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...with CINDY CRAWFORD aired on ABC last week than news came of a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against Crawford by London-based producer Peter Stuart. Stuart claims he was instrumental in developing the show but was left out of final negotiations with the network. He may yet regret claiming any association with the finished product, which features the unattainably gorgeous, world-traveled Crawford probing sexual attitudes in Middle America. It seems the ratings proved significantly less stimulating than anything produced by Ken Starr...
...point isn't really that compassion has no place in the punishment of a President. The point is that compassion is always in order--just no more for a President than for a bank robber. Harsh verdicts should always be rendered with a kind of reluctance and regret...
...good time to strike, with polls showing growing public disquiet over the House's handling of possible impeachment hearings. Expect more attacks from the First Lady soon; she's not one to be passive with her tenure at stake. If her husband were impeached, of course, Hillary would regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. And for the rest of her life...
Last week Representative Dan Burton, a vicious critic of Clinton, broke new nonapology ground when he expressed pre-emptive regret for what a Vanity Fair reporter might have found in some 200 interviews. Burton suddenly remembered he had been separated from his wife three times. The next day his memory was jogged again when he learned that an Indianapolis paper would report that he had had an affair and fathered an illegitimate child. He wouldn't say more because of "everybody's heart being ripped out" and because "enough is enough." Sound familiar...
...first statement and his statement from the Kremlin had the key elements of apologies. He admitted fault (saying "I made a mistake," not "Mistakes were made"), expressed regret and promised to make amends ("I am prepared to do whatever it takes...