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Scholastic Student Voters Pick George W. Bush to Win Presidential Election Bush Wins With 54% Over 41% for Gore; More than 660,000 Students Nationwide Participate in Poll That Consistently Chooses Winning Candidates for President NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic Inc. (Nasdaq: SCHL - news), the global children's media and publishing company, today announced the results of its Kids Speak Out Election 2000 Campaign Presidential Poll. More than 660,000 students from across the country in first through twelfth grades participated in the poll, choosing Republican George W. Bush to be the next President of the United States. Governor Bush ...

I am listening to the Neal Boortz radio talk-show. He has citicized the FR callers to the Algore conference of yesterday. He gave out Free Republic's URL and said he frequently reads and monitors Free Republic.Y'all did a bad, bad thing. {;o)

The Confederate flags, and slavery tracts and tapes at Maurice Bessinger's Midlands barbecue restaurants are costing him more business. North Carolina-based Food Lion on Wednesday announced it will remove Bessinger's barbecue products from 118 stores in South Carolina, making it the second retailer to pull the products in response to Bessinger's expression of his views. Last week, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. removed Bessinger's products from eight of its Sam's Club stores in the Carolinas and about 100 Wal-Mart stores in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky. Food Lion officials last week said they had no plans to remove Bessinger's products. ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- On the day that South Carolina celebrated its first official Confederate Memorial Day, members of the state House voted Wednesday to remove the Confederate flag from atop the Capitol dome. The Senate already has approved a similar measure to remove the flag and put one up at a monument on the Statehouse grounds. Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges supports removal. "The House faced a choice today -- leave the flag flying or move it from the dome to a place of historical context on the Statehouse grounds," he said. "With tonight's vote, we are one giant step ...

A new Gallup poll showed the NAACP lacks support for its boycott, but support for the Confederate flag has decreased, and fewer people see it as an emblem of Southern heritage. Sixty-five percent of 1,031 U.S. adults questioned opposed the boycott, led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; 27 percent supported it and 8 percent had no opinion. But 46 percent of respondents said Southern states should be able to fly some form of the Confederate flag from their capitol buildings, 44 percent opposed it and 10 percent had no opinion. Fifty-nine percent said the ...

COLUMBIA - Even as House leaders urged black lawmakers to get on board with a plan to put the Confederate battle flag at a monument in front of the Statehouse, the House voted Tuesday to fly the flag 10 feet higher than the Senate plan. House members, in their first day of debate, rejected several other proposals to move the flag, including the favorite of the Democratic caucus: bronzing the flag and placing it at the monument. The Senate last month passed a bill to move the flag from atop the Statehouse and put it on a 20-foot pole ...

COLUMBIA - When Gov. Jim Hodges signs a Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law today, South Carolina will achieve a milestone as the last state to adopt a holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader. The legislative victory is doubly significant because it came during a session bogged down by racial divisiveness about whether to move the Confederate battle flag from atop the Capitol dome. But there was little celebration when the bill passed the House a couple of weeks ago. Instead, after it passed, several representatives scurried across the Statehouse to watch the Senate debate the flag. ...

COLUMBIA - As the battleground for moving the Confederate flag shifted to the South Carolina House on Thursday, representatives showed that they are ready to live up to their reputation as the less agreeable chamber. "I ain't voting for it. Ain't no way in hell," said Rep. Todd Rutherford, a black Columbia Democrat who objects to flying the battle flag in a prominent position at the Confederate soldiers' monument. His comments were echoed by Rep. Jake Knotts, a Lexington Republican who wants the flag to stay on the dome. "I am not willing to talk about this issue at ...

COLUMBIA - Groups supporting the Confederate flag on the South Carolina Statehouse have begun airing radio commercials statewide to get their message across and encourage people to attend a rally next week. The ads say Confederate flag opponents are bent on rewriting history and eliminating Civil War monuments. At the same time, a rally Confederate flag opponents planned for today has been canceled because requests for a parade permit came too late. Sgt. Harold Reaves, special events coordinator for the Columbia Police Department, said the permit request was made Thursday. City ordinances require more notice, Reaves said. Marches and ...

Carolina Chat received this critical information today. Please DO NOT open any message that contains "California" in the subject line. Doing so could destroy your system. IBM and AOL have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER. It will arrive on e-mail titled CALIFORNIA!! IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so than Melissa, there is no remedy, yet. It will eat all your information on the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do not open anything with this title and please pass this message on to all your contacts ...

GRACKO, Yugoslavia (AP) -- The massacre of 14 Serbs harvesting wheat threatened to set back efforts to end Kosovo's cycle of endless violence, and NATO officials acknowledged Saturday that such acts of vengeance are beyond their control. Villagers blamed ethnic Albanians for the attack, the worst since NATO peacekeepers entered Kosovo six weeks ago. Peacekeepers have been hard-pressed to curb daily killings, abductions and harassment of Serbs across the province by ethnic Albanians avenging widespread atrocities committed earlier by Serb forces. NATO and U.N. officials swiftly condemned the violence and appealed for calm. The leader of the ethnic Albanians' Kosovo ...