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...three weeks now, the leaks have come so fast and steady that they feel like an official daily briefing. But they are an underground river in which fact and gossip and memory spin past the truth and flow straight through any number of agendas. Lewinsky's lawyers want to keep their client out of jail. The President's men want to keep their man in office. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr wants to keep his investigation moving, and the leaks have a way of flushing out witnesses he may not know about. And all sorts of other lawyers and witnesses, dreaming...
...next day Drudge appeared on NBC's Today show. In his introduction Matt Lauer called the Drudge Report "a media gossip page known for below-the-Beltway reporting." Lauer asked Drudge about his story. Drudge said Tripp "has told this to investigators." Asked if he had confirmation, Drudge responded, "Not outside of what I've just heard, but I don't think anybody does at this point." The Today show had just given NBC News' imprimatur and a national platform to Drudge to report on the President. "I wouldn't call what he does reporting," objects University of Virginia professor...
Birthday Letters answers that question, but not in a way that is likely to satisfy those looking for gossip or breast-baring confessions. The 88 poems assembled here--all but two of them, The Pan and The Inscription, addressed to Plath as "you"--combine to form an often harrowing and poignant narrative in which the central characters are doomed to their fates before the story begins...
...undermine them. Second, if the charges are never proven, the Republican attack dogs might find themselves wallowing at the credibility levels of the Vince-Foster-was-murdered crowd. Third, if perceived to be neglecting their governmental responsibilities, the Republicans might be charged by the American public with chasing gossip at the expense of more important issues. Finally, even if the Republicans ultimately succeed in getting some of the charges to stick, they have got to be wary of the thought of a refreshingly-square President Gore running for re-election in 2000, with a few years of White House experience...
...Netly News Washington correspondent Declan McCullagh says the unnamed villain was clear: online gossip-slinger Matt Drudge, who forced the Lewinsky scandal to the forefront by leaking the Newsweek account -- and who is also the target of a libel suit by Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal...