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There's a powerful political movement afoot to draft Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for president in 2004. Its partisans are committed almost to the point of fanaticism, and their number is growing by the hour. This thing is an absolute juggernaut. Even so, the Draft Hillary '04 forces probably won't secure their candidate's Democratic nomination. Why not? Because they're all Republicans!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sen. Hillary Clinton (news - web sites)'s publisher on Wednesday demanded the recall of the Chinese language printing of the senator's autobiography, calling it an inaccurate version which omits several passages critical of the country's human rights record. AP Photo Slideshow: Hillary Clinton In a tersely worded statement, Simon & Schuster said the Chinese edition of "Living History" including unauthorized changes and demanded government-owned publisher Yilin Press remedy the issue by publishing an unaltered version. Yilin has yet to reply to the request. At issue are 10 pages in the book, where the Chinese publisher deleted...

Hillary Rodham Clinton's autobiography isn't selling as well as a month ago. Then, despite being panned as a dull, unconvincing, committee-written apologia, it soared beyond expectations, with hours-long lines at stores to meet her. But "Living History" is still reaping Clinton big political royalties, helping to push up her approval rating to all-time highs and earning something rare for such a well-known politician - a fresh look from the most important and open-minded voters, suburbanites. "People who love her wanted to know more and people who hate her wanted to know more," Jason Porembski, a manager at the Borders store...

Viacom has shelved plans to launch Outlet, a 24-hour cable channel aimed at gays, according to the Gay.com/PlanetOut.com Network, an online news service operated by PlanetOut Partners. It said that it had received a statement from the company saying that "due to the current economic climate, the timetable has slowed down for the development of a new network dedicated to programming to the gay and lesbian audience. We will keep the media informed of new developments." However, the news service pointedly observed that the economic climate did not deter Viacom for buying a controlling stake in Comedy Central from AOL...

When I look at the news these days, I can't help but wonder: Wouldn't we be a lot better off if women were in charge, given all the violence and atrocities perpetrated by men and male-run governments in places like Bosnia, Rwanda, and Iraq (news - web sites)? Would U.S. troops be in Iraq today if, say, Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) were President, and not George W. Bush? Sure, woman leaders are sometimes as tough and warlike as any man. Britain's Margaret Thatcher comes to mind. But in my experience, women tend to pursue conciliation and cooperation long...

<p>February 24, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a PAC rat who spent most of her massive HILLPAC political-action committee's cash stash on herself rather than to help other Democrats, a new analysis shows.</p> <p>Clinton (D-N.Y.) has the biggest federal PAC of any Democrat in Congress and spent $3.3 million last year but gave only 31 percent to other candidates. The rest went for her own staff, office, travel, direct mail and political consultants, the Hill newspaper found.</p>