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...Even Kerry's family life has been gapping up. His daughter Vanessa is getting married in October, and he has thrown himself rather dramatically into wedding-planning, in part because his ex-wife Julia Thorne, Vanessa's mother, died of cancer in 2006. (Walking back to his office from the Senate floor recently, Kerry held forth at length about the coming nuptials and his hopes of persuading his daughter to do a Red Sox bridal-party outing.) Kerry isn't utterly changed, of course. He retains the sometimes aloof bearing that made him a hard sell to some voters...
...campaign trail. As he finished, Kennedy, who avoided mentioning his slain brothers in political speeches, now did, but in a carefully understated way, recalling the "words of Tennyson that my brothers quoted and loved, and that have a special meaning for me: 'I am a part of all that I have met;/ ... Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'/ ... that which we are, we are;/ One equal temper of heroic hearts,/ ... strong in will/ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
Afterward, Kennedy said to me, "Well, I think it did work." Well enough that by the fall of 1982, he had a better than 3-to-1 lead over Walter Mondale for the '84 Democratic nomination. But within weeks, he announced that he wasn't running - in part, I believe, because he sensed that Reagan was stronger than he seemed and, more decisively, because his children strongly objected to another race. The next time - 1988 would be his best chance, I told him, because his opponent would be the first George Bush - he dropped out almost three years before...
...opening week of the Biennale 2009 seemed little changed from 2003's. The names were the same - British artists Gilbert & George, the American Bruce Nauman - and the discussions almost identical. Ambition, both on the part of the artists and the collectors who hoped to gain prestige from their purchases, dominated every event. "The hunger to succeed ... was ravenous," Atman says. "In different historical circumstances any number of these artists could have seized control of the Reichstag or ruled Cambodia with unprecedented ruthlessness...
Still, groups pushing to legalize marijuana north of the Rio Grande see Mexico's change as an encouraging sign for their own struggle. Allen St. Pierre, head of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says the Mexican law is part of changing global attitudes to the issue. "Cultural social norms are shifting around the world and in the United States. There will likely come a point when the majority see that prohibition is expensive and simply doesn't work," he says. St. Pierre points out that 13 U.S. states have already decriminalized marijuana and California has legalized...