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Editors at TIMEWARNER's PEOPLE magazine found themselves in controversy on Thursday -- after the weekly published a photograph showing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton in an apparent "aroused" state. Clinton is shown "erect" as she is embraced by her companion Ian Klaus at last week's US OPEN tennis tournament; her face: showing "bedroom pleasures." Publishing the provocative photograph of the media-shy Clinton is the latest attempt by new PEOPLE editor Martha Nelson to heat up the magazine. The snap is featured near the front of the book in the September 23 edition [Pg.24]. But the controversial shot of Clinton pulled...

<p>September 13, 2002 -- A Jordanian student who was indicted for allegedly lying about his links to a Sept. 11 hijacker is now suing the feds, claiming he was falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted.</p> <p>A lawyer for California college student Osama Awadallah said yesterday the 21-year-old has a strong case, due to a ruling in May by a New York federal judge who found that Awadallah was detained illegally.</p>

The United States last week delivered a secret ultimatum to Baghdad, a warning not to use non-conventional weapons on any account in the coming conflict. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence sources have learned that a secret high-level emissary entered Iraq under cover to put Baghdad on notice that if non-conventional weapons were wielded by Iraq, the US would not hesitate to level its cities with a nuclear bomb. Washington acted after discovering that Iraq had smuggled two or three nuclear devices at least into the United States for detonation by sleeper cells planted by Iraqi intelligence. The American ultimatum included a demand...

<p>Albert Gore III, the 19-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore, was arrested near the Pentagon last week by U.S. military police from Fort Myer and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving, and possession of alcohol by a minor.</p>

Bill Simon, the Republican nominee for governor, spoke with CaliforniaJournal recently for a story to be published in the magazine's special election issue this October. In that story the governor and a broad arrayof other state leaders and politicians examine the current race for governorand the state of politics in California today. Here, California Journal offers a timely sample of the coverage that will appear in its October special issue. SACRAMENTO-Bill Simon said in a recent interview with California Journal that some of the jurors who found hisfamily company guilty of fraud earlier this summer were Democrats who may have...

Please post your commnet or reactions from the media/congress on the speech today by President Bush. Has anyone heard any negative reactions?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Just before the trial was to begin over a teenager who was suspended from high school for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of the Confederate flag, lawyers told the court they were about to settle the case.An order filed Sept. 10 in U.S. District Court in Lexington revealed the settlement. Lawyers would not discuss details, but said it should be made final within 30 days."I don't want to upset any apple carts," explained attorney Kirk David Lyons of the Southern Legal Resource Center in North Carolina, a nonprofit group devoted to protecting the civil rights of...

Live discussion and comments about Bush's speech to the U.N. today, and the reaction to it.

George W. Bush told the United Nations to put up or shut up, and just in time. We had heard enough from Colin, Don, Condi, and the men who left the Gulf war unfinished to thoroughly disguise the president's intentions. Yesterday he finally talked the talk. "The Security Council resolutions will be enforced," the president told the U.N. General Assembly. "The just demands of peace and security will be met. Or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."Translation (we think) from diplo-speak to bunkhouse English: "You guys have adopted your...

Web posted Monday, August 26, 2002 Bering Strait dream won't die   By James MacPherson The Alaska Journal of Commerce Reporter http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/082602/foc_bering_dream.shtml     Anchorage-based engineer Dennis Nottingham believes a bridge, not a tunnel, would be the best means of transportation for crossing the Bering Strait. PHOTO/Courtesy Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage Inc. George Koumal admits he's seen plenty of eyes roll, heads shake and jaws drop while pitching a $40 billion submarine railroad tunnel connecting the continents of Asia and North America at the Bering Strait. Koumal, head of the Tucson, Ariz.-based Interhemispheric Bering Strait Tunnel & Railroad Group, says...

She is being interviewed---telling her story.

With roughly 80 employees and a 240-person seating capacity, Disneyland Hotel’s Goofy’s Kitchen is the hotel’s largest and busiest restaurant. It offers patrons an opportunity to eat among roaming Disney characters—such as Pluto, Snow White and, of course, the eponymic, buck-toothed dog—who gather near the buffet bar and entertain by singing and dancing the macarena.Despite the festive atmosphere, current and former restaurant employees say the cafeteria-style restaurant is plagued by rats, rat feces and toxic mold. Four employees filed workman’s-compensation claims against Disney in October 2001 and January 2002 citing chronic illnesses from dust and various forms of airborne mold....

<p>NAPLES, Fla. — Officials blew up a suspicious package and detained three men along Florida's Alligator Alley Friday morning after an all-night search for two vehicles thought to be involved in possible terrorist activity.</p> <p>Police in Florida and Georgia had been searching for the vehicles after an alert restaurant customer in Calhoun, Ga., notified them that she had overheard three men of possibly Middle Eastern descent joking about the Sept. 11 attacks and discussing what could be a terrorist plot.</p>

They just had news clip few minutes ago. This is connected to earlier thread where a woman reported overhearing some arab looking guys. They just pulled over a couple cars and the dogs picked up explosive scent.

Federalism - the allocation and balancing of power between state and federal government - has emerged as a central concern of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Slowly, but steadily, the Rehnquist Court has been cutting back federal powers, and protecting state's rights. Many have wondered what the Court is doing. Why are the Court's five conservatives - the Chief Justice himself, along with Associate Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas - creating this new jurisprudence of federalism? The answer is simple: they are seeking to fill a void in our constitutional structure,...

What is corporatism? In a (somewhat inaccurate) phrase, socialism for the bourgeois. It has the outward form of capitalism in that it preserves private ownership and private management, but with a crucial difference: as under socialism, government guarantees the flow of material goods, which under true capitalism it does not. In classical capitalism, what has been called the "night-watchman" state, government's role in the economy is simply to prevent force or fraud from disrupting the autonomous operation of the free market. The market is trusted to provide. Under corporatism, it is not, instead being systematically manipulated to deliver goods to...

<p>Senior European officials reacted positively to President George W. Bush's call Thursday for Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions or face the consequences, while the Iraqi ambassador denounced it as "series of fabrications."</p> <p>"He chooses to deceive the world and his own people by the longest series of fabrications that have ever been told by a leader of a nation," Ambassador Mohamed al-Douri said.</p>

From Daniel Pipes: The article by Lars Hedegaard and me, “Something Rotten in Denmark?” that appeared in the New York Post on August 27 also appeared that same day in The National Post (Toronto), where it was titled “Muslim extremism: Denmark's had enough.” Two members of the Danish parliament replied to this article in a letter published in The National Post on September 6. The Council on American-Islamic Relations that same day distributed their letter under the rubrique “Danish Politicians Refute Daniel Pipes’ ‘Facts.’” Lars Hedegaard and I then responded to the Danish MPs in our own letter published in...

<p>WASHINGTON — A Republican interest group yanked a radio ad aimed at black voters in Kansas and Missouri and comparing Social Security benefits to slavery reparations -- except paid to whites by blacks.</p> <p>The move Thursday was the latest skirmish in a multistate war over Social Security ads pegged to November's congressional elections.</p>

The Eighth Amendment to our Constitution says even if we've broken the law, our government can't inflict cruel and unusual punishment on us. Some prisoners say that's exactly what's going on when they're given "the loaf." "The loaf" is bread with milk, carrots and potatoes added for nutrition, so it's a full meal. At some prisons, inmates who keep misbehaving get the loaf with water and raw cabbage, instead of regular prison food. Corrections officers say they need tools like the loaf because managing prisoners is a scary job. Some prisoners feel they have nothing left to lose — maybe...

Florida's new problems at the ballot box highlight the need for national election reform and may help revitalize efforts in Congress to upgrade how Americans vote, proponents of the effort said on Wednesday. Nearly two years after faulty voting machines, inaccurate registration rolls and confusing ballots marred the 2000 White House election in Florida, another round of mishaps gummed up Florida's primaries on Tuesday -- despite the state's overhaul of its election system. The new Florida problems dealt largely with new ballot equipment, the late openings and early closings of some polling stations and absent poll workers. Political novice Bill...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Stopping short of supporting military action against Iraq, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned Baghdad on Friday to cooperate with the United Nations or face the consequences. Ivanov met European Union delegates and then spoke to Russian reporters as Secretary of State Colin Powell sought agreement on a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for Baghdad's compliance with U.N. disarmament demands. "Security Council resolutions are binding. Should Iraq refuse to cooperate with the Security Council, the Iraqi leadership will have to assume responsibility for all possible consequences," Ivanov said, according to the Interfax news agency. But he...

There's a debate amongst some church denominations over a possible U.S. war against Iraq. The nation's two largest Protestant denominations are on opposing sides. It's not just Congress that's struggling with the question of whether or not to attack Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power. The same debate is going on in the Church. Most of us have heard the catch phrase, "What Would Jesus Do?" When it comes to removing the Iraqi leader, some factions of the Church are split. Jim Winkler, a spokesman for the United Methodist Church, said his church's position is that Jesus would be...

UNITED NATIONS — In a rare address by a local political leader to the United Nations, Mayor Michael Bloomberg thanked the international community Friday for its support after the World Trade Center attack, and said all nations are obligated to pursue terrorists. "The United States will, without hesitation, defend our lives, homes and liberties," Bloomberg told the U.N. General Assembly. "As President Bush has said repeatedly, we will aggressively pursue terrorists wherever they seek refuge and terrorist states whenever they threaten our security. Your governments have an obligation to your citizens to do the same." Bloomberg's foray into international affairs...

The recent corporate collapses and scandals in the U.S. business community have exposed the evils of greed when it becomes the basis for decision-making. Greed is certainly a bad adviser, as it tramples the moral and ethical principles on which America was founded. Greed and illusory dreams of profits were the foundations of the July 23, 2002, vote – 262 to 167 – in the Republican-led House of Representatives in favor of easing the economic embargo against the Castro regime and letting American tourists visit Cuba. For some time now, Castro has been able to buy goods from the U.S....

U.S. Seeking West African Oil ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Seeking secure oil ahead of threatened conflict with Iraq, the United States is stepping up overtures to oil-rich West African nations - with plans announced to establish a U.S. naval base off West Africa to safeguard the strategic U.S. interest. President Bush was expected to talk Friday in the United States with leaders of at least nine West and Central African nations, all either already steady producers or in the thick of West Africa's oil production and exploration boom. Among the leaders reported to be meeting...

In my recent report, CA Attorney General Thumbs Nose at Ashcroft and Second Amendment, I indicated in an addendum that I had contacted Bill Lockyer's challenger in the upcoming Nov. 5 election, State Senator Dick Ackerman. I asked if he agreed with John Ashcroft's legal opinion that "the text and the original intent of the Second Amendment clearly protect the right of individuals to keep and bear firearms"; and if he would, if elected, add his name to the letter signed by 18 state attorneys general in support of Mr. Ashcroft's "interpretation and enforcement of the Second Amendment to the...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Sep 12, 02 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - A pro-life homily delivered by Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit at the opening of the school year at Ave Maria Law School has inspired pro-life political activism. A group of students from the Law School attended a meet-and-greet pancake breakfast Saturday where Michigan gubernatorial candidates Jennifer Granholm and opponent Dick Posthumus were to shake hands and discuss issues with hundreds of voters. Their goal was to meet Granholm face to face and challenge her strong support for abortion since she bills herself as a practicing Catholic. Unlike her opponent, Granholm left the...

"We believe the fundamental risk is the more than 100 varieties of birds migrating each year from the North and they can transmit the virus to Cuba," Granma Digital, official Cuban newspaper. Everyone should know that the newspaper Granma would take up this topic only in order to make us think what they want us to think. As I told U.S. intelligence officials in August of 2001, "You see things from the perspective of an elephant that is being bitten by an ant. You don't realize that a mound of ants can eat an elephant." (1) Despite the risk of...

Old news, but may come in handy for refuting conspiracy theory that ONLY Atta's id was found. Police Ponder How To Return Personal Items Found In WTC Debris Some WTC DNA Samples Incomplete - January 29, 2002 Credit cards and identification cards found in the tons of debris removed from the site of the World Trade Center attacks sit in colored bins in a trailer at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island,on Jan. 14, 2002, in New York. Detectives are working to sort through the personal belongings recovered from the debris in the hopes of returning the items to...