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SCRANTON - Returning to her father's hometown, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, criticized the Bush administration for what she called an attempt to undo 60 years of domestic progress. "I realized they weren't out just to turn the clock back on the 1990s. They wanted to turn the clock back on the 20th century," she told the crowd at Lackawanna College's Mellow Theater on Wednesday morning. Democratic campaign officials estimated the crowd at nearly 1,000. "Don't be fooled by what could very well be the sleeper issues of this campaign," Clinton said. President George Bush plans to privatize...

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - After a 45-minute delay, Teresa Heinz Kerry wowed a small crowd at Franklin & Marshall College Wednesday.Heinz Kerry gave a short speech outlining her husband's plans to repair the nation's ailing health care system before she settled into a roundtable discussion with health care professionals and everyday people who have been challenged by the current system's failings. Promising a three-pronged approach to providing health insurance to all children and 95 percent of adults after John Kerry's first year in office, Heinz Kerry answered several questions before sitting down for a one-on-one interview with the Intelligencer Journal....

MIDI - IN MY ROOM She said at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel "To your room.....to your room...to your room" If he wins he is afraid she'll bring four years of hell "To your room...to your room...to your room" She has gobs of money because of all that ketchup He is on a leash that's short because of that pre-nup They were screaming when she finally had laid down the law "To your room...to your room" "To your room...to your room" "To your room...to your room" "To your room...to your room" etc.

Hillary Clinton just may be one of the most complex and controversial women in our country. But love her or hate her, the former first lady turned U.S. senator is considered by many a serious contender for the presidency, perhaps as early as 2008. Christopher Anderson talks about her path to power in his latest book, "American Evita." Although the news is all about the Kerry-Edwards ticket, Andersen tells The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm, Hillary Clinton is still the best known Democrat in the country. And he notes, “Though there’s a need on the part of the Clintons to...

American Evita Hillary Clinton's Path to Power by Christopher Andersen "I don't quit. I keep going." –Hillary Rodham Clinton She is, quite simply, the most famous, most complex, most loved/hated/admired/reviled woman -- perhaps person -- in America. And, whether she fulfills her life's ambition or not, she can already lay claim to being the first woman ever considered a serious contender for the presidency. From the beginning, there have been the inevitable comparisons to Argentina's legendary Eva Perón. Sex, power, money, lies, scandal, tragedy, and betrayal were the things that defined the lives of both women. Yet most of what...

With VERY few exceptions (thanks to the people that were human and to people that wrote me privately) you people are a bunch of fundamentalist zealots. You aren't conservatives...you're fascists. You make me embarrassed to be a Republican.

Once they wanted for nothing, but the debt crisis that brought down their Government left them poor and angry ONE year — and five presidents — after Argentina announced the largest sovereign debt default in history, Ana-Maria Molinari and her family live in desperately reduced circumstances. “We were a normal middle-class family living well, wanting for nothing. We improved our home, we ate well, we went on holidays twice, three times a year,” said Señora Molinari, 38, who lives with her husband and their two teenage daughters in a once-smart suburb of Buenos Aires that is now showing signs of...

Argentina, a country in despair at the state of its own politicians, is turning to reality TV to chose a candidate to put up for the next election. A Buenos Aires television channel is launching a show called The People's Candidate in which the winner will be nominated as a candidate for the 2003 congressional elections, representing a new party. The "Starstruck" Party one presumes. - IvanAbout 800 people have already auditioned for the show, including pensioners, transvestites and the unemployed. The search is already underway as judges whittle the hopefuls down to 16 who will appear on the show....