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...those of his famous in-laws. When Shriver threw an outdoor party at their house for Teddy and her cousin Caroline Kennedy during the 2000 Democratic convention in Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger mingled for half an hour or so and then retreated inside. "That was not his crowd or his comfort zone," recalls one guest. "He views himself as much larger than the Kennedys in many ways...
Whatever kind of Republican Schwarzenegger may be, it's probably not the kind to give much comfort to a cultural conservative like Pat Robertson. The actor has said he's pro-choice, though how he feels about things like parental notification and partial-birth abortion is unknown. He's loud and clear about his support for gay rights, including adoption rights. He once told Cosmopolitan magazine, "I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual--that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy...
...case, the thought of dismissed charges had brought him little comfort this summer, Okhotin said...
Damn it, religion is so beautiful. It’s not just the beauty in the stained glass of churches, the golden domes of mosques or the embroidered Torah scrolls. It’s in the faces of believers, illuminated by a mix of comfort and ecstasy. They are seeing into another world. They belong...
...scrappy outsider is incomplete. Rather, he combines the sense of entitlement afforded by a childhood of extreme wealth with the moral certitude gained by his decision not to merely live off--or, for that matter, maximize--that wealth. Instead, Dean got a medical degree, which gave him confidence, a comfort in his own skin. In that sense--and in some others--Dean, who has been compared so often to George McGovern and Ralph Nader, is far more like ... George W. Bush...