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@Mocha can not be serious. Just suggesting it is offensive to clients who have never hired him, especially when so many other providers are available

I saw the same "provider" for two years, so I know how different escorting can be. When I hired Billy Brandt in 2000, many people were interested. One gentleman wrote an article about Brandt and published my private comments. He allowed me to delete information about the guy I mentioned above. I was furious - beyonds furious. @Mocha, do not go ahead with your publishing plans. I was outed by a reporter, although it was far from the end of the world, but it was totally unprofessional. I am surprised that you are even thinking about it.

Dorothy Loudon replaced Carol Burnett on television's "The Garry Moore Show." But, nobody could really replace Carol.

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

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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.