Federal File

An Oval Office confession

President Clinton wants every 8th grader to be able to conduct research via the Internet in three years. By then, he may have learned to use it himself.

During a recent Internet conversation with children in Los Angeles, Mr. Clinton 'fessed up: Seems he's still in the slow lane on the information highway.

At the end of the conversation, a labor leader organizing volunteers asked how many students knew how to use the school's computers....