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<p>October 10, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton was showered with pricey gifts while he was in office from the leaders of Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, but he didn't disclose them because they were earmarked for his presidential library in Arkansas, a new report yesterday revealed.</p>

WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged that it did not provide the United Nations with information about 21 of the 105 sites in Iraq singled out by U.S. intelligence before the war as the most highly suspected of housing illicit weapons. The acknowledgment, in a Jan. 20 letter to Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), contradicts public statements before the war by top Bush administration officials. Both CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the United States had briefed U.N. inspectors on all of the sites identified as "high value and moderate value" in the weapons...

Orlando, Florida-AP -- Leaders of two Jewish groups are giving negative reviews after posing as pastors so they could attend an advance screening of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and Rabbis James Rudin and David Elcott of the American Jewish Committee paid their way into the Global Pastors Network conference in Florida. They sat unnoticed Wednesday evening among thousands of pastors, who had been addressed earlier in the day by Gibson himself. Foxman and the rabbis told The Washington Times they registered for the conference under a fabricated church name and signed...

<p>Prosecutors probing Mayor Jeremy Harris' campaign fund-raising practices and city contracts have also begun interviewing City Council members about money that the city transferred to a nonprofit group headed by a key campaign official.</p> <p>Investigators want to know whether a $100,000 council appropriation in 1999 to help pay for an Environmental Summit was legally shifted to the Friends of the City and County of Honolulu and properly spent and accounted for.</p>