Slog

Investigations: The Republican National Committee is “missing” at least four years worth of e-mails from Karl Rove.

Apologies: World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is “sorry” for giving a woman he was involved with an “automatic ‘outstanding’ rating and the highest possible pay raises during an indefinite posting at the State Department, as well as a promotion upon her return to the bank.”

Borders: Australia Prime Minister John Howard says his country’s borders should be closed to HIV-positive immigrants.

Porn: China is cracking down on internet pornography because it has “perverted young China’s minds.”

Apologies Part Deux: Having just been fired from the radio, Don Imus met with Rutgers women athletes yesterday.

Investigations Part Deux: The Pentagon has opened a criminal investigation into whether U.S. Marines fired into a group of civilians in Afghanistan last month.

Science: Protein has been recovered from the bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

New Chief in Town: The Seattle School Board has found their woman.

Rx: The Washington State Board of Pharmacy ruled yesterday that even freaked-out christians must fill prescriptions—even for Plan B.

Sexy Presidential Fact of the Day: From My Life by Bill Clinton:

What I had done with Monica Lewinsky was immoral and foolish. I was deeply ashamed of it and I didn’t want it to come out. In the deposition, I was trying to protect my family and myself from my selfish stupidity. I believed that the contorted definition of “sexual relations” enabled me to do so, though I was worried enough about it to invite the lawyer interrogating me to ask specific questions. I didn’t have to wait long to find out why he declined to do so.

From the Starr Report:

At about 10 p.m., in Ms. Lewinsky’s recollection, she was alone in the Chief of Staff’s office and the President approached. He invited her to rendezvous again in Mr. Stephanopoulos’s office in a few minutes, and she agreed. (Asked if she knew why the President wanted to meet with her, Ms. Lewinsky testified: “I had an idea.”) They met in Mr. Stephanopoulos’s office and went again to the area of the private study. This time the lights in the study were off.

According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President kissed. She unbuttoned her jacket; either she unhooked her bra or he lifted her bra up; and he touched her breasts with his hands and mouth. Ms. Lewinsky testified: “I believe he took a phone call … and so we moved from the hallway into the back office … . [H]e put his hand down my pants and stimulated me manually in the genital area.” While the President continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral sex on him. He finished his call, and, a moment later, told Ms. Lewinsky to stop. In her recollection: “I told him that I wanted … to complete that. And he said … that he needed to wait until he trusted me more. And then I think he made a joke … that he hadn’t had that in a long time.”