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"He's superman at the moment - young, black, good-looking, progressive," says British cartoonist Andy Davey. So perhaps it's not surprising you have to look hard to find an unflattering cartoon of the new US president. With the end of his first 100 days in sight, the Political Cartoon Gallery in London is putting on an exhibition of original cartoons of Barack Obama. It charts his rise as an outside candidate for the Democratic Party nomination to his first few months in the White House. The founder of the gallery, Dr Tim Benson, says he's assembled more than 60 cartoons from...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

One of the great revolutions in environmental policy has been the adoption of the "cap-and-trade" method for controlling air pollution, starting with the 1990 Clean Air Act. The basic idea is to have the government set overall limits and let the market figure out how most efficiently to achieve the goal. And it has been a major success: Over the past 35 years U.S. energy consumption has increased by 48%, and population by 42%, while emissions of the six most common pollutants have decreased by 53%. Yet that achievement is now threatened by federal, state and private lawsuits asking the...

In our urgency to deal with really urgent stuff over the past few weeks, we have been piling up news articles regarding what some regard as a universal urgency. That would be global warming or Global Warming or GLOBAL WARMING, depending on one's perspective, provided that one has a perspective. Bill Clinton, speaking last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that mother of all junkets for rich folks who take themselves very seriously, said that GLOBAL WARMING bothered him a bunch. "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of...

February 19, 2005 White House Bond: Teamed by No. 43, 41 and 42 Hit It Off By ELISABETH BUMILLER ASHINGTON, Feb. 18 - Former President George Bush calls them "the odd couple," and this weekend one of the most unlikely teams in modern American politics is on a four-day humanitarian air odyssey to the Asian nations hit hard by the tsunami last year.On Thursday night in Houston, Mr. Bush boarded an official blue-and-white Boeing 757 jet with "United States of America" on its side in Houston and flew to Los Angeles to pick up former President Bill Clinton. By...

Former United States President Bill Clinton has bought a holiday home at an exclusive Irish Golf Club it emerged today. Mr. Clinton who was this week pictured playing golf at Royal County Down is expected to take over the duplex at the K Club in Kildare County later this summer.His purchase includes two full memberships at the Irish course, which is host to the Ryder Cup Golf Competition [between the United States and Europe] in 2006.He is said to have been invoved in negotiations with developers over a number of months and to have deferred the deal on several occasions.Prices...

<p>LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- The world's largest museum design firm promises its work on the Clinton Presidential Library will strike a balance between entertainment and education, between the former president's feats and failures.</p> <p>Award-winning designer Ralph Appelbaum said he wants to create a museum that touts Clinton as a visionary whose policies and leadership defined a generation.</p>

Irish actor Pierce Brosnan seems to have put production of the next James Bond movie into fast forward mode and has even recruited former United States Presdient Bill Clinton for a role.According to press reports production on the next James Bond movie could start as soon as the end of the summer following the success of Bond 20: 'Die Another Day' [co-starring Halle Berry, John Cleese and Madonna] 'Die Another Day' was the most successful Bond ever raking in over 400 million pounds UK worldwide and producers are eager to get Pierce (49, formerly of 'Remington Steele' fame) back into...

Whispers from the Bill and Hillary Clinton camp suggests that Bill intends to seperate from his long suffering wife after the new year.But bitter Action Hero Movie Star Bruce Willis is determined that the former POTUS will get nowhere will his former wife and mother of his children.'Bruce has done his reasearch,' an aide says, 'He would have made a most excellent private detective.'He likes to find out about people, and what he's found out about Bill Clinton was sufficient enough in his eyes to warrant contacting Demi.'He told me: 'Clinton is a bigger womanizer than JFK ever was.'But Demi,...

Former President Bill Clinton was thought to be a draw for potential black voters, seen as critical to Sen. Landrieu's success.New rumours were circulating in the Big Easy Monday that Clinton had cut a phone message that will be used by the State Democratic Party in a get out the vote effort in New Orelans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport-perhaps as early as Friday and on Election Day.'We don't know if Clinton is doing anything or not,' said a state party official who could be reached for comment.'And if he is, it isn't anyone's business but the voters of the State...

Whatever there was between Lisa Belzberg and Bill Clinton, it appears to be over.Belzburg, the brainy blonde behind the PENCIL nonprofit group that helps the public school system, was rumoured to be more than friends with the former President, who lives just 10 minutes away from the mother of two in Westchester.'She's heartbroken,' says one source.But there is little chance of reconcilliation with her husband, Matthew Bronfman.The Seagram heir, who split with Lisa in February, is said to be happily dating a fashion industry executive Stacy Kaye.

IT'S NOT OVERWhen news broke a few weeks back that Bill Clinton might launch a talk show of his own, his associates made a big deal of saying their boss is interested in becoming the 'next' Oprah Winfrey.Now word comes from Chicago that Winfrey herself may be interested in helping the president out.According to a freelance production assistant at Winfrey's Harpo Productions in Chicago, where Winfrey's show is shot, some staffers are curious to see just how good Clinton could be in their environment.There is an ongoing discussion to bring Clinton in for several shows on issues of national importance...

And here we were thinking that the Bush Administration's reaching out to President Clinton and offering him a role in the big East Timor delegation could be a long awaited reapproachment between the Clintons and the Bushes.Ever since USA Today ace reporter Bill Nichols broke the story of the appointment earlier this week, things have kind of slid downhill.The Clintonistas haven't liked all framing the backgound quotes that have described the reasons for the assignment, and one former Clinton aide has now gone so far as to tell 'The Note' in a huff exactly what they haven't liked.'The (Administration's) use...

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