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President Clinton plans to stay out of the limelight if Hillary Clinton launches her expected run for president, he tells Town and Country Magazine in a new interview. “My role should primarily be as a backstage adviser to her until we get much, much closer to the election,” Clinton said. The interview provides a rare inside look at the couple’s mindset ahead of the impending presidential announcement. Clinton is widely expected to launch a bid within the next two weeks, as she’s reportedly already signed a lease for her campaign office in Brooklyn. That move forces her to officially declare...

Police evacuated a San Rafael neighborhood Tuesday afternoon when live World War II ordnance was discovered in a garage. The resident said he found two hand grenades and a mortar that had been brought back from the war as souvenirs by his wife's late husband and had been stored in the garage for more than 50 years, police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said. Police found a live 37mm anti-tank projectile, a live hand grenade and an inert mortar. The Napa County Sheriff's Department bomb squad and the San Rafael Fire Department evacuated residents on Wolfe and Antonette avenues after the discovery...

A new website says it is using comedy as a political strategy to prepare Americans for their first female president - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. Launched by supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton, the new BillForFirstLady.com website features "live-action comedy videos of a cross-dressing Bill Clinton wearing a pink skirt, matching high heels and a pink purse." The website says its goal is to generate 1 million emails urging Sen. Clinton to run for president in 2008. "Our campaign style is laugh-out-loud funny -- but Hillary is a serious candidate and this is a serious strategy," said Luke Montgomery, one of...