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Jesse Jackson admits fathering child out of wedlock:

• Jesse Jackson has love child | Took pregnant lover to meet Bill Clinton (New York Daily News)
• Jesse Jackson's statement (Rainbow/PUSH press release)
• Scholar's dalliance stuns her admirers (New York Daily News)
• Life in spotlight | Misstep isn't expected to harm Jackson (New York Daily News)
• Politics & strange bedfellows (New York Daily News)
• How Jesse invented himself in Memphis (Michael Kramer, New York Daily News)
• Rev. is in a 'sorry' state (New York Post)
• Jesse Jackson admits fathering child out of wedlock (Chicago Tribune/Associated Press)
• The pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (Frontline, Apr. 30, 1996)

Uh-Oh, Canada:

1. Message to gay couples not political: Clarkson | Governor-General says she wishes to avoid sensitive issues (National Post)
2. Bishops blast Clarkson for message to gay couple (The [Toronto] Globe and Mail)
3. Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day reeling after settling defamation suit (Associated Press)
4. Earlier: Bigotry Up North | An evangelical's faith generated shrill criticism in a nation known for its tolerance. (Editorial, Christianity Today)

New York's Roman Catholic Archbishop:

1. Egan speaks softly, but carries a big staff (Rod Dreher, New York Post)
2. Archbishop Egan: Ashcroft's abortion views aren't the only issue (New York Post)

John Ashcroft:

• Ashcroft says he would not challenge Roe ruling (The New York Times)
• Ashcroft on track for confirmation (Associated Press
• Conservatives Round Up Ashcroft Support (The Washington Post)

George W. Bush:

• Eugene Rivers decries 'warfare' against Bush by black leaders (The Boston Globe)
• Earlier: The Word on the Street | Eugene Rivers on faith-based urban ministry, the black church, and the "sexual holocaust" in Africa. (Books & Culture, May/June 2000)