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RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, ELAYNE BENNETT, HEAD OF BEST Friends, an organization that encourages schoolgirls to forgo sex, reached into her purse and found a piece of paper that board member Alma Powell had slipped in there a few days before. It turned out to be a check from General Colin Powell providing the major portion of matching funds for a $200,000 challenge grant. "I couldn't believe it, and I almost lost it," confesses Bennett. "Alma gave it to me with so little fanfare...
...case of Arianna, after plighting her troth to Newt (who then chose not to go to the altar) and flirting with Colin (who also got cold feet), she and other Newt loyalists have been batting their eyes at Lamar Alexander, and Lamar is panting for the attention. Before Christmas, Arianna played host at a breakfast and dinner with other neoconservatives to meet Alexander and offer him their ideas. "Lamar is most in sync with the idea of deepening the Republican realignment," says William Kristol, the neoconservative guru. Thus the candidate posing as an outsider sealed his dalliance with Washington...
...faithfully as the Bennet family sets about finding wealthy husbands for its five unattached daughters. Production values are first rate, with gardens and parlors so meticulously observed they could make Merchant and Ivory give up and turn to Die Hard sequels. And yet, amid the tastefulness, sexual tension lurks. Colin Firth plays Mr. Darcy, the romantic lead, as though he were a creation of the Brontes rather than the ironic, detached Austen. This Darcy is a man consumed by his passion for Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle), the novel's brilliant, voluble heroine. His eyes are piercing, and he cannot take them...
HAIL AND FAREWELL: At a press conference to announce that he would not run for President, General Colin Powell showed why he could have been a contender. "Have I added a new dimension to the race?" he asked. "I think I have." Including nostalgia for a campaign that never was--this time...
...COUP OF THE YEAR: The Colin Powell presidential campaign/book tour. Runner-up: The Newt Gingrich presidential campaign/book tour...