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Even now, after the Starr report has set down in excruciating detail Clinton's affair and his corruption of the legal process, the polls are holding. As they say on Wall Street, the news had already been discounted--anticipated and worked into one's calculations...
...convention that "old news is no news," meaning that if any story, no matter how appalling, has seen some light of day a few weeks or months earlier, it is ipso facto drained of moral and political valence. Sure enough, despite the initial shock waves set off by the Starr report, public support for Clinton has remained steady. Two-thirds of Americans still don't want him to resign or be impeached. In fact, two-thirds approve of the job he's doing as President...
Your cover portraying Clinton and Yeltsin as crippled leaders outraged me. If Clinton's presidency is diminished, it's partly because the media keep asserting that that is the case. However, the bulk of the blame goes to Ken Starr, who has dogged the Clintons for years. As disgusting as the President's behavior was, even more disgusting is the obsession of the media with this story, which should have been confined to the tabloids. RUTH M. SCOTT Mill Valley, Calif...
WARNING! A moment from the Starr report: "When I was hiding out in your office...I noticed you had the new Sarah McLachlan CD [Surfacing]," wrote Monica Lewinsky to the President. "Whenever I listen to song #5 I think of you." The tune, Do What You Have to Do, has this lyric : "I'm shaken/ by the violence of existing/ for only you./ I know I can't be with you./ I do what I have...
...Starr should have cut a licensing deal for his report. One of Washington's new power eateries, McCormick & Schmick's, says cigar sales at its bar are up 110% since the report appeared. A tourist paid $250 to take home 25 Macanudos as capital souvenirs. Meanwhile, sales of Oy Vey! The Things They Say, a book Lewinsky gave Clinton, have quadrupled...