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...worse, probably for worse--we are in a privileged position to gues about her perspective. So what's the average sensibility of a smart gal, an ambitious teen or twenty-something? I'm not arguing Monica hasn't been a victim, perhaps of the media, of Kenneth Starr, of Linda Tripp, but of Bill...
...President's political team was waving polls all over Capitol Hill last week that showed his approval rating unshaken by the Starr report. But the opinion that matters at this juncture belongs to a sliver of Americans: those who tend to vote in midterm elections and live in the 30 to 40 congressional districts where, for now, Democrats and Republicans still have a real contest...
...around. The Judiciary Committee's only veteran of the Nixon wars, the 69-year-old is the committee's ranking Democrat and will spearhead the party's defense against the Republican campaign for impeachment. The natty, unflaggingly liberal Conyers meets one requirement for a bulwark: he openly loathes Kenneth Starr; recently he called the prosecutor one of "the enemies of the nation." Conyers' potential value to the White House extends further. As dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, he could help marshal critical black support for Clinton in the House. But many Democrats fret that Conyers is too erratic...
...still there are those failings. Conyers is prone to meandering soliloquies and absentmindedness. His management style ranges from capricious to offhand. Democratic staff members have lately complained that during preparations for the Starr report, they were unable to find Conyers at scheduled meeting times. His waywardness so concerned minority leader Richard Gephardt that he handpicked Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell to be the Democrats' lead counsel on the Judiciary Committee, with the intent to wield influence over the proceedings through Lowell...
WASHINGTON: The Clinton counterattack continues. This week's theme: Did Ken Starr rely on weak and faulty evidence to persuade his superiors to let him expand his Whitewater probe into Monica Lewinsky? Investigating the investigator is nothing new, of course. As recently as Friday, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee tried -- and failed -- to pass a resolution asking Starr to give Congress an account of the crucial opening days of his investigation. But White House aides plan to use the release of the Tripp tapes, due Thursday, to focus attention on how Starr's whole case started out with...