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...choose naughty ranting, the alternative might be ever more rapidly recycled nostalgia. This is how everyone from Tony Bennett to Tom Jones and Wayne Newton -- all once the polar opposite of hip -- can qualify as hip, given time. But this approach presents the danger of not only turning the avant-garde into a permanent revival tent but also having old mistakes pop right back up. Of course, then you have to rationalize them. "The '70s clothes that are being rehashed are so incredibly ugly, so intentionally ugly, that they actually could be perceived as a rebellion against propriety," the designer...
...shown his bias and should give up the job. Kenneth Starr, a Republican, criticized the president's recent claim that he be granted immunity from the unrelated Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit. Starr's criticism of the President makes any decision he makes "compromised," said Clinton counsel Robert Bennett. Starr says he'll do his best to be impartial...
...Jones lawsuit is a case of first impression, meaning that the courts have never before been asked to rule on the essential question: Does presidential immunity extend to conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages...
...Jones proceeds now, Bennett plans to argue, the decision could inspire copycat lawsuits. In Fitzgerald, Chief Justice Warren Burger was worried that uncontrolled litigation, which sometimes is used as "a mechanism of extortion," could spur a President's political opponents to file suits simply to distract him from his duties. After quoting Burger, Bennett's draft says "one can readily imagine" further claims, "especially involving unwitnessed one-on-one encounters that are exceedingly difficult to disprove. Moreover, given the moral annihilation approach to modern politics, one can easily envision political operatives recruiting putative plaintiffs to embarrass a President...
President Clinton will ask a court to delay the Paula Jones sexual harrassment lawsuit until after he leaves office. Clinton's attorney in the case, Robert Bennett, filed papers today in Little Rock's federal district court saying the president would make his case for special immunity by Aug. 5. The lines of argument will probably follow a Supreme Court ruling that former President Nixon could not be sued for certain actions taken while in office. The problem with presidential immunity in this case: Jones alleges she was harrassed by Clinton when he was still governor...