WilliamM

Thanks for such a handy link to the NY Times obituary.

It is Fashion Week in Milano

Excellent, beyond wonderful.

Most states here have the same requirements. Usually the two go together.

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I know many young people from auditng courses at the University of Pennsylvania for ten years. That concept that young people do not know how to drive is right. But, I totally disagree about a lack of interest in learning. You can not rely on friends or Uber for everything. When I was stationed in Vietnam, I was very glad I knew how to drive a Jeep with a stick shift. That jeep was the one true life line I had. And I never expected to be in the army or Vietnam

@Real Avalon, we have only gone back and forth on political issues a few times. I do not see much of a pattern of responses from either side. I have no idea what you seem to have such a significant complaint. We barely know each other. I am pals with @Kenny, perhaps that is the problem.

"Unusual" friends: Her friends were Charlie Chaplin, Diane von Furstenberg, Bobby Short and Truman Capote, who was said to have modeled the character Holly Golightly after her in his 1958 novella, Why would she want Capote as a friend? @Kenny knows much more about New York society men and women than all but a very few people here

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Yes, it would be a total fantasy for me as well. I am not turned on marines more than someone who has never been in the military. And in my mid-70s I would never claim to go three times.

By George Packer From Vietnam through Bosnia to Pakistan & Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke was involved from the State Department. He triumphanted only in Bosnia, but saved thousands of lives by getting Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia to sign the Dayton Accords. Holbrooke was offensive (ask Barack Obama), invaluable, sometimes (in Hillary Clinton's State Department), but never boring. I have mentioned this very interesting book elsewhere here. Mr. Packer had access to almost every RH piece of paper and diary, courtesy of Holbrooke's widow, Kati Martin. (I have visited the Sarajevo airport, the one near the one Olympic site, isurrounded by Serbian military power during the war. Packer tells the airport crisis well, and includes Milosevic - it helps to know the airport, but not vital.) A monumental effort by Packer, who occasionally addresses the reader, and admits it is time to move on from HB, the bore (he asked Obama to call him Richard not Dick because his wife would object) to solving Bosnia. Packer reminds me of Robert Caro. A good comparison.

Audio: "Angels in America" The New York cast from last year on Broadway on seven CDs. I have been listening, now through the first three disc. Wonderful, like being in the theater.

George and Rock Hudson we're friends during their entire time in California. Too bad this new valuable forum got off to such a rocky start.

How did gays and lesbians far under Castro? And please do not write: No big deal. You ignore that I followed Castro from the beginning.

I was in high school when Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba. So I know he was far better than the previous government. But, if Cuba's doctors have to reimburse the government when they leave, that is hardly the freedom expected in the days after his revolution was successful.

If people might have to pay back the state for tuition and other expenses, why are you endorsing Cuba's medical system? Yes, the medical care in the United States is terrible, especially for the poor. But, praising Cuba is not necessarily the answer.