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<p>May 16, 2003 -- New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, under fire from his staff for allegedly coddling a conniving reporter, publicly criticized another newspaper several years ago for dragging its feet over the removal of a plagiarizing columnist.</p>

I can count no more than a half dozen snapshots of the Clintons in eight hundred pages that struck me as relatively telling and fresh. It's interesting to be told that both Clintons had "disdain" for White House operatives who felt their liberal standing was compromised when the President made tough political choices that seemed to lean to the right and that "Hillary coined a phrase she used whenever this syndrome appeared: 'naïve surprise.'" It's interesting to come across Mrs. Clinton's lightning deduction after hearing Chief Justice Rehnquist say to her husband, "Good luck. You'll need it," upon swearing him...

PHILADELPHIA, May 09, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The Lorillard Tobacco Co. is hoping people are more afraid of mobsters than they are of lung cancer. The nation's fourth-largest tobacco company, maker of Newports and Kents, launched an advertising campaign in three states this week that claims higher cigarette taxes encourage organized crime. One ad featured a picture of a scowling, beefy man wearing a pinstriped suit and a pinky ring, posing next to a black sedan and a suitcase stuffed with cash. "The mob, smugglers, and other street criminals are making a fortune selling illegal cigarettes while...

Cardinal McCarrick on the War in Iraq Says Bishops Don't Classify Soldiers' Role as Immoral NEW YORK, MARCH 25, 2003 (ZENIT.org-Avvenire).- Prayer and more prayer is Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's response when asked about the war in Iraq. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Avvenire, he said he has asked the Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Washington to pray that the war will be quick and not cause too much suffering. The archbishop of Washington, who, together with the U.S. bishops' conference, is opposed to the war, emphasizes that the Church is not interested in apportioning blame or reproaches,...

<p>Many Democratic critics of President Bush's war plans in Iraq did not express the same reservations about President Clinton's military actions in Kosovo in 1999.</p> <p>And many Republicans who today support U.S. action in Iraq opposed a resolution authorizing Mr. Clinton to use force in the Balkans.</p>

GORE AND ENRONPopulist Al's Attacks On Enron: Hypocrisy At Its Finest _____________________________________________ When The Populist Version Of Gore Uses His "The People Vs. The Powerful" Rhetoric, Just Remember Two Words: Gore And Enron. _____________________________________________ AL GORE: "This struggle between the people and the powerful was at the heart of every major domestic issue of the 2000 campaign and is still the central dynamic of politics in 2002." (Al Gore Op-Ed, "Broken Promises And Political Deception," The New York Times, August 4, 2002) THE CLINTON-GORE ADMINISTRATION HELPED ENRON WITH NUMEROUS BUSINESS DEALS President Clinton Took A Personal Interest In An Enron...

Senate Democrats Leave on a Corporate Jet Plane By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 13, 2002; Page A05 Right after voting yesterday morning to limit debate on legislation clamping down on corporate abuses, 16 Democratic senators flew on corporate jets from Washington to Nantucket, Mass., for a weekend retreat with 250 major campaign donors.

In a marked shift from his efforts three years ago to bottle up Clinton impeachment evidence, top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle called on Sunday for President Bush to release twelve-year-old records of his dealings with the Texas oil firm Harken Energy, files that several anti-Bush media outlets have suggested will reveal an insider trading scandal. "I think the president would do well to ask the SEC to release the file - release it all," Daschle told CBS's "Face the Nation." "Let everybody see just what is there." "There have been some real questions, I think, about what happened," the leading...

Hillary's Hooey -- Anti-Wealth Rant Is Disingenuous 2002-06-14 CREDIT Hillary Rodham Clinton. To stand on the floor of the United States Senate and deliver an anti-capitalistic rant worthy of Fidel Castro -- as New York's junior senator did in arguing against permanent repeal of the federal estate or "death" tax -- well, that takes some guts. Unfortunately, Clinton and her allies prevailed when the Senate voted 54-44 for permanent repeal, a majority but not the 60 votes needed to prevail under the rules. Oklahoma's Don Nickles, R- Ponca City, and Jim Inhofe, R- Tulsa, both voted for the bill, as...