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YESTERDAY'S STORY FOR BACKGROUND Well, it could have gone better. Judge Aurelio Munoz has set a hearing on the merits for the anti-SLAPP motion being used by David Kendall to try to have Hillary Rodham Clinton removed from Peter Paul's historic civil suit. Kendall both failed to file the motion in a timely manner and failed to have it served and put on calendar in a timely manner. Nevertheless, Munoz used his discretion to essentially say no harm, no foul. It had been hoped that Munoz would allow limited discovery in the case to proceed immediately and get her...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday stood behind her indicted former fund-raiser after prosecutors said Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law taped him making "incriminating" statements about her Senate campaign's Hollywood gala. "The Senate campaign committee fully cooperated with the investigation. [David] Rosen worked hard for the campaign and we trust that when all the facts are in, he will be cleared," Clinton lawyer David Kendall said in an e-mail to The Post. Rosen goes to trial May 3 on charges of falsely underreporting the costs of the August 2000 gala — thus inflating the amount of campaign cash ostensibly raised for Clinton at...