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BOSTON -- Tensions were high at Dewey Square Thursday night when police took Occupy Boston protesters into custody. The confrontation started when a protester allegedly brought a sink into the Occupy Boston encampment. According to protesters at the scene, they demanded to know from police why they were blocking the sink from entering the site. 7News was told police took possession of the sink. People then formed a barricade around a police vehicle. A protester told 7News one person was injured, and police confirmed that three people were taken into custody for disorderly conduct. Earlier on Thursday, a judge upheld...

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<p>"This election," Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, "is too big to be small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe - that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year. But it was laughable as well.</p>

March 7, 2008 Hillary Clinton's weapon: the kitchen sink In politics the most determined person gets the top job - and Ms Clinton is really desperate Gerard Baker Last week, with commendable honesty, Hillary Clinton's campaign announced that in a frantic push to save their candidate from defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, they were going to throw everything including the “kitchen sink” at him. It was derided at the time as merely a sign of the desperation that 11 straight primary defeats and a host of premature political obituaries had wrought. But it turned out to be both...

The Hillary Clinton campaign has begun to throw everything they have left in the cupboard against Barack Obama as the window of opportunity begins to close on their candidate. Mike Allen and John F. Harris at Politico report that the campaign has also begun to turn on itself in its last throes on the national stage, and as polling numbers continue to drop nationwide: With a week to go before climactic tests in Texas and Ohio, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign team has slipped into full recriminations mode. Looking backward, interviews with a cross-section of campaign aides and sympathetic outsiders suggest...

hillary talks: "You know."by Mia T, 01.09.04 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com THE HILLARY "YOU KNOW" CLINTON TRANSCRIPT Analyzed and Annotated   by Mia T January 22, 2002   THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE [YOU KNOW] 'UPDATED'     ABSTRACT Background: Using internal polling, the clinton 'infrastructure' determined that its cozy-clintonoid-interviews-of-the-Colmes-kind scheme is no longer working. The scheme, which successfully shepherded and shielded the vacuous, inept, corrupt clintons for nine years, is now, post-9/11, yielding diminishing returns--and worse--increasing ridicule....

Former United States Ambassador and Senator Carol Mosley Braun is not only mulling a bid to reclaim her Senate seat-she is also considering a presidential run.Mosley Braun plans to make a decision Friday regarding her political future.She has various avenues open to her.The Illinois State Democratic primary is crowded with five other contenders.But if Mosley Braun announces she will start raising money for a federal campaign-or is forming a politica action commitee-she can use the money to explore running for office or to rejoin the scene as a national player.

Four Frenchmen made legal history when they appeared in a Bordeaux courtroom charged with having sexual intercourse with prostitutes. It is the first time French authorities have targeted the clients of prostitutes, rather than just the prostitutes themselves. The case was brought under an ancient and little-known legal provision which had generally been considered obsolete. If convicted of "sexual exhibition", the four men could face sentences of up to a year in prison and a 15,000 Euro fine. The proceedings follow the launch by local government officials last February of a plan to undermine the sex trade by targeting clients....