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...privacy, don't write books, and if you must, certainly don't publish them. And, for God's sake, lay off the missives. Furthermore, if absolute solitude is your thing, don't have relationships with other people, and surely don't have sex with them. Another good rule of thumb: don't have children. They eventually talk too. Salinger's daughter Margaret ("Peggy") is writing her own memoir about life with Daddy...
...Russian empire, however, were more those of ethnicity than of race. And if members of the former empire sometimes engaged in "Great Russian chauvinism," it usually had more to do with the fact that they stood at the center of the empire with other ethnicities under their Great Russian thumb. Now, however, faced seriously with a racially heterogeneous (rather than multinational) society for the first time, Russians in Moscow have taken to a form of racism subtly different from that which exists in America...
...Russian empire, however, were more those of ethnicity than of race. And if members of the former empire sometimes engaged in "Great Russian chauvinism," it usually had more to do with the fact that they stood at the center of the empire with other ethnicities under their Great Russian thumb. Now, however, faced seriously with a racially heterogeneous (rather than multinational) society for the first time, Russians in Moscow have taken to a form of racism subtly different from that which exists in America...
...form lasting relationships. Don't go looking to meet friends, or God forbid a significant other. If you're looking for a hook-up, you're in the right place, but shoot for anything else and parties are bound to disappoint. You may want to set a rule of thumb for yourself: Don't go to parties where you don't know the hosts. Of course you can be flexible, but if you know the hosts chances are you will know someone else, and you will at least have someone to talk to and can avoid feeling like...
...maybe that the A-list gathering would be a de facto Hillary fund-raiser -? and that its main purpose would be to thumb its New York liberal media nose at Hillary?s likeliest Republican opponent. Miramax?s people says Hillary isn?t the cover girl yet; Giuliani?s say there were plenty of other reasons to deep-six the soiree. If Tina Brown and Hillary and their fancy friends want to have any fun in New York this summer, they can go to the Hamptons just like everybody else...