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Quote:For New York Democrats seeking to take back City Hall, it was supposed to be a picture-perfect moment: Bill Clinton in the Bronx yesterday to rally voters behind Fernando Ferrer, the party's beleaguered candidate against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.But a run-of-the-mill campaign stop turned into a bizarre frenzy after the Clinton team removed the entire sound system during a dispute with low-level Ferrer supporters, who were trying to make the event more dramatic. As a result, a crowd of 1,000 people could barely hear Mr. Clinton praise "this good man."The moment was a telling example of the odd intersection between the former president and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who are the unofficial royal couple of New York Democrats, and the party's mayoral nominee. Their star power has overshadowed him at times, and their smoothness has left him looking like a B-list candidate after mishaps like yesterday's, some New York Democrats say. The Clintons like Mr. Ferrer personally and are disappointed that he is struggling, but they also do not want to become entangled in his problems, according to political associates and people who have spoken to them about the mayoral race. The Clintons are trying to avoid being embarrassed by a lopsided Democratic defeat on their home turf on Nov. 8, these associates say. In a series of delicate calculations, the couple are doing everything the Ferrer campaign has asked of them, but little more than that. Tonight, Mrs. Clinton is to hold what will probably be the single biggest fund-raiser of Mr. Ferrer's campaign, which could bring in as much as $100,000. Yet some prominent Democratic donors say the Clintons have not sent the usual winks and nods signaling that they view Mr. Ferrer as a winner whom contributors should shower with money.
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Quote:She never knew when to quit. That was her talent and her flaw. Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, she was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers. She more than earned her sobriquet "Miss Run Amok."Judy's stories about W.M.D. fit too perfectly with the White House's case for war. She was close to Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who was conning the neocons to knock out Saddam so he could get his hands on Iraq, and I worried that she was playing a leading role in the dangerous echo chamber that Senator Bob Graham, now retired, dubbed "incestuous amplification." Using Iraqi defectors and exiles, Mr. Chalabi planted bogus stories with Judy and other credulous journalists. Even last April, when I wrote a column critical of Mr. Chalabi, she fired off e-mail to me defending him.When Bill Keller became executive editor in the summer of 2003, he barred Judy from covering Iraq and W.M.D. issues. But he acknowledged in The Times's Sunday story about Judy's role in the Plame leak case that she had kept "
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Quote:More than 40 convicts, who have completed their sentences in the United States, landed at the Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, after disembarking from a chartered flight.The majority who returned yesterday were expelled from the United States for fraud, drug-related crimes, illegal firearms, while some were illegal aliens.The country has received 2,469 deportees since January. Figures provided by the police show that, of that number, 1,137 came from the United States, 976 from the United Kingdom, 186 from Canada and 189 from other countries. Last year, over 4,200 persons were deported to Jamaica.
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