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McCurry last spoke at Harvard in March, at anevent sponsored by the Shorenstein Center. At thetime, in the early stages of the ongoinginvestigation into an alleged affair between thePresident and former intern Monica S. Lewinsky,McCurry quipped that "it would be a lot better tobe lecturing at Harvard...
...much for Monica's day in court. Now, what did she reveal? Exactly what was expected of her -- and, as TIME Daily reported back in January, exactly what she told Linda Tripp -- according to legal sources quoted across the board Friday: That she and President Clinton had sexual relations more than a dozen times in his small private study down the hallway from the Oval Office. That Clinton did not consider what they were doing to be sex, allowing for deniability. That, in the normal manner of an affair, they discussed concealing the relationship -- but that Clinton never told Lewinsky...
...TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf, this is one set of secrets that won't spread along the legal grapevine. "In this case, there's not a lot of motivation for the defense to talk," says Weisskopf -- since if the President found out, it might allow him to undermine Monica. Of course, he could always try reading the newspapers...
...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says that the other dress -- indeed, dresses -- was no canard. A slew of them, including the black one, was packed up by prosecutors after that first unfruitful closet search. (The blue dress, you'll recall, had been stashed at Monica's mother's.) And several did have suspicious-looking stains on the front, which were subsequently tested by the FBI. The result, says Shannon, was anticlimactic: "Apparently, Monica was a sloppy eater." So it seems Monica's wardrobe could lead in two directions: to the White House or the Golden Arches...
...Lewinsky scandal, Saddam -- as if on cue -- rattles his saber and launches a new crisis. The Iraqi leader on Wednesday suspended all cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors, threatening the February deal forged by Kofi Annan that resolved the last tense standoff (which, conveniently for Clinton, coincided with the Monica eruption...