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...head-turning nightclub promoter who first drew notice after the tragedy of Sept. 11 is back in the news - but she's attracting a very different kind of attention. According to a claim in the National Enquirer, Rachel Uchitel has been having an affair with golf star Tiger Woods since June. Uchitel and Woods have denied the claim but have been unable to prevent widespread Internet chatter, which speculates that the jet-setting 34-year-old was the source of a fight between Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren that led to the golfer's crashing his SUV outside...
...President would soon acknowledge him as such. But on Nov. 28, Clemmons apparently wasn't reflecting on his relationship with God. Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County sheriff's office, told reporters that on that night Clemmons was bragging to friends that they should look out for news stories the next day because he was "going to kill some cops...
Huckabee expressed regret over his decision to commute Clemmons' sentence, explaining on a Fox News program, "If I could have known nine years ago this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would never have granted a commutation. It's sickening." Clemmons' rampage is now over, but it has raised many questions about the management of the country's criminal underclass, and the reverberations of those issues will continue for a long time...
...Spent five years after college as a news producer in New York City for Bloomberg Television. She held that job on Sept. 11, 2001, when her fiancé was killed in the World Trade Center...
...Just nine months later, Obama needed a bigger stage. Only 36% of Americans now think even more troops will improve the American position in this war, according to a recent CBS News poll, including just 17% of Obama's Democratic base. So the President's aides needed to upgrade the setting, interrupt the networks' prime-time lineups and tug a bit harder at the nation's patriotic heartstrings. (Read the full transcript of Obama's speech...