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<p>Timothy Geithner, Treasury Department official during the Clinton administration, was named to be the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.</p>
<p>Mr. Geithner is expected to assume his duties in mid-November, the bank said in a news release.</p>
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Medical marijuana and the feds Debra Saunders If the federal government were right that medical marijuana has no medicinal value, why have so many doctors risked their practices by recommending its use for patients with cancer or AIDS? Marcus Conant, the doctor who identified the first cases of Kaposi's sarcoma among San Francisco AIDS patients, can answer that. Imagine you're the doctor for a 40-year-old lady with breast cancer. They put her on chemotherapy, and every time she takes her therapy, she throws up. She can't sleep; she's up sick all night. She has trouble caring for her children. Medical...
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12/11/2001 MIAMI (AP) - Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno officiated at the wedding of her niece, model Hunter Reno, during an outdoor ceremony in a tropical garden. Hunter Reno, a model and host of "Exotic Islands" on the Travel Channel, married Peter Rabbino, co-founder of a Fort Lauderdale legal consulting firm, on Sunday. The elder Reno, a Democratic candidate for governor, pronounced the couple husband and wife under a warm rain that drooped nearby trees. As a Florida notary, Reno has the power to perform weddings
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<p>Julie Sirrs recalls that in her lengthy interview with Mohammed Khaled, he was very calm and measured; he didn't pour out fiery rhetoric or spew venom, and he spoke of long-term goals.</p>
<p>Khaled is one of the Taliban's commandos, a Pakistani university graduate who went to Afghanistan to train and fight in the war against infidels. He was one of more than 100 prisoners captured by the Northern Alliance or United Front who Ms. Sirrs, a former Defense Department Intelligence Agency analyst and Afghanistan expert, studied in 1999 and 2000. She conducted freewheeling, in-depth interviews with about a dozen.</p>
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After the Horror By PAUL KRUGMAN It seems almost in bad taste to talk about dollars and cents after an act of mass murder. Nonetheless, we must ask about the economic aftershocks from Tuesday's horror. These aftershocks need not be major. Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack — like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression — could even do some economic good. But there are already ominous indications that some will see this tragedy not as an occasion for true national unity, but as an opportunity for political ...
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Freep this poll!!! Located at the bottom of the page. Is Gore right to contest election results in Florida? Yes; the election results are not valid. No; he should just accept defeat.
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Lawsuit to Recover Lost Gore Votes Overshadows the Recount in Florida By GLENN R. SIMPSON, JACKIE CALMES and CHAD TERHUNE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Overshadowing a state ballot recount in the tightest presidential election in memory, Democrats filed suit to help Al Gore recover thousands of votes he may have lost because of a confusing ballot in Palm Beach County. Democratic State Sen. Ron Klein and lawyer Jeffrey Liggio, official observers in the Palm Beach County recount, said county officials disqualified 19,120 presidential votes here on Tuesday because voters selected more than one candidate. That is about ...
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Bush Should Be Held To the Same Standard as Gore By ALBERT R. HUNT On his very first answer in the final presidential debate, George W. Bush bragged to a woman worried about health maintenance organizations that he had "brought Republicans and Democrats together" to pass a patients' bill of rights, including the right to sue HMOs. Moreover, he supports a similar national measure where "all people would be covered." This was duplicitous, and knowingly so. Gov. Bush initially vetoed an HMO reform bill in Texas and fought against giving patients the right to sue HMOs. After a struggle it ...
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A New Strategy For the War on Drugs By James Q. Wilson, a professor of public policy at Pepperdine University and author of "The Moral Sense," available in paperback from Free Press. The current Senate deliberation over aid to Colombia aimed at fighting narcotics reminds us that there are two debates over how the government ought to deal with dangerous drugs. The first is about their illegality and the second is about their control. People who wish to legalize drugs and those who wish to curtail their supply believe that their methods will reduce crime. Both these views are mistaken, ...
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November 1999 Briefing Paper Download Acrobat pdf version of paper. NAFTA'S PAIN DEEPENS Job destruction accelerates in 1999 with losses in every state by Robert E. Scott From the time the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in 1994 through 1998, growth in the net export deficit with Mexico and Canada has destroyed 440,172 American jobs (see Table 1). Moreover, through the first half of 1999 the portion of the U.S. trade deficit attributable to NAFTA has nearly doubled in comparison to the same period last year, leading to even more job losses. Many previous evaluations ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is urging Congress to provide more pay for lawyers who represent federal criminal defendants too poor to afford an attorney. Inadequate pay is ``seriously hampering'' courts' ability to recruit lawyers to accept such appointments, the nation's top judge said in his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary. ``Adequate pay for appointed counsel is important to ensure that a defendant's constitutional right to counsel is fulfilled,'' Rehnquist said. ``I respectfully ask Congress to make adequate compensation for panel attorneys a high priority.'' The chief justice also reflected on ``remarkable'' changes in the ...
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Earlier this week the National Football League, which oversees the most violent sport in America, placed throat slashing on its list of banned gestures. So players can't shimmy, can't rip their helmets off and can't otherwise indulge in extended celebrations. The N.F.L. is treading on freedom of expression as it delves into image management, controlling the flow of human emotion in a game that is defined by emotion and mayhem. Fans are bombarded by graphic images virtually jumping out of giant TV screens. The fantastic stage of sports is like a cartoon, only real: Crunching tackles. Thunder dunks. Hockey players ...
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