The Trouble with Monica Lewinsky

The woman at the scandal's heart is beset by old loves, ambitions and fantasies. Can she be believed?

Secluded in her mother's apartment at the Watergate, away from the reporters and cameramen and curiosity seekers planted outside, Monica Lewinsky was said to have spent parts of last week quietly watching television and videos, writing letters, ordering out for chocolate-mousse cake, tuning in to the President's State of the Union address. "She thinks he did a good job," her lawyer William Ginsburg said. "She still considers him a friend." Cameras caught her joking with her attorneys on the limousine ride back from a strategy meeting last Thursday. But those moments were fleeting. Lewinsky remained besieged not only by journalists and...

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