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Clinton claim causes stir in NZ 24 June 2004 Bill Clinton has raised eyebrows in New Zealand after claiming his wife, Hillary Clinton, was named after famous Kiwi mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, AFP reported today. Problem is, Hillary conquered Mount Everest in 1953, almost seven years after infant Hillary was born. Clinton makes the claim in his memoir, My Life, which went on sale this week. The former president travelled to New Zealand several times while in office and referred to Sir Edmund as "the second favourite Hillary in our household". Hillary Clinton herself has attributed her name to the...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Banging buckets and the most agile doing cartwheels, protesters rallied Saturday against trade deals, Third World debt and war, taking those messages and more to the streets in numbers diminished from past years. Peaceful and festive, a crowd of about 1,000 marched past the offices of multinational corporations they hold responsible for exploiting the poor, chanting "shame, shame" along the way. The demonstrations are a spring ritual tied to the meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and, as always, the causes were varied. Protesters came to shout against the U.S. occupation of Iraq, sweatshop...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is again on the campaign trail. He was in California stumping against the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat. He was in Connecticut marching with Yale employees working without a contract. He has been attacking a Texas plan to redraw Congressional election districts. What he is not doing is hitting the campaign trail for any of the nine Democratic presidential contenders. "I made the choice not to run, and at this point not to be involved in any single candidate's race," Mr. Jackson said in an interview. Mr. Jackson's neutrality is no surprise to...

When a country goes to war, one question that already should have been answered is "why?" But many people in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are genuinely perplexed about why the Bush administration is so determined, even at the cost of war, to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. In their public statements, administration officials have, if anything, increased the puzzlement. They have portrayed their campaign against Iraq as a continuation of the war against terrorism. They have claimed to have evidence of close ties between Hussein and al-Qaeda, but outside of a few scattered citations, they have failed to...

The Plot Against Alar an ACSH interview with Robert Bidinotto, author of "The Great Apple Scare" Reader's Digest, Oct. 1990 Robert James Bidinotto is a journalist and author of the investigative article, The Great Apple Scare. His story appeared in the October 1990 issue of Reader's Digest, and crumbled the underpinnings of the Alar myth. The controversy surrounding Alar raised serious questions, and Robert Bidinotto, along with his editors, wanted serious answers. Mr. Bidinotto, however, was not a stranger to investigative journalism. His article about the Willie Horton incident put the Massachusetts Furlough Program, and eventually a Presidential candidate, under...