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...about. Ken Starr and his deputies had slightly different stories to tell when they finally hit what Starr had earlier derided as "the talk-show circuit" Wednesday. Asked about the first, crucial hours when his office held Monica Lewinsky without an attorney, the independent counsel told ABC's Diane Sawyer "it was fair and right to go to someone who is in the midst of a very serious thing." But Starr deputy Robert Bittman said his boss was "a little na?ve" or "ignorant of some of the processes" his prosecutors used ? processes which are "not all that clean...
...Starr, of course, handed in his homework -- boxes and boxes of the stuff -- months ago. The independent counsel, who answered well in excess of 81 questions before the committee last Thursday, got a few more from ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview to be screened Wednesday night. What does he really think of Clinton? "Extraordinarily talented," said Starr. "Wonderfully empathetic... he inspires just tremendous affection and loyalty." All of which earns the prosecutor top marks for magnanimity -- although it's probably a good thing that he wasn't under oath at the time...
Zero proved to be the right price. In the three months since E.C. adopted its Tom Sawyer model (customers will grow your business if you can seduce them into painting fences for you), the number of active palaces has soared from 300 to more than 1,000. And that's not counting the thousands of unregistered sites E.C. isn't yet able to track. Without spending a penny on marketing, says Samuels, he's been able to boost the number of downloaded site-hosting servers to more than 15,000. The number of Palace users, in turn, has jumped from...
...unable to give a speech or answer questions," she said. Noting Sawyer's absence, the SAC voted on whether to hold elections for the position of secretary and decided to go ahead with the process...
...Sawyer said she believed her inability to be present and the fact that members were tired of meeting affected the results...