WASHINGTON - The extraordinary life and adventures of Hillary Rodham Clinton began with an utterly ordinary childhood in the middle of the country, in the middle of the century, in the house at the corner of Wisner and Elm.

Hers was an Ozzie and Harriet youth of dodge ball, baby-sitting and bologna sandwiches in suburban Chicago. The girl scout grew into a Goldwater girl, the Goldwater girl became a Democrat, the Democrat became a lawyer, and the lawyer fell in love with a lawyer.

That is where the story line begins its improbable, serpentine path, wending from Watergate to Whitewater to the White House. Now, after a side trip to the Capitol, Clinton hopes it will take her back to the White House once again, this time as the first female president rather than the dutiful spouse.

Her future, says Clinton, has always been unpredictable.

"It's a constant surprise what I do and what happens to me," she said when she turned 50, in 1997.

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