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I know it's stomach-turning, but just to reinforce how bad it could be, I want us to predict Hillary's Clinton's Cabinet and Administration... I'll start with a couple of reality slaps... VP = Bill Richardson. Attorney General = Deval Patrick

<p>President Bush, for the first time, is hailing the rise of the alternative media and the decline of the mainstream media, which he now says “conspired” to harm him with forged documents.</p> <p>“I find it interesting that the old way of gathering the news is slowly but surely losing market share,” Bush said in an exclusive interview for the new book STRATEGERY. “It’s interesting to watch these media conglomerates try to deal with the realities of a new kind of world.”</p>

Hired Guns by Tucker Carlson | Mar 01 '04 Never before in a war zone has the United States relied so much on private citizens to perform military functions. Security firms such as DynCorp and Kroll, retained on State Department and Pentagon contracts worth billions of dollars, have sent thousands of civilian contractors to do the work that the undermanned U. S. military can't. Here, for the first time, the inside story of the private armies of Operation Iraqi Freedom. About a hundred yards into Iraq, we stopped to pick up weapons. A half dozen Kurds in white Citroëns met...

JUBILANT Annette Quinlan yesterday hugged her little miracle — a baby girl born despite the mum’s body trying to REJECT the tot in the womb. Annette — victim of a rare medical condition — endured 14 years of heartache as she suffered NINETEEN miscarriages. But she and husband Alan were helped by pioneering medical treatment after refusing to give up their dream of one day having a child. Annette, 42, beamed as she cradled precious 3lb 4oz daughter Niamh and said: “I wanted a baby so much. “I’ve always been the sort of person who perseveres. I just won’t give...

An Australian miner has framed his dad's skin, complete with tattoos, and is hanging it in the dining room. Carl Whittaker's father, Barry, asked for the four tattoos on his back and arms to be removed and preserved following his death from cancer in 1999. The tattoos - including a large image of an eagle entangled with a snake that once adorned Barry's back - now hang in his son's home. Mr Whittaker, 31, admits reactions to the memento are mixed: "You've got your fors and againsts, and a lot of people are quite horrified by it all - they...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tipper Gore is weighing an overture from Democrats to run for her husband's old Senate seat from Tennessee, sources close to her said Thursday. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Democrats urged Mrs. Gore to run after Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., announced last Friday that he would not seek re-election. One of the sources said Mrs. Gore was committed to public service and believed she owed it to herself to give some thought to a run. Her husband, Al Gore, held the Senate seat from 1985 to 1993, before becoming vice president. Gore...

A leading surgeon in the US has told BBC News that he is ready to perform the world's first transplant of an artificially grown organ. Dr Anthony Atala, of the Boston Children's Hospital, says he hopes to put a laboratory-engineered bladder into a patient once he has obtained the necessary regulatory approval. He believes permission for the procedure, which has been pioneered in dogs, will come within the next few months. Dr Attalla says that if he is successful with the bladder transplant, he will attempt to repair damaged hearts with new muscle and possibly even try to grow a ...

Flexible friend ... the new Queer Card A CREDIT card for gay men and lesbians is being launched — in a variety of colours EXCEPT pink. The Queer Card comes in two designs — one with the word Queer on the front and another with the more discreet letter Q. Backed by Mastercard, it offers a range of special deals including cash-back options and different interest rates. Queercompany, which is behind the product, is hoping to attract 50,000 customers. A £2.50 donation will be made to Stonewall, the gay lobby group, when each card is used for the first ...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned business leaders on Monday that all the money flowing to victims of the World Trade Center is leaving other charities short on cash.</p> <p>"Many of the ongoing services and charitable needs for the homeless, for AIDS victims, for after-school programs, are beginning to feel a real crunch," Clinton said at a "Crain's New York Business" breakfast.</p>

The US and Britain are ready to go it alone with military action against Osama bin Laden, prime suspect behind last week's terrorist atrocities, and his protectors in Afghanistan. According to senior British officials, President George W. Bush and Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, have agreed that a tight command structure is needed and that the military operation should be undertaken largely, perhaps wholly, by their own forces. The White House declined to comment. However, one lesson US military planners took from Nato's bombing campaign in Kosovo in 1999 was that a large alliance complicates and delays the choice ...

<p>A New Hampshire man was arrested after allegedly trying to pass through a Logan International Airport metal detector with a loaded 22-caliber handgun.</p> <p>Harold Cook, 57, was arrested shortly after 8:30 a.m. at a Delta Air Lines security checkpoint in Terminal C, said Phil Orlandella, spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority.</p>

A passenger managed to reach her husband on her mobile phone moments before American Airlines flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara Olson, a commentator for CNN and wife of US Solicitor General Theodore Olson, was one of 58 passengers on the Boeing 757. They had been herded to the back of the plane along with the four flight attendants and two pilots. In two brief and furtive conversations with her husband, Olson, 46, gave a few details about the plane's hijackers, CNN reported. She mentioned that there was more than one, but the only weapons she described were knives ...

TORONTO (September 8, 2001 12:32 a.m. EDT) - A 15-year-old amputee completed a 12-mile swim across Lake Erie in just over 15 hours Friday, making her the youngest woman and first disabled person to accomplish the feat. Ashley Cowan of Toronto had to face a strong current and her fear of swimming in darkness. "She toughed it out and we're very proud of her," said friend John Munro, who watched the swim from a rescue boat on the lake. "Everyone's so thrilled about it." Cowan headed straight for waiting paramedics after emerging from the 70-degree water on the shores of ...

ARMY scientists have found a way of using the food that soldiers eat to protect them from accidentally being shot at by their own side. The special meals contain compounds that are expelled from pores in the skin or from soldiers' breath. When viewed by specially equipped pilots or satellites above a battlefield, the troops would appear to be brightly coloured. They might be yellow on one day and red the next, to prevent the enemy from copying the formula. The researchers behind the idea believe it could help to prevent so-called "fratricide" or "friendly fire" incidents in which soldiers ...

Salon Media Group Reports Appeal Following NASDAQ Staff Delisting Determination SAN FRANCISCO, June 16/PRNewswire/ -- Salon Media Group, Inc. a leading Internet media company, today reported that it received a Nasdaq Staff Determination on June 13, 2001, indicating that the Company has failed to comply with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing (Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(5)). Salon has requested an oral hearing before the Nasdaq Qualifications Panel to appeal the Staff Determination. Salon stock will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq National Market pending the final decision by the Qualifications Panel. There can be no assurance that ...

The President and his wife had just returned from Camp David on June 3, a few days after twin daughters Jenna and Barbara, 19, had been cited by police in Texas for underage drinking offenses in a popular Tex-Mex restaurant. No one knows what was said at Camp David, but it clearly wasn't pretty. "It wasn't a Kodak moment," says the source. "The parents are disappointed and concerned." If White House aides aren't discussing it, just about everyone else is. The citations were issued on the evening of May 29, when a manager at Chuy's in Austin phoned 911 to ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Former President Clinton, who is on a European speaking tour, was hit by a raw egg thrown by a protester on Thursday as he toured the Polish capital's old town district. At least one egg hit Clinton on the arm as he stepped out of an antique store before the assailant was wrestled to the ground by Polish and American security personnel. The former president took off his suit jacket and continued his walk in sunny weather for another 15 minutes, signing autographs and greeting tourists. Clinton was in Warsaw as part of a paid speaking tour ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - A man charged with masterminding the fatal rape of a 13-year-old boy pleaded guilty Wednesday in a deal with prosecutors that spares his life. Davis Don Carpenter, 39, was charged in the Sept. 26, 1999, rape and death of Jesse Dirkhising. Prosecutors said Carpenter diagrammed an attack carried out by Carpenter's lover, Joshua Brown.,p> The state sought execution for both men, but Brown was sentenced to life in prison without parole last month after being found guilty of first-degree murder and rape. Carpenter's deal, approved Wednesday by Circuit Judge David Clinger, gave him the same life ...

FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (AP) -- On Saturday, Dianne Szostak clutched a shopping bag, pleased to have found a fairy sculpture for her herb garden. On Sunday, she clutched a .38-caliber revolver. Welcome to Michigan Shop & Shoot, a two-day retreat sponsored by the Second Amendment Sisters to encourage women to eat, shop and shoot together.,p> ''It's just a sport, like soccer or softball,'' said 13-year-old Sara Nutt. ''There's nothing dangerous about it, unless you treat it dangerously.'' Nutt, who started shooting BB guns at 10, attended the weekend Shop & Shoot with her mother. ''We're allowing women to learn about firearms ...