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Daily News (New York) October 24, 1999, Sunday ARNOLD TALKS TOUGH TO THE GOP BYLINE: BY GEORGE RUSH AND JOANNA MOLLOY WITH MARCUS BARAM and MARC S MALKIN Arnold Schwarzenegger is breaking ranks with his fellow Republicans. The action star is still embarrassed by how the GOP handled President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, which he says was nothing more than a "human failure." "I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period," he says in November's George magazine. "Instead of devoting all this energy and all these hearings to how we're going to solve the problems of...

  Sid's IdBlumenthal on the Clintons Only a few chapters into Sidney Blumenthal's extraordinary account of the Clinton presidency, it dawned on me what the book reminded me of. I wonder why it took me so long. It's not that I am unused to Sidney's prose, or his politics, or his inimitable intellectual hauteur. I'd spent well over a year editing his essays for The New Republic during the Clinton campaign in 1991 and 1992. I'd spent what must have been an accumulated few days of my life listening to him go off at length about this theory or that...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Sean Penn published a 4,000-word open letter in the front section of the New York Times on Friday defending his December trip to Baghdad and criticizing the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

How Court Cited Clinton-Era Abuses Suppressed by Networks; Washington Post Scolded Ashcroft, Ignored Clinton; NBC's Brown Perturbed Bush Gave Interview to Runner's World 1) Clinton-era abuses led a federal court to reject John Ashcroft's request for broader power in pursuing terrorism suspects, but the networks portrayed it as a scolding of the Bush administration. ABC's Peter Jennings: “A federal court tells the Bush administration it is abusing its power in the campaign against terrorism.” CBS anchor John Roberts highlighted the “big setback for the Justice Department.” At the very second NBC's Fred Francis was about to say “Clinton,” the screen...