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During more than three hours of interviews over two days at his Statehouse office, Sanford said he is trying to fall back in love with his wife, Jenny, even as he grapples with his deep feelings for Chapur. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jVGOp2bl5_prbLYsoPOvD96f55bgD995A50O0

Wednesday’s post-inaugural edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show, taped at a Washington restaurant, overflowed with strange and messianic notions about Obama and how the thrill over him is unanimous. Actor Forest Whitaker summed it up for Oprah: "The light of the New Age is here." Oprah pal Gayle King passed along her agreement with a message that "Not only does he hear us. He feels us. That when I hear Barack Obama, they said, he talks to my soul." Whitaker also strangely claimed "we’re not used to seeing" a president and a First Lady who love each other, but the...

At last, something to unite American hard-liners and Iranian hard-liners! They both hate Oliver Stone. The American film director has suddenly turned up in Tehran, or may be about to. Read on: U.S. conservatives, of course, have long despised Stone for his politics, for his denunciation of the Iraq war, for his chumminess with Fidel Castro and for certain attributed quotes, like one calling President Bush "an ex-alcoholic who believes in Jesus--what could be more dangerous!" and another saying, "If I were George Bush, I would shoot myself." Now it turns out that Iranian hard-liners may revile Stone even more....

It's hard to believe that the Bush administration let the Cindy Sheehan situation get to this point. You'd almost think it was out of touch. Sheehan, of course, is the California mother who set up near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and demanded that the president come out and tell her why her son died in Iraq, and just what is the "noble cause" that the president often invokes. Actually, last week she was a California mother. This week, she's a movement. Partly, that's because of the president's decision to dismiss her importance, a strategy that didn't work with the...

Cynthia McKinney (D) is headed back to Congress after the controversial five-term ex-lawmaker won a plurality in Georgia's 4th district primary Tuesday, avoiding what had been widely considered an all but inevitable runoff.

Activist says Bush is the real enemy 11/21/02 By RHONDA PARKS MANVILLE NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER The anti-nuclear war crusader Dr. Helen Caldicott has a message for America: It's George W. Bush and his administration you should be worried about, not Saddam Hussein. After more than 30 years of work in the nuclear arena, Dr. Caldicott said she is doubtful that Iraq has nuclear weapons, or even chemical weapons, for that matter. But if the U.S. attacks Iraq, it could provoke a "chain reaction among nuclear nations, big and small, that may prove impossible to control." The provocative pediatrician-turned-activist was in...

Bill Clinton was brilliant, dazzling, charismatic, seductive and utterly shameless. The Labour party loved nearly all of it. I bumped into a senior minister straight after the speech. "I've just been for a fag," he said. "I always like a smoke after being made love to." And that's how it felt. He wooed them all the time. He didn't stop. He cast his eyes down coyly. Then he raised his head, smiled, and scoped the audience, gazing deeply and fondly into their eyes. He is the Princess Di of world politics. It was thrilling. They especially adored him when he...