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While New York has it own maybe-political scandal brewing, the new political hot potato scandal is Florida Representative Mark Foley's graphic emails and instant messaging conversations with underage Congressional pages (you can read them here at ABC News), which has lead to Foley's resignation and subsequent check-in to an alcohol rehab clinic. The bigger question is whether Republican leaders knew about Foley's inclination to pursue high school age male pages, and, if they did, why didn't they stop it? And in a (western) NY connection, people are wondering if Representative Tom Reynolds did too little to stop Foley.

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In a story about the Jack Kelley possible-plagiarism-at-USA Today brouhaha (most elegantly summarized here, by Gawker), check out how the New York Times gets to spin the Jayson Blair incident as what is making other newspapers are relook their own reporters' work:

The big question about Hillary Clinton's book was whether or not she'd discuss Bill's peccadilloes. Now that the book will gone on sale next week, it's revealed that Senator Clinton does detail her experience during the Monica Lewinsky incident. Her initial thought was "For me, the Lewinsky imbroglio seemed like just another vicious scandal manufactured by political opponents." But then when Bill admitted the affair, she "was dumbfounded, heartbroken and outraged that [she'd] believed him at all."