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With just seven months left in office, Bill Clinton is desperate for a foreign policy triumph. Anything that helps push the Monica Lewinsky scandal to a footnote when historians write his presidency. Moscow won't be any help. Clinton flew to Russia on June 3 to try to convince its new president, Vladimir Putin, to accept an American missile-defense system combined with a treaty to cut deeply into both sides' strategic nuclear arsenal, but Putin wasn't a bit interested. So the President has now turned to the Middle East as his last hope for a foreign policy victory...
Perhaps this is not surprising, just months after the sordid conclusion of the Monica S. Lewinsky trial and the Elian Gonzalez circus. Washington is a little tattered around the edges right now, and students notice...
Halfway through the address, O'Brien switched to what he called a more "serious" tone when recounting going from unemployed comic writer, temping at the Santa Monica branch of Wilson's House of Suede and Leather to writing stints on Saturday Night Live, the Simpsons and ultimately hosting "Late Night...
...federal judge who presided over (and dismissed) Paula Jones' lawsuit against Clinton. Last year Wright fined the President $90,000 for contempt of court. The President, said Wright, "had undermined the integrity of the judicial process" when he denied in his Jones deposition that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky or that he had ever been alone with her. In fact, by now it's pretty much unanimous: everybody knows that these answers, given under oath before a federal judge, were lies...
...exquisitely postmodern, not to say Clintonian, about punishing someone by not allowing him to do what he didn't want to do anyway.) No matter. In court the President and his lawyers will be forced to argue that, under the tortured definition of sex used in the Jones deposition, Monica Lewinsky was having sex with him and not vice versa. They will argue, as they did before the professional-conduct committee, that his long years of "public service" mitigate against punishment--with the odd implication that people in high office should be held to a lower standard of conduct than...