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STAMFORD -- U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., is expected to return Monday to Stamford High School, where he campaigned for class president more than 40 years ago, to announce he is running for president in 2004. While supporters expect the Stamford native and the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate to announce his presidential bid Monday, a source even closer to the senator -- his mother, Stamford resident Marcia Lieberman -- hinted yesterday that he is already in the race. "He's going to make a great president," she said. ... Marcia Lieberman said she has expected her son to run for...

WASHINGTON -- There's a veneer of serenity to Joe Lieberman in these final days before he makes his White House bid official. But beneath the calm is a man still framing, still wrestling with, how to explain and market the biggest decision of his life. Though the Connecticut Democrat talks expansively about why he wants to be president, his syntax and his logic are often labored. He is still developing his rationale for running. He is still trying to prepare for critics who will say he's on too many sides of too many issues, that he's too thin-skinned and unwilling...