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Bill Clinton Does Africa

Upstaged and ignored, he wants back in as the anti-AIDS fighter. Plus: A special campaign roundup, including the latest unannounced Democratic savior.

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’s book to start hitting the remainder and cut-rate book bins soon. Her Living History tome has all but stalled out on the sales front after a nice six-week ride. While her publisher says she hit the million-mark in sales earlier this week, it looks like it will have be satisfied with that. /p> p> BIDEN HIS TIME br> Sen. Joseph Biden apparently still thinks he can mount a presidential campaign that would put him in the top tier of candidates in the fall. Biden, who earlier this year appeared to squelch talk of a presidential run, now has friends and advisers telling Democrats around the country that he is leaning toward running. /p>

“He still thinks he can be a top three candidate in short order if he announces in September,” says a Biden adviser in Washington. “The assumptions are that the pack might thin a bit, the tiers will become clearer, and that there is still plenty of money to be raised. None of these guys is really pulling ahead.”

Biden, who attempted a presidential run back in 1988 before being embarrassed by plagiarism charges and stepping out of the race, would bring similar credentials to the race that Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt now currently tout. Given his own Senate stature, experience, and money-raising potential, Biden would probably be a bigger threat to Kerry than any of the other announced candidates.

p> GOING FOR THE GREEN br> Advisers for Democratic front-runner, former Vermont Gov.
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