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A municipal prosecutor may ask a judge to cite former Attorney General Zulima Farber for contempt of court after she failed to appear yesterday as a witness in a traffic case against her boyfriend, Hamlet Goore. The case stems from the now- infamous Memorial Day weekend traffic stop in Bergen County in which Farber went to the aid of Goore after he was ticketed for driving on a suspended license. The incident ultimately led to Farber's resignation last month when a special prosecutor found she had violated state ethics rules by going to the scene. At the time of her...

Akihiro Hirao, a visiting pilot from Japan, towed out from the Minden-Tahoe airport in an ASG-29 (one of the hottest new German sailplanes, a similar one is pictured at the right). A few hours later, he collided with a Hawker XP800 (a fast business jet) around 15,000 feet (different reports have published numbers between 13,000 and 16,000) that was descending to land at the Reno after a brief flight up from San Diego. The impact was dramatic. The Hawker was traveling at roughly 300 knots (well over 300 miles per hour) and it completely destroyed one wing of the glider...

Rather than using hotels when it gathers here for its convention next year, the Republican Party is considering docking a cruise ship on the Hudson. The liner would offer restaurants, bars, discos, etc. - depriving N.Y.C. of a substantial amount of the money a convention usually brings in. Mayor Bloomberg is fighting this cockamamie idea, and here's something that's sure to light his fire: When a vessel is in port, passengers follow the ship's smoking policy, not the port's. That means delegates may be allowed to light up and pick their candidate in a thick cloud of smoke, just like...

The Democrats are ramping up efforts to launch a liberal think tank in September that they say will give their party the unified message it lacked in 2002 and counter the well-funded network of conservative policy shops. John Podesta, who served as White House chief of staff during the Clinton administration, is spearheading the project and consulting with Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill. The think tank, known for now as the American Majority Institute, will have an annual operating budget of at least $10 million, a sum that would immediately make it the largest Democratic think tank in town. By...

NBC News reported tonight that a Georgia company purchased some of the scrap steel from the World Trade Center and is making commerative medallions which are being sold for $30 each. They did not say what wording the medallions contain, but if anyone can find out please post it below. Some thought it was a good idea, some thought it was crass commercialization of a tragedy. As an aside, I have a bell that sits on my desk that was passed down through my family, and I am now the custodian of it. It reads: The brass in this bell ...

An aide to Gov. Schweiker called the report "obscene." The document details how the city could derail a Pa. takeover. By Ken Dilanian INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Even as Mayor Street was promising to seek a cooperative state takeover of the Philadelphia School District, he commissioned a strategic plan to undermine the state's position, with options that included taking the school district into bankruptcy and shifting key educators to the city payroll to "cripple" school operations. The secret 67-page document, dated Nov. 28 and marked "privileged and confidential advice of counsel," was leaked to reporters, and now appears to have ...

Dear Postal Customer: The mail that is being delivered in this bag has been irradiated at a facility in Bridgeport, New Jersey. The irridiation process used at the Bridgeport facility was tested and found to be effective in destroying anthrax by an interagency team of scientific experts that recommended release of this mail for delivery. While the irradiation process is safe, it can affect some products that might be contained in this mail. The products on this list, if contained in a package or envelope that has been irridiated, should not be used. You should discard them and obtain replacements. ...

December 4, 2001 -- The White House, increasingly dismayed by the poor performance of Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, is quietly chatting about ways to dump and replace him, The Post has learned. Vice President Dick Cheney has held several meetings with potential candidates to take over the job, including UBS PaineWebber Chairman Donald Marron and former CSFB Vice Chairman Jack Hennessy, according to a source close to the White House. President Bush has also met with Marron. "There are three ways you can go about appointing a Treasury secretary: you can get a corporate chieftain, you can get a ...

"In God We Trust" Home | About CWA | Library | Legislation | States | Radio Join CWA | Shop NORTH CAROLINA    cwfa.org The Web Representatives Government sites Conservatives Britannica.com The Bible The Field : North Carolina “In God We Trust” Many Precedents Affirm its Display in Public Places By Mary F. Forrester, State Director, CWA of North Carolina November 5, 2001 Concerned Women for America of North Carolina commends Superintendent Ed Sadler and the Gaston County Board of Education for placing our nation’s motto, In God We Trust, in our public schools. It is a shame that ...

On October 10, television network executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CNN held a conference call with national security adviser Condoleeza Rice, and apparently acceded to her "suggestion" that any future taped statements from Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group be "abridged," and any potentially "inflammatory" language removed before broadcast. The question of how to present the words of bin Laden or representatives of Al Qaeda is certainly a valid one for journalists to consider. The statements require context and explanation of the kind journalists should use to bracket the remarks of any party in a major news story. ...

New Jersey Reacts to September 11, 2001: Patriotism & Prayer; Anger & Attack RELEASE: (EP133-1) September 28, 2001 A story based on the survey findings presented in this release and background memo will appear in the Friday, September 28 Star-Ledger. We ask users to properly attribute this copyrighted information to “The Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers Poll.” Patriotism laced with anger is New Jersey’s reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Just over one-fifth say they know of someone who was seriously injured or lost that day, and the vast majority believe the United States should take military action against those responsible, ...

In a June 14th New Jersey gubenatorial primary debate, Bret Schundler berated Bob Franks as a gopher for the pharmaceutical industry. Franks indignantly denied it. We thought at the time that maybe Franks would fire back with a rejoinder something like: "I'm proud to be a friend of the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceuticals are to New Jersey as oil is to Texas. Pharmaceuticals and medical technology have a $10-billion-a-year impact on the Garden State's economy and account for 140,000 well-paying jobs". But instead Franks took umbrage. He not only denied ever being a lobbyist for the industry, he added that he ...

Boston Tops U.S. Aggressive-Driving City List - - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A survey finds Boston the worst of eight major U.S. cities for aggressive driving as millions of Americans take to the roads for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The survey commissioned by TheSteelAlliance industry group and the American Automobile Association's Mid-Atlantic chapter, gave Boston an "F" grade based on driver surveys which included questions about general safety, rude gestures, speeding and horn honking. Miami and Washington were close behind with "D" grades. Cleveland and Detroit were the only cities to get "A" grades, while Chicago and Dallas scored "B" ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A 32-year-old American on Friday became the first blind person to scale Mount Everest along with a 64-year-old U.S. doctor who became the oldest person to climb the world's highest peak. Erik Weihenmayer, from Golden, Colorado, and blind since his teens, reached the 29,000-foot summit along the traditional southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in 1953, the U.S. National Federation of the Blind said. The athlete, who uses a pair of long polls to sweep in front of him as he climbs, reached the top at 10.00 a.m. on Friday. ...

Do you know your freeper number? Fortunately it is not tatooed on your forearm. But, unfortunately we are now living in a digital world and self searches would be useless on FR unless we had a descrete identifier. Matter of fact, FR would be complete chaos without it. Click on any link to any poster or yourself, and create a bookmark or favorite place. Then view the properties of the bookmark. At the end of the string you will see a numerical identifier, that is UNIQUE to FR, and roughly corelates to when you registered to post, in chronological order ...

During the heyday of the Soviet Union, the state-controlled newspaper Pravda often began propaganda stories with the phrase "As everyone knows..." President Clinton took that cue this week when answering questions about the Kyoto conference on climate change, stating nonchalantly that the evidence was conclusive and that scientists no longer questioned the existence of global warming. This politicization of environmental policy by the Clinton administration has produced a rarefied climate in the global warming debate, and has left a hostile arena where strident hysteria drowns out truth and where policies are based on headstrong nonsense, loudly shouted. After Al Gore ...

Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Empire, a conference of CEOs was held in Acapulco, Mexico. Gennady Gerasimov, Michail Gorbachev’s spokesperson to the West, was one of the speakers. Gerasimov opened with a joke: “The Soviet Union has invaded and successfully conquered every country on the planet, with one exception - New Zealand. The Soviet Union had chosen not to invade New Zealand. Question: Why? Answer: So we would know the market price of goods.” Of course everyone in the audience got the joke, and everyone laughed. Contrary to common mythology, it became evident to Soviet leaders very soon ...

-- Question: Name one thing beneath Bill Clinton's dignity. Answer: This is a trick question, like asking whether zero is odd or even. It has no known answer. The following story dramatizes the point. On the eve of George Washington's birthday, Bill Clinton acknowledged that his brother-in-law, Hugh Rodham, had accepted loot from criminals eager to obtain presidential pardons. Clinton said he learned of the scam from "press inquiries" and professed shock that anybody would trade on his good name. "Neither Hillary nor I had any knowledge of such payments," he said of the $400,000 or so that appeared in ...

The Democrats are gearing up for a particularly nasty season of race-baiting, and one of their prime exhibits will be the alleged martyrdom of Missouri Judge Ronnie White. The general theme was established in newly elected Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe's vicious acceptance speech last Saturday. He falsely accused the Republicans of bringing racial profiling to the Florida election polls, of intimidating and suppressing black voters and of using roadblocks to stop blacks from getting to the Florida voting booths. "I promise you this as well," he concluded with a provocative, race-baiting yelp: "We will transform the anger ...

Went to send the Worldnet Daily artice to Algore. The Whitehouse has been hacked.