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Hillary Clinton and the State Department on Tuesday insisted they are not slow-walking the public release of her emails during her time as secretary of state, while a federal judge ordered up a plan for a rolling release of the hotly anticipated documents. “Nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than I do,” Clinton said to reporters in a rare instance of fielding press questions on the campaign trail. The 55,000 pages of emails have become the source of much heartburn, speculation and bureaucratic man-hours since news emerged earlier this year that Clinton used a private email...

Joanna Graham remembers the exact moment she learned of Strawberry Creek's proximity to her West Berkeley home. Four years ago, a neighbor knocked at her door on North Valley Street with a petition from environmentalists requesting a study of the 300-foot culvert that surfaced just two houses downstream from her house. In the course of a creek-restoration project, they had noticed huge chunks of concrete falling off the 6.5-by-8-foot pipe into the stream below. "I told her, 'I don't even know where the creek runs,'" explained Graham, a small woman with salt-and-pepper hair and the seasoned gaze of someone unaccustomed...

THE models were all confidence and poise as they sashayed down the Paris catwalks last night for the first of this season’s haute couture shows. But nobody could disguise the sense of gloom hanging over the French art form which appears to be dying on its feet. In the past 15 years, the number of haute couture shows has fallen dramatically. In 1987, 24 haute couture houses presented their collections. This year only nine remain to parade their collections - Christian Dior, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, Jean-Louis Scherrer, Dominique Sirop, Torrente, Hanae Mori and the Italian designer Valentino. In...