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Canadian director Atom Egoyan's latest film, Ararat, opens with a haunting musical sequence and the painted image of an Armenian mother and son in the city of Van in 1915. If you are Armenian or just know your history, you will immediately understand what that means. But anyone who has lived or worked in Central Massachusetts for any length of time, particularly in Worcester or Whitinsville, surely has some consciousness of the thriving Armenian communities here, and the history, both rich and tragic, that informs them. That history, thankfully, is better known and more discussed here than in many places....

By the staff of Capitol Hill Blue August 18, 1999 In March of 1998, a casual observer might have thought California Republican Congressman Jay Kim's career was over. Kim had admitted to committing the largest amount of campaign violations ever by a member of Congress. More than one-third of the contributions to his 1992 primary campaign, which he won by only 889 votes, were illegal. "Jay Kim probably stole a congressional election in 1992 by this fraudulent campaign financing scheme. If the House is serious about the meaning of elections and democracy, they'll expel him, and soon," said Gary Ruskin,...

Poor Al Gore. (add Daschle, McCauliffe, Streissand, Pelosi, Hillary, members of the media,and whoever else the shoe fit.....then, and still does today). Here he is with a surging economy, a president at his beck and call, a kissable wife -- and that pesky challenger George W. Bush is now pulling ahead again in national polls. How can voters be so ungrateful to the Human Pretzel who has bent so far over backward to be anything they asked? Gore tries to convince us that character doesn't matter, that honor is just another word for the right five-point policy plan. In selling...

Woodward, an assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, will be online Tuesday, Nov. 19, at noon ET to talk about the Bush administration and the president during crisis. Submit your questions and comments before or during the discussion.

<p>HAVING lost badly in the midterm elections, one would expect the Democrats to hone their appeal to middle America and go after the votes of moderates that they lost in a bid to regain the majority. Instead, the House Democrats seem intent on suicide by choosing Nancy Pelosi - a leftist - as their leader. How could they make a mistake like that?</p>

I've been a technical writer and editor for 15 years. This experience makes me very, very picky about information. I want it correct, complete, unambiguous, and unbiased. Reading the news these days is an exercise in exasperation. Too much journalism these days is Yellow Journalism. It wouldn't be so bad if the journalists flat-out lied. False information can be refuted by comparing it to verified correct information. Yellow Journalists are more insidious than liars. They use rhetorical tricks to make insinuations look like facts and bias look like objectivity. Night Is Day, Up Is Down News editors know that most...

"We will win.....we will win", shouted Mark Wellstone at his father's memorial last night..Joined by thousands of others , this frenetic and frenzied chant was reflected upon by a caller today to the Rush Limbaugh show...He concluded that the democrats have no adherance to any formal religion ,save politics.Rush corrected him by saying "Liberalism is their religion." And that winning at any cost ,even death, is the opiate that drives them for [political] power and by any means to retain that power...No belief in God,but a belief in man which to them is the cure-all for what they feel for...

Clinton Has No Clothes: What 9/11 revealed about the ex-President On June 25, 1996, a powerful truck bomb exploded outside the Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, tearing the front from the building, blasting a crater 35 feet deep, and killing 19 American soldiers. Hundreds more were injured. When news reached Washington, President Bill Clinton vowed to bring the killers to justice. "The cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished," he said angrily. "Let me say again: We will pursue this. America takes care of our own. Those who did it must not go unpunished." The...

" DO NOT FORGET "........ I sat in a movie theater watching "Schindler's List," asked myself, "Why didn't the Jews fight back?" Now I know why. I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself, "Why weren't we prepared?" Now I know why. Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people. On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors. On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered...

Opinions Intersect Public protest in Fresno turned a new corner Friday when people deeply divided over Israel's occupation of the West Bank stood on the same street corner. From the time of protests over the Persian Gulf War, the intersection of Blackstone and Shaw has been where people try to grab public attention by waving signs and shouting slogans. But opposing sides always grabbed opposing corners. This time, a group waving the white and blue flag of Israel and calling for U.S. support as Israel goes to war in response to a series of suicide bombings assembled on the same...

GEORGE BUSH is trying to create a better image of America abroad. He's decided to convert the wartime communications effort into a permanent office for spreading a positive picture of the United States around the world. While his emphasis is on "global diplomacy, " information will include issues of domestic policy and cultural values. "A lot of the world does not like America, and it's going to take years to change their hearts and minds'' a senior administration official told The New York Times. He's right about that. He could start by attempting to disarm the Europeans and the ...

GRETA: WELCOME BACK. I'M GRETA VAN SUSTEREN AND THIS IS "ON THE RECORD. " DOESN'T LOOK LIKE U-S TROOPS WILL BE LEAVING AFGHANISTAN ANY TIME SOON. THE MAN RUNNING THE WAR SAYS THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE BUT HOW DID WE GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY CENTER FORMER CLINTON ADVISOR AND FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST DICK MORRIS JOINS US. DICK, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT YOUR PIECE IN THE "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. " YOU SAY THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ESSENTIALLY TURNED ITS BACK ON TERRORISM, IS THAT RIGHT? MORRIS: YEAH, I THINK IT'S ...

................"They did not please the eye, but they boggled the mind, the arrogance of them, the confidence of their vertical reach, the symbol of a city that was sometimes graceless and always brash but never apologetic or unsure of itself. That was what we wanted for ourselves. We were young then. “Weren’t we young then?” one middle-aged acquaintance of mine asked a friend, but he was talking just the other day about that time so long ago, in August. On New Year’s Eve in 1999, we all held our breath at the end-of-the-millennium parties throughout the city, waiting for the ...

Headline of Article-"U.S. Special Forces Joined Charge On Horseback Against Taliban "[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/571498/posts]Washington -- U.S. special forces working with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan have ridden in cavalry charges against Taliban militia positions, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said. ``In Afghanistan, a country we think of in somewhat medieval terms, our special forces have taken a page from the past, from the history of the horse cavalry with our soldiers armed with swords and rifles, maneuvering on horseback,'' Wolfowitz said in a speech last night. The Pentagon has said in general terms that U.S. special forces are working with Northern Alliance ...

Both MSNBC Fox reporting fall of Kabul with only token opposition. Kubul City the background of live news reports. Some looting going on. Northern Alliance taking over key Taliban buildings and food stores....

Q: General, as a military man, just in one month since the aerial campaign -- in effect, again, the aerial campaign, could I ask you to comment about, A, the limitations of air power, including the operation, and B, the inevitability of a substantial ground operation, U.S. ground operation, in the months ahead? I'm not asking to pin you down operational details, but I'm asking you to speak in a more general concept. I know you're a Marine, so it's going to color what you're saying, but -- Pace: I will tell you what I can. And what I will ...

"This is a time of war...""We are at war"- Arie Fleisher"The President is responsible for our military he puts in harm's way.."And immediately the cackling press corps voices their objections to the limiting of "classified information" to fewer members of Congress as a result of the leaking of same by a loose lipped member of that austere and patriotic body -who are forever concerned about their next election rather than the next generation ...

"Friends, In his just-concluded news conference, U.S. Atty. General John Ashcroft mentioned the "Nimda" virus ("Admin" spelled backwards). As noted by Symantec Corp. on its Web site: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.nimda.a@m m.html "W32.Nimda.A@mm is a new mass-mailing worm that utilizes email to propagate itself. The threat arrives as a file named readme.exe in an email. "In addition, the worm sends out probes to Microsoft IIS servers attempting to spread itself by using the Unicode Web Traversal exploit similar to W32.BlueCode.Worm. Compromised servers may display a webpage prompting a visitor to download an Outlook file which contains the worm as an attachment. "Also, the ...

These are excerpts from a transcript of an interrogation of terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad. The Q&A was conducted by Philippine investigators after Murad was arrested in that country on U.S. charges. Murad and alleged World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef were later convicted of plotting to bomb various airplanes. We have also included, on page nine of this document, a copy of one of Yousef's phony ID cards. home | fall | email | top page

CNN this Saturday morning has much praise for President Bush.They have re-broadcast more than once Dubya's unrehearsed and extemporaneous answer to a hard-hat at the WTC who had shouted out-"We can't hear you"."We can hear you" , Bush replied, "And those people who knocked down this building will hear from us" .Amidst cheers of "USA" and the raised arms of the men who were there must have impressed John King , ex-Foxes Paula Zahn,and CNN producers enough to realize that it is the likes of ordinary "hard hats" who can distinguish beteen the phoniness of a Bill Clinton and the ...