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Julio Frenk, the incoming dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and former minister of health of Mexico, was honored last week with a Clinton Global Citizen Award for his innovative work in the field of global health...
...back to Washington to rescue the Wall Street bailout negotiations, although he didn't seem to suspend much except for an interview with an irate David Letterman, and he didn't fly back to Washington until he had finished a political meeting with the bepearled former Hillary Clinton supporter Lynn Forester de Rothschild and a bunch of network interviews and a speech to the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City on Thursday, which, as astute political observers noted, was the day after Wednesday. What's more, the Wall Street bailout negotiations seemed to be progressing pretty well without...
...never been that I didn't like Michelle Obama. (Full disclosure: I voted for Hillary Clinton in Missouri's Democratic primary.) But after writing a novel about a First Lady based loosely on Laura Bush, I saw Michelle as, well, controversial. Back in June, when she made a visit to The View to talk about policy issues such as panty hose (in case you missed the episode, she's con), the appearance was widely considered part of a charm offensive intended to rehabilitate an image damaged by, among other things, the now infamous remark she'd made during a speech...
Rock, Chris •Bill Clinton's difficulty uttering Obama's name noted...
...players at this point are House Republicans - a group that normally is all but irrelevant on Capitol Hill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi - mindful of the electoral disaster that befell her party after it passed Bill Clinton's controversial budget plan in 1993 without any GOP votes - has said she will not bring any markets stabilization package to the floor without a majority of House Republicans on board. With constituent telephone calls to congressional offices running 100 to 1 against the proposed $700 billion Bush Administration bailout plan, the last thing Pelosi wants to do is force her own members to walk...