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Liberals fear that her friendship with conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, with whom she served on the Appeals Court, might move her away from her natural allies, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter. In an interview last year, Ginsburg said, "Nino is the best colleague I've ever had. He's so thoroughly engaging." In a widely quoted joke, Scalia once replied "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" when asked whether he would want to be stranded on a desert island with New York Governor Mario Cuomo or Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. At a dinner party at her house shortly after...
...This was long before she became well known through her friendship with the Clintons," Hunt says...
...Before, our city was known as a town of ashes, the place where a war began. Now it is a town of the Olympics and of friendship; much has changed...
Touted as "part biography, part memoir, part critical study, and part exploration of sexual politics in our time," Erica Jong on Henry Miller is indeed a jumble of attitudes and voices--some sentimental, some pedantic. Jong's original intention in writing the book was to chronicle her friendship with Henry Miller. After the publication of her first novel, Fear of Flying, in 1974, Jong received "an enthusiastic fan letter" from a then 83-year-old Miller; the two began a correspondence that lasted until Miller's death in 1980. Jong sees Miller as "a kindred spirit," and she spends...
...with you own life or when you are trying to change someone else's. Her struggle to retain her faith in a dark world that threatens to overwhelm her is a call for all of them to speak out and reach out to each other. Elsa and Helen's friendship is often trying, as not only personalities but world perspectives clash. But the grace and trust that they inspire in each other and us make just this one evening they have with each other and then audience a memorable...