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...this event all year. Most Americans already know what they dislike about the President. What was brought home by the Clinton squirm session, and then by the transcripts of Monica Lewinsky's testimony that were released the same day, is that the man who really unnerves them is Ken Starr...
...have to care much for Clinton to know that any number of things about Starr's inquiry feel unsound. His indifference to the niceties of nonpartisanship, his way of delivering the evidence without the exculpatory alternatives that prosecutors generally offer would be enough. What's really unsettling is the larger dynamic. At a time when the notion of a protected personal realm is beginning to seem quaint and sepia toned, even people who don't expect government investigators on their doorstep sense that Starr has breached more than just the President's tattered defenses. By its very example, his investigation...
...Lewinsky's apartment, Lewinsky was called by the President, she testified, for what may have been a round of phone sex. On hanging up, the first thing Lewinsky did was try to wake Tripp to tell her about the interlude. Had the dozing mother figure not slept on, the Starr report might have been several pages longer...
...Convinced that Tripp was jealous of her association with two Big Daddies, Jordan and Clinton, Lewinsky fudged certain details of her job search and her affidavit in the Jones case. "I didn't want her to think that I had gone ahead and done anything without her," Lewinsky told Starr...
...than double the figure for 1997. Its topics are more creative, from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beating the Blues to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic. For presidential-scandal lovers, Macmillan has commissioned a bankruptcy lawyer to write The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Starr Report. Author Steven D. Strauss says the book, which he is finishing up, will "explain a lot, like what impeachment means...