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Following the Money Watergate sleuth Carl Bernstein has been basking this month in the 30th anniversary of the notorious break-in, appearing on countless television shows and journalistic panels to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation with partner Bob Woodward, which famously resulted in President Richard Nixon's resignation. But now two of the 58-year-old Bernstein's former personal assistants are trying to bring his victory lap to a crashing halt. They say Bernstein bounced paychecks and borrowed money while living high on the hog. (SNIP) Nevertheless, he [Bernstein] took Murawski's recommendation of a replacement and hired Hillary Rose, Murawski's longtime friend. Rose, a...

Baltimore's police union endorsed Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s bid for governor Monday night, the first time the organization has endorsed a Republican gubernatorial candidate in 36 years. The board of directors of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, which represents 5,000 current and retired city police officers, unanimously selected Ehrlich over Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend two weeks ago. The full union membership ratified the board's decision at a meeting Monday night.

Bush's speech "fell short" say Muslims - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -(Washington, D.C., 6/24/2002) A prominent national Islamic advocacy group today said President Bush's speech outlining his vision for peace in the Middle East put too much emphasis on Palestinian concessions and too little pressure on Israel to act in accordance with international law. In a statement reacting to the president's speech, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad said: "There were a number of positive aspects to President Bush's proposals for peace and...

SUSPECTED LOAD VEHICLE ACCIDENT - PINE VALLEY, CA - An accident in Pine Valley left at least one person dead and injured more than 20 Monday. It happened just after 9pm on Interstate 8 east of Sunrise Highway. Preliminary information indicates a vehicle, loaded with suspected undocumented aliens, collided with another vehicle.

Please keep adding 6/25/02 dated Elizabeth Smart updates to this thread... Remember to keep checking back to this thread today for today'sdeveloping news on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping. Some people may consider today to be actually day 20, I count 1 day for each 24 hours that have passed since Elizabeth was kidnapped. Brigette's Ping List (How To Join & How It Works)If you would like on my Elizabeth Smart Ping List, Please send me a "Private Reply" with your request... Please do not post a "Public Thread Request" as I may accidently overlook it. Also you can click here...

NEW YORK (AP) -- With a purposeful stride across her new studio toward the camera, Connie Chung opened a new era for CNN on Monday night with the debut of her prime-time news program. Chung was hired from ABC as part of CNN's strategy to develop news stars that can compete with cable news leader Fox News Channel. She's in the same time slot as Fox's biggest gun, Bill O'Reilly. ``I can promise you I'm not going to yell at you,'' Chung said. CNN built a new studio for Chung in midtown Manhattan, and she wore a burnt-orange suit to...

June 24, 2002 Amtrak Will Not Shut Down, Bush SaysBy DAVID FIRESTONE and DAVID STOUT ASHINGTON, June 24 — President Bush assured New Jersey's two senators today that Amtrak will not shut down this week, an aide to Senator Robert Torricelli said. Mr. Bush pledged that some kind of temporary solution, possibly in the form of loan guarantees, was being worked out, Mr. Torricelli's aide said. The president was also said to have emphasized that the administration will not drop its insistence on major structural changes at Amtrak. A shutdown of Amtrak would have far-reaching ripple effects that could upset...

CHP cracking down on registration violations Officers say millions of dollars are lost every year due to California residents not registering their cars to avoid fees and insurance requirements. The California Highway Patrol is cracking down on drivers with registration violations. This week, CHP officers will be on the look-out for violators throughout the state. They will be paying close attention to out-of-state plates. Officers say millions of dollars are lost every year due to California residents not registering their cars to avoid fees and insurance requirements.

Hardly a week goes by without at least one reader asking a really tough question. The latest tough question dealt with a recent column which said that, in a war for survival, the government has not only the right but the duty to intern groups whose loyalties are to our enemies. My argument was that the government's first duty is to protect its people and perpetuate the nation -- and this cannot be done without somebody paying a cost. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was an unnecessary cost and a human tragedy because they were loyal...

Elementary Entrepreneurs As the country looks toward tightening security -- one Chico school has designed a little tool to make their classrooms more secure. NewsChannel 7's Brian Close reports on the elementary entrepreneurs. Until now, the doors at Neal Dow Elementary school were left unlocked, or propped open with pieces of cardboard -- but a group of second-graders are constructing special door wraps. The invention is a piece of denim that blocks the latch from closing, except in an emergency, when teachers can remove them and the door will lock. If you don't want to get locked out of...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- On one recent morning, Jose Pinera, the world's leading Social Security reformer, wore a blue windbreaker and spoke energetically to an American visitor of growing up "one of six children, with a mother who believed in savings. She matched what we saved peso for peso, but we couldn't touch the money until we were 18. She taught punctuality, discipline, honesty, saving." When Pinera grew up, he studied economics at Harvard and learned about the 19th century German origins of social security: "Otto von Bismarck had a big idea, that a worker with a pension depends on the...

The “al-Aqsa Intifada” – An Engineered TragedyA just-completed study at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya provides an in-depth look at the fatalities on both sides of the current Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Based on thorough research using Palestinian and Israeli open sources, the study provides a breakdown of those killed by age, sex, and combatant status. The results lead to some surprising conclusions. Combatants, Noncombatants, and Responsibility Around 1450 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the “al-Aqsa Intifada”, compared to more than 525 Israelis. Numbers like these are used to create an...

Last Thursday, President Bush announced the first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in his presidency. This is an award inaugurated by President Kennedy to honor civilians who have served their country in the arts, literature, sport, politics and other endeavors. I was pleased to see that among the recipients is Irving Kristol. He is listed in the presidential citation as "an author, editor and professor who is one of the leading intellectuals of his time." It goes on to say, "Mr. Kristol's writings helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the renaissance of conservative ideas in the last half...

-- Wants to Fill "Gap" of U.S.´ Mexico City Policy STRASBOURG, France, JUNE 24, 2002 (Zenit.org).- A report approved by a European Parliament commission seeks to impose legalized abortion on all current and future member countries of the European Union. The text on "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights" was ratified June 4 by the Committee on Women´s Rights and Equal Opportunities by a vote of 21-11, after some brief amendments. There were four abstentions. In its resolution proposal No. 11, the report presented by Anne E.M. Van Lancker, member of the Parliamentary Group of the European Socialist Party, recommends...

The Roman Catholic Church may one day follow Anglicans and ordain women to the priesthood, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.Dr George Carey said he did not believe that the fact that the Church of England had ordained women while Rome had not was "an eternally insurmountable" problem.The Church of England first priested women in 1994, despite a warning two years earlier by the Pope that the move would represent a grave obstacle to unity. The Pontiff said Christ had chosen only men as his apostles.Dr Carey, speaking in an interview during a two-day visit to Rome, and in terms...

Forgive the intrusion, but I just had to drop you a note of sympathy in this time of trial with Rudy. Divorce is always difficult. But I would think a woman like you, a working mother with two kids in the middle of a nasty divorce, might generate at least a bit of public sympathy from women leaders, columnists, feminist spokespeople -- I dunno, somebody! But everyone seems either too intimidated or too full of hero-worship for Rudy to give you the time of day. That is one of the worst parts of divorce, isn't it? The family lines are...

One can agree (or not) with last week's 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court that the death penalty should not apply to retarded citizens because it violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment," and still be troubled by the twisted road the court took to reach its destination. Reading the history of the Eighth Amendment shows that it proceeded from concerns over the methods the state could use to take the life of a convicted criminal -- not the intelligence level of the criminal. When the Constitution was adopted, the British penalty for high treason was to...

Operating with bureaucratic stealth and maneuvering under the political radar last month, the Environmental Protection Agency released a report claiming that human beings are causing atmospheric temperatures to rise, that the magnitude of global warming will be in line with U.N. predictions and that rising temperatures will result in scorching heat waves, droughts, floods and ecosystem collapse. The report, titled The Climate Action Report 2002, contradicts Bush administration policy on global warming. However, radical enviro-bureaucrats buried deep within the EPA managed to slip it through as a mundane periodic report to the United Nations required by the Framework Convention on...

  You are here:   Home > Tech News > Culture > Magnets Levitate Travelers Magnets Levitate Travelers Inventor develops new magnetic levitation system that could shake up the nation's transportation system. By Matt Markovich, Tech LiveJune 21, 2002   In the new movie "Minority Report," Tom Cruise plays a cop who chases after criminals before they commit a crime. The movie portrays a futuristic world of magnetically levitating cars riding on cushions of air. Not only do people drive across town over a bed of magnets, but roads go up and down the sides of buildings. As "Tech Live" reports...

The watchword of the Bush administration's education reform is accountability. To receive federal funds, everyone in education must be accountable: teachers, students and schools. But whatever happened to accountability when it comes to border security and the admission of aliens to the United States? Politicians are aggressively second-guessing the decisions of the FBI, the CIA and even the White House itself, but where is any accountability for aliens getting into our country, legally, illegally, and as legal visitors who never leave and then become illegal? Attorney General John Ashcroft says there are 314,000 illegals, called absconders, who have been ordered...