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Missing out on the Iowa festivities this year: Arizona Senator John McCain, who will ring in the New Year with a series of town hall meetings in New Hampshire, squeezed in between two Iowa trips. Congressman Dennis Kucinich will also be absent; he plans to hold a party in New Hampshire. As for Congressman Ron Paul's campaign, several calls and emails to his camp went unanswered. And former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be celebrating in - where else? - New York City...
...Manhattan-Christmas industrial complex dates back at least three-quarters of a century. Seventy-five years ago this week, Radio City Music Hall opened, and the following December this grand movie-and-vaudeville house unveiled its first Christmas extravaganza, staged between showings of a film. At first there were just two scenes: the March of the Wooden Soldiers, featuring the dancing corps of Rockettes, and an elaborate retelling of the Nativity story and the journey of the Magi. (The numbers were designed by Vincente Minnelli and directed by Russell Markert, who imported the Rockettes from Missouri.) The Music Hall shut...
...Music Hall's success wasn't lost on New York's merchant-entrepreneurs. Today the city is clogged with live entertainment for the holidays: Lincoln Center alone has two offerings - the New York City Ballet's annual production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (which ends Sunday) and the yearly visit of the Big Apple Circus (through Jan. 13). Of the shows that say, "I like New York in Yule," we've chosen three - the newest, the oldest and one in between...
...McCain has been riding a wave of newspaper endorsements, including a nod from the local Des Moines Register, as well as rising polls in New Hampshire, where he has vowed to win the primary on January 8. But in Iowa, McCain cannot make it through a town hall without delicately addressing immigration, the topic that cost him his front-runner status last summer, when he prominently supported a bill that would give illegal immigrants a path to legal citizenship. "My friends, I learned a lesson," McCain told the crowd. "I got the message." Though he continues to support a path...
When I first met her at Harvard, her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had not yet been elected to office. Still, she stood out as a powerful figure in the dining hall of Elliot House, where she lived, and she displayed a passion for international politics that went beyond the antiwar rhetoric that passed for political discourse in those days. Later at Oxford, where we both ended up as grad students, she became even more intensely political. The summit of student politics there is the presidency of the Oxford Union, the venerable debating society, and she viewed it as her mission...