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WASHINGTON: After all those lost legal battles over executive privilege, it was no surprise that the White House jumped on Ken Starr's admission that his office leaked information to reporters. "This is a bombshell," senior Clinton advisor Rahm Emmanuel said Sunday of Steve Brill's interview with Starr. Without a trace of irony, Emmanuel added: "There ought to be an investigation." The interview appears in the inaugural issue of Brill's Content magazine...
...White House, of course, loves an excuse to stall. Though some of the crumbs dropped in Brill's magazine seem very serious, Starr maintains that he did nothing illegal, or even improper. However, if it can be shown that the independent counsel leaked grand jury evidence to reporters before it became grand jury evidence, that would be a serious breach of the spirit, if not the letter of the law. "I only wanted to talk to them about the timing," Starr said in the interview. No reporter with any direct contact has yet fingered Starr himself as the source...
...from Scott Joplin and W.C. Handy, so did they help bring black artists into the mainstream. Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker ran their astounding riffs on the backs of sturdy pop tunes by Jewish immigrants. This fruitful collaboration continued throughout rock's first decade, as Jewish kids in the Brill Building wrote teen anthems for the Shirelles and the Ronettes--pop's twilight of multiracial synergy...
...STEVE BRILL New mag has to change name from Content to Brill's Content; Hope Brylcreem doesn't carp...
...Brill has a good chance of ruffling some serious feathers among the media crowd. But he insists he won't be an avenging angel: "If your tone is bitter and scolding, the outsider looking in, that carries its own bias. You have no credibility." So Content will give out pats on the back as well as skewerings. "Not enough of the good stuff is appreciated because it's so swamped by the bad stuff," he says. "We're going to spend a lot of time finding the good stuff...