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Explaining that the rubber bird represented would-be first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry, Smigel enacted a quick kiss between the puppets...
...lives of the eight cloistered sisters of the Carmelite Monastery at Goonellabah, near Lismore, in northern New South Wales, who can be seen only through a grilled window in the reception area. It's into this modest room, watched over by old black-and-white photographs of St. Teresa of the Andes, that Sisters Bernadette, Veronica, Antoinette and Maria come in turn, each shedding a little more light on an existence which Sister Veronica herself can imagine outsiders wondering about: "I've been passing the monastery for five years. What do they do in there? What keeps them in there...
...have a grille," Sister Veronica says of the Catholic Carmelite order. Their nine Australian and New Zealand monasteries can all be traced back more than eight centuries to a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, near what is today Haifa, Israel. Four centuries later, in ?vila, Spain, St. Teresa formed the present order in 1562; three centuries after that, in 1885, the Carmel of Angoul?me, France, established a foundation in Dulwich Hill, Sydney. The grille "is not to keep us in, or the world out," insists Sister Veronica. "It's more a statement that says, We're set aside...
...when Washington's political wags were the only ones playing the parlor game of presidential prospects, John Kerry, who has learned the value of forward observation in war and politics, went on a scouting mission. He and his wife Teresa invited John and Elizabeth Edwards over for an intimate gathering at their Georgetown mansion, along with half a dozen other guests. Peter Yarrow, of the folk-singing group Peter, Paul and Mary and an old Kerry buddy from his Vietnam protest days, was there. And so was Georgia's then Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in that...
...Kerry and Edwards' honeymoon week entirely without its miscues--such as when their first photo op caught Teresa Heinz Kerry reaching across the candidates to wrest a thumb from 4-year-old Jack Edwards' mouth. Or when during a $7.5 million Radio City Music Hall fund raiser, comedian Whoopi Goldberg went into a raunchy riff of lewd--and not particularly funny--puns that employed the word bush. Someone apparently hadn't told her that the password for the week was values--a term that one or the other of the two candidates used eight separate times in their interview with...