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Bill Clinton says Sen. Barack Obama is a highly ambitious political prodigy who is asking voters to ''roll the dice'' and elect him president. He should know -- that's a fair description of Clinton when he sought the presidency in 1992. The fact that the former president is stealing a page from the same Republican playbook used against him 15 years ago underscores the threat Obama poses to the candidacy of Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak echoed President Putin's remarks, saying adults have a right to 'understand their sexual activity,' but adding, 'Please do not touch kids. That’s the only thing.'

The Iowa supreme court is ready to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a gay marriage case that USA Today reports "could echo throughout the nation and be far more difficult to challenge at the ballot box than a high-profile ruling in California, legal experts say."

Germany on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial to the thousands of homosexuals persecuted and killed under the Nazis, a monument meant both to honor a long-ignored group of victims and to make a statement against ongoing intolerance. The memorial sits on the edge of the capital's Tiergarten park -- across the road from Germany's memorial to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims. The single gray concrete slab is a deliberate echo of the smaller slabs that make up that memorial, but also includes a small window that lets visitors see a film of two men kissing.