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...where a president and first lady retire gives a glimpse of character - although usually no one cares about an ex-president's character. Teddy Roosevelt, who like Bill Clinton was still a youth in his 50s when he left the White House in 1909, did a perfectly Teddy thing: He organized the most spectacular of all big-game safaris in East Africa, where some 800 native bearers carried his rifles and shaving kit and his gigantic American flag, and the ex-president mowed down wildlife, great and small, for the Museum of Natural History back in New York...
...there is no reason for a native to be offended. Hillary's story fits perfectly into Georgetown; it might have been imagined by Gore Vidal in one of his Washington novels, although Henry James would have done a better job on Hillary's complexities...
...Sharon will wage pretty much the same campaign as Benjamin Netanyahu would have, although the former prime minister's disastrous first term would have offered a bigger target for Barak's attack dogs. Instead, they'll blame Sharon for the Lebanon war, which Barak ended last June in a move that was welcomed by Israelis across partisan lines. And they'll charge that the methods that have earned Sharon the nickname "The Bulldozer" are unlikely to bring peace. But Sharon's team will hammer Barak on the breakdown of the peace process, accusing him of dangerous...
...Although the Ad-Hoc Committee's report addressed the need for increased benefits, it concluded that a higher minimum wage would be impractical...
...course. But a few suggestions have already popped up. If he can't be president of the United States, perhaps he'd enjoy taking the helm of his alma mater instead? Gore is one of 500 nominees who will be considered for the top job at Harvard University, although most suspect he will not make the final cut. "He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously," Robert G. Stone of the Harvard Corporation told the Associated Press. But, Stone continued - and here's the tough part, Al - "Gore doesn't have the academic or intellectual standing" required...