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Like pro wrestling, this fight is most interesting for its colorful combatants, and it's hard to know whom to root for. Hitchens is a tweedy contrarian from the British upper classes, a page of Evelyn Waugh brought to Washington. His Oxonian socialism led him to bash Princess Diana after her death and demonize Mother Teresa in a scathing book. The sharp-elbowed Blumenthal made enemies as a rabidly pro-Clinton journalist, and even more as the Clintons' lofty--some would say supercilious--ambassador to the White House press corps. But the real question is Who's winning? Hitchens took...
Somehow, Social Security reform doesn't attract the same audience. "This was our national soap opera," says neoconservative pundit Laura Ingraham. "It was our Days of Our Lives." So expect to hear more from people like Geraldo Rivera, host of a nightly CNBC talk show, who bashes Ken Starr the way he used to bash O.J. Simpson. Rivera has fed viewers an all-impeachment diet for months. Asked whether he will ever move on, he responds, "I have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury...
...term political gains are never worth long-term economic risks. Even though this year he had plenty of incentives to pump up his role in Asia and Russia, he has remained mum. In particular, that meant resisting the temptation to "talk up" the dollar or the stock market or bash the Fed for interest-rate moves. And Clinton has, in typical style, been an aggressive autodidact. Aides recall the time last fall when, nursing an aching back, Clinton spent an afternoon stretched out on a White House couch with one eye on the TV and the other on George Soros...
...because these are heady times for hip-hop, and no one has done more to lead it to the promised land of mainstream acclaim than the man called Puff Daddy. Whether it be the Hamptons polo match he played host to last year or his coronation-like 29th birthday bash thronged by well-wishers from Muhammad Ali to Martha Stewart, Combs has planted hip-hop's flag in places undreamed of a decade...
...Presides over "The People's Celebration"--a four-hour-long bash intended to give ordinary citizens a chance to glorify Jesse. On the musical lineup: Trailer Trash...