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BILL Clinton's memoir, "My Life," may be setting sales records, but he's coming under fire from some quarters. Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued Clinton for sexual harassment in 1994, has challenged the ex-prez to a public debate.

"You know, this man — something's wrong with him, I'm telling you," Jones told radio host Sean Hannity this week. "If we could just have a public forum somewhere, I would just like to meet him face-to-face on national TV." Jones says she'd "love" to debate him. Although Clinton settled out of court with Jones, "He still thinks that was not an admission of guilt," she says. "He was guilty — he knows he was."

Meanwhile, Clinton's claim in "My Life" that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, was named after Mount Everest climber Sir Edmund Hillary is being called ridiculous. Sir Edmund did not climb Everest until 1953, seven years after the other Hillary was born. At the time of her birth, he was an unheralded New Zealand beekeeper. (page six)

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PRESIDENTIAL hopeful John Kerry's kids are downplaying rumors of potentially em barrassing romances. Daughter Alexandra Kerry, who's about to go on the campaign trail for her dad, insists she's not dating Brit producer Simon Monjack, a wheeler-dealer who was seen chatting her up at the Cannes Film Festival. Her career is taking off, however — she has a new publicist at PMK and is about to sign with a big talent agency. In addition, design ers including Giorgio Armani are vying to design her campaign wardrobe.

Meanwhile, Kerry's brother-in-law Chris Heinz, who once dated Gwyneth Paltrow, is rumored to be cozying up to married "Troy" star Diane Kruger. However, Kruger's rep insists they're just friends and says she's happily coupled with French actor Guillaume Canet. (page six)

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Paula Jones was very good in that interview with Hannity, she would put the smack down on old blubba. I saw her on the Rosanne Barr show way back, she was very believable. The funniest part was when she described clinton, saying he was goofy looking. His suit was too small and he just looked dorky, she didn't think him attractive at all. Neither did the girl who was working the booth with Paula, they could hardly contain their laughter at his clam digger trousers as he walked away.

Clinton tried to peddle that old Sir Edmund Hillary lie in his book?! Holy cow, that's colossally pathetic. They possibly could have saved a tree had the editor actually read the manuscript. You know it had to take at least one page to bloviate the Hillary embellishment. One tree = one page of 2 million books (guesstimate).

Damn those tree haters!