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(XIN) Wal-Mart hires Clinton aide to improve image 2006-08-30 13:14 (New York) LOS ANGELES, Aug 30, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is hiring an advisor to former president Bill Clinton to cope with mounting criticism, a newspaper report said on Wednesday. Under the deal, Leslie Dach officially joins the company's payroll this month as executive vice president of corporate affairs and government relations, reporting directly to Chief Executive H. Lee Scott. Dach will get at least 3 million U.S. dollars over the next two years to direct a rapid-response team to criticism, according...

Eight years after NPR’s Nina Totenberg, on Inside Washington, wished death upon Senator Jesse Helms (“If there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it"), on the same show over the weekend she seemingly desired to hasten the death of Army General Jerry Boykin for having supposedly expressed the view that the war on terrorism “is a Christian crusade against Muslims.” Totenberg hatefully advocated: “I hope he’s not long for this world.” When the other panelists were taken aback by her wish (“You putting a hit out on this guy or...

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Hoffman accused the Bush administration of "manipulating the grief of the country" after the events of September 11. The president's real motives for going to war are power and oil, he said. He spoke out after receiving a lifetime achievement accolade at the Empire Film Awards in London. "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible," he said. "I don't think, like many of us, that the reasons we have been given...