Privacy and surveillance are the new hot topics, Mr. Tribe said.

So Mr. Tribe started an electronic mailing list and about 100 people joined.

Mr. Tribe replied that it would be a "clear violation" of the regulations for a clinic employee to answer such a question.

Mr. Tribe said there was no connection "between criminality and impeachability."

Mr. Tribe called the local case the strongest one yet filed against the tobacco industry by a state attorney general.

Mr. Tribe should not be worrying about a class of outcasts born "illegally."

"It's who may hold office vs. the way an election is held," Mr. Tribe said.

Mr. Tribe asks for better reasons to oppose human cloning.

"Democracy has some play in its joints," Mr. Tribe said.

Until now few prosecutors have made an issue of pornography, Mr. Tribe said, but he predicted that could change.