Saturday, September 19, 1998
Lewinsky gets the cold shoulder
Monica Lewinsky, the most exposed woman in America, is finding it difficult to interest publishers in her White House adventure because, amid distaste for the whole episode, so much has already emerged in the explicit Starr report.
Tower of Babel: Monumental chaos
Iraqi and western scholars at a meeting in Baghdad have been debating whether the Tower of Babel was myth or reality.There seems to be a consensus from the Bible, ancient texts and classical authors that some kind of tower graced the skies of Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century BC.
A TV show called reality
Last night, two seemingly unconnected events were reported on the world news - one was the trouble in Albania and the other, the latest update of the endless saga of Bill and his Monicas.Seemingly unconnected. Unless one has been Wag the Dog.
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