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May 10 -16, 1998 edition
are at it again May 3, Hotel St. Giles, Bloomsbury -- All the Public Houses
along New Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road having dutifully shut down at 11, we have
repaired to the antiseptic, Nouveau Pizza Parlor decor of the recently-renovated St. Giles
hotel bar -- where English law generously allows foreign tourists to imbibe for one extra
hour -- only to find the place still dominated by the busload of German tourists who
rolled in the day before, now sitting with all their tables strung together in a line
along the back wall, hoisting their steins in their traditional drinking revels and song,
resembling nothing so much as the officers' mess at a wartime Luftwaffe base, except
perhaps for the dress code.
New York Post By Dick Morris "KEN made clear this is a priority." That's how Clifford Bernath - the man who released information from Linda Tripp's secret personnel file - described the orders from his boss, Ken Bacon, to pass the damaging information to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer.
It's
Your Problem By James Gleick I seem to remember that when I subscribed to, oh, The New Yorker, I sent in some money and eventually the magazine started arriving in my mailbox. Not so simple in the digital era. The other day I used my computer to subscribe to Slate, an online magazine owned by Microsoft, and after I gave up my name, e-mail address, postal address, credit card number and choice of gift (I declined the free umbrella), the screen presented me with the first few lines of a 2,000-word contract. Below this was a button marked "I Agree." There was also a button marked "Cancel." I looked in vain for a button marked "Let's Negotiate -- My Lawyer Will Be in Touch With Your Lawyer."
Southern gallantry gets the heave-ho by Wesley Pruden Never take a hit if you can find a woman big enough to hide behind.
The runaway bigots in the White House by Wesley Pruden For most Americans, religious faith is something precious to live by. At the White
House, it's both a prop for a photo-op and a club to pound the unwary.
more news London Telegraph POLICE in Mexico are trained to "rob with professionalism" at the police academy, while "disappearances" of civilians with official complicity are on the increase, according to reports published Friday.
London Telegraph JAPANESE singles desperately seeking soulmates are turning to pocket alarms that bleep and flash when a likely lover is close by.
London Telegraph A LAW professor and his schoolteacher wife, who emigrated to America from China more than five years ago, face being deported because they smacked their eight-year-old daughter for lying.
additional reporting from the U.S. tech aid makes China more dangerous
Mushy GOP Rep faces primary opposition
McDougal, still silent, indicted again
'Payoff' check keeps Clinton in swirl of Whitewater probe
Starr expected to call Clinton aides to testify
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Washington Times White House: 'Yes, we're using folks' taxes to pay Clinton's scandal bills' The White House has acknowledged using taxpayer-funded government lawyers to defend President Clinton against charges he had sex with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then told her to lie about it. Washington Times White House lawyers, brushing aside parallels to Watergate, have begun making their case for appealing a federal judge's dismissal of President Clinton's use of executive privilege in the Monica Lewinsky sex-and-lies scandal, according to officials. Washington Times Whitewater prosecutors Thursday told President Clinton's personal attorney to withdraw a motion accusing independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's office of leaking secret grand jury information -- or face the consequences.
World Net Daily $20 million civil rights case WASHINGTON -- The Western Journalism Center, the non-profit parent company of WorldNetDaily.com, is preparing to file a $20 million civil rights lawsuit against officials and former officials of the White House and Internal Revenue Service charging a 1996 audit of the group was politically motivated.
World Net Daily Talk-show host defies doomsayers, political foes Despite predictions by an industry trade publication that his star was falling, Rush Limbaugh's latest quarter ratings are way up across the board -- in vurtually every major market. Washington Times The Clinton-Gore campaign's finance director warned her counterpart at the Democratic National Committee that "the DNC would lose $1 million" unless he called Teamsters President Ron Carey's campaign consultant about what turned out to be an illegal money- laundering scheme, prosecutors said. Washington Times A defiant Rep. Dan Burton Tuesday made public more than 10 hours of taped prison telephone conversations involving convicted Whitewater felon Webster L. Hubbell that are short on major revelations but are already sparking even more political outrage.
Washington Post Exasperated at foot-dragging within his own party, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) vowed yesterday to clear the way for prompt Senate action on a hotly contested West Coast judicial nomination that has also become entangled in a controversial back-channel deal with the White House. Washington Post CONCORD, N.H., May 7—When House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) arrived in New Hampshire this morning, he was greeted by a front-page editorial in the conservative Manchester Union Leader with a headline that read, "Let 'Em Have It, Mr. Speaker." The speaker didn't disappoint. Washington Post House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) accused President Clinton yesterday of taking "indecent liberties with the concept of executive privilege" and announced that he will introduce legislation next week intended to impose new limits on the presidential power. New York Times With horror stories from taxpayers and complaints about the tax code's ever-increasing complexity echoing through the chamber, the Senate voted 97-0 on Thursday for legislation to overhaul the Internal Revenue Service and make it more citizen-friendly. London Telegraph The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will not attend Middle East peace talks in Washington next week, his spokesman confirmed Friday night. "The chances of our being there are nil," said communications chief, David Bar-Illan.
Daily Oklahoman Federal prosecutors who scored the nation's first conviction of a union official for planting false information to boost wages on public projects have ended their pursuit of other suspects, the top prosecutor said Friday. U.S. Attorney Patrick Ryan said the investigation into alleged widespread fraud in wage surveys conducted under the federal Davis- Bacon Act has closed. Washington Post LOS ANGELES—The moment of truth comes when the car is well into the intersection and the driver realizes, sometimes with a guilty-looking glance through his windshield, that two rapid-fire flashes of a strobe light have just cost him $271 for running a red light. New York Times A pioneer in genetic sequencing and a private company are joining forces with the aim of deciphering the entire DNA, or genome, of humans within three years, far faster and cheaper than the federal government is planning. SF Examiner HALF MOON BAY - The essays were supposed to get him an "A." Instead, they got him suspended from school. In what is believed to be the first use of a new state law, administrators at Cunha Intermediate School suspended an eighth-grader for five days last month, claiming that his two essays for English class were "terroristic threats."
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Would the scene be so much different if
Operation Sealion had gone ahead, and the Wehrmacht occupied 
