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December 5, 2004FANTASY POLITICSIf I Had Hillary Clinton's Ear... By MICHAEL SLACKMAN HERE was the old Hillary Rodham Clinton, the one who said she wasn't "some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette," who led a failed and ridiculed effort to overhaul the nation's health care system, who so inflamed a nation's passions that her book "It Takes a Village" became a punch line at political rallies and on late night television. And there is the new Hillary Rodham Clinton, the reserved junior senator from New York who was elected after making a "listening tour" of the state,...

<p>Moderator note: I know it's going to be tough, but, please watch the calls for violence against this creature.</p> <p>In a demoralizing message to U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq, visiting New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told them that Americans back home are growing increasingly skeptical of President Bush's decision to send them into battle.</p> <p>Describing two meetings with G.I.s over turkey dinners in Baghdad, Sen. Clinton told reporters later that soldiers wanted to know "how the people at home feel about what we are doing."</p>

BOOKING LAYOFFSPredictions in the slumping book industry that blockbusters like New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clintons tell-little biography would revive sales are dying fast. Washington Whispers is told that Simon and Schuster publisher of Clintons 'Living History,' is planning a second round of layoffs.One reason: Advances to Authors are too high.