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NEW YORK: In an embarrassment to presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s despondent campaign, an article has claimed that the aides of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, believe his 2004 heart surgery fundamentally altered his state of mind and that he is constantly in rage. The article to be published in Vanity Fair, and already posted on the magazine’s website also questions some of Clinton’s business dealings and behaviour since leaving the White House. “Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s postWhite House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive ) business associations to the media blowups...

When Bill Clinton underwent quadruple coronary-bypass surgery on Labor Day, the former president, like most Americans who have similar operations, spent time hooked up to a heart-lung machine while surgeons rerouted blood vessels to his heart. With luck and his relative youth and health going for him, Clinton, 58, hopefully will rebound in both heart and mind from the surgery, in which doctors replace clogged arteries to the heart with veins and arteries taken from elsewhere in his body. But many people who go through the procedure -- as 305,000 Americans did in 2001, the latest year for which figures...

He's just not the same Bubba. Hillary Clinton's husband is still brilliant, still passionate and still a magnificent campaigner. But people who have known him and observers who have watched Bill Clinton for decades say he's lost at least half a step. Think of him like Michael Jordan - only the past-his-prime version, playing for the Washington Wizards. More than one acquaintance used the same words: "He's just not the same." Colleagues point to a slew of potential reasons for Bubba stepping in it so often, including psychological and medical.

[World News]: London, Oct 30: He might have recovered from his recent quadruple heart bypass surgery, but former President Bill Clinton's illness is more than what meets the eye. According to the National Enquirer, he may have suffered permanent brain damage due to the surgery. He has also been battling a deadly blood infection. Insiders say that he is weak and suffering memory lapses. Doctors have given him blood thinners to prevent blood clots, antibiotics to treat his deadly infection and tranquilizers to calm his anxiety, say friends. "Recovering from heart surgery has been a far more painful and miserable...