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Shanahan has calm blue eyes and a faint goatee and caps many sentences with a hopeful "You know what I'm sayin'?" On Sunday nights he goes to a downtown steak house to play piano--a lifetime passion he calls his "salvation." He has known he wanted to be a priest since he was a teenager. He spent 10 years "testing" himself, he says. He dated, got an engineering degree at the University of Illinois and went to work. But "the call" persisted. Since his ordination in 1992--during Chicago's pedophile-priest scandal--he has had to do things...
...touch with your masculine side," instructs a recent Jim Beam ad, which depicts a woman puffing on a cigar. Flip on an episode of Sex and the City, and you are likely to catch Carrie Bradshaw and her friends blithely tossing back candy-colored cocktails at a downtown bar. But it's not only thirtysomethings on TV who persistently overindulge. On a recent episode of the Fox sitcom Undeclared, several college coeds go out to a bar, where one woman gets so drunk, she flashes her breasts. And Britney Spears recently starred in the film Crossroads, in which a trio...
Beirut's beautiful people are crammed into B-018, a hot nightclub near the downtown waterfront. Muscle men in jeans and miniskirted femmes fatales are dancing hip to hip, tossing back glasses of Johnnie Walker. Everybody's relishing the moment, as the city boogies its way out of the ashes...
Thanks to a major government-driven effort, the capital's once gutted urban center has been turned into a new downtown that aspires to reclaim for Beirut its old title, "Paris of the Middle East." The streets are lined with new and restored office buildings, apartments, shops and cafes. There's a Virgin Megastore (selling DVDs like Legally Blonde alongside videotapes of Osama bin Laden speeches) and a Beirut branch of Paul, a famed Parisian boulangerie. Summer festivals in the mountains east of the city have featured attractions such as Sting and Elton John...
There were only about 40 people on hand to witness it last Tuesday night when Al Gore dipped a tentative toe back into politics. At a fund raiser for Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal at a downtown Washington steak house, Gore--still bearded and not yet back in fighting trim--tried out a few self-deprecating one-liners. He spends his days teaching a bit, he told the smallish room. "I'm a visiting professor--v.p. for short. It's a way of hanging...