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While Chelsea Clinton has been spotted flashing her bling (her engagement ring, of course), it seems that her cousin Macy is struggling to make ends meet. Former President Clinton's niece, Macy Clinton, said she is in such a rut, she uses a government benefit card to get food from her local grocery store. She blames her financial trouble on former President Clinton's brother, Roger, who she says abandoned her. "It's hard, because I'm a Clinton, too, but I have to be on food stamps, and I have to sacrifice everything just to make it day by day," Macy Clinton told...

It was not long ago that the world had written him off as an ageing leader with little or no remaining grip on power. But Bill Clinton is back. So it seems is the other dear leader, Kim Jong-il. For a man who had just a few weeks ago been declared terminally ill – one Japanese academic had even claimed he was dead – North Korea’s dictator is looking quite sprightly. The extraordinary photographs showing him flanked by a former US president (doing his best to imitate a sphinx) and several former US officials are a propaganda coup. They will...

"Ned Lamont" sounds like he might be a character in a funny book, with an unlikely white-bread name (think "Britt Reid" as the Green Hornet or "Clark Kent" as Superman), but there's nothing funny about his campaign for the U.S. Senate. He's making Joe Lieberman miserable. The latest Quinnipiac Poll shows him leading Mr. Lieberman among likely Democratic voters by 51 percent to 47 percent. That's within the margin of error, but dramatically different from only a month ago, when Mr. Lieberman could take his ease with a 15-point lead.

In our urgency to deal with really urgent stuff over the past few weeks, we have been piling up news articles regarding what some regard as a universal urgency. That would be global warming or Global Warming or GLOBAL WARMING, depending on one's perspective, provided that one has a perspective. Bill Clinton, speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that mother of all junkets for rich folks who take themselves very seriously, said that GLOBAL WARMING bothered him a bunch. "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of...

TOKYO — Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday he expects diplomacy to play a larger role in President Bush's second term in office because of "the drain on our military." Speaking at an international forum in Japan, Clinton said Bush's second-term appointment of Condoleezza Rice (search) as secretary of state marked a new beginning for the administration. "I think by sending Condoleezza Rice to the State Department (search), (the president) was saying diplomacy will be more important in his second term," Clinton said. "The drain on our military has made this administration more interested in diplomacy." Clinton also was in...

Why Can’t Bubba Vote Democrat? by Allen Snyder OpEdNews.Com ‘Bubba’, you may recall, is the generic name for the guy Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean appealed to; the blue-collar white guy with the pick-up, Confederate Flag (if he’s a Southerner – the North has its Bubbas, too), gun rack, spit cup, NASCAR ball cap, ‘I Pledge to One Nation Under God’ bumper sticker, and big chip on his shoulder. It’s false that people who like NASCAR, Confederate flags, and guns are Bubbas and, being a professional critical thinker, I see the gross overgeneralization involved in saying so. Instead, we’ll say...

Will the Bush administration ignore the huge, unexpected drop in consumer confidence reported for June? Can it continue to gloss over the struggles of millions of U.S. families? Bush now faces the worst employment growth record of any administration since Herbert Hoover's. And its "tax cuts for the rich will help us all" mantra has an undertone of "who cares about the rest of you?" This administration really hasn't offered any workable strategies to lift the economy. The trickle-down strategy was deemed "voodoo economics" by Bush Sr. The deficit strategy may bankrupt us. Blaming Bill Clinton is just sophomoric. Will...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chelsea Clinton will start a six-figure consulting job after she receives a master's degree from Oxford University later this year, Newsweek magazine reports on its Web site. The daughter of former President Clinton will work in the New York office of London-based McKinsey & Company, newsweek.com reported Friday. Clinton, 23, accepted the position Friday after she reportedly turned down McKinsey's offer of $100,000 a year to work at its London headquarters, according to the Web site. A spokesman for McKinsey did not immediately return a call for comment Saturday, nor did Bill Clinton's office. Clinton, who...

Ex-president Bill Clinton is claiming that the Bush White House turned to him in April 2001 to help solve the crisis prompted by China's downing of a U.S. surveillance plane over the South China Sea - and that the Bush administration would use him more except for the objections of "right wingers." "The Administration's only asked me to do two things," Clinton tells the Atlantic Monthly for its March issue. "One is to go to East Timor, which I was happy to do. The other was to talk to Jiang Zemin. Both of us happened to be in Hong...

It looks like ex-President Bill Clinton has his own Axis of Evil, although the threats he warned about yesterday have nothing to do with terrorism. "(The Republicans) have a much better media machine than we do," Clinton insisted to "Today" show host Katie Couric, before naming, "Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity," who he said "are very outspoken, and are on the right wing of the Republican Party." Other cogs in the GOP's "media machine," according to the ex-president, include the Heritage Foundation and "sympathetic newspapers and sympathetic cable programs that are heavily weighted in their favor." "There...

CHELSEA Clinton may end up being one of the best-paid college graduates ever. The McKinsey and Boston consulting firms are both vying for the Oxford scholar, and one source said, "McKinsey has upped the ante and offered her close to $100,000 a year." It beats the $60,000 PAGE SIX reported she was offered last month. Clinton's area of specialty? Health care, of course. "Chelsea wants to take over where her mother left off," our spy snickered, referring to Hillary Clinton's embarrassingly failed attempt in 1993 to establish a federal health care service.

Mikhail Gorbachev is teaming up with former US president Bill Clinton and actress Sophia Loren to record a new version of the classic children's musical "Peter and the Wolf." Retitled "The Wolf and Peter", the remake of Sergei Prokoviev's tale will tell the story from the point of view of the wolf, faced with the encroachments of urbanisation on his dwindling forest habitat.

<p>An hour with Larry, a night with Mick — even moments with Mikhail and Sergei: Former President Clinton has had a full dance card this week.</p> <p>Thursday night, Mr. Clinton spent an hour with CNN's Larry King, talking over terrorism, the Space Shuttle Columbia, an encounter with former Vice President Al Gore, his daughter's new boyfriend, tax cuts, his memoirs, his charitable work, his tendency to be a "pack rat" and the recent travails of former Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott.</p>

<p>Former President Bill Clinton, on hand at the Mayflower Hotel Thursday to discuss health care issues, launched an attack on the Bush administration's tax cut policies, both those from 2001 and the proposals the current president unveiled in Chicago earlier this month.</p>

Former President Clinton speaks with Cherie Blair, right, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, after Clinton addressed delegates at the Labor Party annual conference in Blackpool, England, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002. (AP Photo/Phil Noble/PA)

Albright endorses Bowles'Erskine is the feminist in this campaign,' says ex-Cabinet official By IRWIN SPEIZER, Staff WriterGREENSBORO - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright campaigned for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles on Thursday, hoping her endorsement would give him a boost with female voters. Albright told a cheering rally in Greensboro that Bowles stands out from the crowded field of primary contenders for his commitment to women's issues. "I definitely can vouch for the fact that Erskine is the feminist in this campaign," said Albright at a evening rally at the Koury Convention Center sponsored by the Women for...

SAUDI TELETHON RAISES MORE THAN $100 MILLION FOR PALESTINIANS. EMOTIONAL VIEWERS RESPOND TO READINGS FROM 'PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION' AND ONE-HOUR ADOLPH HITLER VIDEO TRIBUTE. EMOTIONAL TELETHON M.C. DRAWS CHEERS FROM STUDIO AUDIENCE AFTER CHARGING THAT LAURA BUSH'S GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS JEWISH. DESCRIBES U.S. AS NOTHING BUT A CORRUPT, ROTTING MORAL CESSPOOL AND CALLS DICK CHANEY A BALD-HEADED ZIONIST-LOVING SCUMBAG. HOWEVER, ASKS TV AUDIENCE NOT TO MENTION WHAT HE SAID, SO WESTERN PRESS WON'T GET WIND OF HIS COMMENTS. "It's the most successful telethon that Saudi TV has ever had," enthused Minister of Communications, Filthy Anti-Semitic Slurs...