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...garnished with sushi - could be a chic photo essay in either Maxim or Gourmet. I don't know the particulars of Cattrall's maintenance regimen, but, as a friend of mine said about another, gorgeous, 50-plus actress, "If she's had work, it's great work." (The other major character in the film is New York City, playing the role it filled in Hollywood comedies of the '30s and '40s: the capital of glamour and sophistication. Today, Old New Amsterdam is pushing 400, and it still looks fabulous...
...national conference three years ago, National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni deplored the nation’s efforts in translational science, the process of using basic scientific research to improve patient care. Later that year, Zerhouni announced a major NIH-led initiative to address the problems in translational science, a push that paid off for Harvard this week when the University landed a major grant to fund its efforts in the area, according to a Harvard Medical School spokesman...
...raise a child. "I'm sure there's a difference between the way Jesse Jackson raises his kids, Louis Farrakhan raises his kids and my parents raised me," he says. Ruth-Arlene Howe, a law professor at Boston College, counters that efforts to ensure race-blind adoptions are "a major, major assault on black families...
...Many have speculated that Clinton, as a sort of consolation prize on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, might make a good Majority Leader. But those doing the speculating clearly don't understand the way the Senate works. Not only is majority leader actually a tedious, behind-the-scenes managerial position, but the current holder of that position, Harry Reid of Nevada, is a lot more popular in his party than outsiders realize, and his chief deputies, Dick Durbin and Charles Schumer, have their own ambitions. Senators want a leader they can call at any hour with complaints - in other...
...vast majority of presidential wannabes who return to the Senate end up like Dodd and Biden, choosing a legislative, rather than leadership, path - satisfied with presiding over your own fiefdom as head of a committee, or sponsoring a major piece of legislation, rather than logging favors and whipping unruly members into line for votes. "The leadership track is one that is almost so all-consuming it's pretty hard to devote the attention to other committees that otherwise become a big part of any senator's life," said Tom Daschle, a former Democratic Senate majority leader and an Obama supporter...