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...passed that milestone without a partner, your best hope was to be seen as an eccentric Auntie Mame; your worst fear was to grow old like Miss Havisham, locked in her cavernous mansion, bitter after being ditched at the altar. Not anymore. "We've ended the spinster era," says Philadelphia psychotherapist Diana Adile Kirschner, who has made single women a focus of her practice. "Women used to tell me about isolation, living alone, low level of activity, feeling different. Now there's family, lots of friends, they're less isolated and more integrated into social lives...
Michael Broder, a Philadelphia psychotherapist and author of The Art of Living Single, decries what he calls the "perfect-person problem," in which women refuse to engage unless they're immediately taken with a man, failing to give a relationship a chance to develop. "Few women can't tell you about someone they turned down, and I'm not talking about some grotesque monster," he says. "But there's the idea that there has to be this great degree of passion to get involved, which isn't always functional. So you have people saying things like...
...York's political importance flowed from people, money and publicity. The 1820 census found New York to be the most populous state, while by the mid--19th century New York City had passed Philadelphia and Boston as the financial and media capital of the country. Virginia, cradle of Jefferson and his followers, and Ohio, bastion of the post-- Civil War GOP, have elected more Presidents because of regional ties to a major party during its political heyday, but New York was the battleground state that both parties fought...
...campaign worked--so well that ABC picked it up as a sitcom for the fall. And the knee-jerk critical snarking began. Of course the show would be bad--it came from a commercial! What's next? scoffed the Philadelphia Daily News. A buddy sitcom for the Mac and PC guys...
Elizabeth Mackenzie, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, PHILADELPHIA...