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Boston, Mass — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of the late senator and nephew of the late president, told an audience in Cambridge, Mass. Monday that President Bush has brought fascism to America. Kennedy appeared at a forum, "Books, Politics, and the Culture War," sponsored by the Harvard Book Store and the Progressive Book Club. A longtime environmentalist, he delivered an extended criticism of the Bush administration's environmental policies before alleging that the president has, in effect, created a fascist system of government in America. "I was taught that Communism leads to dictatorship and that capitalism leads to democracy," Kennedy...

STEPHEN MARKS: Senator Kennedy, I'd like to ask you what you think of Dean Rusk's recent claim that the effect of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in the States may actually be to prolong the war rather than to shorten it?SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY: The war is going on in Vietnam, being extended in Vietnam, really because of the determination of those who are our adversaries, the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, National Liberation Front. I don't think a particular action takes place - military action takes place in South Vietnam because of the protests here in the United States. I think that...

RALLY AGAINST MOVEON.org SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH! WE MUST SHOW THEM WE WON'T STAND FOR THEIR LIES!! WHEN: Monday, May 24, 4pm - 6:30pm WHERE: Universalist Church, 160 Central Park West at 76th Street Our friends at moveon.org are at it again. They didn't learn from their January debacle when they hosted Al Gore giving a speech on global warming on the coldest day of the year. Now they are back with Al Gore and Robert Kennedy Jr. on Monday, May 24 at a "town hall" event organized to attack President Bush for not adopting their extremist environmental agenda. Their plan...

What's wrong with this picture? A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. She is reading a book, he is knitting. If you said, ''Men don't knit, women do,'' that's not the right answer. Actually, there is nothing wrong with the picture. More men are knitting today, including many whose names you will recognize -- such as Roosevelt ''Rosey'' Grier, a former star tackle with the New York Giants pro football team and the Los Angeles Rams; actors Russell Crowe and David Arquette, and Robert Gottlieb, former editor of The New Yorker magazine. Knitting...

HE WAS only married to Marilyn Monroe for nine turbulent months, but Joe DiMaggio, the reclusive US baseball legend, vowed he would never forgive the Kennedys for her death. Now, four years after his own demise, the man immortalised by Simon and Garfunkel in the song Mrs Robinson appears to have his revenge. A new book, written by his long-time lawyer and close companion Morris Engelberg, reveals he really did believe the Kennedy clan killed Monroe. "They murdered the one person I loved," DiMaggio confided to Mr Engelberg. Officially, Monroe, who allegedly enjoyed affairs with both John Kennedy, the US...

He has the whine and he has the teeth, all he needs is the cheese.

The war of words between Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne rages on and now Dunne is accusing Kennedy of inaccuracies, distortions, Monday-morning quarterbacking - and worse - in the wake of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder conviction. In case you missed it, Kennedy wrote an 18-page, 14,000-word defense of his beleaguered kin in the Atlantic Monthly last month, accusing Dunne and O.J. Simpson case detective Mark Fuhrman of leading a media lynch mob that helped convict an innocent man. Dunne fires back in the latest issue of VF, on the stands today, saying the long-winded diatribe...

Whether the Kennedy name is a political asset or a liability may be a subject worthy of debate in Maryland this year. But even Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the leading Democratic candidate for governor, did not realize that her famous name would give rise to free advertising in the form of a conveniently timed TV movie about her father, Robert F. Kennedy.