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According to Newsmax.com, The perpetrators of the politically correct Firefighters Memorial Statue have caved to mounting pressure and "New York City Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scopetta announced that he will consider new options for a fitting memorial." Further, "The FDNY's announcement does not say that the memorial will remain faithful to the famous flag-raising photo - or even that the photo will continue to be the basis for a new sculpture." It is my humble opinion that nothing less than the actual photograph of the three NYC Firefighters would be acceptable as a fitting Memorial. Once in a great while, during ...

TIME MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, Ken Lay, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME magazine. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's controversial $3 billion power-plant project, Enron's gave ...

Bishop Street Capital Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of First Hawaiian Bank, has announced it will not declare capital gain distributions in 2001.

Look, I'm as patriotic as the next guy. When the Secret Service picks my home as a secure location for the vice president in a time of national crisis, I'm not going to hesitate. "Send him on over," I told them, back in September. "We'll throw a couple more boneless, skinless chicken breasts on the grill." This is my sacred duty as an American. But I must say, after about two months, safe-housekeeping gets a little old. Don't get me wrong. The vice president happens to be very polite and respectful. It's always "Mr. Garfield" this, "Mr. Garfield" that. He's ...

<p>European pilots will help protect U.S. skies for the first time starting Friday, flying five AWACS planes that are being deployed to Tinker Air Force base from a NATO base in Germany. "They will be defending the homeland, flying combat air patrol," Air Force Capt. Steven Rolenc said. "They will be providing the capabilities that AWACS brings to the fight." The Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft are used to monitor battles on the ground or threats in the air. U.S. pilots will also be involved in the air patrols.</p>

As U.S. war planes shift from fixed targets in Afghanistan to bombing more mobile targets such as troop convoys, military special forces teams are poised for what is likely to be a prominent role in the next phase of attacks. Special forces ``will have a significant role in all the areas they are trained to perform in,'' said Army Col. Bill Darley, a spokesman for U.S. Special Operations Command.

It's Bill Clinton's fault. That, at least, is the increasingly loud view being expressed by some commentators, many of them conservative, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Those who hammered the former president over everything from Whitewater to Monica have found a new reason to detest him. It's not that simple, of course. The failure to strengthen the country's defenses against terrorism was in many ways a collective failure – of past administrations, of Congress, of industries that lobbied against costly restrictions, of the media that devoted dwindling attention to foreign news while chasing gossip, scandal and airhead ...

HE'S the most famous mobster-turned-rat in the world, and now Henry Hill - the man who inspired the movie classic Goodfellas - is back in the hit business. His new website goodfellahenry.com - he calls it the only real hit on the web - has been breaking records for traffic. And the man who betrayed New York's Luchese mafia family to escape a lifetime in jail is making a big name for himself in the dotcom world.

Yes, Virginia, there is a controlling legal authority; it's called the United States Supreme Court, and yesterday, the highest court of the land finally brought the curtain down on Al Gore’s Clintonesque attempt to subvert our Constitution and steal the presidency of the United States. In a much expected and long overdue decision, the United States Supreme Court brought an end to five weeks of what can only be described as sheer insanity. To paraphrase president-elect George Bush, we have finally reached finality. Upon receiving news of the decision, observers described Al Gore’s reaction as “snippy.”