Monica Lewinsky

While watching Monica Lewin- sky’s interview with Barbara Walters (March 3), I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her and her family. Her life for the past year must have been an unimaginable hell. She is the perfect example of a good person who has done a bad thing and been made to pay disproportionately. Shame on the president, the GOP, Ken Starr, the media and especially Linda Tripp for the many ways they all used this one woman.

EUGENE SISON

San Dimas

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Thanks to Lewinsky we now know the true wages of sin--lots and lots of money.

KATHLEEN MAHER

Monrovia

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I think the president showed remarkable restraint while being relentlessly pursued by “Mantrap Monica.�

DOROTHY MELVILLE

San Juan Capistrano

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If Monica is sincere in her apology to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, she should give them her profits from the book and interview deals.

JOHN ZIEBARTH

Fountain Valley

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Now that Lewinsky and Clinton have apologized for all they have put the country through, is it not time for Rep. Henry Hyde and his gang of 12 managers to apologize for rejecting the opportunity months ago for a bipartisan censure motion and insisting on continuing to the bitter end their effort to remove the president?

JOHN MAYS

Malibu

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The yearlong national Monica morality play is now over and I’m still having withdrawal symptoms. Worse than taxation by trickery, what the average citizen hates most are pontificating politicians and pundits who purport to know the right values for all. Fortunately, more than two-thirds of Americans have rejected their pious panderings in favor of understanding, kindness and love. This augurs well for the country’s grand entry into the new 21st century.

GARTH BISHOP

Los Angeles

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On first glance at Paul Conrad’s March 3 cartoon, I thought he was lampooning the president’s 1999 social schedule. Then I saw the caption (“The GOP agenda�) and realized he was deriding the Republicans’ obsession with the president’s sexual escapades. Like it says in the old song about love and marriage, I guess you can’t have one without the other. How unpleasant.

EDWARD M. YOUNG

Pasadena

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Congratulations to Arianna Huffington for finally acknowledging the futile hypocrisy of sex-based witch hunts (“Put Statute of Limitations on Political Sex Charges,� Commentary, March 2). That’s what Larry Flynt has been telling us for months.

ROBERT SCHMIDT

Culver City

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Under President Clinton’s masterful tutelage, our children have received a crash course in ethics; e.g., misconduct is OK if you don’t get caught; and in vocabulary expansion--in a sexual context, that is. Why, even I, at age 74, now have a clearer understanding of words such as: parsing, disingenuous and spurious. Thanks a lot, Prez.

FRANK BALENSIEFER

Alta Loma