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...legal Kevlar. Lew Merletti, director of the Secret Service, has made it clear from the start that he will fight Starr all the way to the Supreme Court to prevent his agents from testifying in court. And Starr's prosecutors have been just as unyielding in carrying out their boss's vow to "run down every lead" about the President's relationship with Lewinsky. "They're not really half-a-loaf kind of guys," said a Justice Department official...
...illegal campaign contribution from Yene?s friend Vanessa Weaver, in return for Herman?s help in acquiring a federal license for a satellite phone system. Herman says Yene is simply out for revenge over a soured business deal. And she?s certainly got the support of her boss: The President, explained a wry Mike McCurry, ?knows what it?s like to be nibbled by an independent counsel...
Beatty has created several dead-on characters, particularly his top aide Murphy (Oliver Platt). Although his boss has started speaking almost entirely in class- and race-baiting rap and insults the vapid, helmet-blond moderator of the final debate, Murphy soldiers on as if he's got just a nanny problem on his hands. He praises the "value of a frank exchange" as the richest Jews in California walk out on a Bulworth rant. "Forty winks," and his guy will be just fine. "He's tied up with his advisers," he barks into two phones when Bulworth has disappeared...
Remember Alyssa Milano, the fresh-faced kid on Who's the Boss? These days a more, um, adult side of the actress, and countless other stars, is on display at unauthorized pay-for-celebrity-skin websites offering film stills, candids and digitized fakes. Alyssa's angry mom Lin Milano formed CyberTrackers to combat the sites and last week filed suit--the first of its kind--against two of them. A case to watch...
Could stock prices chug higher despite these signs? Sure. It wouldn't be the first time the boss was wrong. But caution in the corner office should at least serve as an antidote to the infectious exuberance at the barbershop...