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The other papers focus on the fight over what form testimony should take--jurors might go to the White House, or Clinton might testify over videotape or closed-circuit television; Clinton wants his lawyer present during testimony, while Starr refuses this concession.
Similarly, Bradley refuses to defend the mildly libertarian position Gore has assigned him on health care.
The New York Times leads with a sweeping two-days-to-elections article, while the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times both go with Iraq's announcement Saturday that it refuses to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors (the NYT also fronts this story).
Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.
"Even if the song continues to be inescapable, Mr. John refuses to compound the hype," says the New York Times ' Jon Pareles.