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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee state senator said he was opposed to sex outside marriage, but his private life told a different story: He was having an affair with his 22-year-old intern. When an extortion plot exposed married Republican Sen. Paul Stanley's illicit relationship, he said he would be "clearing up" misimpressions later. He's now clearing out his office, the latest politician caught in a sex scandal, this one made worse by not coming clean.

OAKLAND -- A former intern in Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums' office has pleaded no contest to credit-card theft after being accused of stealing bank account information from two mayoral staff members and a law firm where she previously worked, her attorney said Friday. Phelicia Williams, 27, of Oakland entered her plea this week in Alameda County Superior Court, where she had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing. She will be sentenced Aug. 20 by Judge Morris Jacobson. In exchange for her plea and her promise to pay $15,000 to the victims, prosecutors dropped five other felony counts, defense attorney Robert...

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Mimi Beardsley Alford may get a seven-figure sum for her story, Philip Sherwell reports from New York. A FORMER White House intern who had a 17-month affair with president John Kennedy is to tell her story for the first time. Mimi Beardsley Alford, now 66, a retired New York church administrator, will receive an advance believed to be worth nearly $US1 million ($A1.3 million) from publisher Random House for her memoir. Mrs Alford, who is breaking her silence after more than 45 years, maintained the secret about her relationship with the womanising president until a new Kennedy biography was published...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mayor Sam Adams, who has admitted lying about a sexual relationship with a teenager, said Sunday that he would not resign. A city commissioner, Randy Leonard, told The Associated Press that Mr. Adams had left a phone message in the morning saying he had decided to remain in office. Two other commissioners told The Oregonian of Portland that Mr. Adams, the city’s first openly gay mayor, had told them the same thing. The fourth, Amanda Fritz, declined to comment. Efforts to reach Mr. Adams were unsuccessful. The Oregonian’s editorial page has called for his resignation, as...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House the day her husband had an infamous sexual encounter just outside the Oval Office with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton's schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers from her years as first lady. The words of the schedules are dry, but they take on emotional weight when coupled with revelations about the sex scandal that eventually came to light. A year later, the first lady's schedules show her pressing ahead with public events and showing her face as the scandal upended her life and threatened Bill...

Craig Accepting Applications for Summer Interns Deadline Quickly Approaching WASHINGTON, D.C. - Idaho Senator Larry Craig is currently seeking intern applications for the summer term, which runs from May to August. The application deadline is March 15, however if more time is needed for the application process, please contact Senator Craig's office for an extension. Craig offers paid internships within the Washington, D.C., office. Preference is given to Idaho applicants attending Idaho schools who are in their junior or senior years of college (including graduating seniors). '"Interns have the chance to be an essential part of a working congressional office,"...

~ January 17, 1998 ~ NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN; BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX 06:11 UTC SUN JAN 18 1998 XXXXX NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT **World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT** At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States! The DRUDGE...

Excerpt - That infamous intern, Monica Lewinsky, reappeared this week -- spotted lugging her bags through a New York airport. Clinton 2008! [photo] ~ snip ~

Mitt Romney referred to the possibility of electing Sen. Hillary Clinton for president as electing an "intern." Romney recently said, "The government of the United States is not a place for a president to be an intern. You need to have experience actually leading and running things." He has said it more than once, so there's no mistaking -- and it's a smart line of attack. Romney is onto something, turning his attention to Hillary before he's had a chance to win a primary or caucus. He has a point about experience. Unlike Romney, and unlike Rudy Giuliani, Clinton hasn't...

Hillary Clinton’s top advisers charge that the presidential candidate was unfairly targeted by moderator Tim Russert during Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in Philadelphia. Russert asked Clinton a number of tough questions during the MSNBC-sponsored debate, including one on Social Security and another on the release of documents from the Bill Clinton administration, as she sought to fend off attacks from her Democratic rivals. Mark Penn, Clinton’s senior strategist, said: “Russert made it appear that President Clinton had done something new or unusual� in regard to the release of documents. “I think there will be further clarification.� Penn and Jonathan Mantz,...

The usual flood of editorials and blog posts after a major presidential debate were particularly harsh on Hillary Clinton this morning following Tuesday night’s Democratic debate at Drexel University. Opinion leaders said her performance reinforced negative stereotypes that Clinton is shrill, calculating and evasive. Here’s a round up of what some of those opinion leaders are saying: Mark Halperin, Time Magazine - [She] fell off the tough-shrill balance beam onto the "shrill" side — with a THUD. More defensive than usual, and at times too political and too hot tempered. Borderline disastrous moment at the end when she gave an...

Fell off the tough-shrill balance beam onto the "shrill" side — with a THUD. More defensive than usual, and at times too political and too hot tempered. Borderline disastrous moment at the end when she gave an equivocal answer about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in New York; it opened the door for her opponents to pounce by turning it into a character issue — and pounce they did. The failure of her performance was cumulative, however, so only those watching the whole debate would see how weak her evening was. If she loses the nomination, tonight will go down...

.........the most damage (in the debate) was inflicted by Clinton on herself. She tied herself up in knots - in a way her opponents couldn't - with her non-answer about giving driver's license to illegal aliens. She must be the only New Yorker without an opinion on the plan (other than her colleague, Sen. Chuck Schumer). Her evasiveness on the most talked-about issue in the state reminded everyone of the worst of husband Bill and what could be in store if another Clinton makes it to the White House.

Post here your "Greatest Hillary Slapdowns." Mitt Romney got off a Hillary Slapdown that was PRICELESS (Hannity interview Oct 29). Without batting an eyelash, Mitt refered to Hillary as an "intern" ----that Americans don't want an "intern" in the Oval Office (in the context of someone w/ no practical experience). LOL---Hillary an intern---nice allusion to Bill/Moanica scandal. Mitt is quite deft with a quip. Gotta love it. Mitt debating Hillary---that we gotta see---would be memorable.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 4, 2007 – Four Afghan National Army cadets have finished a two-week internship program with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers here. Charley X. Qian, Afghan National Army program manager, goes over training material with Cadets Taher and Mahammad. The cadets were participating in a two-week internship program with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Photo by Master Sgt. Mark W. Rodgers, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The cadets are third-year students at the National Military Academy Afghanistan here. The academy, with more than 700 cadets, is modelled after the U.S. Military Academy at...

Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko made a modest pitch to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama last year. Rezko recommended a 20-year-old student from Glenview for one of the coveted summer internships in Obama's Capitol Hill office. Now, that otherwise unremarkable internship--one of nearly 100 Obama's office awarded in 2005--raises new questions for the senator, who says he has never done any favors for Rezko. In October, Rezko was indicted on influence-peddling charges and for alleged business fraud. Rezko, a real-estate and fast-food entrepreneur, has emerged as a central figure in a series of state government corruption scandals. He began cultivating a...

Bucking party leadership and most of her congressional colleagues, House Democratic Whip-elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Rep. Gary Condit for re-election -- a move that has "thrilled" the embattled incumbent but could spell headaches for Democrats. "I endorsed Gary for re-election a long time ago," Pelosi of San Francisco said in a statement released by her office yesterday. "However, I have not spoken to any member encouraging them to support Gary or to discourage them from supporting his opponent (state Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza)." She called the election "a matter between Gary and his constituents." With less than two months...

DEFENDING AMERICA David H. Hackworth 17 March 98 LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS.. While at the Pentagon, Monica Lewinsky traveled with Defense Secretary William Cohen, sat in on briefings where the highest secrets were discussed and routinely handled highly classified documents ­ top-secret documents, which, if they fell in the wrong hands, could put America at high risk and cost the lives of our warriors. But no sweat. Lewinsky had all the appropriate clearances, right? No doubt her background had been thoroughly checked out by investigators. Or perhaps she'd been given a top-secret clearance in a hurry on order of a...

<p>President Clinton's defenders keep making their case that his private life has no bearing on how he does his job.</p> <p>They prattle on about his job approval ratings, which actually track how fat our wallets have become, not whether he can lead this country in a serious crisis.</p>

Many of our students don't know what's it's like to work," said Lynn Lyford, vice president of the cooperative education program at Northeastern University. "(Co-op) not only gives students the experience, but it enhances what they learn in the classroom … They get evaluations, go to meetings. These students are considered employees of the employers' organizations." (A co-op) is not like your traditional intern where you get coffee and wash the boss' car," said former Northeastern student Christopher Beasley, 23, who landed a job with NASA after completing a co-op with the company. "You interview like it's a real job."

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MIDI - LOUIE LOUIE Go, Louis Freeh, whoa baby, go get Billy Boy Go, Louis Freeh, whoa baby, go get Billy Boy For our defense Clinton never gave a d*amn He'd drop trow and say baby her I am He's serviced while he's on the telephone And claimed that he never really was alone Go, Louis Freeh, whoa baby, go get Billy Boy Go, Louis Freeh, whoa baby, go get Billy Boy (short musical break) Go, Louis Freeh, whoa baby, go get Billy Boy Go, Louis Freeh, whoa baby, go get Billy Boy The man never made it out...

Euan Blair, the British Prime Minister's eldest son, is to take up an internship working on Capitol Hill in Washington for a leading Republican in the House of Representatives. The 21-year-old, who is about to graduate from Bristol University with a degree in ancient history, will spend three months as an unpaid intern with the Republican majority staff on the powerful Rules Committee. Euan Blair's internship follows Prime Minister John Howard's son Richard's 2004 spell working for President George Bush's re-election campaign. The UK Sunday Telegraph reported that Blair will be mentored by the chairman of the committee, David Dreier,...

Euan Blair takes intern role with US Republicans By Andrew Murray-Watson and Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 26/06/2005) Euan Blair, the Prime Minister's eldest son, has landed a post working on Capitol Hill for a leading conservative Republican in the House of Representatives, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Euan, 21, who is about to graduate from Bristol University with a degree in ancient history, will spend three months as an unpaid intern with the Republican majority staff on the powerful Rules Committee. The decision to offer the sought-after position to the Prime Minister's son was taken at a senior level...

Some things never change...?

Urinetown Vets Star in New Monica! The Musical, About a Certain Intern By Robert Simonson 18 May 2005 Monica Lewinsky, the only intern in the history of humankind to be universally known by her first name, is the subject of the long-in-development show Monica! The Musical, which will a limited run at Manhattan's Theatre Three May 20-27. Directed by Casey Hushion, the new musical features book and lyrics by Daniel J. Blau and Tracie Potochnik, music by Adam Blau and musical direction by Nadia DiGiallonardo. Potochnik and the two Blau brothers have been dealing with Monica! The Musical almost as...

Seven years on, Washington interns are still struggling to shake off the Lewinsky tag, finds Abbie Finfrock It is 11am in Washington DC. Here I am, an ingénue 20-year-old intern, sipping my coffee and desperately trying to figure out how my tape recorder works so I can accurately cover an event at the American Enterprise Institute think-tank, when a man in his late fifties walks over and offers to help.

No Love Child Left BehindUpset over yesterday's NY Post article, Democratic Assemblyman Herman "Denny" Farrell stormed into The Post's Albany bureau and threatened state editor Frederic U. Dicker on Dicker's radio show. Farrell cried "I'm so freakin' mad. If this was a neighborhood, you know how this could end,". He also added "I just came in to let your listeners know what a piece of slime you are," and added "You're a bully." Within a few hours Farrell issued an apology to the listeners, but not to Dicker. The soon-to-be father has also raised the indignation of local constituents who...

LITTLE CROCK, Ark. — Our neediest president has out done even himself. Bill Clinton has chosen not to roll into history with his chin up and his pants zipped. He's staging an eternal hissy fit. On the first day real people not titled President or named Bono were allowed inside, I traveled to this land of delusion for an up-close peek at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library — the ex-prez's glass-and-concrete personal acid trip. Now I get it. This jumbled tribute to history, Clinton-style, is not a museum in the classic sense. It tells deliberate lies. It tries...

Currently, The Discovery Channel, "The FBI Files," is covering the murder of Ms. Mahoney, the previous "intern whose name begins with 'M'." Does anyone else remember the Clinton connection with this "mafia style murder."

John sKerry is already seeking to complile a list of prospective interns. Just in case he wins the Presidential Election. Former President "Slick Willy" has been brought in to advise him on what qualities he should look for when interviewing prospective applicants. Here he is interviewing his first applicant. (She was highly recommended by "Slick Willy")

You know the game. Kerry hits on a keyword and we take a drink. Please submit your keyword choices in a reply and i'll add the most popular five to the keywords section of tonight's live thread. Keywords are limited to 20 characters, no spaces.

Since I did not see this story here I will post it. (fair use) Levys open door for civil lawsuit By SUSAN HERENDEEN BEE STAFF WRITER Last Updated: June 19, 2004, 05:38:40 AM PDT Susan and Robert Levy may try to hold someone liable for their daughter's unsolved death, according to a petition to be considered Monday by a probate judge in Stanislaus County Superior Court. Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Washington, D.C., intern who was romantically linked to then-U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, did not have a last will and testament when she disappeared in May 2001. In a declaration, Susan...

Three months ago, Columbia Journalism School grad Alexandra Polier was the target of Internet rumors and media speculation about a supposed extramarital affair (denied by all concerned) with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Back then, the 27-year-old Polier's photograph was published in papers from New York to London, and she pleaded publicly "that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone." But now she's had enough of privacy. Word from Nairobi, Kenya - where Polier has been living with the family of her Israeli fiancé, Yaron Schwartzman - is that she's toiling on an epic essay about...

MIDI - MORE THAN A FEELING I woke up this morning to check out the news The kids got the GLOBE and brought it inside I looked at them both and their eyes had bulged Their jaws had dropped...they were quite surprised My wife was reeling...there's porno on page one Yes, she was seething...oh my goodness, what has this rag done? Nude Iraqi chicks there on display Some wore blue thongs like an intern wore Although this time they were on top their head They did it like rabbits on camera "They're genuine," that's what the GLOBE said That's...

http://members.cox.net/c-mccammon/music.htm MIDI - TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT Take this church and shove it...I won't listen anymore If I want to...to mass I'll be coming...with an intern whore And if I want to take Communion...just what will you do Take this church and shove it...I ain't listening to you Pontiff, dear, my wife's loaded...and she's my only boss If you try to give me lectures, it will be a total loss Winning votes is all that matters...the DNC leads the way So as I watch your lips moving...blah, blah is what you say Take this church and shove it...I...

With all this Great Advice, how can he lose???

The Web is full of articles from around the globe about presidential hopeful John Kerry's alleged two-year affair with a journalist named Alex Polier (see, e.g., google.com), yet none of America's TV networks (except Fox) or mainstream newspapers are reporting about it (except the Washington Times, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News). She is a journalist who apparently fled to Kenya, and her father has reportedly called Kerry a "sleazeball," but the American media is only reporting about George W. Bush's military record more than 30 years ago! What a double standard and a travesty. I...

First you do an orchestrated hit on Howard Dean --- after you've hyped the expectations for his candidacy through the stratosphere --- coordinated with some "Kerry the Warrior" boosting "just to be sure" we have really come up with someone "electable" in our desperate quest to replace the Bush cabal of Israel Firsters/ Neocon Empire Wannabes, Wall Street Wiseguys, Arms Merchants and Oil Barons before they finally do escalate this into a World War, and who all belong on trial in the Hague. THEN! you snip together some film to make Dean look like crazy Howard Beale in the movie...

LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper on Tuesday defended the accuracy of its story quoting the father of Alexandra Polier, the woman who has been the subject of rumors linking her to Sen. John Kerry. The unsubstantiated rumors arose on the Internet last week, saying that Polier, a 27-year-old freelance journalist, had an affair with the front-running Democratic presidential candidate. Both she and Kerry have denied the allegation. On Friday, The Sun tabloid quoted Polier's father, Terry, as being harshly critical of Kerry. In statements released to The Associated Press on Monday, Terry Polier, of Malvern, Pa., said that he...

The woman at the center of unsubstantiated rumors that Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts had an extramarital affair released a statement on Monday in which she denied any romantic involvement with him. "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false," the woman, Alexandra Polier, 27, said in the statement. "Whoever is spreading these rumors and allegations does not know me, but should know the pain they have caused me and my family."

The Default Democrat from another world How do you feel about "outsourcing"? John Kerry, the Default Democrat that his party's poor voters are trying hard to pretend to be excited about, is very opposed to it. His stump speech includes fierce denunciations of American corporations that export jobs overseas. He has pledged his support for a "Call Center Consumer's Right To Know", which would require that the guy at the call center identify his location at the beginning of every call. Right now, you just get vague hints – for example, if I'm in New Hampshire and dial directory inquiries...

<p>"For the last several days I have seen Internet and tabloid rumors relating to me and Senator John Kerry. Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems that efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them. I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false. Whoever is spreading these rumors and allegations does not know me, but should know the pain they have caused me and my family. I am in Kenya with my fiance visiting his family, and we ask that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone."</p>

<p>The story is being shushed around the family dinner table &#8212; and in newspaper city rooms &#8212; but all the neighbors are talking about it.</p> <p>What the neighbors are talking about are rumors of marital infidelity by Democratic White House front-runner John Kerry, and they have learned about them from the Internet, talk radio and the foreign press.</p>

The name of the intern Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) allegedly had a two-year extramarital affair with beginning in Spring 2001 surfaced over the weekend. The Telegraph UK reported on Sunday that the name of the Kerry's intern is 27-year old journalist Alexandra Polier. "This is not going to go away," said an American friend of Polier to the Telegraph UK. "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported." Polier formerly worked for the New York bureau of the Associated Press after graduating with a double major in philosophy and government from Clark University in...

6:00 AM came with a "Best of Imus" and an old interview with Rudy G. After Friday's Kerry non-denial denial and IMUS's quisling act, I could not wait to hear his team rip the usually straight-talking host a new one this morning. Did he come back live at all today or did MSNBC get "the memo" or "the phonecall" and put the show on ice until after Wisconsin's primary?

The young intern at the centre of a furore involving United States presidential hopeful John Kerry is hiding out in Kenya. Alex Polier, 24, has been in the country for the past few weeks visiting her fiancee, Mr Yaron Schwartzman, who works with FilmStudios, along Nairobi's Ngong Road. Ms Polier, who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States, is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. "This is not going to go away," one American friend of Ms Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is...