Tim May wrote:
#
# ...Destiny's Child sounds like chipmunks...
Not on "Jumpin' Jumpin'" they don't.
Next time you're in Tower, be sure to
wear a jersey labeled, "Old Fart".
Pay my biii-iii-iiillls, pay my bills.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25126,00.html
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# With Court Ruling, Banned 'Straight Pride' Shirt Back in School
#
# ST PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota teenager told he couldn't wear a
# sweatshirt with the words "Straight Pride" on it because it was
# offensive to some students at a public high school, has won a
# preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court against the school.
#
# In issuing the injunction, the federal judge noted that there
# was "a strong likelihood" that the principal of Woodbury High
# School near St. Paul, Minn. violated 16-year-old Elliot Chambers'
# constitutional rights when he forbade him from wearing the shirt,
# which displayed cartoon images of a man and woman holding hands
# on the back and featured the trademarked "Straight Pride" logo
# on the front.
#
# The court said there was insufficient evidence that, as the school
# maintained, the presence of the shirt on campus would cause a
# substantial disruption of school activities. But the judge held
# open the possibility that the shirt could be banned in the future
# if the school can prove that it is a threat to order.
#
# Chambers' parents, Kendal and Lana Chambers, said their son was
# back in school Friday with the shirt on, and that about a dozen
# of Elliot's friends were wearing similar shirts.
#
# Elliot and his parents, along with the American Family
# Association's Center for Law and Policy, a conservative Christian
# organization, sued the school after Chambers was told in January
# the shirt was not allowed in school because it was offensive
# to gay, lesbian and bisexual students. The principal told Chambers
# he couldn't wear the shirt "because of the recent racial violence
# at our school, and that it might incite straight-versus-homosexual
# violence," Chambers recalled.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25079,00.html
#
# NETANYA, Israel - An Islamic bomber killed himself and five
# other people outside a shopping mall Friday, and Israel struck
# back hard, sending F-16 war planes to target the West Bank for
# the first time since 1967 and rocketing the Palestinian coast
# guard in Gaza.
#
# In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, Israeli helicopter gunships rocketed
# buildings of the Palestinian coast guard.
War, HUH, what is it good for...
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http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB990031746801049990.htm
#
# NTT Communications Is Hit
# By Loss at Its U.S. Unit Verio
#
# TOKYO -- A unit of Japan's biggest telecommunications company
# disclosed huge losses at its U.S. Internet-service subsidiary,
# results that could throw its international strategy into question.
#
# NTT Communications Corp., the international and long-distance
# arm of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., said Verio Inc.,
# Englewood, Colo., posted a loss of $777 million for calendar
# 2000, on revenue of $328 million. Executives project losses at
# the Internet service provider will widen to $1.29 billion this
# year on revenue of $454 million.
#
# The losses come just eight months after NTT Communications paid
# $5 billion for the 90% of Verio that it didn't already own. The
# deal was the first major move overseas by the unit of NTT, Japan's
# former state-owned telecommunications monopoly. But it was struck
# near the height of last year's technology-stock bubble, and
# Internet-related stocks have since plummeted.
