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Jenny E. Heller, in her piece "Ashamed to Be an American Abroad" (Opinion, Jan. 6) feels ashamed to be an American because her president had oral sex in the Oval Office. True, America has become a laughing stock. But this is not because President Clinton had an extramarital affair, but because the nation--especially its politicians and its press--have become obsessed with the issue...
...Washington heard enough about presidential sex? Apparently not, because the town is starting to buzz about yet another Oval Office affair. This one has nothing to do with Monica--or Bill. The latest White House romance unfolds in a novel called Face-Time by Erik Tarloff, a screenwriter and occasional Clinton speechwriter who's married to Laura Tyson, formerly Clinton's top economist. But the reason people are talking about Face-Time, which Tarloff began long before the Gap dress went under an FBI microscope, isn't that it offers an insider's look at explicit sex. These days...
Gone are the bullet head lamps, the big chrome bumpers and the whitewalls. But it hasn't lost those signature portholes, the oval grille or, most important, the silver badge with the turquoise inlay. Make no mistake: the T-Bird is back. Rolled out last week to a roaring crowd at the North American International Auto Show, the 2001 model is more muted than the 1955 original, but it's still very Beach Boys. The original Thunderbird, after all, was the car that virtually defined America's postwar enthusiasm--an age of relative innocence. Says J Mays, Ford Motor...
...Alan Greenspan. Finally, the most justified concern: some are afraid that the president's conviction would strengthen the hold of conservative Republicans over Congress. But the Democrats would be in a stronger position to keep the right wing in check if we had an honest leader in the Oval Office...
...politics of impeachment are having an effect not only on the fate of the man sitting in the Oval Office, but also on those who would like to succeed him. According to aides and friends, one aspirant, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, has all but decided that the year 2000 is the wrong time for him. Observing the anti-impeachment sentiments expressed by the public in the last election, "Gephardt sees a great chance to obtain a Democratic majority in the next Congress and become the next House Speaker," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "By contrast the odds...