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To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (18567)	9/12/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116764

I dont think most of us wanted to waste the time to read it.

To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (18567)	9/12/1998 12:40:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Puzzled World Sees Clinton Scandal As Sordid, Pitiful 11:18 a.m. Sep 12, 1998 Eastern LONDON (Reuters) - For a fascinated international community, the explicit sexual exploits of the world's most powerful man were seen Saturday as a bemusing and sordid twilight of an American century. In France, where many politicians consider the phrase ''sex scandal'' a contradiction in terms, the media passed scathing judgment on the United States. An air of incredulity, mixed with fascination for President Clinton's sexual past and political future, was reflected in front-page coverage of the report by independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr laying out intimate details of the president's trysts with Monica Lewinsky. The report's prompt publication on the Internet also provoked surprise in France, where politicians' sex lives are a private affair and senior leaders have long enjoyed an informal immunity from the legal troubles Clinton faces. ''Hell is American,'' the leading French daily Le Monde wrote Saturday. In an editorial ringing with stupefaction, le Monde described Starr's report as a ''monster...worthy of the reports of the Inquisition...where deviants and heretics were hunted down to the depths of their souls. ''By the magic of the Internet, the four corners of our universe were turned into a planetary audience and we all became Peeping Toms by the choice of the American Congress. ''After four years of investigations at a mind-boggling cost, prosecutor Starr has found nothing but the pitiful lie of a seducer,'' it said. Le Monde accused Starr of trying to impose ''a terrifying moral order where sex is never far from sin, where even sexual relations between consenting adults is always something terrible.'' The daily described the mood in Washington as ''a new McCarthyism, which has replaced the panicky fear of communism with the dread of sexuality.'' The left-wing Liberation wrote: ''Monicagate is a surrealist vaudeville because it telescopes two previously separate universes of sexual intimacy and the constitutional orders -- affairs of the flesh and of state wind up under the sheets.'' The conservative Le Figaro ran a damning editorial, entitled ''Gulliver Trapped,'' in which it slammed Clinton for the damage done to the world's last superpower. ''Bill Clinton's escapades have created a new world order!'' it wrote. ''Ten years after crushing communism, the power of the United States collapses before that of the Internet. ''American influence on events on this plant seems reduced to nothing...the White House is nothing more than an empty shell now.'' In Germany, too, where politicians' indiscretions are often seen as irrelevant, there was a damning tone to commentaries. ''Clinton is a president who has been caught with his trousers down,'' said the highbrow Frankfurter Allgemeine. ''A skirt-chaser is not a good occupant for the White House.'' Swiss newspapers were shocked that Starr's report should be disclosed on an Internet website. Saturday's Geneva daily ''Le Temps'' showed a cartoon of Clinton sitting at his desk in the Oval Office, with an arrow pointing to the president labeled, Internet-style, ''Click here to remove from office.'' The daily Basler Zeitung said the Starr report appeared to be merely establishing a democratic right to voyeurism. ''Never before in the history of superpower politics has a president been so exposed. And never before has the United States had at its helm a man who has been so mercilessly offered up for scorn,'' it said. In Britain, the right-wing Sun tabloid thundered: ''The lying fornicator must go'' and in a vituperative editorial it called Clinton a ''cheap and nasty guttersnipe'' unfit to be president. The liberal Guardian took a softer line, saying Clinton's ''stupid, infantile, pathetic, caddish, laddish'' behavior did not warrant impeachment. Beirut's authoritative an-Nahar newspaper ran an editorial on its front page saying Clinton was ''lost.'' ''He (Clinton) is lost and he lost the opportunity of a lifetime. He lost the last independent presidency of the greatest country. He lost the revolution that the United States needed and he lost the historic role of heroism,'' it declared. Belgium's Le Soir said the scandal was a sad end to the 20th century. ''There must be a new Freud to talk about the 'malaise of civilization' that strikes the United States. Alas, the only word that comes to mind today is 'pitiful','' it said. The Times of India headlined its editorial ''Morality Play'' and said Clinton was paying the price of being a mere human. ''Ultimately, President Clinton's unpardonable offence may prove to be not monstrous turpitude but common humanity. If in the end he is sacrificed on the altar of America's hubris his impeachment will be a ritual exorcism, a cathartic auto-da-fe for the heresy of being a mere flesh and blood mortal.'' Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited.

To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (18567)	9/12/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116764

Yes I agree we have a mess all round - you raise an interesting point about the net and 'that porn thing' The original raison d'etre for the IC has been lost in the mess and in fact has not even been mentioned in the report - no mention at all of Whitewater, and Vince Foster which took up 3 1/2 years of enquiry! So we have an interesting situation in the fact the President is accorded less rights than any citizen. Can you imagine a party to a divorce case having all their intimate sexual life being paraded not only in court but distributed to the entire world?! Not only that, all these details are paraded in this fashion before counsel for one party has even see them! It boggles the mind. The obvious joy on the face of Henry Hide as he receives the report removes any doubt that this is a highly partisan process. While Nero fiddles (Nero being the entire shooting match) Rome may burn. A pox on all their houses Nothing bad for gold here IMO E

To: Dwight Taylor who wrote (18567)	12/30/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116764

Y2K Bug Strikes Auditor's Office - (COLUMBUS) -- The Ohio auditor's office may be one of the first victims of the millenium computer bug. Reports say the office sent out more than 900 routine auditing bills indicating the payments are due in the year 1900, not 2000. A spokeswoman in Auditor Jim Petro's office says the computer miscalculated the due dates. Kim Norris says this is the reason Petro's office has stressed testing and re-testing for Y-two-K compliance. The error was corrected... and did not appear on invoices printed last week. dailynews.yahoo.com