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Sen. Clinton Calls for 'Return to Fiscal Discipline'

CHICAGO – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned a group of business leaders that America’s “red-ink fiscal policies” will make the country less competitive in the global economy. “I think a return to fiscal discipline, living within our means is essential for our long-term health,” she told a meeting Tuesday of …

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Australian PM Testifies in Oil-for-Food Inquiry

SYDNEY, Australia – Prime Minister John Howard told a government inquiry on Thursday he never saw nearly a dozen diplomatic cables warning that Australia’s monopoly wheat exporter might have been paying millions of dollars in alleged bribes to Saddam Hussein under the U.N.’s discredited oil-for-food program. Howard was the most …

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Mussolini's Granddaughter in Rome's Mayoral Race

ROME – The granddaughter of wartime Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini said Tuesday she will be a candidate for mayor of Rome in next month’s elections. Alessandra Mussolini ran in the April 9-10 parliamentary elections with a small right-wing party supporting conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi. But her party failed to make …

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