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Article: Hillary Makes Her Move: Rattled by rumors that she was cooling to her campaign, the First Lady vows to settle in New York and run hard.(Hillary Clinton announces intention to run for Senate)(National Affairs)
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- Newsweek
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- December 6, 1999
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Her Senate campaign hadn't even formally begun, and already it was rumored to be in trouble. Hillary Clinton's poll numbers were dropping, her Washington-based advisers were under fire from local pols and--worst of all--fund-raising was said to be slowing. Her latest troubles began with The Kiss: the diplomatically correct, but politically disastrous, embrace of Palestinian First Lady Suha Arafat, who had charged Israelis with poisoning Arab children. Seemingly shaken by the response in New York--where it is assumed that a candidate who fails to seize any opportunity to defend Israel can't possibly be serious--Clinton lay low while traveling for a week, giving Republicans ...