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Monday, September 10 11:07 PM SGT UN Security Council lifts Yugoslavia sanctions UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10 (AFP) - The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Monday to lift the arms embargo it slapped on Yugoslavia in March 1998 to halt the repression in Kosovo. The lifting of the ban -- the last remaining UN sanction against Yugoslavia -- was made possible by the government's decision to transfer former president Slobodan Milosevic to the UN warcrimes tribunal in The Hague on June 28. It will permit the re-equipment of the Yugoslav armed forces, which have for the past six months been ...

Differing legal evolution affects world commerce Sunday, September 9, 2001 BY DAVID WESSELThe Wall Street Journal The world economy is putting modern capitalism through another stress test. Like tests that physicians do for people with heart disease, this one highlights the system's weaknesses and brings forth various prescriptions for treating symptoms.     But, just as with heart disease, the stress test raises intriguing questions about genetic advantages: Do some economies have institutions, laws and commonly accepted business norms that produce a stronger strain of capitalism, one better adapted to withstand shocks and improve its people's prosperity?     Specifically, why do the United ...

Hang Together Or Hang Alone! Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator August 15, 2001 Many speak of unity in Israel but most do not practice it. As the enemy bombs Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, YESHA each still stays separate - thinks separate - acts separate and each quietly thinks: "I am glad it happened there and not here." That's a natural, human reaction. When a bomb goes off in Jerusalem or YESHA (Yehuda, Shomron and Gaza),Tel Avivians feel safe and glad it was not them. When there is a road side shooting a mortar attack in ...

O. K. folks, what we have here is an ongoing MSNBC poll that started yesterday, Sept. 9, 2001. Many FR posters are - all through this ongoing poll (2 threads thus far) have now made it very clear that this MSNBC is probably rigged. POLL BEGS 4 FREEPING!: Did the recount decision (Bush vs. Gore)hurt the Supreme Court's credibility? Here's the MSNBC poll:: Survey Says: Voice your opinion on these topics. After you’ve voted, you can see how others have responded. Did the recount decision hurt the Supreme Court's credibility? I'm undecided. FR Posters begin to suspect this ongoing poll ...

<p>Economic recovery is just around the corner, if you're to believe leading officials at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the White House. By "recovery," they mean a 3 percent growth rate next year, with high expectations that clear rebound evidence will surface during this year's fourth quarter. But judging by the continued stock-market plunge, the public is not buying what the government is selling.</p>

I was not going to address the Nazi-like spectacle of the UN "Conference on Racism" in Durban until one young man changed my mind. He did this while in an intensive care unit of a hospital. His name is Nathan Sendaka and he&acute;s originally from Ethiopia. Nathan Sendaka and his family were among tens of thousands of black Jews rescued by Israel from the violence and oppression that was their lot in Africa. Beginning in 1961, they were gathered in at Israeli expense, as were other Jews from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Many of the Israeli casualties in ...

You have to try on a pair of sunglasses with that stupid little plastic thing in the middle of them. The person behind you in the supermarket runs his cart into the back of your ankle. The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets on. There's always a car riding your tail when you're slowing down to find an address. You open a can of soup and the lid falls in. The tiny red string on the Band-Aid wrapper never works for you. There's a dog in the neighborhood that barks at EVERYTHING. You can never put anything back ...

<p>I'd normally write this directly to Brit, Tony, but you know that only two weeks ago I wrote you a personal e-mail saying that Brit Hume was practically the only commentator on the Sunday talk shows who could see through the sliced baloney being served up about the budget. Besides, the e-mail address I had for him does not work any more. So I'll write this to you and hope you can pass it on to him. All this does go to the heart of the debate about surpluses and lock boxes and Social Security.</p>

Did the recount decision hurt the Supreme Court's credibility? Current results are running 42% favoring-56% opposing the Supreme Court decision.

WACO, Texas -- It's a bird. It's a plane. No! It's panties falling from the sky. Actually, they fell from the windows of Collins Residence Hall Wednesday night. Years ago the tradition came alive, and sometime between then and now, it died. On Wednesday night, however, the Collins girls decided to bring it back. At 11 p.m., a herd of chanting freshmen men rounded the turn to the Eighth Street entrance of Collins. From the windows, some girls sheepishly peeped through closed blinds, while others hung from the open window taunting the men. Students and people from around campus gathered ...

In contrast to one of the most dramatic paintings of the Revolutionary War, a portrait of George Washington at Valley Forge on his knees in prayer for victory in what he perceived to be a righteous cause, today's Christians are largely overwhelmed by the idea of the evil loose in the world and hiding from any action against it. So they have marched to the pews to hear about the hereafter while the here-and-now rots. Many of my netfriends are Christians, as am I. A few, very few indeed, are willing to enter the battle in whatever way they can ...

You want action. I want action. Enter Stage Right has action! This week's edition of Enter Stage Right is out now! Check it at http://www.enterstageright.com --This week's issue--> I'm sorry...: The delegates are flying home, everyone feels good about themselves, and dictators have received their apology. Gregory J. Hand has some thoughts about the U.N. World Conference against Racism Advertising is good medicine: Wayne Dunn dismantles the arguments used to promote the idea that drug companies shouldn't be allowed to advertise their products Marxist COWS vs. Realist mammoths: If politics is a baseball game, Michael Moriarty says the home team ...

'Satanic' Bush is on anti-abortion website's hit list By David Wastell in Washington (Filed: 09/09/2001) The name of President George W Bush has been added to an internet "hit list" compiled by anti-abortion campaigners after his decision to allow federal funding for limited human embryo stem-cell research. The Nuremberg Files website has been accused of inciting violence against doctors and medical staff involved in abortions. The main section, called Baby Butchers and Butchered, lists 421 names - plus addresses, car registration numbers and family details - of abortion practitioners and their "accomplices". Those who are dead - mostly women who ...

Is it time to consider the possible good or bad effects of the continuing barrage of negative Economic, Political and Social news that we are subjected to everyday. There is no question that what is happening today is going to have a profound effect on the way we will live in the 21st Century. How will the people of the world respond to the Recession or Depression that is rearing its ugly head? How will the people of the US respond?

After the Race Conference: Relief, and Doubt Over Whether It Will Matter By RACHEL L. SWARNS &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; URBAN, South Africa, Sept. 9 &#151; The diplomats scattered like the wind today, flying out of this port city with a 27-page action plan to combat discrimination and a staggering sense of relief that the United Nations conference on racism accomplished anything at all. But victims of racism and intolerance around the world might be forgiven for wondering whether those printed stacks of promises will make much difference to ordinary people. This conference grabbed headlines with its divisive debate over Israel's treatment ...

<p>On Labor Day, Secretary of State Colin Powell pulled the United States out of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, because U.S. diplomacy is sensitive to hateful speech against Israel. What I want to know is: What were we doing at the conference in the first place?</p>

Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian theologian who played a prominent role in the ecumenical and liberation theology movements, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Greenfield, Mass. He was 81. He lived in Palo Alto, Calif., and had a summer home in Heath, Mass. His wife, Sydney Thomson Brown, said he had never recovered from a fall three weeks ago. Dr. Brown began his career as a student of theology but widened his mission again and again, as he saw wrongs to right and causes to fight. He was jailed as a Freedom Rider during the civil rights movement, ...

Greek hospital stole our son's kidney, say parents of British accident victim A FURIOUS international row has broken out over a British family's fears that their son, who died on a holiday in Greece, had one of his kidneys stolen for sale on the black market, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. The parents of Chris Rochester, 24, who died after falling from a balcony, are demanding that the Greek government explain why their son's left kidney was missing when his body was returned to England in June last year. When a kidney was finally sent to them by the Greek ...

LOS ANGELES -- By the time this article is published our illustrious representatives in both the House of Representatives and the Senate will be writing the closing chapters on a variety of issues facing the nation. The future of stem-cell research, our national energy policy, the patient's bill of rights and who gets first dibs on the fresh batch of interns will all be debated and legislated upon in one or both of the branches of the legislature. These issues are all worthy of attention in Congress; however, one issue that deserves more attention, at least in this writer's opinion, ...

An older woman can wear any hat she chooses and nobody will laugh. A younger woman wearing the same hat will always look like a lampshade in a brothel. An older woman will never wake you up in the middle of the night & ask you, "What are you thinking?" An older woman doesn't care what you think. An older woman always carries a purse full of emergency supplies. Young women go hungry and bleed to death every time there's a natural disaster. An older woman always carries a condom in her purse. A younger woman is still hoping the ...