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People in the News
Public questions Clinton’s
remaining time as president
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Clinton
was speaking of the latest am
bush on his presidency when he
said, “I owe it to the American
people to put it in a little box and
keep working for them.”
That interview took place last
Wednesday, the day "Clintern-
gate” began, and the man at its
focus was dead right about a
box. Only, it was quite a different
box than the one he meant.
Porous and public, the box was
television, and for a week and counting it has percolated
with Clinton’s presidential soap opera.
The story was first found in another kind of box — the
personal computer. “Drudge Report,” an Internet gossip
site, had leaked the scoop that Newsweek magazine
painstakingly tracked but shied from publishing in last
week’s edition.
After that, TV stepped in, and, with a foot heavy on the
pedal, helped set the breakneck pace. Last Wednesday
and Thursday alone, newsmagazine shows ran more than
45 stories on White House woes, and the three network
morning shows aired 34 such segments, according to
Clinton
Video Information Inc., which tracks news programming.
When has a story ever gotten so big with so few hard-
and-fast givens? When has anyone cared less that the big
ness of the story increasingly became ... its bigness?
“... and as we can’t say too often,” news correspon
dents and pundits said as often as anyone could stand —
“these are still just allegations.” But such disclaimers
played like the fine print for leasing a car, when all anyone
can think of is getting behind the wheel.
Already it’s been quite a ride, especially on cable’s all
news channels, which have scarcely taken a break from
“The President in Crisis” (as MSNBC dubbed its coverage)
or Fox News Channel (“Clinton Scandal”).
Zoooooom! Right out of the box, here was a story
everybody could relate to and form an opinion about. It
bristled with sex, lies and audio tape. Dueling lawyers. And
it starred the Chief Libido.
There were so many directions the story might take,
and so many theories to argue over! It was like a new
version of the game of Clue: Did Miss Peacock do it
with Col. Mustard in the conservatory? Was the game
only in Monica’s mind?
Only hours after the story broke, correspondents and
analysts alike were asking, and even answering, the unan
swerable: Can Clinton recover? Will he finish out his term?
Should he confess?
The Wall Street Journal’s Al Hunt told Charlie Rose
there’s a “50-50 chance that (Clinton) serves out his
term.” On the other hand, Geraldo Rivera declared, “I like
his chances” on his CNBC talk show Monday night.
Murphy
Continued from Page 3
“I have a cooking section, which
is sometimes recipes, sometimes
just thoughts about food and how
to stay healthy on the road,” Mur
phy said. “I think about food a lot.”
When she is not thinking about
food, Murphy may be listening to
such musicians as John Mellen-
camp, Tom Petty, Ben Folds Five
and The Wallflowers.
“Being a writer and a musician, I
have literary influences like Pat Con
roy and C.S. Lewis, people who have
narrative voices who are definitive,"
Muiphy said. “Musically, I think Chris-
sy Hind is, for most female musicians,
the epitome of talent and attitude.”
Murphy employs her own com
bination of talent and attitude when
she takes the stage. Her show Thurs
day at DixieTheatre promises to en
tertain although it will offer little
material from Crooked Mile.
“People at the show can expect to
hear a lot of new stuff,” she said.
“Thirty percent is album material.
We have a substantially different
sound, more guitar-driven. I have an
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his is a glimmer of light for us Republicans. The ‘zipper-gate’ affair might
get Clinton kicked out of office. I feel that one cannot be truly running
esidency when dealing with such scandalous allegations.”
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Sophomore industrial distribution major
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