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According to Richard Posner and Katherine Silbaugh's "A Guide to Americas Sex Laws" (University of Chicago Press, 1996)--housed on the P3 level of Pusey Library, where all the really good books are--fellatio is illegal in the nation's capitol. Very illegal. Silbaugh and Posner read D.C. Code Annual 22-3502 (enacted 1948) as designating it a felony to "take the sexual organ of another person in ones mouth...or to place ones sexual organ in the mouth...of another...
What's more, under another statute Clinton would be guilty of misdemeanor adultery, although Lewinsky would not. D.C. Code Annual 16-904(b)(3) (enacted 1963), Posner and Silbaugh explain, stipulates that "when [adultery] is between a married woman and an unmarried man, both parties are guilty." On the other hand, when it occurs "between a married man and an unmarried woman, only the man is deemed guilty." Tough luck...
...Secret Service has certainly taken note. Legal wrangling has begun over their right to resist Starr?s subpoenas ? on the grounds that breaking their code of silence makes it hard to protect the First Family. While Janet Reno mulled the matter over, President Clinton?s supporters pounced on the agency?s crisis of confidence. ?This is a further example of desperate and apparently irresponsible tactics by Mr. Starr,? said Lanny Davis, former White House special legal counsel...
...Bill Clinton, but he is also proof positive that not every baby boomer started out as a little rebel. The son of a Church of Christ minister, the future independent counsel was raised not to drink or smoke. At George Washington University in the 1960s, when the academic dress code was being cracked at every turn, he would show up in class in a jacket and tie. And even as a teenager, when the freedom to be a slob is supposed to seem like one of life's essential liberties, he liked having everything just so. "By the time...
Arafat, in Israel's estimation, regards the war option only as a desperate last resort in case diplomacy fails altogether. Still, Israel has developed and simulated multiple plans for battling the Palestinians anew, including one code-named "Field of Thorns," which calls for the retaking of the West Bank cities. Both sides know two things in advance of another fight: Israel will win it, and it will be horribly painful. "It'll be much bigger than last September," says an Israeli commander. "Much crueler, much bloodier, much more complicated...