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...guest list read like a Boston Who's Who: Mayor Thomas M. Menino, President Neil L. Rudenstine, Bay Partners General Partner Chris Gabrielli, Globe columnist David Nyhan--and many of Boston's other most well-known citizens...
...Bush for not offering more high-fiber proposals, but it is the Democrats who seem deliberately vague about whether the principles they cite would have any impact if they made it to the White House. "You're not running for king of heaven; that job is already taken," says columnist Cal Thomas, co-author of Blinded by Might, a study of the toll that an engagement in politics can take on faith. "People want to know if you're being a hypocrite and using faith for political ends or if it is genuine and permeates every area of life...
...relaxed uprightness of cultural carriage, is only with us some of the time. Jingoism still disfigures the lowbrow end of our journalism. "One of the ways in which we have matured is that we don't give a stuff about what other people think," blustered one such "cultural" columnist, Susan Mitchell, in the Australian, a national daily, last month. "We no longer feel we have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves...
This is not necessarily an insult. Sex (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T. on HBO, which is owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) likens even its finest men to man's best friend. Sex columnist Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) meets her lover Aidan--a shaggy, happy-go-lucky golden retriever of a guy--when his dog cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with...
...good deal of condescension on the Bush convention. They jeered all week at the GOP's kinder-and-gentler diversity pageant, arguing that the gaudy display of pigmentations and orientations and live-and-let-live gem?tlichkeit bears no relation to Republican politics in the real world. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, implying that the African-Americans on stage in Philadelphia were singing and dancing in a vicious minstrel show, had the effrontery to suggest that Colin Powell was insufficiently black...