Clintons Move to Ease Some Racial Friction

Former president Bill Clinton worked yesterday to smooth over comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign and its allies that have raised hackles in the African American community, a week before Democrats will vote in the South Carolina primary, their first test involving a...
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Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray

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