[Cicero]

Free advice from the woman who wrecked the New Yorker and cost her boss megamillions before she was fired.

Charisma. Maybe instead of brown, Gore should have worn red?

Somehow I just don't see Gore in cowboy boots, rolling oranges down the aisle of his campaign bus. He'd still be sprouting roots.

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This writer sure has a Dowdish/Ivens touch
for American political schtick.

Could this Tina Brown be this Tina Brown?

                              "the rumor mill
                              is totally out of hand ... It's all mad
                              hackdom run amok!" That's what New
                              Yorker editor Tina Brown told the
                              gossip columnist Liz Smith recently,
                              brushing aside whispers that she and her
                              husband, Random House publisher
                              Harry Evans, would soon be fleeing
                              New York for London.