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...dare call her a post-modernist...
...anything to do with it. With one eye to last month?s hearings and the other to next November, the chamber voted 97-0 Thursday night in favor of a bill to overhaul the IRS. The unanimity and bipartisanship was surprising, but not entirely unexpected -- after all, who would dare support a government agency that congressional witnesses have compared to the Gestapo? As the chief architect of the bill, Sen. William V. Roth, charmingly put it, the IRS "has too much power and not enough sunshine...
...grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much sense anymore of the sheer weirdness of that fact. We are harder to shock...
WASHINGTON: The Ken-and-Monica game of truth or dare got a lot rougher for both parties yesterday with Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's decision to deny Lewinsky immunity. Although Lewinsky's attorneys have vowed to appeal, legal experts believe she has no grounds until she's actually appeared before Starr's grand jury and been found in contempt. "That would mean she may have to sit in jail pending the appeal," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak...
...Whether the independent counsel would dare play hardball in the face of widespread hostility is another question. Nathaniel Speights, Lewinsky?s Washington-based attorney, knows what it would look like to the man in the street: ?Somebody being indicted for having a sexual relationship with the President.? Both Speights and William Ginsburg have previously said they would appeal in the event of this decision -- which should buy Monica just a little more frolicking time...