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Clinton-Obama Tensions

  The New York Times In his Web column today, Jeff Zeleny writes that for Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, the genteel decorum of the Senate has given way to the go-for-the-jugular instinct of the campaign trail: It wasn’t always this way. When Mr. Obama was running for the Senate, Mrs. Clinton waited out […]

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KTLA anchor Hal Fishman has colon cancer

By Greg Braxton and Carla Rivera, Times Staff Writers 3:41 PM PDT, August 3, 2007 Veteran KTLA Channel 5 anchor Hal Fishman, who was hospitalized this week after collapsing at his home, has been diagnosed with colon cancer, station officials said today. Doctors were treating Fishman, 75, for an infection he suffered after the collapse […]

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Cop shielding Villaraigosa gets rough with reporter

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today sought to put the scandal surrounding his personal life behind him, one day after the Telemundo network suspended his girlfriend, newscaster Mirthala Salinas, for covering the mayor while they were romantically involved. But a Villaraigosa news conference at the Port of Los Angeles ended chaotically, with a port police sergeant shoving […]

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GREAT QUOTES STOLEN FROM A RIGHT-WING DOUCHEBAG

“I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance… involving civilians. Let me scratch that. There’s been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That’s not on the table.” —BARACK OBAMA “What Giuliani is, is George Bush on steroids. Giuliani, Romney and the rest of the Republicans running for […]

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And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks…

     JIM LEHRER: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks. David, do you see something new and awful about this heat that erupted in the House of Representatives? DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, New York Times: It’s not new, but awful. It’s like a Eugene […]

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