LSE Leaves Its Mark On Monica Lewinsky

Posted by John Carney, Dec 21, 2006, 10:01am

Blew_Dress.jpgThe English have a strange thing for Monica Lewinsky, and vice-versa. Maybe it's just that they've got their own sex scandals to worry about, scandals involving genuine royals, and can't be bothered to worry about whether the president of the United States was messing around with a White House interns. We actually ran into Monica in Oxford once, back when she was touring around with her memoirwriting Brit ghost writer. Seemed nice enough, if not terribly bright.

Well, she just got a degree from the LSE:

Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, whose sexual relationship with U.S. President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment, has graduated from the London School of Economics, her publicist said on Wednesday.

Lewinsky, who was 21 when she became involved with Clinton, is interviewing for jobs in Britain, publicist Barbara Hutson said.

When Lewinsky, 32, received her Masters of Science degree in Social Psychology last Thursday "the audience of students and parents erupted in spontaneous applause. ... It was a very emotional moment for her," Hutson said in a statement.

Hutson said Lewinsky spent the past year studying and "staying away from the London social scene."


Lewinsky graduates from London School of Economics [Reuters]

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Posted by Miles Cholmondeley-Warner, Dec 21, 2006 12:00PM

'"...the audience of students and parents erupted in spontaneous applause. ... It was a very emotional moment for her..."'

How repulsive. Absolutely disgusting. I abhor cheap displays of public emotion. Americans are famous for it, but the Brits have caught the infection in a big way, especially since Diana's death.

Posted by Yank Bank, Dec 21, 2006 12:15PM

Who do you think you're fooling? We've all seen Love Actually,and we all know life in London is nothing but one long series of cheap displays of public emotion.

Posted by ken, Dec 21, 2006 1:19PM

Well, at least she went to full completion.

Posted by lou, Dec 21, 2006 1:57PM

Yes, and she graduated, too.

Posted by Bradley Kentsworth-Waddington Smyth, Dec 21, 2006 3:56PM

I will say that the headline "LSE Leaves Its Mark On Monica Lewinsky" was so subtley droll that it didn't sink in on first glance.

Well done that man.

Posted by John Rogers, Dec 21, 2006 10:08PM

MC-W,

Does your profession of abhorrence on a website count as public emotion, cheaply displayed?

Posted by j, Dec 22, 2006 3:23AM

a huge percentage of grad students at the lse are american, so i imagine that might have influenced the applause...

Posted by Martin Garthwaite, Dec 24, 2006 7:43AM

Interesting comments, speaking as a person that graduated in the same ceremony (media and communications) at LSE on the 14th December, Peacock Theathre, 2:30pm. I have to say that all graduates were received warmly, Monica certainly got a good reception, nothing cheap or disgusting. Perhaps need to understand the Bitish mentality for support of the underdog? LSE has a huge population of international students and I'm certainly they leave more British than when they arrived.

Posted by guest, Jun 01, 2008 9:54PM

at 7:43 -

you said: "Perhaps need to understand the Bitish mentality for support of the underdog?"

I have two words for you: Munich, 1938.

(well, 1 word and 1 number)

what a collosal crock of shit....

- cincinnatus c

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