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Judge Susan Webber Wright's stunning decision to throw out the Jones case was an antidote to a poisonous winter of scandal. For the President, it was as close to a verdict of not guilty as he's ever likely to get in a case involving his sexual conduct. It left Ken Starr defending the continued relevance of his investigation even as White House aides spun out his obituary. It threw much of the press corps, especially its most aggressive investigative wing, into a defensive crouch. It inspired Newt Gingrich to marvel at the President's "courage." It gave feminists...
...public's digestion of the scandal, giving people the leisure to sort out which parts of the President's character are important and which are not. And by slowing Starr's investigation until after the Jones case comes to trial next month, Clinton could use the not-guilty verdict he expects to argue the pointlessness of Starr's efforts. Of course, even if Starr wins the privilege fight, the prosecutor might not gain all that much. Clinton aides can simply take a page from their boss and say they don't remember...
With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...
France may have convicted former Vichy government official Maurice Papon of complicity in crimes against humanity, but the nation?s mixed feelings about the Nazi era persist. ?The verdict is anticlimactic,? says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for deporting Jews to Auschwitz, but a two-year appeal process makes it unlikely the ailing 87-year-old will ever serve time...
...Prosecutors say Lyons persuaded Loewen to make contributions to several convention causes and then diverted the money into his own pocket. Lyons and Edwards also allegedly went to Loewen in 1995 after the company lost a bankrupting $500 million civil suit in Mississippi and said they could get the verdict reversed for $2 million. In January 1996 Loewen settled for $175 million. Lyons and Edwards then called to scold Loewen for settling when their influence could have saved the company more money. Even so, Lyons and Edwards demanded the $2 million, claiming they had spent it helping the firm...