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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - What is it like to pal around with Bill Clinton? Rick Cleveland gives us the skinny in "My Buddy Bill," a fascinating and finely executed one-man show based on Cleveland's friendship with the former president. The friendship is over now, for reasons that become clear in the evening's most revealing episode. But no matter what you might have thought of Clinton going in, you're going to understand him much better on the way out. Cleveland met Clinton in 2000 when, as one of several writers on "The West Wing," he was taking a tour of...

Ten years ago, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio, the leaders who had waged a brutal four-year war in Bosnia -- at the center of a volatile region that had launched two world wars -- finally agreed to peace. They took this momentous step only after intense international military and diplomatic pressure led by the United States. At the time, almost everyone predicted that the Dayton Peace Agreement would fail. To enforce the agreement, I sent 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia as part of a 60,000-troop NATO peacekeeping force, because it was the only way to ensure...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration was warned as early as 1998 al-Qaida could use an aircraft to attack a U.S. landmark, a formerly secret report says. The claim was made in the final report of the Sept. 11 commission that investigated the terror attacks of 2001, but only made public Tuesday, The New York Times. The FAA was warned al-Qaida could "seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark," and was also warned in 2001 that airport screeners' ability to detect possible weapons had "declined significantly" in recent years. Members...

    BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Former US president Bill Clinton arrived in Beijing Wednesday night after his tour of Asia's tsunami-hit regions and signed a cooperation agreement on AIDS treatment with China's Health Ministry.     The former president, who has been very involved with HIV/AIDS prevention and control since his presidency, promised to donate AIDS medicine for Chinese children living with the deadly disease.     "What impressed me most is how quickly and how much you've done in preventing HIV/AIDS," Clinton told China's executive vice health minister Gao Qiang after the signing ceremony.     The Chinese government estimates that the country has 840,000...

Former President Bill Clinton spent three days in Aspen before heading to a Denver bookstore Tuesday to sign copies of his memoir "My Life." In Aspen, Clinton attended a fund-raiser Saturday at a private residence on Red Mountain where he campaigned for his wife's U.S. Senate run in 2006. The price to have lunch with he and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.: a minimum $1,000 donation, insiders said. The fund-raiser was held at the home of Michael Goldberg, president of Aerolease International, a Miami-based airline leasing company. Goldberg hosted similar events when Clinton was president, as well as one for...

Hillary Clinton ordered Bill to undergo psychological counseling for sex addiction after learning he indulged in a secret orgy with gorgeous young models! The bombshell disclosure about the orgy was turned up by a private detective hired by Hillary -- who's eyeing a run at the White House -- to dig up information about Bill's extramarital affairs. The issue that goes on sale Friday reveals the inside details of Bill's sex romp with the models, tells why news of the orgy forced Hillary to act, why Bill agreed to go into therapy … and much more.