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...either giving him the benefit of the doubt or believing his (still missing) side of the story. In the absence of concrete evidence that the President forced anyone to lie, people seem to feel they have no real reason to question him for being less than forthcoming about Monica Lewinsky. There is no sexual harassment alleged. No one got hurt, and Lewinsky may even have almost gotten a job out of it. The economy is strong, and the Iraq crisis has, for the moment, subsided. The President is doing a decent enough job. No harm, no foul...
...article appeared in the American Spectator in 1993 -- would be embroiled in legal action today. "The ironic thing for the President," notes TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "is that if no one connects 'Paula' to Paula Jones, she doesn't file her sexual harassment suit and the name Monica Lewinsky never even comes up." Now Brock has retracted his story, and Jones' case is crumbling. Her lawyers are expected to go to appeal Tuesday in a bid to get the Lewinsky evidence reinstated. But as Judge Wright says, it proves nothing about Jones' own alleged harassment -- and "would frustrate...
...professionals. In that light, the dirt digging provided him with an opportunity: Blumenthal and private investigator Terry Lenzner, also subpoenaed last week, might shed light on what prosecutors suspect is a network of gumshoes possibly hired by Clinton friends to protect the President in matters ranging from Whitewater to Monica...
...from a misleading statement he had made over the weekend based on information provided to him by the White House counsel's office. Specifically, McCurry had flatly denied that anyone connected with the White House had hired or authorized private investigators to probe the background of prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A day later, on Monday, longtime Democratic operative Terry Lenzner acknowledged that his detective agency was indeed working for Clinton's lawyers and told the Washington Post that he found "nothing inappropriate" about investigating the prosecutors. So McCurry was left to reconcile a contradiction not even...
...original, or part-original, of Larry in Maugham's The Razor's Edge. I can stand a good deal of kidding from my friends, but this rumor has poisoned my life for the past six months, and I wish it would die as quickly as possible. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Santa Monica, Calif...