Bill "Clinton's claim in 'My Life' that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, was named after Mount Everest climber Sir Edmund Hillary is being called ridiculous," says the New York Post. "Sir Edmund did not climb Everest until 1953, seven years after the other Hillary was born. At the time of her birth, he was an unheralded New Zealand beekeeper."
Yesterday, on a day when Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney was in Washington to urge the U. S. Senate to pass a federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, two Republican former governors of Massachusetts attended the marriage of two men, Kevin Smith and Mitch Adams, at King's Chapel in Boston, reports the Boston Globe.
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H Bomb, a Harvard-student-produced literary magazine about sex, makes its debut today.
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Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, has written that "it must be pointed out that Catholics, especially public officials, who willingly and with approval faciitate the legal sanctioning of same-sex unions are involving themselves in cooperation with evil."
--from an article by Thomas Caywood in the Boston Herald.
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"Re-electing President Bush will mean a loss of freedoms and 'create an America we won't recognize,' Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling potential Democratic donors.
"'If they get their way, you and I will be living in an America governed not by our hopes, but by our fears,' the former first lady wrote in an e-mail appeal distributed by the Democratic National Committee to help Sen. John Kerry's presdiential campaign."
--Boston Herald.
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Linda Fairstein was emcee yesterday of a Spring Literary Luncheon called “Authors In Kind” to benefit God’s Love We Deliver at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, reports nysocialdiary.com.
Final Jeopardy, by Linda Fairstein, the author’s first mystery novel, is a better book than her more recent The Bone Vault. The story was interesting at all times. I did not suspect who the murderer was, but the murderer’s identity made some sense when it finally became clear.
Although interesting, the book is less than perfect. A famous movie star is murdered in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, at the summer house of Alexandra Cooper, an Assistant District Attorney in New York. It is conceivable that A.D.A. Cooper may have been the intended victim, but, even so, would a murder in Massachusetts be investigated in New York and involve New York police in any way, even if it involved a famous movie star (who lived in California) who was staying at the Massachusetts summer house of a New York A.D.A.? I don’t think so, but I really can’t say definitively.
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I just finished reading The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein, a murder mystery involving employees of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, and the Museum of Natural History. The main character is Alexandra Cooper, an Assistant District Attorney, who works closely with police to solve the murder of a young woman, a museum employee, whose body was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus being shipped out from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book is well written in the sense that the sentences and paragraphs are well written, if over all the story is somewhat far-fetched and short on suspense The character that I suspected turned out to be the murderer, and there was not very much reason to suspect anyone else. Still, the book was worth reading, and I plan to read more mysteries by the author, a former New York prosecutor herself.
When I think of writing a mystery myself, I have trouble thinking of an interesting reason why one person would kill another. The Bone Vault doesn't succeed in convincing me that the reason for the murders in the book was very realistic.
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