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Senator Hillary Clinton called Friday for a wider international role in running Iraq, but doubted the U.S. administration would cede much control in the country it invaded and occupied. "I'm a big believer that we ought to internationalize this, but it will take a big change in our administration's thinking," Clinton, a Democrat from New York, said during a nearly 10-hour visit to Baghdad where she met with U.S. troops, military chiefs and civilian officials including U.S. administrator Paul Bremer. "I don't see that it's forthcoming," said the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Clinton, who has ruled out a...

Hillary arms herself with a military pal By RICHARD SISKDAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - If Sen. Hillary Clinton is trying to cozy up to the military, she was right on target yesterday with the Army's top general. New York's junior Democrat laid into a Pentagon cost-cutting study that suggests closing dozens of schools and commissaries on bases - and won the support of Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the new Army chief of staff. "For the life of me, I do not understand this," Clinton said of the study on the viability of schools and the low-cost shops (PXs) for...

Hil steals the show She's star of Iowa bash By HELEN KENNEDYDAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Sen. Clinton DES MOINES - Hillary Clinton came to Iowa yesterday to talk up the Democratic contenders for President - but found herself the focus of more attention than any of the White House hopefuls. Greeted by 8,000 party faithful chanting "Hill-a-ry," Clinton took the stage at the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner to introduce speeches by the six presidential aspirants in town for the event. "America is ready for a Democratic President again," she said. "That's not going to be a hard...

<p>November 10, 2003 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday slammed the feds' plans to downsize Manhattan's veterans hospital.</p> <p>Clinton told more than 100 World War II, Vietnam, Gulf and Iraq war vets gathered for brunch at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square that she'll fight to keep the Manhattan VA Hospital on East 23rd Street running at full capacity, despite plans by the Department of Veterans Affairs to move most of its facilities to Brooklyn.</p>

Door may be open for Hil With no Dem front-runner, pros say she could step in By MICHAEL R. BLOODDAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT With none of the Democratic presidential wanna-bes rising out of the teens in national polls, some political experts are theorizing that it could happen - Sen. Hillary Clinton gets into the race. "If nobody ... solidifies a position by mid-March, I think you are going to find a real surge and opportunity for someone like Hillary," said Donald Robinson, a professor of government at Smith College. "It presents, maybe for the first time since 1952, [the...

<p>October 16, 2003 -- A LOT of candidates now use the Internet for direct interaction and Web chats with voters, but Sen. Hillary Clinton has a special twist - you have to pay to play. Clinton did a live online chat yesterday, but to participate, you had to first raise $1,000 for her. Smaller donors weren't allowed to log on, and pesky reporters were barred too. Clintonistas insist there was no top-secret Internet plotting about, say, presidential campaigns.</p>

Scratch rumors that Cook County State's Attorney Dick Devine is not planning to seek a third term. It ain't true. *Dem femme tip: U.S. Sen. Clinton has agreed to be powerhouse attorney Bob Clifford's guest at a fund-raiser Clifford is throwing for Devine Nov. 17 at the Drake Hotel.

Charge Spider-Man pal in Web of deceit By JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The allegedly villainous co-founder of a bankrupt Internet venture with Spider-Man creator Stan Lee was arraigned yesterday in a super-duper stock scam that authorities said bilked investors of $25 million. Peter Paul was indicted in 2001 but has been in jail in Brazil for two years fighting extradition. "I spent two years in a Brazilian dungeon," Paul told Brooklyn federal Magistrate Joan Azrack, who scheduled a bail hearing next week. Paul had been jailed in a Brazilian cellblock dubbed the corridor of death, where inmates have...

<p>New York's junior senator delighted and captivated congregants during Saturday services at The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton. Clinton, whose step-grandfather was Jewish, addressed a number of topics, including terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p> <p>"The Senate has come through with a significant commitment of funds for the Israeli Defense Fund," she said to applause. "We will, I'm sure, be approving that in the coming weeks."</p>

Mrs. Clinton Is Forgiven, but for a PriceBy JOYCE PURNICK URING her big book party at the Four Seasons on Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked if she found it painful to relive her rough marital days. "It was difficult," she said. "It, you know, they were very difficult times; they should have remained personal and private matters. But they were pulled into the public so I felt I had to, you know, write about what was part of the public history." She got that right. She did have to. Those are the rules, unwritten but unyielding. New York's junior...

he hype for Hillary Clinton's Living History, currently second only to the new Harry Potter on bestseller lists, has coated the country with a thin mist of New York's junior senator. In its mysterious mass media way, the flowery, eau de Hillary promotional pap seems to be boosting public affection for a woman who has had difficulties wielding her outsized image. Fifty-three percent of Americans recently reported having a favorable view of the former first lady, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll. That's up 10 percentage points from right before her pub date. But even as she basks in the...

Hil's book is read hot 200,000 sold on first day By JOEL SIEGEL in New York and JAMES GORDON MEEK in WashingtonDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Even the publisher was amazed yesterday at the demand for Sen. Hillary Clinton's memoir, which sold 200,000 copies during its debut. "We are ecstatic, without question," said Victoria Meyer, executive director of publicity at Simon and Schuster. She said 300,000 copies of "Living History" have been ordered printed on top of the initial run of 1 million. Now ranked second on Amazon.com's best-seller list, the New York Democrat's story threatens to do to No....

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Reaction may reveal how much of the national spotlight the senator still holds Everything has a shelf life. From books to politicians, public interest lasts only so long. Which is why Monday will mark the start of an interesting, and possibly predictive, period of assessment. Monday is the day a book, "Living History," written by a politician, Hillary Clinton, hits the stores. In its national shelf life may lie some indication of how much of the same remains for the junior senator from New York. Has Clinton become just another politician for most of the country or does she still...

(AP Photo) Sen. Clinton Nixes 2004 White House Run Hillary Clinton, a Popular Democratic Pick for President, Sticks to Senate for 2004 The Associated Press WASHINGTON May 31 — When Democratic voters are asked which politician they want as president, one name consistently appears at the top Hillary Rodham Clinton. But the New York senator couldn't make it any clearer that she isn't running for the White House. At least not in 2004.From her days as first lady, Clinton has accumulated political assets that are the envy of the announced Democratic presidential candidates: universal recognition, a nationwide network of...

Monday, April 7, 12:02 a.m. EDT Hillary, Other Dems MIA at Rallies to Support the Troops Sen. Hillary Clinton and other elected Democrats in the New York tri-state area have been conspicuously absent from recent rallies held to support U.S. armed forces fighting in Iraq, says a New York City talk show host who has attended and helped promote many of the events. "We have promoted dozens and dozens of rallies," WABC Radio's Curtis Sliwa told his colleague Steve Malzberg Sunday morning. "How come we don't see any being sponsored by elected Democratic officials? ... How come we never see...