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Rappers 50 Cent (left) and The Game kiss and make up. Clintons have decisions Six months after undergoing heart quadruple bypas surgery, former President Clinton will return under the knife this week to have a rare buildup of fluid and scar tissue removed from his chest. "I feel fine," Clinton said yesterday in Washington, adding I Joran i vander that he plans to play golf today in Florida a day before the operation. Doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospi- Sloot I ty Medical Center, where Clinton, 58, is scheduled to have the procedure, said the surgery is low-risk. "It's no big deal," Clinton said.

A Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion poll released yesterday found that 46 percent of voters want the former first lady to run for the White House in 2008 while 49 percent said she should Dutch teen held in missing case A 17-year-old Dutch youth must remain behind bars as authorities on the island of Aruba try to find out what happened to Natalee Hollo way, who was last seen six weeks ago leaving a nightclub an appeals court said Thursday. The court also ruled that there was not enough evidenc to detain two Surinamese brothers in connection with the disappear ance of the 18-year-old Alabama woman. During a closed hearing Tuesday, a judge heard appeals from a defense lawyer seeking the release of Joran van der Sloot the son of a judge in training on the island. Van der Sloot and the brothers were among the last people to see Hollo way before she vanished May 30 on the final night of her high-school graduation trip. End to not.

The percent favoring a run is up from percent in a December Marist poll. tivity behind us," said Fiddy, a native New Yorker. "A lot of people don't want to see it happen, but we're responding to the two most important groups, our family and our fans." "I just want to apologize on behalf of myself and 50," said PERHAPS selling 1.1 million copies of his new album, "The Massacre," in four days has softened the heart of 50 Cent. 50 Cent and The Game publicly squashed a bitter feud yesterday that had erupted into gunfire last week after 50 kicked Game out of his G-Unit clique for disloyal Game who's from the Los Angeles suburb of Compton. "I'm almost ashamed to have participated in the things that happened in the last couple of weeks." 50 presented an oversized check for $150,000 to the Boys Choir of Harlem.

REAL OR NOT? Do you believe there's a truce? Or do you think it's a sham. Vote at 215-854-5397 ty- The two platinum-selling gangsta rappers kissed and made up. When they emerged before a media throng at Harlem's famed Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, both, however, looked as if they'd been shoved into apolo On the Republican side, 24 percent of GOP voters favor former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for the Republican nomination. Secretary of State Condo-leezza Rice is favored by 16 percent. Ploy achieves goal: He's in jail William Crutchfield was so deeply in debt he allegedly hatched a twisted plan: Kill a federal employee.

This way he could live off the government while behind bars. Two weeks ago, Crutchfield, 60, walked down the driveway of Snellville home greeted his mail carrier at the curb. He then opened fire with a pistol. Earl Lazenb was shot seven times. The 52-year-old grandfather would live, but he would never be able to digest food or produce insulin by himself.

Crutchfield has appeared in court twice, attempting to plead guilty. He remains in jail getting three squares a day. Sold: Matthew Rouse A company that hosts Web sites will give Matthew Jean Rouse a new middle name The 31-year-old used eBay to auction the right to pick him a new middle name that would replace the despised "Jean." The bidding was cut off Monda when LucaHost.com agreed to the $8,000 "Buy It Now" price. The company has not yet told him his new name Video games to be taken Serious Fire -breathing aliens, daredevils on snowboards, high-speed auto chases that's what you won't find at this video -game conference. This year's Serious Games Summit, part of the annual Game Developer Con-ference for the industry's programmers, artists, and executiv es, focused on the growing needs of the education, healthcare, and advertising industries.

"Serious games are a great opportunity" for the video -game industry, said Jamil Moledina, conference director of the Game Developers Conference. "It offers an alterna tive revenue stream to develop new ideas," he said. "You take the fun-game mechanic and apply it to practical purposes." Game donated $103,500. It was not clear why Game chose that amount or whether he had been reinstated in G-Unit. They also both made contributions to the Compton schools music program.

Is the truce sincere? "Of course it was genuine," said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who was at the event. "They stood on stage together. Sizzle wire services gies by a stern mother. But they did shake hands, albeit at the end of the news conference, after speaking about contrition. 50 noted that yesterday was the anniversary of the unsolved murder of Biggie Smalls in 1997, the culmina tion of a rap war between Biggie and Tupac Shakur that pitted East Coast against West.

"We're here today to show that people can rise above the most difficult circumstances, and together we can put nega Dowlnd. 24.24 10,912.62 Nasdaq 16.66 2,073.55 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS PAGE A-ll MONDAY, JULY 18, 2005.