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...daughter! Our daughter is dead!"), I'd like to reassure my family and the New York State Democratic party that I have no intentions of declaring membership in the party of Gingrich, Burton and Goldwater. But I am taking my critical first steps toward adopting a kinder, gentler - dare I say more compassionate - take on selected members of the Grand Old Party...
...keep coming back for more? Because every once in a while I get lucky. Like the night the gang stayed up late playing truth or dare. Or the times Eddie, the Long Island tough who lost a leg to cancer, tells anyone who will listen, "Chicks dig me. I dunno why." Or when Brittany, the pink-haired virgin, innocently persuaded Karen, the unhappy housewife, and Josh, the surfer heartthrob, to cuddle with her as a threesome in the "big bed of looove...
...wasn't long ago that repealing the estate tax was considered a Republican pipe dream. Even the Contract with America, Newt Gingrich's revolutionary manifesto, didn't dare scrap the progressive-era levy on inheritances, which annually raises some $50 billion. How things have changed. Last month the House voted to kill the estate tax, with scores of Democrats joining the G.O.P. Last week the Senate followed suit, with nine Democrats supporting the Republican majority. President Clinton vows he will veto the measure when it hits his desk this week, calling it too expensive and a subsidy for the rich...
...Schwartz, author of the forthcoming book Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong. "If Bruce is just one thing among a lot of other important things that you share," she said, "you'll handle this loss the same way you've handled other losses." (I didn't dare tell her about our beloved cat Clarence--named for Bruce's saxophonist, Clarence ("Big Man") Clemons. Seven years after our pet's death, his ashes are still in a box in my closet...
Nobody roots for Goliath, Wilt Chamberlain once complained to teammate Jerry West. The reason, of course, is that in a world consisting by and large of Davids, we assume the Goliaths have it easy. If they dare complain, we search for slingshots. O'Neal's life, however, didn't start off so terribly comfortably. His biological father, he says, abandoned him and his mother Lucille when he was an infant. O'Neal wrote a caustic rap song about it in 1994 called Biological Didn't Bother. O'Neal's mother eventually married Philip Harrison, an Army staff sergeant, who imposed...