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<p>LAST WEEK a man got seven knives through a checkpoint at O'Hare. This week a Hong Kong chef's two meat cleavers made it on board a flight from Miami. Yet another guard disappeared from a post at Logan Airport. Congress finally got the message that Americans could no longer stomach lo mein-tenance and chop security.</p>

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2:15 p.m. -- Victoria Reggie Kennedy and law officials announce launch of gun safety program. Suffolk University Law School, David J. Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont Street. Contact: Santa Fareri, (617) 698-8137 or (617) 653-0117 (cell).

By Alex Daniels, Washington Technology CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 24 Oct 2001, 3:37 PM CST The anthrax attacks that have hit the U.S. Postal System are likely to boost the use of the Internet, the president of America Online Inc. said today. "It's incredibly positive for the Internet," Raymond J. Oglethorpe told a breakfast audience of about 200 this morning in Chantilly. Oglethorpe hastened to add that the anthrax attacks, which have killed two Washington-area postal workers, were "unfortunate." He also maintained his faith in the safety of the mail system. "If we start shutting down post offices, we are going ...

Swift will run for gov in 2002 by David R. Guarino Thursday, October 18, 2001 A revived and rehabilitated Jane Swift has decided to run for governor in her own right, gunning again for history after a topsy-turvy ride in the state's top job, sources confirmed yesterday. The 36-year-old acting governor, who drew national attention as the first state chief executive to give birth in office, decided over the weekend to formally launch a bid to become the first woman elected Bay State governor. ``She's made her decision - she's running,'' a Swift adviser said. Swift automatically became acting governor ...

I sat for the LSAT exam earlier this month and noticed a disturbing trend. I studied using previously administered exams. I noticed that on each of these exams the questions were focused on ONLY liberal issues. The authors of the test frequently asked the test taker to support the claim of the "environmentalist" or "scientist". I also found that many of the questions that used economics as their foundation oftenly referred to "social policies" or "welfare". There was not one question with a conservative tone on the entire test. I just wanted to see if other Freepers who have taken ...

By Doug Simpson Associated Press Writer Wednesday, October 17, 2001; 12:07 PM NEW ORLEANS –– Citizens have a broad right to bear arms, but the right may be restricted if a person is under a domestic violence court order, a federal appeals court ruled. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a district judge's decision that Timothy Emerson, a San Angelo, Texas, physician, was wrongly prosecuted for buying a pistol while under a temporary restraining order meant to protect his wife and child. The appeals court sent the case back to Texas for trial. But in its ...

MAG: U.S. MILITARY FAILED TO KILL TALIBAN LEADER WHEN HE WAS IN SIGHT DURING FIRST NIGHT OF WAR; RUMSFELD FURIOUS

Just heard on 660 WRKO.

News flash on CNN. Letters to NBC & NYT had Florida postmarks.

Rings true: Report: Phone records back suspect's claim by Dave Wedge Saturday, September 8, 2001 Phone records show two phone calls were made from an Abington pay phone to the Boston FBI office the day accused carjacking serial killer Gary Sampson claims he called to turn himself in, according to a broadcast report. Sampson says he called the FBI between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on July 23 - the day before he allegedly embarked on a weeklong killing spree - and tried to turn himself in on outstanding North Carolina bank robbing charges. Verizon records show that two calls ...

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Former Democratic Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites), who narrowly lost last year's disputed presidential election to Republican George W. Bush, said on Monday he is uncertain about whether he will run again for the presidency in 2004. ``I don't know what I'm going to do in the future,'' Gore told a crowd of about 220 Democratic activists at a downtown Minneapolis hotel. When dozens of people in the room began applauding, Gore said, ``I wasn't begging for that response. I really wasn't.'' Speaking at a rally for Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton, who is ...

By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff, 7/29/2001 ASHINGTON - Hardly anyone noticed when George W. Bush said last year that he believed human life begins at conception. Bush was only restating a fundamental tenet of the antiabortion movement. But as the debate over stem cell research has grown into a sweeping moral battle, politicians and the nation as a whole have been forced to take a harder look at theories about the moment life begins. Even the notion of ''a moment'' of conception is itself now up in the air, vastly complicating matters for President Bush as he weighs whether ...

Driving toward residency in Tennessee Road-test lines grow as license rules eased for illegal immigrants By D.F. Weyermann, Globe Correspondent, 7/26/2001 ASHVILLE - E-mail bins overloaded this spring as Spanish radio stations across Tennessee sizzled with the news: Governor Don Sundquist had signed a law enabling undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses without proving citizenship or legal residency. ''God has prepared a special place in heaven for that man,'' said Dilka Roman, state director for the League of United Latin American Citizens in Memphis. Calling the law a ''present from God,'' immigrants have swamped license testing centers since it took ...

Federal authorities were forced to cut off water to 1,500 farms in Oregon's and California's Klamath Basin in April because of the "endangered" sucker fish. The environmental groups behind the cutoff continue to declare that they are simply concerned for the welfare of a bottom-feeder. But last month, those environmentalists revealed another motive when they submitted a polished proposal for the government to buy out the farmers and move them off their land. This is what's really happening in Klamath--call it rural cleansing--and it's repeating itself in environmental battles across the country. Indeed, the goal of many environmental groups--from the ...

Ashcroft pushes new gun policy Attorney general reinterprets Constitution By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff, 7/15/2001 ASHINGTON - In a departure that could challenge a decades-old approach to gun-control laws, Attorney General John Ashcroft has quietly changed the official Justice Department position on the Second Amendment, reinterpreting it to mean that individuals, not just militias, have an ironclad right to bear arms. Ashcroft outlined his stance in May in a letter to the National Rifle Association, of which he is a member. Justice officials now say it has become the official view of the department, and a White House aide ...

At Tampa's Turnstiles, Crowd Wasn't Faceless Super Bowl Surveillance Stirs Debate By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001; Page A01 Super Bowl fans never knew it, but police video cameras focused on their faces, one by one, as they streamed through the turnstiles in Tampa on Sunday. Cables instantly carried the images to computers, which spent less than a second comparing them with thousands of digital portraits of known criminals and suspected terrorists. In a control booth deep inside the stadium, police watched and waited for a match. The extraordinary test of technology during the highest-profile ...

It is a shame and a disgrace that this country's current administration turned its back on the democratically elected president of Taiwan this week. We roll out the red carpet for communist Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and take him to meet great American football heroes. Even the head of one of our largest media conglomerates refers to Zemin as "my good friend". During these magnificent receptions, funded by US taxpayers, outspoken citizens of china have their tongues amputated, women are forcibly sterilized, and members of Falun Gong are sent to "re-education camps". But the leader of 20 million Taiwanese is ...