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...Says Morton Halperin, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations: "If you take both security and civil liberties seriously, you can find solutions that respect individual rights and privacy and still give the intelligence and law-enforcement agencies the scope that they need. We had worked that out in terms of airports. Nobody thinks you have the civil liberty to take knives on airplanes. I don't know who made the decision to let people bring knives on anyway, but it was certainly not civil libertarians...
...parents admit that their kids are spoiled. In New York City it's the Bat Mitzvah where 'N Sync was the band; in Houston it's a catered $20,000 pink-themed party for 50 seven-year-old girls who all wore mink coats, like their moms. In Morton Grove, Ill., it's grade school teachers handing out candy and yo-yos on Fridays to kids who actually managed to obey the rules that week. Go to the mall or a concert or a restaurant and you can find them in the wild, the kids who have never been told...
...lyric, except its daring to be loose ("Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long," etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, Cozy Cole (whose drumming career had stretched from Jelly Roll Morton to Charlie Parker, and who had recorded a Leiber-Stoller number as "Hound Dog Special" in 1954) enjoyed a two-sided hit with "Topsy." What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the "What?d I say" chorus...
...House committee is not the only investigative body interested in Roger Clinton and pardons. The office of U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White is examining allegations by a Texas family that they paid two associates of Roger Clinton, George Locke and Dickey Morton, more than $200,000 in late 1998 to have Roger secure a pardon for a relative. Business sources say White also is focusing on a firm, CLM - for Clinton, Locke & Morton - and the activities of Locke and Morton. Sources said they invoked Roger Clinton's name to line up investors for a scheme to import wallboard, scooters...
...Players: Keyshawn Johnson, Tony Boselli, Junior Seau, Jason Sehorn, Rob Johnson, Willie McGinest, Johnny Morton...