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Hillarys Victory Speech Transcript Wednesday, Nov. 5th Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank you for choosing me to be your next president. After eight years with that ape, I mean Mr. Bush in the Oval Office, it will take lots of hard work by my administration to get this country back on track. The first thing I would like to announce, is my selection for nominee for Director of Homeland Security. My nominee is Janet Reno. [Applause] I believe that Mrs. Reno will do an excellent job as Homeland Security chief, as she has done under Bubba's, I mean...

In his Oct. 20, 2002, New York Times Magazine article titled "For Richer: The Disappearing Middle Class," Princeton University economist Professor Paul Krugman wrote, "For the America I grew up in -- the America of the 1950s and 1960s -- was a middle-class society, both in reality and in feel. The vast income and wealth inequalities of the Gilded Age had disappeared. ... Daily experiences confirmed the sense of a fairly equal society. The economic disparities you were conscious of were quite muted." Krugman's vision of income inequality and the disappearing middle class is an excellent example of the classroom...

Local Group Pushes To Get U.S. Out Of U.N. October 28, 2002 By Jon Hanian BOISE - If you drive I-84 heading into Boise from the east you have probably seen it on the Interstate. A huge 12 foot by 48 foot Billboard urging the U.S. to get out of the U.N. But did you know a Boise grandmother was behind it? When it comes to the U.N.Katherine Frazier says this isn't a campaign, it's a war. "I consider myself a foot soldier." Frazier says hundreds of people just like her around the valley believe the United Nation's is undermining...

Detroit's voter rolls in question Mayor's office says total too high by 150,000; dispute could skew count, prompt challenges By Darci McConnell / The Detroit News DETROIT -- Despite having died eight years ago, Kathe Beddow still retains one mortal privilege: The right to vote. The city Elections Department in July sent Beddow a voter registration card, even though she hasn't voted in more than a decade. She is also still listed as a registered voter with the Secretary of State's Office. Behind such simple mistakes lies a massive disagreement over the number of registered voters in Detroit that could...

Rochester, NY - A Greece man, who was fired a few days ago from Eastman Kodak, said giving his opinion in an e-mail lead to his termination. Kodak's diversity group sent out an e-mail asking employees to "be supportive" of colleagues who choose to come out on Gay and Lesbian Coming-Out Day. Rolf Szabo replied to the memo telling the company not to send him this type of information and that he found it "disgusting and offensive." "I said it and I meant it. I'm not going to take it back," Szabo said. Although Szabo does not condone the gay...

The U.N. Child Summit convened in New York City last May to promote the welfare of children. Two intriguing concepts of child welfare emerged. First, only a coalition of the United States, the Holy See and various Muslim and African nations prevented the inclusion of a right to abortion in the Summit's final action document, "A World Fit for Children." Abortion, of course, protects children by killing them because they are not fit for the world. The Vatican and Muslim nations had acted together to oppose U.N. endorsements of abortion at Cairo and other conferences during the Clinton Administration. The...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 9 — The West Nile virus, first spotted in this country in a sick crow three years ago, has now attacked at least 111 species of birds, including the bald eagle and the endangered Mississippi sandhill crane. The spread of the virus has surprised and alarmed wildlife researchers because it has happened so quickly. Last year, West Nile had been detected only in about a dozen species of birds.

African Union: a fact file one and a half cols DURBAN - The African Union (AU), which comes into being at a summit this week in Durban that marks the demise of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) after 39 years, is loosely modelled on the European Union and embodies a similar aim of continental integration. It will be an altogether more powerful body than the 53-nation OAU and will start life under the chairmanship of South African President Thabo Mbeki. The brainchild of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, the AU had a protracted gestation period. Its constitution was signed at...

AU born amid rumbles of division Joern Staby in Durban THE African Union was born in Durban yesterday amid firm pledges from most African leaders to fight poverty, corruption and war by setting the continent on the path of peace, prosperity, development and good governance. Waves of applause greeted leaders and dignitaries as they arrived in Durban's Absa stadium, reaching a deafening crescendo when President Thabo Mbeki and former President Nelson Mandela entered. The colourful crowd of around 25 000 reserved its biggest cheer for Mandela, erupting into chants of "Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela" as Africa's elder statesman took his...

Zurich - A US lawyer who helped force Swiss banks into a $1.25 billion settlement for Nazi victims said on Monday he would file suit against top Swiss and US banks for propping up South Africa's former apartheid regime. The announcement by Edward Fagan, a maverick lawyer known for his controversial tactics, was made amid high drama. Fagan said he represented some 80 plaintiffs in South Africa. A telephone hotline had been set up to enable others to join the suits, which were to be filed in the US District Court in Manhattan later on Monday. South African lawyers working...

Parents Challenge Desegregation Law By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Writer June 3, 2002, 10:03 PM EDT BOSTON -- Parents went to federal court Monday to challenge a town's voluntary desegregation plan as an unconstitutional use of race to keep families from sending children to schools of their choice. Under the plan in Lynn, transfers of students outside their own neighborhoods can be denied if they disturb a racial balance. Lynn's policy was written 14 years ago to comply with the state's voluntary racial imbalance law, which asks public school districts to desegregate schools with a minority population of more than...

Here's part of a newsletter I received in the mail yesterday: May 20, 2002 Vol. 2, No. 9 =============================================== T H E S C H O O L L I B E R A T O R =============================================== * The Alliance on the Gay Agenda * * Parental Authority * Iatrogenic Social Policy * * No Career Plans, No Cap and Gown * The Locker Police * * Home Education Revolution * --> From your Editor: Every once in a while we receive an email questioning our stance on the gay agenda in the public schools. One such message came...

Castro rounds on long-time ally 25.04.2002 MEXICO CITY - In an extraordinary public spat Fidel Castro has turned on one of his few political friends, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, branding him a liar. He may even go as far as cutting diplomatic relations with Cuba's staunch ally. President Castro broke protocol when he summoned foreign correspondents to listen to a private phone chat between the two Presidents, which Havana had covertly taped last month. A Government spokesman in Mexico called the disclosure, which was widely broadcast in both countries, "unacceptable".

SOCIALISM BURIED BY BERNARD SHAW High Priest of Fabianism Pronounces Eloquent Funeral Oration JESTS AS SOVIET Insists That Nothing Now Left But Communism or Capitalism

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - An unexploded homemade bomb was found in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France on Friday, the latest assault against Jewish sites around the country which has included several arson attacks. Police said the bomb was found in a cemetery in the Cronenbourg district of Strasbourg -- the same graveyard arsonists attacked earlier this week. Last weekend oil was set alight on the door of a nearby synagogue. . . .

GENEVA (AP) - Swiss voters approved joining the United Nations (news - web sites) on Sunday, finding the prospect of a greater role in today's interlinked world more compelling than fears that it would threaten the nation's centuries-old tradition of neutrality. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020303/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_un&printer=1