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...Mila Jovovich, Ray Liotta and half the cast of "The West Wing," who rushed over from the Warner Bros. set after taping their show. Real politicos on hand included Donna Shalala (how she loved the celebs!), Chris Cuomo, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Barbara Boxer, Lynda Bird Johnson and Chuck Robb, the Kennedys and a Lawford or two, as well as model Christie Brinkley, fresh from casting her vote to nominate Al Gore as part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher of "Politically Incorrect," Jon Stewart of Comedy Central and former Washington Post...
...certainly doesn't get any more prolific. Since she launched her writing career in 1981, 134 novels have been published under her name and her pseudonym, J.D. Robb. Let's go over that again: 134 novels. Roughly 106 million copies of her books have been printed. Last year 14 of her titles appeared on New York Times best-seller lists. This year she will have seven new novels and six reissues published. Spoilsports who say Joyce Carol Oates writes too much have obviously never heard of Nora Roberts...
...worth reading the book to find out why). One thing is not mysterious: painting was irrevocably changed by the drama and limpid sexuality of Caravaggio's pictures--boys with eyes of precocious longing, fruit heavy with a ripeness so perfect as to be forbidden even as it beckons. Robb's slangy style and streetwise eloquence perfectly convey the originality and ruffian swagger of his subject...
...winning streak will continue into next year's elections. And in fact, yesterday's returns delivered a real Republican coup in one important state: For the very first time, both houses in the Virginia legislature boast a Republican majority. This historical turnover deals a serious blow to Senator Chuck Robb, the Virginia Democrat who's facing a tough reelection campaign next year. In addition, if state Republican lawmakers make good on recent threats, the legislature will redraw the lines to a number of congressional districts, thus potentially jeopardizing a couple of Democratic House seats...
...thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that said BRADLEY FOR PRESIDENT. And at the doughnut shop, state representative Amy Robb-Theroux, 34, is also having second thoughts about working for Gore. "People my age don't know much about Bradley," she says, "but I'd heard wonderful things, so I came to find out more. And I'm impressed...