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...people responded to the tragedy with an unabashed victory dance on her figurative grave? Answering the second question requires understanding the Hamptons, a grand but tortured resort area just 100 miles outside New York City that attracts a flashy spectrum of celebrities, from Alec Baldwin to Tommy Hilfiger to Martha Stewart. It's a place where the beaches are wide and lovely, where it's considered normal to have a summer home with a service-entrance driveway, and where almost no one looks happy to be there...
...Freeman and ex-husband William Bessette, agreed to the settlement offer just before a July 16 deadline for filing a wrongful-death suit. Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law were killed July 16, 1999, when a plane piloted by Kennedy went down in the ocean just off Martha's Vineyard...
Faculty members identify Law School Professor Martha L. Minow, Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics Susan J. Pharr and Pusey Professor of Neurobiology Carla J. Shatz as among the most prominent possibilities...
...hand it to VICENTE FOX for giving it some new flavor. Swamped by his lowest approval numbers since taking office, Mexico's President did what any Must-See-TV producer would do--hold a surprise wedding! Fox, divorced since 1991, married his press spokeswoman MARTHA SAHAGUN on the first anniversary of his election, which was also his 59th birthday. Fox tried to keep the nuptials low key, but somehow his wedding video made it onto national television, and all of Mexico saw Fox give Sahagun a delicate peck on the cheek, only to move in for some lip action...
Usually I'm a sucker for the slippery-slope argument. On cloning, I'm in favor of ending it now before we have three grandmothers at Thanksgiving dinner, all faintly resembling Martha Stewart. On privacy, you don't have to be Ray Bradbury to be concerned that soon every membrane will be permeable by some gadget recording, taping, filming or just watching you. Coloradans are no doubt pleased that the state plans to start using three-dimensional "face recognition" photos for driver's licenses in order to prevent identity-theft crimes. Yet states sometimes sell their databases to anyone...