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...Reported by Jay Branegan, Margaret Carlson, J.F.O. McAllister and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and Andrea Sachs/New York
...Reported by Jay Branegan, Margaret Carlson, J.F.O. McAllister and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...President's five-minute mea culpa was going to get Monday night -- and by all accounts, not even his grand jury testimony mentioned the specifics. He came out fighting too. Attacks on the independent counsel peppered a speech that was "surprisingly defiant," according to TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "He's daring Ken Starr to subpoena him to get the rest of the testimony...
...while opponents will be able to pick holes in the President's sincerity, the core constituency -- those millions of folks who just want to get this over with -- have just about enough of an admission to go on. "This speech was keyed towards the people," says Branegan, "not the political spectrum, not Starr, not Congress...
...careful management, adds Branegan, the fund has become "a way for people to express how they feel about Starr." Which is what seems to have spurred Hollywood's elite into action. "There is a well financed group of zealots who want to bring down the President ... and he's broke," claimed entertainment mogul David Geffen, who joined the Spielbergs, Hankses and Streisands in giving the maximum $10,000 contribution. "I would have given more, but they didn't want any more," added Geffen. That's not entirely true -- the Clintons have a $10 million legal hole to fill -- but given...