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...bless Monica Lewinsky," began a Michael Kinsley column a few weeks ago in Slate, the Microsoft-backed online magazine he edits. Kinsley was crowing about the Webzine's jump in readership: 270,000 different visitors in January, nearly double the audience of a month earlier. The Monica-fueled boost has emboldened Slate slate.com to once again take a step that it tried and aborted just a year earlier: ask its audience of freeloaders to become paying subscribers...
Monicagate is still very much alive, observes Slate's Scott Shuger, who ledes his Friday dispatch with USA Today's version of Kathleen Willey's lawyer's spin control. To balance it out, Shuger turns to the Wash Post and its Bob Bennett salvo in the Jones case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch...
...that "there's been a few people who've written and said, you're doing valuable stuff, but as a matter of principle, I'll never pay for anything on the Web." Budde's been working on the Interactive Edition since way back in 1993, and the flurry over Slate's recent jump to the subscription model raised few eyebrows over there. Says Tom Baker, the site's business director, "I was at a conference a couple of weeks ago, and everybody was hooting at them, as if they were breaking all the rules...
...Slate's Scott Shuger ledes with USA Today's lede of an ex-Espy aide getting a harsh 27 months upriver, and what that could mean for Clinton. He notes that the Washington Post favors the upcoming Hyde-Gingrich peek at Ken Starr's investigation, and that the New York Times features, in its various editions, an indecisive study of education methods; a NYC school-uniforms policy; and sniping over the 1999 budget between Clinton and Congressional Republicans. The LA Times gets a shout out for its continued scrutiny of local and state prisons. And, finally, S's SS believes...
...Early Action candidates. Early Action candidates present, on average, considerably stronger admissions credentials than regular action candidates. They are admitted because the Admissions Committee, with many years of collective experience to draw upon, is convinced that each is 100 percent certain to be admitted when compared to the full slate of candidates who will be considered in the spring. Yearly variations in the rigor of the admissions competition here are relatively small and the Committee will defer a candidate if there is any doubt. Further, evidence of the high standard set for early admission is the fact that a considerable...