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Since leaving the White House in 1994, Kathleen Willey's day-to-day life has become hand-to-mouth. She has worked as a receptionist at a Richmond hair salon. During the 1996 presidential campaign, Willey was in the middle of a four-month stint at the city's Montana Gold Bread Co., a place she used to patronize. With a T shirt, an apron and a bandanna, she was responsible for the cinnamon rolls early in the day and later for muffins, kneading bread and waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when...
...Lewinsky affair has also been a boost to Slate's chief rival among magazines written for the Web, Salon salonmagazine.com) But Salon editor David Talbot says the San Francisco-based Webzine has no plans to start charging; he claims it will turn a profit within a year, primarily from ad revenue...
...Slate's move will at least help answer a vital question facing the Webzines: Who needs them? Both Slate and Salon have provided an outlet for provocative writers (Camille Paglia, Jacob Weisberg), clever ideas (Slate's Clintometer, a running gauge of the President's chances of being forced out of office, lately replaced by the Starrometer) and the occasional scoop (Salon's report last week that a group with ties to the Rev. Jerry Falwell has paid $200,000 to people making allegations against Clinton--a charge Falwell's camp denies). But the barrage of 'zine commentary, columnizing and contrarian...
...Bill Clinton to resign or ask public forgiveness. His grounds: Scripture bids the leader, "Flee from all appearances of evil," and standards are "immensely higher for those who invoke the name of Christ, as Bill Clinton does." Falwell, however, may have a first-stone problem. In the Web magazine Salon, reporter MURRAY WAAS writes that a group called Citizens for Honest Government paid more than $200,000 to people who accused Clinton of such crimes as aiding an Arkansas cocaine ring. CHG folded those allegations, and worse, into its 1994 Clinton-hater tape The Clinton Chronicles. Falwell sold...
...fire at a hair salon at the Cambridge Galleria Mall led police and firefighters to evacuate the building and block traffic on JFK Street south of Mount Auburn Street...