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Article: Three-candidate monte: Al Sharpton is playing his favorite game with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards--but can anyone really win?(Intelligencer)
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- New York
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- December 24, 2007
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AL SHARPTON can't help himself. Here he is: suited up in a banker's three-piece, a Churchill-size cigar between his fingers ("the power look," he says), and anchored in a club chair at the Grand Havana Room, the members-only stogie club that hovers above the clouds, on the top floor of 666 Fifth Avenue.
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"Here, check this out," he says, resting the cigar with a thud. He fishes in his pants pocket, produces a cell phone, pushes a few buttons, and passes it over for a listen.
The voice sounds familiar. "Hey, Al, this is Hillary Clinton, and ..." Is it really her? Yep. Clinton is actually calling Sharpton for--pinch yourselves, folks--campaign ...