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On 18 July, 1969, Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick. He escaped, but left Mary Jo Kopechne to suffocate in the submerged car. That ended his chances of ever being President. Now Hillary Clinton has experienced an event with a similar political result. On 15 October, 2000, Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senatorial Campaign filed a report with the Federal Election Campaign that included falsified cost statements (about $750,000 low) for her Hollywood Gala on 12 August. Her National Finance Director, David Rosen, has just been indicted on four felony counts for that and related filings. Those events...

MONTREAL (CP) - Peter Stockland, who served as the Montreal Gazette's editor-in-chief for the last four years, will take the helm at the Canadian edition of Reader's Digest, the magazine announced Monday. The English-language Canadian edition has a monthly circulation of more than 950,000 copies and an estimated readership of seven million each month. Besides being editor-in-chief of the Canadian edition of the magazine, Stockland will also serve as vice-president. Stockland, who has been a reporter or editor in such cities as Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa and Quebec City, said he is looking forward to the challenge. "It's just a...

After subscribing to the Reader's Digest for over 40 years, I have canceled my subscription to it and its condensed book club.

Reader's Digest wants to find out which military service is the funniest. The monthly magazine is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Humor in Uniform column by running a contest to find the most humorous true anecdotes from military life, according to a Reader's Digest press release. Active-duty, Reserve and retired service members and their families can participate. Entries must be submitted to www.rd.com/uniform by June 30. They also can be mailed to: The Funniest Branch of the Military Contest, Reader's Digest, P.O. Box 1598, Newburgh, NY 12550. Entries must include the entrant's full name, e-mail address and street address....

After the price of oil quadrupled in 1973, Syria and other Arab states put pressure on Saudi Arabia to use its new wealth against Israel. Part of the Saudi government's response was to lead a campaign against support for Israel in the U.S. On their own, however, the Saudis lacked the connections and savvy to affect American-Israeli ties. To make up for this, the Saudi state recruited help. In "The American House of Saud" (Franklin Watts, 448 pages, $18.95), Steven Emerson, a journalist and former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chronicles anti-Israeli activities undertaken in recent years...

- MORE THAN 5,000 GIFT BAGS TO BE SHIPPED OVERSEAS IN TIME FOR HOLIDAYS - PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To help lift the spirits of thousands of soldiers serving the United States in Iraq, Reader's Digest -- one of the most widely-read magazines by members of the U.S. military -- has enlisted the help of its advertisers and secured the donation of more than $500,000 worth of snack foods, phone cards, toiletries, magazines, books and CDs to be included in holiday gift bags for U.S. troops stationed abroad. The gift bags will also include thousands of letters from...

<p>Americans are upbeat about their health, community life, personal relationships and financial situations, says a new Reader's Digest survey designed to regularly measure social well-being.</p> <p>Americans are "more than shoppers and buyers," William Beaman, Washington bureau chief for Reader's Digest, said at a press event yesterday.</p>