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Last week, as the legal skirmishing between Ken Starr and Bill Clinton reached its highest pitch yet, the independent counsel won the right to question someone who was at Clinton's side at virtually every moment of the Bosnia trip: Secret Service special agent Larry Cockell, the President's bodyguard. After a series of courtroom victories that largely swept away the notion of a "protective privilege" shielding Secret Service agents from having to testify about what they saw or heard while on duty, Starr is free to ask Cockell if he knows anything that contradicts the President's testimony. Cockell...
Starr has long been seeking the testimony of two of the uniformed officers who guard the White House hallways. But last week he startled Washington by issuing his first subpoena to a member of Clinton's plainclothes security detail--Cockell, who until last week was the special agent in charge. Cockell joined the presidential detail almost exactly two years ago. That was two months after Lewinsky had been transferred from the White House to the Pentagon, but it put him in a position to talk about events of this past winter--and not just the Bosnia trip. Starr may want...
...cutesy Ron Howard, but a scary Redbeard. In his red Cardinal uniform, with red Oakley sunglasses and his bright red goatee, McGwire is more frightening than Carrot Top. McGwire, more than Ruth, strips the game bare. Cro-Magnon man didn't court the media or haggle over free-agent contracts, and neither does Big Mac. He comes to the plate to the tune of the Guns 'N' Roses war dance Welcome to the Jungle. After a home run, he jogs around the bases with his head down, and he takes a curtain call only when the fans...
...planning a trip. Two years ago, you would have phoned your travel agent. But now the complex, proprietary database systems that control the world's airplane-reservations systems are available online and free, reduced to a set of Web pages so simple that even technophobes can book a trip to Paris. And at sites like priceline.com you can actually tell the computer what you're willing to pay for a ticket and then wait to see if it can find an airline that's willing to take you. But will this replace your traditional travel agent? Do you really want...
...very obsession with glamour and celebrity, Brown's magazine was also surprisingly square. The old New Yorker prided itself on resisting hype. Brown, whose mother was once Laurence Olivier's press agent, loves the Next Big Thing without reservation. Her New Yorker took a place at the overcrowded table of weeklies and monthlies already chewing over the same movies and celebrities and titans of industry...