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Former President Clinton told hundreds of screaming Ciro Rodriguez supporters on Sunday that they have to want a victory in Tuesday's runoff election more than those who want an eighth term for Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla. "The winner Tuesday will be the person whose supporters want it the most," Clinton said during a brief visit to Palo Alto College in San Antonio. Rodriguez's campaign hoped Clinton's visit would energize voters to head to the polls Tuesday. Rodriguez faces the incumbent Bonilla in a runoff because neither man got more than 50 percent of the vote in a crowded Nov. 7...

Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel. It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew. News of the naming puzzled even those Israelis who thought they had seen it all after pop diva Madonna turned the ancient Jewish mystical tradition Kabbalah into a faith for the famous. "I really don't know what they were thinking when they chose this name. It's a term that denotes expulsion, like 'Get out of here'," said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at...

Three years ago President Bush made his first national television prime time address in August 2001 to the nation on the topic of human embryonic stem cells. Who would have thought that the controversy over little balls of a hundred or so cells might make the difference between another Bush Administration and a Kerry Administration? Yet it might well.   In 2001, Bush was attempting a political balancing act -- allowing research to go forward in this area while mollifying his pro-life political supporters. So Bush limited federal funding to only human embryonic stem lines that had been derived before...