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...grown accustomed to weighing the word of one defendant against that of one plaintiff, the steadfast denial against the angry accusation: he said, she said. But last week, in the matter of Jones v. Clinton, the accusers avalanched on the accused. Once, twice, three times now, a woman has sworn under oath that she had one or more sexual encounters with Bill Clinton and then got pressured to cover it up; each time the President has denied the charge. In each case someone is lying and someone is not. He said, they said...
...filing is an accomplished hatchet job but also, harassment-law experts say, a flawed legal document, with assertions not backed up by sworn statements and allegations that will never make it into the Jones trial. Many of its revelations have been alleged or leaked before, and it contains no single blockbuster charge that will alter the outcome of the scandal. The President's lawyer Robert Bennett calls it "a pack of lies." It would be comforting to believe the matter is really that simple...
However the leader of the BJP, who will be sworn in today as prime minister, did not seem worried by the latter...
...DELHI: You?re elected to lead a fragile minority coalition government, expecting your tenure will be nasty, brutish and short. What to do? Go nuclear, of course. Hindu nationalist Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in today as prime minister and restated his election promise to ?exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons? into India?s arsenal...
...indulge in name-calling," said a wary-looking Mike McCurry, giving his most trepid press briefing since the last week in January -- back when Monica Lewinsky became a household name. Unlike then, there was no angry statement from the President. His denials had already been made in a sworn deposition. Rather than jabbing his finger at the camera, Clinton declared himself "mystified and disappointed by this turn of events...