Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.