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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone bought it--not even the people inside. Some top aides in the White House could not fathom the possibility that Hillary did not know much more than the story line of the weekend allowed. "That doesn't seem real to me," said one. "They have no secrets," argued another. "They know each other. They know each other backward and forward." She had to profess ignorance, in this view, because the alternative to being a trusting sucker was being a cold-blooded liar. A longtime Democratic official, who has never been in Clinton's camp, watched the mopping-up operation...
Monday Bill Clinton visits Boris Yeltsin, one guy who can make all that nasty Monica business seem like very small pirozhki, for a quick two-day meet-and-greet. The benefits are almost all one-way: Yeltsin is in very deep trouble, and there?s nothing Clinton can do for him. But for Clinton, more airtime with Boris means less airtime for the special prosecutor...
WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton might like to think he's safely back in the bully pulpit. But events Friday seem to be conspiring to remind him that l'affaire Lewinsky is very much still a work in progress. In fact, the whole gang's here: Bruce Lindsey looks set to return to the grand jury, his first appearance since the Supreme Court took his attorney-client privilege away. Reports are emerging that Monica's testimony conflicts with Betty Currie's, which could lead to one or both of them being recalled. And Linda Tripp is back in the news...
Writers like that see so clearly, it's blinding. But the less keen, unconscious eye receives lessons of its own, and the one I seem to be learning is my place, our place, in the natural order or disorder. As one grows closer to being part of the earth, one begins to sense the basic equality of living things. Human beings dominate trees and the other animals, of course, and like all world leaders we have been at times murderous, at times protective. But these days any feeling of dominance I might have entertained has long gone, replaced...
...genitals of "any person," it could be argued that Clinton caused Lewinsky's contact with his, even if he did not otherwise touch her. He could reply that she was the cause, or at least the active partner, while he was merely the passive receiver, but that makes him seem like either an implausibly shrinking violet or a very cool customer. Beyond all that, Lewinsky's secret grand-jury testimony may simply be so detailed and explicit that it leaves no room for loopholes...