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...Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Kennedy's colleague, described him as "one of the few passionate and effective advocates for social justice and race in Congress," The Post reported...
...Clifford Fox, managing director at Columbus Circle Investors, keeps track of the revisions stock analysts make in their earnings forecasts. In the 10 days ending last Thursday, only 33% of the revisions made were upward ones--a two-year low for that reading. John Manley, analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, notes that December was the first time since 1992 when there were fewer upward revisions in the month than the average for that month over the five previous years...
...really still in love with him. And after last week's tribute--the final episode of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour--who's to say he was wrong?) He recognized few barriers. Parties at his Georgetown home were smorgasbords of Republican stalwarts consorting with Bono pals like Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and John Waters, who directed Bono in Hairspray, a 1988 film starring the drag queen Divine...
Memory and its creeping loss are the themes that give Barney's Version its depth. The Ten Commandments and their discontents are what keeps the pages turning. Barney is a flamboyant sinner. What can you say about a guy who immediately tries to run off with a woman he meets at his own wedding, or plays practical jokes on the elderly? But did Barney really kill Boogie, an old friend and international moocher who was caught in the act with the second...
...evidence, as so much else in this exuberant and, by the way, wonderfully written novel, points in more than one direction. Which is how Barney intended it. He has an answer for everything and everyone. He even anticipates the man or, more likely, the woman who would accuse him of feeling sorry for himself: "Don't knock self-pity. There's a lot to be said for it. Certainly I enjoy it." You will...