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YOO-HOO DON HEWITT WANT A LITTLE MORE EDGE? Former Sen. Bob Dole says he's displeased with first '60 Minutes' debate AP | 3/08/03   GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole says he's displeased with the first of at least 10 debates against former President Bill Clinton that will air on "60 Minutes." The two 1996 presidential opponents taped a debate Thursday morning about the wisdom of a tax cut in wartime. It will air Sunday. "I think it needs to be a little tougher," Dole said Friday before speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner held by Guilford...

YOO-HOO hillary clinton A '68 Mustang is not exculpatory   by Mia T, 1-29-03     link to movie  HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why the clintons hit on Simon & Schuster Just yesterday I saw her on the senate floor speaking against the high salaries of company CEO's..... Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York State Senator, now comes under this fancy "Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets reelected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies. If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies....

But Michael New, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT Data Center, has inspected the South Dakota Secretary of State's Web site to discover other striking facts: While Democrat Tim Johnson ran statewide about 12 percentage points behind what Mr. Daschle got in his 1998 Senate victory, in Shannon County Mr. Johnson ran about 12 percentage points ahead. He got 92% of the vote compared with Mr. Daschle's 80%. Nowhere else in the state did Mr. Johnson improve his vote share relative to Mr. Daschle. Senate voter turnout was up 27% statewide for this year's close contest compared with 1998,...