 'diktat' to non-Muslim women By Shujaat Bukhari SRINAGAR SEPT. 8. The campaign aimed at ``Talibanisation'' of Kashmir took a new turn today, when the militant outfit, Lashkar- e-Jabbar (LeJ), asked non-Muslim women to adopt a new dress code so that they are spared from the ``action'' to be initiated against Muslim women after September 10. In a statement issued to local newspapers here on Saturday, the outfit spokesman said, ``we appeal to our Hindu sisters to sport a `bindi' on their forehead and Sikh sisters to wear saffron dupattas so that they are identified easily''. This, he said ...

"Mr. Prez'dent" (To be sung to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Mr. Banker") Ummm yeah...oooh... Mr. Prez'dent...Dubyuh, please... How much does Justice mean?! Won't you please INDICT McAuliffe?! Won't you do this thing fer me?! Got yer White House...you got the Power!! All I got, George...is my guitar!! But you can have that, Mister Prez'dent... When you INDICT McAuliffe fer me!! Oh Mister Prez'dent, please... Listen to how it sounds... (MUD harpin' fer his dinner and The Big Man puttin' a hurtin' on his Les Paul) One more time... I should not be here...on my knees... But hey, Mister Prez'dent...Justice means that much ...

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