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Each year the Tony awards, in an effort to reverse a seemingly inexorable ratings decline, drop a few more of the actual awards from the live telecast (on CBS Sunday evening at 9 p.m. EDT). The goal, of course, is to make room for the program's real raison d'etre: excerpts from the Broadway shows it is busily trying to sell to tourists planning summer trips to New York. But there are 26 little statuettes to be given out tonight, and I have a special stake in reminding you of that. I'm one of the 796 Tony voters...
...working-class Catholic families and combined an intellectual appreciation of Democratic policies with a visceral understanding of Democratic voters. Moynihan was an intellectual raised in Hell's Kitchen; Cuomo was a gritty minor league baseball player from Queens. Both had the poetry of liberalism in their blood, and were living blueprints for Tim of how to live an honorable life in the service of the greater good...
...might have heard, gas prices are at an all-time high, recently breaking the $4-a-gallon barrier. Here in New York City, where I live, a gallon of regular will set you back $4.31. Though high gas prices have caused Americans to drive less - 11 billion fewer miles this March compared to a year earlier - and have boosted sales of fuel-efficient cars, there's not a whole lot that most of us can do about the problem except complain. A lot. Very loudly...
...agreement is significant to more than the convenience of the estimated 5 million Taiwanese who traveled to China last year, or to the 1 million who now live and work on the mainland. It is expected to aid Taiwan's economy and ease tensions across the combustible Taiwan Strait, the 112 mile (180 km) wide body of water separating mainland China and Taiwan. The direct-flight deal was reached by two semi-official bodies representing Beijing and Taipei in their touchy diplomatic contacts: Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits...
...picking vice-presidential nominees, only two people on the planet get a vote: John McCain and Barack Obama. Between an explosion of democracy in the spring and an even bigger explosion of self-determination in the fall is a brief interlude of, well, something that Vladimir Putin could probably live with...