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White House aides may portray Starr as a leaker and a bully, but he doesn't really have to answer to anyone; he just has to build a case. And it may have been a calculated gamble he was making. "He's trying to lock in all the other witnesses and figure out all the other stuff they know," says a former prosecutor familiar with the case. "That way, he can question Monica. If you're a little bit dubious about the trustworthiness of your star witness, it's not a bad strategy to lock down everything she might...
...time. Clinton stuck with a safe "I'm honoring the rules of the investigation" line, even though the rules don't apply to him: he can say whatever he likes. But twice reporters broke through the glaze, first when he was asked if he would resign. Clinton's answer captured his entire attitude about this crisis: he sidestepped the question of whether he had done anything wrong and said instead that the people looked past his character to his performance. His single answer is the only one a President can ever give: "Never...
Also on Jan. 30, Ginsburg appeared on ABC's 20/20. Asked by Barbara Walters whether Clinton ever gave Lewinsky a dress, Ginsburg responded, "Unless you consider a long T shirt a dress, the answer is no." Last Friday the New York Times reported that Betty Currie, Clinton's personal secretary, had turned over to investigators items she had retrieved from Lewinsky, including a dress. The Times did not say whether it was a stained dress, a gift dress, both, or neither...
...LeTourneau lurch into this nightmare? The answer may be found in her DNA, encoded for blond hair, brown eyes and perhaps bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness. Several blood relatives filed affidavits with the court saying they had been treated for the disorder. Also, she grew up in the shadow of unapproved love: her father John Schmitz, a former ultraconservative California Congressman and college lecturer, ended his career in disgrace after fathering two children by a onetime student...
Life will not be the same without Seinfeld [TELEVISION, Jan. 12]! Ask four of your friends which is their favorite character, and you'll get four different answers. What's more, a month later, your four pals will all have changed their opinions. Jerry Seinfeld claims to have no time for anything, says he missed the '90s and doesn't know what happened. The answer is his show happened. PETER HUNT Cherrybrook, Australia