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When asked about the Monica Lewinski affair, former president Clinton said "I did something for the worst possible reason. Just because I could. I think that's just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything." Clinton also said of the impeachment process: "The whole battle was a badge of honor. I don't see it as a stain, because it was illegitimate."There's a good explanation. I guess he sees being disbarred for perjury as a badge of honor also. I would have liked to ask a few questions myself. Perhaps it would have gone something like this:...

<p>Colin Powell wants to do something about Castro's reliance on prostitution.</p> <p>Fidel Castro has a nasty sex problem. And he's livid at Colin Powell for exposing it to the world. "Despicable," "rude," "cynical" and "repugnant" are only a few of the words Fidel used during a recent tirade.</p>

Readers of The Chicago Tribune ain’t too happy with their paper this week. Most of them, it seems, felt the paper went to far in canning popular columnist Bob Greene over some sexual byplay with a teenybopper some 10 years ago. Seems a high school girl came to the Tribune Tower way back then to interview the columnist as part of a newspaper journalism project. Greene, who has a long reputation of flirting with the ladies (young and old), invited her out to dinner. Later, according to Tribune reporters Jim Kirk and Monica Davey, “Greene and the girl met at...