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There is a dose of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda--no matter how dilute--in all of us (and men, this goes for you too). For better or for worse, there are subsets of the Harvard population which resemble the four main characters on the show with striking similarity...
...Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, is a spirited and successful lawyer. She fits into a crowd without ever trying and has the strength and self-confidence to say and do whatever she wants. At the same time, she admits her fears about how she has chosen to live her life. This last season, for example, Miranda sacrificed her romantic partner to make partner at the law firm. Afterwards, she feared becoming an old maid for prizing her career over her love...
...truth, we 20-something undergraduates may only possess a morsel of Carrie, Samantha and Charlotte in each of us. Miranda, however, complete with her self-reflection, strength, and sense of balance, is pumping through our veins like I.V. fluid. Or at least she should be. It's too difficult to compare Miranda to any one subset of undergraduates because there are traces of her in all of us. We all, at some level, try to balance our learning with our lust, our curiosity with our composure and our senses with our sensibility...
...owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) likens even its finest men to man's best friend. Sex columnist Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) meets her lover Aidan--a shaggy, happy-go-lucky golden retriever of a guy--when his dog cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with a hand on the wrist: Roll over, boy! Then there's Carrie...
...feminism and love-conquers-all romanticism. These over-30 women can read the New York Times wedding section--"the single woman's sports pages"--with both envy and contempt for the 24-year-old brides nabbing investment bankers and ditching their careers. It also avoids pat sitcom solutions. When Miranda and Steve parted, he wasn't wackily written off but instead left as he showed up--a decent guy who proved wrong...