BIDEN TIME: NEW DEM IN RACE

    Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, who has made no secret of his plans to run for president in 2008, will make it official next Wednesday.

    He is regarded as a longshot in the presidential contest, but is a leading Dem spokesman on foreign affairs.

    Biden was a candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, but withdrew after it was learned he had plagiarized passages in his speeches.