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Whitman on Bush's short list for job 12/15/00 BY RON MARSICO AND DAVID KINNEY STAR-LEDGER STAFF Gov. Christie Whitman is now under serious consideration for a high-level job in President-elect George W. Bush's administration, sources from the Whitman and Bush camps disclosed yesterday. Talks are focusing primarily on three posts: international trade representative, chief administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and ambassador to the United Nations, the sources said. Whitman has spoken about a potential appointment this week with Vice President-elect Dick Cheney, who heads up Bush's transition team, the sources confirmed. The Governor, who helped with the Florida recount ...

Roll Call: Web Exclusive July 27, 2000 As Republicans Lose Control, Democrats Walk to 13-8 Win 'You've Got to Hand it to the Democrats, and We Did,' Says Rep. Steve Largent By Ben Pershing After being outplayed for six frames, Democrats took advantage of Republican pitchers' sudden inability to find the strike zone, scoring eight runs in the seventh and final inning Wednesday night to win the 39th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game, 13-8. The game -- played under a steady drizzle before 2,958 fans at Prince George's Stadium in Bowie, Md. -- evened the current best-of-five series ...

Bill Would Restrain Junk E-Mail WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation passed by the House Tuesday would make it easier for consumers to keep unsolicited junk e-mail off their computers. The legislation, which passed 427-1, also gives Internet service providers, or ISPs, new legal weapons to combat junk e-mail, or ``spam'' messages, that clog their networks. ``The most annoying thing about the Internet is junk e-mail,'' said Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., sponsor of the bill. In addition to deluging consumers with often false or pornographic messages, she said it costs ISPs an estimated $1 billion a year to cope with the added ...

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might even pray 03/26/00 By David Gibson If it's not too late to join the office pool for tonight's Oscars, here's an inside tip: Put your money on God. God? You bet. Even if He (or She, in the case of Kevin Smith's "Dogma") isn't on any of the ballots, there are plenty of critics across the religious spectrum who believe the Almighty did better in Tinseltown in 1999 than at any other time since the days when Cecil B. DeMille was filming the Bible scene-for-scene. Naturally, these critics point first to overtly religious films ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) - Sen. Bob Smith, a former Republican who announced eight days ago that he would seek the presidential nomination of the U.S. Taxpayer's Party, has changed his mind again and is dropping his affiliation with the fledgling party. Karen Hickey, a spokeswoman for Smith's campaign, said the New Hampshire senator will be making an another announcement about his candidacy within the next few weeks.

WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Marianne are living apart and attempting to negotiate a mutually acceptable divorce settlement, associates familiar with the situation said Monday. These associates added that neither Gingrich nor his wife has filed formal papers seeking a divorce. The couple was married in 1981, at a time when Gingrich was a junior Republican congressman from Georgia and she was a business consultant and county planner from Ohio. Mrs. Gingrich was a frequent presence in the Capitol during her husband's four years as speaker. No further details were available.