Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys, but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small business circles.

‘This is crazy’  —  With tens of thousands of participants, Saturday's conventions were expected to be chaotic - and they were.  —  The District 23 convention, one of the largest in the state, was stalled for hours because the credentials of thousands of delegates were either challenged or could not immediately be verified.

Senior Democrats mull Al Gore's nomination  —  Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.  —  The bloody civil war between Hillary Clinton …

Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65  —  Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday.

Obama Overstates Kennedys' Role in Helping His Father  —  Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.

Teaching about responsible drinking  —  This is something that has needed to be said for some time: … There is much that is romantic in this article about the joys of wine and such, but to me it is a much simpler question.  I drink something with alcohol perhaps 340 nights per year …

Surrender Already, Dorothy  —  It's all about the magic, really.  —  And whether we can take a flier on this skinny guy with the strange name and braided ancestry to help us get it back.  —  Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a strong supporter of the United States …

How to Cast a Mortgage Lifeline?  —  THE financial markets are downright scary.  And it seems unlikely that we can extricate ourselves from the current series of rolling financial crises without improving the situation in three related markets: those for houses, mortgages and securities based on mortgages.

Annals of the Liberal Blogosphere - It's the Media, stupid!  —  I had to smile when reading how the liberal blogosphere—convoking in Philly at Eschacon '08 under the aegis of, one assumes, the mighty Eschaton—have got their knickers in the proverbial twist at the namby-pamby way the media treats McCain (except when they don't).

Mahdi Army holds firm as Iraqi PM risks all in battle of Basra  —  The future of Iraq could be decided by the power struggle raging in the country's second city  —  Hala Jaber, Ali Rifat and Abu Razzak in Basra  —  THE arrival of the Iraqi army supported by US warplanes did little to dent …