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...detox center in an effort to kick his heroin habit. Robbie and Lulu (Justin Theroux and Jennifer Dundas Lowe) keep busy by dealing drugs for a scuzzy TV producer (Matthew Sussman). They reunite when Mark brings home a young hustler (Torquil Campbell), who takes part in a sordid bout of fantasy game playing that makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look like Scrabble...
...Monica Lewinsky scandal seems to have all of the ingredients needed to undermine the President. Unlike Whitewater, these allegations are simple to understand. And unlike campaign finance improprieties, this case is so sordid that, for a time, CNN was the dirtiest channel on cable. Most importantly, though, unlike the previous charges regarding Clinton's libido, this one can be respectably pursued under the protective blanket of the pursuit of justice. In short, Lewinsky should be a dream-come-true for Republicans...
Lawyers for each side traded blame for the sordid affair. Giles depicted his clients as the victims of a relentless infiltrator who tracked the family from Los Angeles to Portland, baby sitting the kids, befriending Kathlyn, all the while sleeping with Andy. Ginsburg, who acknowledged the affair happened, pointed out that Bleiler "is a former schoolteacher having sex with a teenager." Still, Giles maintains that Monica was "obsessed with sex. She went to Washington with the intent to have sex with the President." And, he charged, Monica had a "pattern of twisting facts, especially to enhance her own version...
...what's oral sex?" For my 11-year-old son, the steamy, sordid swamp currently engulfing the White House presented a ripe opportunity for sex education, as it has for so many American kids with big ears and eager minds. As a parent, I've always believed that a child curious and capable enough to frame a straightforward question deserves a straightforward answer. Gauging the depth and breadth of the answer is the tough part...
...cried often. "She's a pretty fragile person, just emotionally fragile," her friend says. "She was not a depressed person, but it's just that she was pretty sensitive." Stephen Enghouse, a self-described classmate and friend, wondered aloud last week if she has been concocting the whole sordid saga involving the President, or at least dramatizing her role in it. He told ABC's Nightline that "She's kind of young and seeks attention...I think it's probably likely that yes, she's making it up." Enghouse, though, has not spoken to Lewinsky in nearly three years...