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<p>ONE-time "Queen of Nice" Rosie O'Donnell turned mean at her first stand-up show in six years over the weekend, trashing Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Anne Heche and Sharon Stone.</p> <p>"I'm no longer a TV talk-show host," O'Donnell told thousands packed into a ballroom at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn., Saturday night. "The bitch ain't so nice anymore."</p>

WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- Candle-lite of Cincinnati is voluntarily recalling about 80,000 ceramic potpourri simmering pots sold under the Martha Stewart Everyday Brand because flames from tea light candles can flare out the side of ventilation holes, possibly burning consumers. The company had received nine reports of tea lights overheating and one report of a consumer suffering minor burns while trying to extinguish a tea light, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday. The recalled potpourri simmering pots are six-sided, white ceramic, three- piece units about 6 inches tall. The base holds the tea light candleholder and the...

Do you need to be lifted up? We all do. God wants to lift you up. How do we know? What loving Father doesn't want to lift his child up into his arms? But you probably forgot the very simple thing you once knew. When you were little, people picked you up. Whether you remember or not, there was something you had to do first. It's hard to pick up a child when the child keeps his arms at his side or folded up. Go to a child who wants to be picked up, and that child will immediately open...

Who heard Matt these past two mornings on KFI in LA? I thought he was really good. He had a lot more energy than he does on Sunday nights, plus the show was more grounded, without so many spaced out moments brought on by crazy callers.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something," wrote Upton Sinclair, "when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." To make sense of what passes for debate over Social Security reform, one must realize that advocates of privatization — of replacing the current system, at least in part, with a system of personal accounts — are determined not to understand basic arithmetic. Otherwise they would have to admit that such accounts would weaken, not strengthen, the system's finances. Social Security as we know it is a system in which each generation's payroll taxes are mainly used to...

<p>EL CAJON, Calif. — A van carrying illegal immigrants and driving the wrong way with its headlights off crashed into a sports utility vehicle, killing at least six people and injuring more than 20, authorities said.</p> <p>The accident was reported at about 9 p.m. PDT Monday on Interstate 8 in the El Cajon area, about 50 miles east of San Diego, the California Highway Patrol reported.</p>

<p>The Legislature will pass and Gov. Gray Davis will sign a new state budget sometime this year. But when it will be done and what it will contain are very much unsettled as the state enters the final week of its fiscal year.</p>

Britney, NASCAR Deemed "Match Made in Heaven"   Pop-sensation Britney Spears will team up with NASCAR to film a "Days Of Thunder"-style racing film, and potential director Jerry Bruckhimer tells HollywoodPulse.com that it's a perfect match because "both NASCAR racers and Britney Spears look real at first glance, but when you get under the hood you realize they're both just dummy shells of the actual thing." With Spears popular with 57 percent of the U.S. population, and NASCAR fans making up two-thirds of moviegoers, Bruckheimer called this a no-brainer. "I'm baffled as to why nobody has thought to pair...

Authorities were investigating what caused the bus to veer off the highway and smash into the pillar. Because there were no skid marks, officials were investigating the possibility that the driver fell asleep. An autopsy was scheduled Tuesday for the driver, 51-year-old Ernest Sheldon Carter of Dallas, who had a criminal record for theft and escaping custody, Dallas County court records show. A woman identifying herself as Carter's common-law wife told Dallas television station WFAA that Carter had recently undergone a medical checkup because of headaches and pain in his arm.

Monday, June 24, 2002 11:15 p.m. EDTFBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Déjà Vu Ten years ago, L. Jean Lewis, an investigator with the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, was able to piece together a complicated Arkansas bank fraud conspiracy from a treasure trove documents she unearthed in an out-of-the-way Kansas City warehouse. The result was the Whitewater scandal, which, after six years worth of twists and turns, ended in the first impeachment of an elected president in U.S. history. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last...

The slaughter of innocents inflicted on Israel this week by Palestinian murderers is unparalleled since the days of Nazi Germany. No longer are Israelis murdered singly; whole families are being wiped out while asleep, riding buses, celebrating. The terror stalking every corner of the country lends the term holocaust a fearful, intimate meaning for the offspring of those who survived the Nazis and in 1948 founded a Jewish state and a national defense force, vowing that never again would Jewish children die defenseless. This week, Israelis began accusing their government of violating this vow. Of all governments, the administration headed...

Search TOL Aug 2000 - present:   Jun 1997 - Jul 2000:   OMRI archive:   SEARCH BRR BRR NEWSLETTER enter your email see a sample ADVERTISEMENT 21 June 2002 The Nine Lives of a Bosnian Businessman single page view      1  2  3    printer friendly    How controversial politician and businessman Fikret Abdic escaped with his life after a bungled assassination attempt. by Anes Alic and Jen Tracy SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina--An official indictment obtained by TOL details the botched 1996 attempt by corrupt police officials to assassinate Fikret Abdic, a politician-turned-businessman and a notable foe of the former ruling...

Crack user winning battle against corrosive work habit Office habit: hard to kick LONDON - Crack user Paul Maloney, 28, said he had finally kicked a work habit that he has struggled with for the last five years. Maloney, who used to be found at his place of work as often as three or four times a week, said he had not worked for three months. "The last time I did paid work was 12 weeks ago. I'm still counting the days and not taking anything for granted." Maloney described to herdofsheep how the debilitating attachment to work first took...

Judge's Husband Gives Up Emails Publisher Complies With Subpoena From Commission POSTED: 7:33 a.m. EDT June 25, 2002 BOSTON -- The husband of Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez has given his e-mails to a court-appointed investigator reviewing the judge's conduct in a sexual assault case. Boston Phoenix publisher Stephen Mindich complied with a subpoena from the Commission on Judicial Conduct. Mindich had fought the order, but finally complied after determining there was little chance the U.S. Supreme Court would hear the case. The commission wants his e-mails to see if he tried to drum up media support for his wife....

Earth Firsters incarcerated after courtroom disruption A pair of Earth First! activists acted up in Missoula Justice Court on Monday, hoping - they said - to get thrown in jail so they could sit in solidarity with two others jailed last week for tying themselves to a logging truck and rappelling off the Madison Street Bridge. And indeed, by the end of their protestations before Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech, Earth Firsters Molly Karp and Jason Buckendorf were en route to the Missoula County Detention Center and a dozen of their friends had been ordered out of the courtroom,...

The mail brings a letter from a self-identified African American prison inmate. He predicts Islam will take over the world and America's days are numbered. Several letters of the same type have arrived since Sept. 11. This man is one of many converts to radical Islam under a program indirectly funded by Saudi Arabian money through the National Islamic Prison Foundation, which underwrites a "prison outreach" program. This program is likely to be discussed at the fifth annual Islam in American Prisons Conference, scheduled for July 5-7 at the Holiday Inn O'Hare International in Rosemont, Ill. One of the co-sponsors...

"It is important for them to see America's character!" The words just jumped out of the television I was watching. President Bush was making remarks Monday morning to those gathered in New Jersey as he made his most recent address concerning Homeland Security. In his normally folksy, yet elegant, down home, but highly articulate way, the President again told personal stories of some who were relatives of those gathered and their heroic moments on September 11. One story he told in particular struck me. A former Marine (though as President Bush said, you never really ever are a "former" Marine),...

A cheese cannot be called Parmesan just because it comes from Parma, the European Court of Justice has ruled.An Italian cheese exporter had argued that the description “Parmesan” was not protected when the word was translated, and that Italian law which did protect it did not apply to cheese sold abroad.But the European Court, which had been asked for a judgement by the Italian authorities, says once an EU country has registered a name, products that don’t comply with specifications for it cannot be sold under the name in any EU country.Cheesemaker Nuova Castelli of Reggio nell’ Emilia, based near...

Sierra Club Targets Republicans Tue Jun 25, 8:39 AM ETBy WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Sierra Club ( news - web sites) is targeting several Republicans in competitive Senate races for their votes on a series of environmental issues and supporting several Democrats for their environmental voting record. The Sierra Club outlined plans Monday to spend several million dollars — the amount was not disclosed — this year on political ads and voter education. The first phase of the environmental group's campaign will target television ads at Republican Senate challengers John Thune in South Dakota, Saxby...

Dog That Attacked Pregnant Woman To Die Terrier Mix Bit Maine Realtor Who Was Showing House POSTED: 7:04 a.m. EDT June 25, 2002 WESTON, Mass. -- A dog that attacked a pregnant real estate agent will be put down. Weston officials say the owner of the 60-pound Staffordshire terrier mix has signed papers approving euthanization. The dog, Tyson, has been held at the Natick Animal Clinic since the June 17 attack. Tyson bit a Maine woman as she showed a Weston multifamily farmhouse. The woman had surgery after suffering severe cuts to her stomach and left arm.