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...direct ties to Hillary Clinton, having helped raise money for Clinton's 2000 Senate bid and later earning Clinton's endorsement when Gillibrand ran for office in 2006. New York's other Senator, Charles Schumer, reportedly was a staunch advocate for Gillibrand to succeed Clinton in the U.S. Senate...
...crazy about her. He encouraged her" in her bid for the Senate seat, one close associate says of Ted Kennedy's relationship with his niece. "But using him as an excuse, as though things were on the downward spiral, is not going to be O.K. with him ... This will get in the way of health reform" - by suggesting that a key legislator involved in putting the bill together may be incapacitated...
Geithner's tax foibles probably won't derail his bid to replace Henry Paulson at Treasury. Republican and Democratic Senators, a number of whom have reiterated their support for Geithner in the past week, are likely to vote to confirm him as early as Thursday. Still, Hook and other tax experts say that if Geithner hopes to lower his April 15 bill in the future, he has some legitimate options - even if he lands the high-profile Treasury Secretary job. What follow are some filing tips for Geithner, as well as common tax traps he should avoid...
...Abdullah blamed Israel for the Gaza crisis and pledged $1 billion in reconstruction aid. The fence-mending lunch followed, but it didn't get very far. While Saudi supporters hailed the reconciliation bid as "historic," the Arab media noted that the atmosphere at the table between Assad of Syria and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt remained "cold," with the latter leaving early to return to Cairo. In a speech before the lunch, Mubarak had delivered a veiled jab at Syria's close ties to Iran, spelling out the suspicions of some Arab countries about the Persian state's influence...
...That demographic includes hundreds of thousands of former supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen, who backed Sarkozy's 2007 presidential bid after he promised to combat authorized and illegal immigration alike, and to impose order on France's ethnically diverse suburban housing projects. Once in office, Sarkozy has delivered on those pledges - and then some...