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Turns out there is a Republican response to the Democrat letter that media favorite Max Cleland toted to Texas today. Here's the text: August 25, 2004 Senator John Kerry 304 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Kerry, We are pleased to welcome your campaign representatives to Texas today. We honor all our veterans, all whom have worn the uniform and served our country. We also honor the military and National Guard troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today. We are very proud of all of them and believe they deserve our full support. That’s why so many...

A former member of legendary Seventies band Jethro Tull has had a sex-change operation and become a woman called Dee. Keyboard player David Palmer has shed the beard seen during the band's most successful years, and now has long blonde hair, along with make-up and black leggings. Palmer, 66, a former soldier in the Royal Horse Guards and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, is now set to embark on a solo career. She said: "I want to be judged on my musical ability alone, and nothing else." Her desire to change sex had been an "open secret" in...

<p>When a high school counselor doubted Penny Johnson Jerald's chances of getting into Juilliard, she decided to prove him wrong. The classical training she got at the prestigious arts college and the determination it took to get it may be why 24's Jerald has a long list of TV and film credits. Called magnificent and forceful by reviewers as a guest player on the Fox drama, Jerald's a regular this fall -- and married (still?) to the president at that. (The show fast-forwards a year to a new 24 hours, with fictional candidate David Palmer now in the White House.) Jerald tells us she enjoys comparisons to Lady Macbeth or Hillary Clinton, who "stood by her man [and now] is a senator. She got what she wanted." Offscreen, Jerald, in her 40s, runs a production company with her husband, teaches acting workshops and directs a Christian theater company she founded.</p>