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...having turned a blind eye toward Clinton's affair with his own wife." Lawrence responded by slapping her and Creators Syndicate with a $25 million libel suit. Huffington won't go down easily, telling TIME, "I stand by my column. We're going to file a suit to dismiss her lawsuit...
President Clinton has one chance left to avoid the embarrassment of becoming the first sitting President to star in his own courtroom drama. Led by Robert Bennett, his lawyers have asked Judge Susan Webber Wright to dismiss Paula Jones' case. They say that while Jones' claim began with a single thread--that then Governor Clinton harmed her in 1991, when he allegedly exposed himself and asked for sex in a hotel room--it has since been embroidered into a garish tapestry of ancillary allegations intended to mortify. This week Jones' lawyers will respond to the motion and in doing...
...about some of these arguments is that they have appeared only recently. Judge Wright may view them as lawyerly confections designed to bolster a weak case. But Jones' lawyers have presented enough factual quarrels with Bennett's motion (such as the pay-raise issue) that Wright probably can't dismiss the suit...
...expected to go to appeal Tuesday in a bid to get the Lewinsky evidence reinstated. But as Judge Wright says, it proves nothing about Jones' own alleged harassment -- and "would frustrate the timely resolution of this case." Next up: Wright rules on the Clinton team's motion to dismiss the suit altogether for lack of evidence. For Jones, the worst may be yet to come...
...master of most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any other 20th century man but Lenin. Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition of the whole world to destroy the power his political inspiration had contrived...