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When the going gets weird, as Hunter S. Thompson observed, the weird turn pro. And next year?s race to represent New York in the U.S. Senate seat is shaping up to be one weird puppy. Undeclared candidate Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday launched his most concerted campaigning tour yet ?- in Little Rock, Ark. As political theater, it gets rave reviews, but the witty jab at carpetbagging has worn a little thin, with Giuliani repeatedly saying things like "I?ve never lived here, I?ve never worked here, I?ve never gone to school here... I guess it would...
...inherited the burden of his father's ambitions and bore them to Congress, then to the White House and finally to Dallas. J.F.K. once said that "just as I went into politics when Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat. And if anything happened to him, my brother Teddy would run for us." After the assassination, however, R.F.K. entered a long and deep depression. "Without Ethel," a friend once said, "Bobby might well have gone off the deep end." He found some solace in Sophocles and Aeschylus, but it was only...
...truth. For every story of apparent rudeness, I can match it with a story of kindness between strangers. Just the other day I was on the subway and a little girl started coughing hard. Instead of just ignoring her, my fellow passengers offered the child and her mother a seat, a supply of tissues and some water. None of this surprised any of us--this is an ordinary event in New York. People hold doors, give up their seats on public transportation for pregnant or elderly passengers and always help out in an emergency...
...truth. For every story of apparent rudeness, I can match it with a story of kindness between strangers. Just the other day I was on the subway and a little girl started coughing hard. Instead of just ignoring her, my fellow passengers offered the child and her mother a seat, a supply of tissues and some water. None of this surprised any of us--this is an ordinary event in New York. People hold doors, give up their seats on public transportation for pregnant or elderly passengers and always help out in an emergency...
...next day I met elevator boy--I'll call him E. for short--at his place of work. E. was answering phones while his co-worker took a bathroom break, so I took a seat in the reception area. Just as the pleather seats were starting to itch my pantyhose, the other intern returned. Catching me looking impatient, she asked if I'd been helped, and, in the same breath asked E. when the "lunch chick" was going to arrive...