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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was pressed by her husband and a top Obama aide to consider replacing Vice President Joe Biden just a couple of weeks ago, claims the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Amateur." But Clinton, exhausted from four years of international travel and diplomacy, shrugged off the suggestion to lay the groundwork for her own 2016 bid with her husband at her side, according to author Ed Klein. "As recently as a couple of weeks ago, the White House was putting out feelers to see if Hillary Clinton was interested in replacing Joe Biden...

Although I've never watched the show, I was thrilled to read in my local newspaper that a Staten Island family will be starring in Sunday's episode of "Nanny 911." Why? The couple has six children, and they reminded me why I love Staten Island so much. Born and raised in Manhattan, my original plan was to raise my children there until I learned that large families are not particular common or welcome. Who can forget that infamous essay in the New York Times Magazine by Manhattanite Amy Richards, who said she aborted two of her triplets so she wouldn't have...