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■ Hillary Clinton, introducing president at gun-control event: “Part of growing up is learning how to control one’s impulses.” . . . “What say we into the open muzzle of this tragedy, cocked and aimed at our hearts?” asks Vice President Gore at ceremony following Columbine High School massacre. Several hours later, Gore addresses NAACP in Detroit. “The critics of affirmative action . . . talk about a colorblind society. Give me a break! Hel-lo! They use their ‘colorblind’ the way duck hunters used their duck blind. They hide behind it and hope the ducks won’t figure out what they’re up to.” . . . Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and other green groups sign letter to Gore citing “deep disappointment with the lack of an administration proposal to require significant reductions in global-warming pollution.” . . . “Someday Earth will be like Mars, because as our planet cools off we’ll go through the same changes,” NASA’s Steve Maran tells USA Today, after reviewing data collected by Mars Global Surveyor. . . . Geraldo Rivera questions Susan McDougal: “Did [Starr’s prosecutors] help speed your husband’s illness and his ultimate death?”

■ CNN/WMUR poll of New Hampshire voters: 37 percent pick Texas governor George W. Bush as first choice for GOP presidential nomination, followed by Elizabeth Dole with 16 percent and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) with 14 percent. Dole has “lost half her support since our last poll in January,” notes WMUR. . . . Bush delays formal announcement until after summer, allowing him to dodge Iowa straw poll on August 14 and avoid making major policy statements, but not inhibiting travel and fundraising. . . . Griffin Strategy Group’s PrimaryScoop (www.griffinsg. com) reports presidential campaign consultants with highest revenues. Leader is Bush’s Karl Rove & Co., with $220,225 through March 31. . . . Jeane Kirkpatrick endorses Elizabeth Dole. . . . Steve Forbes, Bill Bradley, and Sen. Bill Frist—on Princeton’s board of trustees—have no comment on hiring of infanticide advocate Peter Singer. . . . McCain, on CNBC’s Hardball, describing the two duties of a vice president: “One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to go to Third World dictators’ funerals.”

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■ Hillary Clinton, introducing president at gun-control event: “Part of growing up is learning how to control one’s impulses.” . . . “What say we into the open muzzle of this tragedy, cocked and aimed at our hearts?” asks Vice President Gore at ceremony following Columbine High School massacre. Several hours later, Gore addresses NAACP in Detroit. “The critics of affirmative action . . . talk about a colorblind society. Give me a break! Hel-lo! They use their ‘colorblind’ the way duck hunters used their duck blind. They hide behind it and hope the ducks won’t figure out what they’re up to.” . . . Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and other green groups sign letter to Gore citing “deep disappointment with the lack of an administration proposal to require significant reductions in global-warming pollution.” . . . “Someday Earth will be like Mars, because as our planet cools off we’ll go through the same changes,” NASA’s Steve Maran tells USA Today, after reviewing data collected by Mars Global Surveyor. . . . Geraldo Rivera questions Susan McDougal: “Did [Starr’s prosecutors] help speed your husband’s illness and his ultimate death?”

■ CNN/WMUR poll of New Hampshire voters: 37 percent pick Texas governor George W. Bush as first choice for GOP presidential nomination, followed by Elizabeth Dole with 16 percent and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) with 14 percent. Dole has “lost half her support since our last poll in January,” notes WMUR. . . . Bush delays formal announcement until after summer, allowing him to dodge Iowa straw poll on August 14 and avoid making major policy statements, but not inhibiting travel and fundraising. . . . Griffin Strategy Group’s PrimaryScoop (www.griffinsg. com) reports presidential campaign consultants with highest revenues. Leader is Bush’s Karl Rove & Co., with $220,225 through March 31. . . . Jeane Kirkpatrick endorses Elizabeth Dole. . . . Steve Forbes, Bill Bradley, and Sen. Bill Frist—on Princeton’s board of trustees—have no comment on hiring of infanticide advocate Peter Singer. . . . McCain, on CNBC’s Hardball, describing the two duties of a vice president: “One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to go to Third World dictators’ funerals.”