NEW YORK -- It's months away from being on bookshelves, but fans can't get enough of the seventh - and final - Harry Potter book, no matter the cost.
Not only is "Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows" topping the charts of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, a deluxe edition, priced at $65, is No. 2, outselling the "You" diet book, Sen. Barack Obama and an Oprah Winfrey-endorsed memoir by Sidney Poitier.
DURING her first campaign swing last weekend through Iowa, the small mid-western state where a year from now, she will face the first test in her bid to win the Democratic Party nomination for the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was asked many times whether she was prepared for the months of scrutiny of her private life and political record.
She said she had been through that sort of scrutiny and those sort of dirty tricks before and was prepared for whatever came her way.
But she was not asked how she would handle questions about perhaps the biggest political failure of her husband's first term, one that played a large role in the Republican Party's mid-term election victories in 1994 and one for which she has to take much of the "credit".
