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Last Friday, Tripp issued a statement to offset her image as the villain of the piece. But it's too late for that. It's now clear that Tripp made the tapes not because she wanted to forestall a challenge to her veracity if she had to out Monica Lewinsky the way she did Kathleen Willey. She didn't put them in a vault to be used defensively. She voluntarily played them for Ken Starr in a pre-emptive strike against the White House she hated, at the expense of the person she had befriended. She readily became an informant...
...Saturday, four days after the Monica Lewinsky story burst into the media frenzy that engulfed Washington. Bill Clinton spent most of the morning and afternoon with his political aides and lawyers trying to figure out how to deal with the crisis and agonizing over whether to brave a press conference or stand silent until after his State of the Union address. Then, at 4 p.m., he took an hour break from the mess to think about going to war. He walked into the Cabinet Room, where his top foreign and defense officials were debating whether and how to bomb Iraq...
...week Monica ruled the waves. It was radio Monica every day and TV-talk-show Monica every night. Monica made every morning's paper and the cover of the weekly magazines. Like an endless D-day announcement, she rippled across the other famous zipper, in Times Square. But if you craved Monica maximus, there was only one place for you. On the Web it was all Monica all the time...
...care what the polls say about how everybody thinks the media overcovered Monica. As one of the guys who run TIME DAILY's Website, I know better: you wanted as much of her as we had to give. And then some. Any news site you could point a mouse at reported record traffic. Our hit rate doubled, and virtually every Web editor I spoke to reported a similar jump. In some cases the bounce was even higher. Back in September, after the Princess of Wales died, the New York Times on the Web hit a million page-views...
...many bad jokes cropped up so quickly that Usenet groups competed for the title of Canonical Clinton-Lewinsky Joke List. The Bulgarian daily Sega crossed the Balkans--and partisan lines--to set up a Website where Clinton loyalists could leave supportive messages for the President. And the Official Monica Lewinsky Anagrams Page (I Yen Woman Licks; Slick May Win One) expanded its lexicon to include her lawyer, William Ginsburg (Bill Wins...