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...still holed up in her Watergate duplex, with a permanent TV stakeout on the street below. Your lawyer, William Ginsburg, won't let you leave except for the occasional doctor's visit or maximum-security dinner out, and he won't let you talk on the phone. It's jail! And so you pace the curved, windowless corridors, work out in the gym and page Ginsburg a couple of times a day; an old family friend, he has turned into your D.C. dad. Your time in lockup has been relieved only by the week you spent with your real father...
...business anyway! So you're furious at Starr--Dad's right, you think; he should be working for Hitler. And don't get you started on Linda Tripp. She was your friend--yet she wore a wire and set you up. She's the one who should be in jail. Of course you hate the media for the way they've dissected you. Your hometown paper, the L.A. Times, had 26 reporters on a single story about you, interviewing baby sitters and kindergarten classmates. So-called friends have sold you out for cash, and real ones won't defend...
...There is no greater satisfaction than putting words together that change the forces of the world. Somebody doesn't go to jail, somebody gets heat, somebody gets medical benefits," she said...
West related this experience to a similarincident during his undergraduate years in whichhe and his two roommates were dragged down to theCambridge Jail and held for 18 hours after a whitegirl was raped...
...long time people thought the way to stop crime was by more jail and tougher sentences....Even now people don't think crime is preventable," she said. "This [award] raises public appreciation for the kind of work that can be done...