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Rumours abound as Clinton 'befriends' billionaire socialite
Vancouver Sun ^ | June 12, 2003 | Robert Fife

Posted on 06/12/2003 9:40:16 PM PDT by Mister Magoo

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To: nopardons
it was a " business " relationship.

Sex for money?

yitbos

61 posted on 06/13/2003 12:50:27 AM PDT by bruinbirdman (Lex et Libertas)
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To: Mister Magoo
...the wealthy socialite has admitted to being attracted to Clinton.

Well, I suppose someone can be smart enough to be a billionare and still a rotten judge of character and inteligence.

62 posted on 06/13/2003 12:55:18 AM PDT by HitmanLV (Who is number 6? You are number 1.)
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To: bruinbirdman
Well, that would be a new twist to things. LOL
63 posted on 06/13/2003 12:58:33 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Mister Magoo
"Magna CEO Belinda Stronach is reportedly charmed by Bill Clinton's intelligence and knowledge of world affairs."

Doesn't say much for her own intelligence.

64 posted on 06/13/2003 9:31:13 AM PDT by Exit148 (Only $2. 78 this week for the Loose Change Club collection bag for the next Freep-a-thon!)
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To: garjog
Campaign as a widow. Hmm. I'd really like that.
65 posted on 06/13/2003 9:35:16 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: nopardons
That is suffcient grounds for disqualification because her intergrity has been compromised.

In order for the public to trust the Court, Judges must not even appear tainted in ANY fashion no matter what. NO excuses. Period.
66 posted on 06/13/2003 9:05:01 PM PDT by Publicus (Come November, We'll Remember)
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To: nutmeg
Well...she looks quite pretty - on the outside. On the inside my bet is she's a mirror image of our beloved Hillary. Seems that's the type of (female) ex President Treason is attracted to. Sort of the S&M side to Bill.
67 posted on 06/18/2003 10:13:23 AM PDT by Paulie
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I have no concern for Hildabeast, Belindabeast or Bubbabeast ....however, no one has mentioned the true innocent in this affair.......Johann(aka Jesus). For those who know not whom he is, I have attached a lengthy article detailing his saintliness so you can truly appreciate how evil the cheaters are.


News
Eri24.com
February 25, 2002
Eritrean News Wire



A Man of World, and of His Word
By Diane Pucin

When Johann Olav Koss visited Eritrea, an African country torn apart by decades of civil war, he saw
the living conditions of the children and promised to return five months later, after the 1994 Winter
Olympics. When Koss did return, he marked himself as an Olympic idealist.

When Koss, a Norwegian, won three speedskating gold medals at those Lillehammer Games--in the
1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 meters--and set world records in all three events, he marked himself as an
Olympic legend.

In the eight years since then, Koss has marked himself as something much more. He is a modest
humanitarian, a man of his word, a physician by training, an altruist by nature. Now 33 and living in
Toronto with his wife, Belinda Stronich, Koss has done what he promised in Lillehammer. He is the
head of Olympic Aid, an athlete-driven, not-for-profit humanitarian organization begun originally by
the Lillehammer Olympic organizing committee.

"The mission," Koss said, "is to use the idea of sport and of play to help children in areas where
they've known only violence and war to develop into healthy, happy people."

Koss said that Olympic Aid has about 100 volunteers, mainly in Africa and Asia, helping children.
Koss himself hopes to visit Afghanistan as soon as possible to institute an Olympic Aid program.

After the '94 Olympics, Koss donated his gold-medal bonus money to the movement, and returned to
Eritrea to present both money and sports equipment he had collected from the children of Norway.

Koss retired from skating after the Lillehammer Games and went to Australia, where he earned his
medical degree from the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He had gone to Australia to finish
school and to be with his girlfriend at the time.

Koss always kept his hand in Olympic Aid, taking time to speak at fund-raisers and attend committee
meetings whenever possible. In 1999, his relationship with his girlfriend over and his medical schooling
complete, Koss became the full-time director of Olympic Aid.

He met his wife at an Olympic Aid meeting in London and moved to her home, in Toronto, so he
could be with Stronich and her two children.

"Right now," Koss said, "we are providing sport in the most disadvantaged areas of the world. We are
working in more than 15 countries at a grass-roots level. We have been cleared by the United Nations
to begin looking for volunteers to bring to Afghanistan."

Koss has been to Bosnia, flying in a military plane to 1984 Winter Olympic host city Sarajevo; in
Rwanda, where war was going on around him, and in Sudan. "I've never felt really in danger," Koss
said. "What I felt was love from the children who all seemed to know what the Olympics are."

Koss is in Salt Lake City doing speedskating commentary for several European television stations. He
said that this time, as opposed to 1998 in Nagano, he doesn't miss competing. "Four years ago," Koss
said, "I did have that big urge to be on the ice. This time? No. Skating is in my past."

After spraining knee ligaments less than two months before the Lillehammer Games, Koss was not
expected to dominate the Olympics. But he did.

Having already set two world records, Koss obliterated the world record in the 10,000. His
mesmerizing performance, in which he ticked off 24 consecutive sub-33-second laps, brought the
home-country crowd to its feet a minute into his 13-minute 30.55-second race. It also caused the
Dutch skaters, big rivals of the Norwegians, to present Koss a golden butterfly after the final race. It is
an honor the Dutch always had reserved for Dutch gold medal winners.

Besides his own $30,000 prize money, Koss had his Olympic skates auctioned for $85,000, which he
also gave to Olympic Aid.

"Everybody knows the Olympics and the value of the Olympics," Koss said. "It is an incredibly
powerful tool which should be used for good. Through sports we can teach people to understand
each other, to build bridges.

"The Olympics should stand for more than excellence every fourth year or every second year. It
should provide friendship, respect, peace and good, positive values all the time, everywhere."



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68 posted on 07/27/2003 8:13:20 AM PDT by concernedforjesus (The right to play does not mean cheat on your husband.......belinda.)
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