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Clinton's second, proven, passion (warning: pun ahead) is for cunning linguistics. Time after time, he has eluded foes and critics by means of clever verbal games. When is smoking pot not smoking pot? Clinton had an answer for this paradox. And according to one of the Arkansas state troopers involved in the suddenly tame-seeming Troopergate scandal, Clinton can answer an even harder one: When is fooling around on your wife permissible under the Ten Commandments? He told me, the trooper recalled in the American Spectator, that he had researched the subject in the Bible and oral...
...that point, what had seemed like foolhardy grandstanding suddenly looked like a clever legal maneuver. The program called Explorer, Microsoft lawyers explained, no longer exists as an independent entity. Microsoft engineers have woven ever larger chunks of Explorer code into the fabric of the Windows operating system in the form of those .DLL files--miniprograms that link PC applications to the Net. The more intertwined Explorer and Windows become, the more fluidly Windows will adapt to the Web--which is why rivals are so eager to stop Microsoft from tying the two together...
Football season is over. But at least it went out with style despite five hours of pre-game shows and a few more hours of post-game shows. Besides the clever inducements to spend money, there was--for the first time in a long time--a great game...
...With Friends Like These There are things you can say in public ? and then there?s what Dick Morris said on the radio about supposed friend Hillary Clinton. Although some suspect a clever plot, Morris is said to be extremely distraught over the gaffe...
...throughout his career as an editorialist, Kaufman has mistaken ideology for morality, eschewing facts and logic in favor of agendas and vendettas. If heeding his admonishment "avoid neutrality at all costs" makes a writer good, then Kaufman is remarkable. Clever to the last, Kaufman illuminates what good writing is by showing us what it is not. DAVID M. LEHN...