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...could George W. Bush look like a healer and still knock some of the spring out of Bill Clinton's step, the wind out of his victory tour and a zero off his book advance? Pardon him, as soon as possible. With special counsel Robert Ray--Ken Starr's tenacious successor--now weighing whether to indict Clinton for obstruction of justice, Bush might want to pre-empt Ray and pardon Clinton before any indictment. Bush could wrest the Bible out of William Rehnquist's hands, turn to an appropriate Psalm of forgiveness and make it the heart of his Inaugural...
JADING JOBS You would think no post would age a man as much as leader of the free world, but though the hair is more salt than pepper today, Ken Starr, Yasser Arafat and Newt Gingrich seem to have inflicted only minor damage on the appearance of Bill Clinton. A nonscientific survey of some other men of a similar age and high-pressure milieu suggests that interviewing celebrities and yelling from the basketball sidelines take a greater toll on a man's dewy youthfulness...
Until they enlarge the puck and get skating cheerleaders, hockey will remain the Ringo Starr of American sports. Still, Ringo had his Octopus's Garden, and hockey had its equivalent last week with the triumphant return of former Pittsburgh Penguin star--and current Penguin owner--MARIO LEMIEUX. Retired for 3 1/2 years, Lemieux promised he wouldn't come back unless his skills were still sharp; in his first game he proved they were, notching a goal and two assists. "It was a great moment, the kind of moment I will cherish for a long time," said Lemieux, who speaks sports...
Clinton was such a cartoon that anyone who entered his orbit immediately became an absurd, two-dimensional character. Ken Starr, once a boring lawyer, magically sprouted a buckle hat and musket. And, like all cartoon villains, Starr became single-mindedly obsessed with catching his wisecracking prey. He did everything short of arranging sticks of dynamite into the shape of a woman, dropping a wig on it and hiding behind a nearby rock. Clinton made Starr funny and watchable. And without Clinton on the scene, Starr, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and all the rest revert back to bland, Anglo-Saxon reality...
...goes like this: we'll gratify you instantly--would you have kept watching a channel that waited half an hour to report anything?--and if we get it wrong, well, whoops!, stuff happens. In exchange, you get a new transparency: unfiltered access, not just to source material (like the Starr Report, the decision almost immediately went online) but to the journalistic process. Viewers Tuesday got to see the messy, imperfect metamorphosis through which conjecture coalesces into fact. It was spellbinding. It was educational. But it sure didn't restore anyone's absolute faith in TV. Consider the final insult. After...