Extracts from her testimony has begun leaking out in the media even as the US Senate on Thursday voted to see her videotaped deposition, along with that of two other witnesses, on Saturday.

The Senate proceedings, which will be telecast live, will offer the world another vicarious peek into what is arguably the sex scandal of the century. Lewinsky has been heard on tape but has not been seen on screen. This event, news of which was received joyfully by television networks starved of ratings by the tedious legislative proceedings, will finally put Monica's voice to Monica's face.

Extracts from her deposition has already begun trickling out. According to one account, when the Republican prosecutor asked Monica whether she still had feelings for the President a year after she got embroiled in the impeachmentprocess, she replies: ``I have mixed feelings.''

When the prosecutor asks her to describe those feelings, she curtly tells him, ``I think what you need to know is my grand jury testimony is truthful, irrespective of whatever those mixed feelings are in my testimony.''

Several times in her deposition, Monica appears to defend the President, and tells the prosecution that he did not tell her to lie or file a false affidavit.

She also answers ``yes'' twice when asked if she still admired the President and appreciated ``what he is doing for this country as the President.''

Prosecutor: ``I assume you think he's an intelligent man?'' Monica Lewinsky (sharply): ``I think he's an intelligent President.'' Another time, when the prosecutor asks her about their ``first so-called salacious occasion,'' Monica retorts, ``Can you call it something else? . . . That's not what this was.''

Lewinsky's continuing loyalty to the President has nonplussed Republicans who are now at their wits end as to how to bring aclosure to the impeachment process without letting Clinton get off the hook with at least a rebuke.

``Her testimony is clearly tinted and some might even say tainted by a mixture of her continued admiration for the President, her desire to protect him and her own personal views of right and wrong,'' Republican Congressman Ed Bryant, who cross-examined her, complained.

But complaining on a whole other level are the American people. Richard Llamas might have been speaking for all of the country, if not the world, when he stood up in the Senate gallery on Thursday and hollered, ``God almighty, take the vote and get it over with.''

As the heckler was hustled out by the Capitol police, US lawmakers took several votes but were still some distance from getting over with it.

The Senate voted 70-30 not to call live witnesses, 25 Republicans voting with the Democratic pack. By a narrower 63-38, it voted too see on Saturday all or parts of the videotaped deposition of Monica Lewinsky and two otherwitnesses.

Parts of the taped testimony will be used by Republicans to prove obstruction of justice while White House counsels will use other parts of the same tape to disprove the charges.

Under the byzantine legislative road map that is taken seriously by none save the lawmakers, the Senate will hear closing arguments from House prosecutors and White House counsel on Monday, after it views the videotape. It will then deliberate for another two or three days before taking up a final vote next Friday.

There are prospects of even this simple road map being mined legislatively. Republicans are chafing at the prospect of a simple up and down vote (guilty/not guilty) that will let Clinton off the hook because they don't have a two-thirds (67) majority in a Senate of 100 members. They tried to push through a findings of fact proposal through he Senate but that was defeated. The finding of fact would have condemned Clinton even if he was acquitted.

Some Democratic Senators too feel Clinton should not getaway with a simple acquittal. Efforts are on to find a formula where by the President is acquitted but still stands adequately chastised.