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...will look like...” He trailed off, making circles in the air in front of his chest. He watched Roxanna as though he were waiting for something. But she could not turn her gaze from the patch of garden that she had so carefully cultivated throughout the summer. Pumpkins. Pumpkins. Those lewd gourds! Oh, her sweet petunias! Alas, her darling rosebush! The almost indecently large seeds lay, garishly white and pale and smooth, like grubs, upon the fresh soil, not two feet from her flowers. With a sudden cry of anguish, Roxanna flung her slender white hand into...
...crème-paned windows lining the streets of Harvard Square, the navy signs supporting “McCain-Palin” are most likely to catch the eye of an average Cantabrigian. In Cambridge, McCain is lemonade on a glacial morning or hot chocolate on a scorching summer afternoon. McCain is the brunt of Al Gore’s jokes and professorial grievances. McCain is the underdog, despite his policies that boost the job market, strengthen American independence, and grant our generation a promising future...
...Cabinet is noteworthy not only because its treasure begets political influence but also because its very existence shows how dramatically the culture wars - and liberal politics as a whole - have changed in the past decade. Next summer gays will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the 1969 Manhattan demonstrations that began when cross-dressers angry about police raids at the Stonewall bar began throwing bottles and punches. Today, though, the street movement is basically defunct. And increasingly, the center of gay power is moving out from Washington toward the interior - toward powerful foundations like those run by Stryker...
...part, the Cabinet seems poised to prod the gay movement into being sleeker, faster, more tactical. When the remaining veterans of Stonewall march down Fifth Avenue next summer, those shimmeringly romantic, slightly foolish days of 1969 will have never seemed so distant...
...Washington's finest hotels and, eavesdropping madly, realized that my neighbors at every one of the adjoining tables were consumed by the vagaries of appointive politics - as I was, after my guest arrived. The game of turbocharged, Cabinet-level musical chairs is the autumnal version of the summer speculation about vice-presidential picks: lots of fun, but not very nourishing, and I'm not going to indulge in it here (O.K., maybe a little). There are bigger fish to fry, like what's the new President - Obama is universally, prematurely, assumed the victor - actually going...