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...Lott won the majority leader's post with the support of some G.O.P. moderates like Jim Jeffords of Vermont and Olympia Snowe of Maine, who believe he is a closet dealmaker. For instance, he pushed a compromise on the telecommunications bill earlier this year that, perhaps not incidentally, benefited a Mississippi company. Lott is a longtime friend of Bill Clinton's ambidextrous political consultant Dick Morris, who advised Lott in both his Senate races and frequently conferred with the Senator during last year's budget fireworks...
That is where I thought I would spend my life: a cultural Jew, an agnostic, a closet nihilist...
...woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn't match. Ted Koppel may have set the media's political agenda, but Winfrey had a direct pipeline to the nation's psyche. She helped bring such topics as child abuse, homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the closet and into the public forum. Her legacy can be seen in everything from presidential candidates who discuss their marital problems on TV to the fad for crash diets. And when Winfrey did a show about mad-cow disease earlier this year, beef prices plummeted...
...like a fun-house mirror image of the race for the White House. Some races faithfully reflect the top contest; others are distorted versions of it. At the top of the ticket are two politicians moving to the middle who will try to depict the Other Guy as a closet extremist. Such is the situation in many states, including New Jersey, where Democratic Representative Bob Torricelli is trying to tar Representative Dick Zimmer with the Gingrich brush while Zimmer is dismissing Torricelli as an unreconstructed liberal. In North Carolina there is an ideological contest generously seasoned with revenge: Harvey Gantt...
Strangers on a Train" and "Rope," two homoerotic Hitchcock thrillers that were featured in the recent documentary The Celluloid Closet. Brattle Theatre, double-features...