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When Patricia O’Grady moved into the top floor of a Greenwich Village walk-up in 1955, she and her three roommates helped sweep the hallway in exchange for a discounted rent of $16 a month. The unit was bare, no more than floor and walls, so the girls, all aspiring actresses, slowly improved it themselves, installing a sink and other modest amenities. While her roommates moved on, O’Grady never left the unit, and for that she received the ultimate New York City prize: unbelievably affordable rent. Until March, when O’Grady, 84, was fatally struck by a car just a few feet...

The big revelation from the latest Clinton scandals is not that the former president and his wife are corrupt, low-rent, grabby, greedy, serial liars. Everyone already knows that. No, the revelation is the exposure of the dirtiest little secret of them all: No one likes her. This is the hard truth that has popped up like a vicious migraine: No one — not even many of her fellow Democrats and leftists in the mainstream media — likes her very much. Her negative poll numbers (particularly on issues of honesty and trustworthiness) have always been high, except during much of her...

At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia's newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn't long before Bush found him. "How's your boy?" Bush asked, referring to Webb's son, a Marine serving in Iraq. "I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President," Webb responded, echoing a campaign theme. "That's not what I asked you," Bush said. "How's your boy?" "That's between me...

A woman who lived for three months in a home where a decomposing body was stashed in the attic mistook stains on her kitchen tile as rust leaking from the ceiling instead of blood. Robyn Cooper discovered Monday night that the stubborn orange marks may have been from blood plasma from the human body decomposing in the attic. Cooper said she doesn't want to stay in the four-bedroom duplex apartment any longer. "I'm afraid somebody's going to get me," Cooper said. "But I can't afford to move." Daytona Beach authorities found human remains in the single mother of four's home...

Our position: There are plenty of ways for the Clintons to help others with their new wealth. Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, are cashing in big-time, earning more than $12 million this past year for speeches and memoirs related to their checkered tenure in the White House. With all that dough, why do they -- or for that matter, any other surviving former head of state, all of whom are multi-millionaires -- need free health care, a $166,700 annual pension, plus more than $500,000 for office and staff expenses each year? With all...