Holly Bailey
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Jun 11, 2007 02:27 PM
Your Gaggler could probably spend all day long talking about last
night's series finale of "The Sopranos." And truth be told, she pretty
much has. (Sorry, boss.) We won't even begin to pick through what it
all meant: Did Tony die? Did Tony live? And what was up with that cat?
(Adriana lives, people!) Suffice to say, one of the best moments of the
night had to have been A.J.'s reaction upon seeing his $30,000 SUV
explode in flames because he parked it on leaves during an impromptu
hook-up with a high school sweetie. According to A.J., it was just as
well. "We need to break our dependence on foreign oil," he declared.
President Bush couldn't have said it better. (And Bush even made a
cameo--dancing. As did Karl Rove. Talk about a lasting legacy.) At
least we're not the only ones consumed. Even the folks cruising the
Free Republic forums have found a way to bring the debate full circle.
"There is no way that Tony Soprano can be killed," one Free Republic reader wrote. "He is like immigration reform, too much at stake for too many people."
Update: Hillary gets in on the action:
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Newsweek Interns
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Jun 11, 2007 02:24 PM
By Ruth Olson
It would be stating the obvious
to say that Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a lot of
support at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. But the former
Massachusetts governor isn't the only pol drawing support on the campus
of 27,000 full-time undergraduate students, 98 percent of them members
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
David Garber,
a BYU student from Virginia, recently started a club to promote the
candidacy of Republican Ron Paul. The group isn't an official campus
club yet, so his activities have been limited. Garber admits it has
been somewhat difficult getting started; so far he has half a dozen
members in his group. "We're pretty optimistic," says Garber, who
believes Paul's policies are a better fit with mainstream Utah values
than Romney's.
Lauren Clough, who's heading up a group in
support of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, says the school
administration has been supportive, but that doesn't always hold true
of the students. "It is hard, and it can be frustrating, because people
can be mean about it," she says. But then again, she said, she's always
liked a challenge.
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Eleanor Clift
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Jun 11, 2007 02:22 PM
Republican Mary Matalin says she is often asked whether she's ever
changed her husband's mind about anything, and the answer is
yes--keeping pets and rescuing animals. Matalin and her rabidly
Democratic husband, James Carville, were the honored guests at the
Washington Humane Society's annual Bark Ball on Saturday night. The
black-tie event is unique because four-legged guests are welcome and
attendees traditionally bring canine escorts. Several hundred dogs were
in attendance, many of them rescue animals. Matalin and Carville,
accompanied by their five dogs and their two daughters, took the stage
for brief remarks. Carville grew up in Louisiana, where animals were
more for shooting and eating, Matalin observed. But he's come around.
Carville said he was asked recently on a talk show whether he'd ever
owned a gun. He said yes. Asked if he hunts, he said no. "My family
would kill me." He told of raising a pig to show at a 4-H event, but
the pig somehow broke its leg. His daughter wanted to know what he did
with the pig. "We ate it," he said. She didn't talk to him for three
weeks. The Bark Ball raises money for the Washington Humane Society,
which treats 20,000 abandoned and abused animals a year. Partisan
politics were set aside for the night, except Carville did note that
the winner of the Belmont Stakes earlier in the day was a filly--the
first time in a hundred years. He said he wouldn't be surprised if
Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton's flamboyant finance chairman,
commandeered the horse for a Hillary fund-raiser. The campaign did put
out a "HillGram" on the historical omen.
