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...anything, DeGeneres' sexual orientation may help her as a host. To straight women--who are socialized to be more intimate with one another anyway--she's a kindred spirit and funny pal, without the complicating factor of sexual competition. To straight men--if they think about her--she's a sharp comic with a hot girlfriend (actress Portia de Rossi). What guy has a problem with that scenario...
...would be the first to point out that she has yet to make a recording or grace the European opera stages that forged Sutherland's fame. But in the budding boldness of her bel canto one can already sense a magical symmetry forming-of another down-to-earth spirit allied to a heavenly voice...
...that she is committed to making them work. If so, she will face stiff opposition from many U.S. Episcopalians, who would probably prefer second-class status -or no status at all - in the Communion, rather than retreating from a position on homosexuality that they feel more closely reflects the spirit of the Gospel than the exclusionary position of the majority of the primates...
...volunteers. But then, this magazine couldn't be produced without the volunteers, such as Yochai Benkler, who allow us journalists to interview them. Cable TV news channels are pageants of volunteerism, with much airtime filled by unpaid guests. The majority of these people aren't motivated by Kropotkin's spirit of mutual aid--they seek fame, an audience for their ideas, higher fees on the speaking circuit. But for those minutes on air, they are working for free...
...This spirit of ambition and reinvention isn't automatically good or automatically bad. It gave us upward social mobility, and it gave us teenagers with butt implants. It gave us Manifest Destiny and reality TV. But it is part of what defines us. Maybe Smith made people uncomfortable because she crassly, gluttonously embodied ideals that are familiar, even celebrated, in American culture: determination, drive and the faith that the good are rewarded materially. "I think heaven's a beautiful place," she told Los Angeles magazine in 1994. "Gold. You walk on gold floors...