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That's because the President's bodyguards have almost certainly witnessed a great deal more about the President's private life than they have been willing to divulge. The secret sessions in recent weeks were designed, Justice lawyers say, to help narrow the scope of Starr's questions and, if possible, enable officers to answer them under oath without having to slug out the privilege issue in the courts. Much of the questioning focused on events occurring in the days before Lewinsky's abrupt transfer out of the White House in April 1996. Starr wants to know whether some incident...
...President himself. That distinction may undercut Merletti's "protective privilege" argument because uniformed officers don't stick as close to the President as the body men in the "protective detail," and therefore may not require the same legal privileges. But Starr is unlikely to keep his hunt narrow; if Johnson rules in his favor, he is certain to work his way up the Secret Service chain of command...
...wheel and clapped along with Vanna; fewer still are those who realize that the value of a letter is actually inversely proportional to its frequency. Your immediate wealth increases when five "S"s appear on the board, but in the long run, those "S"s really won't narrow down the identity of word as much as a single "Q" might...
...some 25 million in the U.S.--but it is opening quickly. Officials at China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and at&t has just been hired...
...Republican leaders gathered in Newt Gingrich's office to hear some sobering news from the man who tracks the party's chances in November's election. John Linder's message, contained in a confidential memo in advance of the April 23 meeting, was simple: the G.O.P. could lose its narrow 11-seat majority in the House if it didn't find a way to galvanize its grass-roots activists, many of whom are Christian conservatives...