Street star. Scandal-plagued aid director. Ex-Fugees hip hop frontman. The moment he filed his candidacy, Wyclef Jean became the most famous _ and thus potentially most powerful _ candidate in Haiti's critical post-earthquake presidential election.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Wednesday that extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthier would be a $700 billion mistake.
We look at the children of former presidents, who married while their dads worked in the Oval Office.
"Chelsea's getting married! Chelsea's getting married! ZOMG Chelsea's getting married!" writes Rebecca Traister at the Salon blog Broadsheet.
Clark Ray has worked for Bill Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, and D.C. Mayors Anthony A. Williams and Adrian M. Fenty. As he goes door to door and runs from forum to forum in the race for an at-large D.C. Council seat, he informs voters of his Democratic pedigree.
It was high society inside and high security outside as Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend at an elegant estate in a Hudson River village where several prominent guests were spotted beforehand, but the husband-and-wife-to-be stayed out of sight.
Former President Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.
If some of Chelsea Clinton's wedding guests want to make a weekend of it in Rhinebeck, there's a stage production of "The Rocky Horror Show" on the boards Saturday night and Sunday.
The decision from federal Judge (and Bill Clinton appointee) Susan Bolton to block important parts of the Arizona immigration law is certainly no surprise ("Feds win round 1 against Arizona," Page 1, Thursday paper).
