BBC's German Service: When dissent dies, so does the voice
The Nazis hated it and the post-war East German Communists loathed it, but the BBC German service stayed on the air for six decades before officials at Bush House in London decided to turn off the transmitter - ironically because nobody despises it any more.

Linda Tripp, dragon lady
A Popular Washington dinner party game -- casting a putative movie of the Lewinsky Scandal -- reportedly tends to line up Michael Douglas as Clinton and, as Monica, the young actress Christina Ricci.

Spinning a yarn
"I Know you're going to hate me, Monica, but I want you the (deleted) out of there. I want you with a life...." With such words of seemingly heartfelt concern did Linda R. Tripp spin a web for her distraught young friend, Monica Lewinsky.