"All she did was lie on her bed, and change her clothes the whole time. We didn't do anything in the evenings, except have nice family suppers and play kick-the-can, and I think she was bored out of her mind."Kate Pahl enjoyed two stays with the same French family, at 14 and 16, despite not hitting it off particularly well with their daughter. On the negative side, it would rule out the penalty of imprisonment and the people's right to brand offenders of this sort as criminals. Sir: In "Mapping out the best of the books" (31 May), Debbie Davies makes a point of saying that Terry Pratchett's Hogfather was 25th in the fiction list a few weeks ago with sales of 199 books. John Donne did so in c1633 and was refused a licence to print the poem in question, "To his Mistress Going to Bed": O my America, my new found land My kingdom safeliest when with one man mannedJENNY SWANNAltrincham, Cheshire. Sir: Federico Andahazi ("The anatomy of desire", 3 June), is not the first writer to be censored for using Mateo Colon's "Oh, My America, my sweet newly-found land" as the starting point for a work of erotic literature.

Before then, at Amsterdam, the European Union should add the phrase "in time for the 1999 elections" to the relevant Article 138(3) of the treaty that prescribes a uniform electoral procedure for the European Parliament.It would not be the first time that British constitutional history had been made by the Dutch.ANDREW DUFFDirector, Federal TrustLondon SW1. The Federal Trust has just produced a rather good pamphlet, by Lord Plant and Michael Steed, which sets out in detail what should be done and how.What is needed in July is a White Paper on the matter. Some writers have objected that he wasn't entitled to apologise anyway, either because he wasn't qualified by personal culpability or because there was nothing to apologise for in the first place, "those who governed in London at the time" having done the best they could. He had acknowledged pain (which is one component of a complete apology) and he had expressed regret (which is another) but the element of personal liability was missing.This was an accusation as much as an admission - a suggestion that "those who governed in London at the time" should not be casually associated with the current government. If she was such a nice girl, people say, then what was she doing posing for pictures? Lawyers differ on whether someone's character and behaviour at other times should be taken into account in a sexual harassment case.

It should also be said that feminists in America have tended to protect their own - that is, middle-class, professional women.Paula Jones's reputation was damned less by what she may or may not have done in a hotel room with Governor Clinton than by the early characterisation of her by increasingly desperate Clinton camp lawyers as "trailer park trash" - ie, an easy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.There is the further problem of near-nude pictures taken by an ex-boyfriend that she posed for and appeared in Playboy. Their joint television appearance during the 1992 election campaign, in which they spoke of difficulties in their marriage, absolved Clinton of the one political crime that could have proved politically fatal: hypocrisy.More to the point, perhaps, there is a widespread, though largely unspoken and perhaps quite unjustified feeling that Paula Jones is not entirely innocent. It has even risen slightly compared with April (from 54 to 57 per cent). Rather, Mr Clinton has denied all recollection - a highly cautious and legalistic denial, if you think about it - of the events she alleges.Then last week, after a long-drawn-out plea that her allegations should be tested in court, Ms Jones's luck turned. He is the proud owner of an old C-melody saxophone that belonged to his father, and a vintage 82-year-old saxophone.

"I didn't want to have to just do clubs and stay up all night and sleep all day." So he decided to become President of the United States instead."I thought I could be really good at it," Clinton said without the slightest hint of boastfulness "I don't know how I knew it then, but I was right And I'm glad I did it. But the usually straitlaced American public loves him anyway. I enjoyed this job and ran three cars.Mating habits? There I met my wife, Rosemary, who was doing a pre-nursing course We used to hold hands under the bench. British cinemagoers of the last quarter of a century owe much to a man determined to widen the range of images available to British audiences. He combined an intense commitment to cinema as a medium of ideas and a force for social change, with the entrepreneurial skills and instincts of a studio boss manque. But perhaps his greatest gift was for the business of living. There was no situation so grim, no cash-flow crisis so acute that it was not the material for a rolling sequence of jokes as Kirkhope reviewed the situation in relation to the current global balance of forces between left and right, the aesthetics of cinema and the sexual peccadilloes of his current creditor. He was born in 1949.