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...July 29, she had a surprise in her duffel bag. Suddenly, prosecutors had probable physical evidence of the affair. But did they? The main reason Lewinsky's lawyers did not offer the dress to Starr earlier is that no one really knew what was on it. It might be semen, they told TIME last week, but even they have never been sure. Before turning the dress over, they declined to test it, and they didn't want to oversell it in negotiations. So once Lewinsky had her get-out-of-jail card, she gave the dress away free...
Lewinsky had several other good reasons to do that. First, if Clinton's semen was on the dress, it might be useful at a later time in case he and his operatives called her a liar, deluded or crazy, as they were planning to do. But the real power of the dress was not to punish Clinton but to smoke him out of his denial. Her privacy destroyed and her dignity under siege, the last thing Lewinsky wants to do is spend the fall and next spring answering prurient questions from Congressmen about her private life. The sheer possibility...
...says Blanton of the Wash Factory. "But something like this--no way. Not these two little kids." Echoes Cedric, a 15-year-old neighbor: "They got the wrong two people." Family members at the crime scene say that they were initially told by police that there appeared to be semen on Ryan's corpse--which, if corroborated by the autopsy report, would argue against prepubescent boys being the perpetrators...
...Baba and Bubba format takes the focus away from semen stains and oral sex. Walters would be constrained by being in the presence of the valiant and wronged wife, and being in the couple's house, the White House, no less. Instead, after some dignified deflection (the old "there has been trouble in our marriage; we're working it out"), the interview would come to focus on the marriage itself. The public is sick of Monica and all that anyway; the real remaining mystery is Hillary: What's her true feeling about all this? How does she stand it? Saintliness...
...President isn't the only one bedeviled by references to Monica Lewinsky's besmirched dress. How were news organizations handling the sticky issue of the stain? While some were plain--ABC News, the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times used the word "semen"--others were more circumspect. "Physical evidence" was the phrase favored at NPR, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, while "bodily fluids" prevailed at CBS News. NBC News and MSNBC went with "DNA evidence," the Washington Post liked "DNA material," and the Christian Science Monitor said "forensic evidence that might suggest sexual contact." The Russian news...