The First Lady’s second chance

THERE must have been plenty of times over the years, given what the world now knows about them, when Hillary Clinton dreamed of putting some distance between herself and her husband. Now, as her campaign to become a senator for New York gathers pace, she is at last getting a chance to fulfil that dream. She is spending more time living in the state that she hopes to represent; and she is also putting some light between herself and her presidential husband on a growing range of issues, from the economic (federal subsidies for New York hospitals) to the highly emotional (the “Don't ask, don't tell” policy for homosexuals in the American armed forces).