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...broke his parole, granted after one year of his sentence, to travel to the New Jersey school. There, he succeeded in bilking Princeton of nearly $22,000. After he was arrested for breaking parole, defrauding the university and several other charges, he served nine months at the Mercer County Detention Center in New Jersey...
...Clinton story raises the old questions about the "character issue" and the relevance of the sex lives of politicians. It is an issue that rounds up the usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...
...candidate's sex life is essentially a phony, except when (as with Gary Hart, who recklessly dared reporters to find him out) it may reveal some troublesome trait of personality. Does anyone think that Franklin Roosevelt was a worse President because he had an affair with Lucy Mercer? Human sexual life is rich and complex, but its interest is more novelistic than moral...
...Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist New York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...
Scant minutes after Mercer has been skewered by the defense, Dunleavy escorts her back to her car, then glides past rows of press cameras with a proud grin on his face. At one point the Current Affair star is overheard chatting with a colleague on the mobile phone. Then he abruptly breaks off and says conspiratorially, "I'll call you back later on a safe line...