Sidelights.(Brief Article)

Ronald Reagan turned 90 years, 248 days old in October, making him the oldest ex-president in U.S. history. * Given the choice of George W. Bush or Bill Clinton, over 70 percent of American voters would prefer to have Bush as President during the current terrorism crisis, according to a recent Zogby poll. Only 20 percent preferred Clinton. ... "I feel comfortable with President Bush," said Rep. James P. Moran, a Virginia Democrat. "I never thought I would utter those words." ... "I love George Bush right now and I always have," actor James Woods told Jay Leno. "I'm the only guy in L.A. who voted for him." * Handgun sales in Maryland doubled during the week of the September terror attacks. * The Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual lobbying group, canceled National Coming Out Day since it fell on the one-month anniversary of the September attacks. ... Officers of London's Scotland Yard are told not to refer to gays and lesbians as homosexuals because the word "criminalizes" them. ... Milwaukee is the No. 1 city in America for lesbians, according to Girlfriends magazine. San Francisco ranked sixteenth. * Five New Jersey volunteer firefighters who traveled to New York during their free time to assist in the World Trade Center cleanup were suspended for a month. * Concordia University of Canada issued a student agenda book that glorifies the Palestinian intifada, encourages the burning of the Canadian flag, and calls for a Steal Something Day. * New York University student group Arab Students United distributed anti-Semitic material written by former Klansman David Duke. ... NYU is the nation's most marijuana-friendly school, according to the Princeton Review annual sourcebook. * Washington, D.C. tax officials received illegal tax breaks on their personal properties. The officials owe over $5,000 in back taxes and penalties. * 61 percent of Arab-Americans support profiling of Middle Easterners by law enforcement officers, according to a Detroit Free Press poll. * "When Timothy McVeigh did that terrorism in Oklahoma, nobody who owned a place called Timothy's changed the name. So why should I?" asks Ghassan Mustafa. Mr. Mustafa owns Osama's Place, a restaurant near ...