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...Natalies, for their part, haven't had any contact with Portman. After all, they don't have much to say to the star. "Tell your stupid fans to stop writing me?! Somehow I doubt that would do much good," MacLean writes. Their minor claim to the name of fame isn't enough to change their lives in any way, especially after seeing the results of celebrity. "I don't feel like a star, although I'm kind of glad that I'm not famous now," says Natalie Guerrier...
...presidency isn't Gilgamesh, of course, but once upon a time, Americans entertained a subconscious ideal of a president with a Shackleton dimension. We somehow expected a hero and grown-up, even if we almost never got one, and even if a hero - Douglas MacArthur, say - wouldn't always have been such a good idea...
This is the equivalent of telling your wife you love her dress, but asking if she has anything else she could wear. Somehow the candidates have got it in their heads that it's bad to be openly negative, let alone angry. The fear of being dubbed a negative campaigner clearly stymied Steve Forbes. He waited to unleash his trademark you're-not-a-real-conservative ads against Bush. When Bush fought back, it was in muted tones; he referred to the bilious ads Forbes ran against Bob Dole in 1996, but did not challenge the tycoon directly...
...programming--when it's been years since a new basic-cable channel has become a hit. She doesn't just enter the risky field of new media. She doesn't just bet millions on the still notional idea of "convergence"--the trendy belief that television and online technologies will, somehow, on some machine, combine to form a superinformative, superprofitable supermedium. She does all of the above, taking on well-established women's media brands to boot...
...post-Clinton era, how nice it would be to see a national leader emerge of McCain's evident integrity. While he faces an enormous obstacle in the form of George W. Bush, intellectual light-weight and financial Mighty Mouse, we hope that McCain can somehow overcome. The Republican voters of New Hampshire can do the nation a great service by casting their votes for McCain, keeping his candidacy and his message alive for at least another round...