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Demonstration to Protest Israeli massacres of the Palestinian people and to demand quot;Free, Free Palestine!quot; Sat. March 16 12:00 noon @ Park St., Boston This is a change in the normal quot;peace rallyquot; scheduled for each Saturday. Since this event will gather a higher than usual number os scum, the few of us that regurly attend will need all the extra help we can get.

For those that are watching the 9/11 Documentary on CBS tonight, post your thoughts and comments here...

Comes news that Tom Reilly, the unapologetic gun-grabbing MA AG who unilaterally and unlawfully banned the sale of most handguns in Massachusetts under a "consumer protection" scam, is now demanding the same control over the ordination of catholic priests. All under the guise of "consumer protection," of course: to protect children from pedophiles. Same power grab as he did with tobacco and firearms. First tobacco, then guns, then who can be a priest, minister, or rabbi. Am I the only one who thinks Reilly (and his accomplices at The Boston Globe) is nuts and out of control? I _am_ enjoying ...

Please Join Teresa Heinz Vicki Kennedy Angela Menino Senator Barbara Boxer Senator Maria Cantwell Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Senator Dianne Feinstein Senator Barbara Mikulski Senator Debbie Stabenow At a Luncheon Honoring SENATOR JOHN F. KERRY Monday, March 11, 2002 12:00-2:00 p.m. Sheraton Boston Hotel. 39 Dalton Street. Boston, MA . Contribution Levels $1000 Host Luncheon Seating. $500 Sponsor Luncheon Seating. $250 Friend Luncheon Seating. $100 Guest Luncheon Seating. You can rsvp and purchase your tickets for this event .online, at JohnKerry.com. Follow the links .below - after you complete the form you will. receive a confirmation by email. If you ...

AG's office asks to monitor priests Issues raised of church-state relationships By Kevin Cullen, Globe Staff, 3/8/2002 Saying that the extent of child sexual abuse by priests is ''shocking and appalling,'' Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has asked the Archdiocese of Boston for sweeping influence in the way the church recruits, trains, and monitors priests. In an interview yesterday with The Boston Globe's editorial board, Reilly said his office's ambitious plan to have a say in the way the archdiocese hires its employees, and the way those employees interact with children, is needed, given the size, scope, and history of ...

The saucy sex-scandal brewing at the vaunted Harvard Business Review is rooted not in "a hodgepodge of allegations," as the Wall Street Journal put it, nor "a revolt of ethical purists," as the Boston Globe's Eileen McNamara said, but a troubling pattern, say sources. Staffers at the B-school's fabled journal consider revelations about HBR editor Suzy Wetlaufer's romance with corporate titan Jack Welch -- which led to her recusing herself from reporting an article about him – "the last straw," as one source termed it. The 42-year-old mother of four, who recently underwent a bitter split with her husband, also ...

<p>As the school year began at Lexington's highly regarded Fiske Elementary School in September, a parent brought up an unsettling allegation: An employee had asked sexually explicit questions of two boys about their bodies.</p> <p>The employee, who is not a teacher, was placed on leave while Lexington public school officials launched an inquiry. They eventually reinstated him. But three months later, at least nine more Fiske families surfaced to allege that he had harassed their sons, from making improper comments to watching them in the bathroom. He has denied the allegations, according to school district documents, but was placed on leave a second time.</p>

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — A generation ago, women here at Mount Holyoke College defied convention by burning bras and moving in with boyfriends. These days, some women here are shocking the campus by embracing something even more dangerous than men — guns. "One of my guy friends said, 'you're a chick with a gun — I'm scared,' " recalled Elizabeth Abbate, beaming. The women at Mount Holyoke, who have formed the first collegiate chapter of Second Amendment Sisters, a national women's pro-gun group, reflect the times. Alas, one of the most far-reaching consequences of 9/11 is a surge in gun ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use…. A bill repealing colonial-era sex laws that prohibit “abominable and detestable crimes against nature,” interpreted to mean sodomy, was approved by a legislative committee Tuesday. Aides to the Criminal Justice Committee said they believed it was the first time such a bill repealing the 17th-century statutes had passed out of a committee. Backers of the repeal say the archaic laws could be used to intimidate and threaten gays with jail terms of up to 20 years. The bill sponsored by Sen. Cynthia Creem (D-Newton) would also broaden the definition of bestiality ...

By JOHN McELHENNY Associated Press Writer March 7, 2002, 6:24 PM EST BOSTON -- It's not exactly Al Gore claiming to invent the Internet, but gubernatorial candidate Robert Reich's claim he coined the phrase "corporate welfare" is raising some eyebrows. Reich, secretary of labor under President Clinton, made the claim most recently at a candidates' forum Saturday, but it's not the first time. In a 1998 article in The American Prospect, which Reich founded, Reich's co-author Frank Laird, a University of Denver professor, wrote: "Since Robert Reich coined the phrase several years ago, 'corporate welfare' has become a rhetorical target ...

Fraudulent Activity at A.G.’s Office? March 2002 The U.S. Attorney General’s office is concerned about “extensive fraudulent activity” at the Mass. Attorney General’s office concerning the regulations on handguns, according to the Gun Owners’ Action League. Although most of the media ignored GOAL’s story in January, senior staff at the U.S. Attorney General’s Office in Washington agree there appear to be improprieties, according to GOAL. Their allies at the National Rifle Association met with some of Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft’s investigators to discuss their charges and the documents which they obtained from the state under the Freedom of Information Act. ...

ext week's six-month anniversary of Sept. 11 surely will bring many media stories with many different angles. Bush's numbers are strong coast-to-coast, not just in New York City. Here's one story idea: President Bush's amazing poll numbers. Why are Bush's approval numbers still so good, and why have they stayed so good for so long? Ask Matthew Dowd, Bush's pollster and the senior adviser to the Republican National Committee. "People said they would fall off like his father after Desert Storm, or fall off like President [Lyndon B.] Johnson after Vietnam," Dowd tells me. But they didn't. It's because, ...

MLB: Red Sox fire manager Joe Kerrigan ...BREAKING

Today is the 232 anniversary of the Boston Massacre, in my opinion it was the beginning of the revolution.

<p>There's a staff mutiny afoot at the vaunted Harvard Business Review.</p> <p>Four top Review editors have written letters to the editorial director of Harvard Business School's publishing operation, seeking the resignation of their boss, Editor Suzy Wetlaufer. Citing perceived ethical breaches by Ms. Wetlaufer, some of the letter writers said she had lost the confidence of a majority of the magazine's top editors.</p>

OCTOBER BULLETIN SAID AL-QAEDA TERRORISTS THOUGHT TO HAVE 10 KILOTON NUCLEAR WEAPON TO BE SMUGGLED INTO NEW YORK CITY Sun Mar 03 2002 10:40:24 ET **TIME MAGAZINE** New York -- In October, an intelligence alert went out to a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal, and planned to smuggle it into New York City, a special TIME magazine investigation reveals. Publishing sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT, the next cover story of ...

OCTOBER BULLETIN SAID AL-QAEDA TERRORISTS THOUGHT TO HAVE 10 KILOTON NUCLEAR WEAPON TO BE SMUGGLED INTO NEW YORK CITY Sun Mar 03 2002 10:40:24 ET **TIME MAGAZINE** New York -- In October, an intelligence alert went out to a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal, and planned to smuggle it into New York City, a special TIME magazine investigation reveals. Publishing sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT, the next cover story of ...

Man claiming to work for CIA arrested BREWER — A Massachusetts man who claimed he was working for the CIA and hunting terrorists was arrested by police Friday after it was determined he was intoxicated as he drove from business to business on his mission. Brewer police charged Clive MacDonald, 40, of Dorchester with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants and with disorderly conduct. Authorities were first called to R.D. Faulkner Corp. on Parkway South at 5:45 p.m. when employees reported that a man was banging on their door trying to get in under the pretenses ...

<p>She is pushing a platform of universal health care, solar panels and windmills, better waste recycling, and an end to subsidies for corporations and environmentally unfriendly developers.</p> <p>In any other year, Stein would be just another third-party candidate, barely able to put a dent in the public consciousness. A complete unknown, she spoke at Northeastern University last week and drew only 12 people.</p>

Sen. Kerry Chides GOP on War Comments, Bashes Bush Sat Mar 2, 8:13 PM ET By Christopher Noble CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Kerry, in New Hampshire to support Democratic candidates for Congress, on Saturday accused Republicans of hiding behind a "false cloak of patriotism" as they attacked Democrats for questioning White House plans to expand the war on terrorism. The Massachusetts liberal was speaking at a party fund- raiser in New Hampshire, whose first-in-the-nation presidential primary will play a key role in choosing the Democrat who will challenge President Bush (news - web sites) in 2004. While ...