Day Of Deliverance

Clinton enjoys a victory lap when the judge tosses out the Paula Jones case. But Ken Starr isn't going away just yet; he has never cared much about Paula, or politics...

Some wounds have to get worse in order to get better, which helps explain how it happened that President Clinton, accused of skanky behavior toward a young employee, actually began sometime this past winter to look forward to the moment he would be hauled into court. The Paula Jones lawsuit left a deep bruise, a story that turned more purple with each passing week as it brought us Monica and Kathleen and Dolly and the whole national conversation about what kind of sex isn't really sex. And just as the pain grew most acute, when accusers were unearthed almost daily with...

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