Entries for May 2006

A source high on the roster of Democrats working for former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner said Warner's presidential team hopes Sen. Hillary Clinton stays in the race until much closer to the 2008 primary season. Their hope is that her field-filling presence and vacuumlike approach to fundraising will fend off other Democrats from even entering the race. Media folderol aside, there's a rising chorus of partisan insiders who do not believe Senator Clinton will end up running for president.

Tomorrow Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York will lead off her bid to run for re-election "with a sometimes emotional 18-minute video that features praise from her husband and even some New Yorkers who opposed her candidacy six years ago," according to the Associated Press.

Twenty years ago, Harvard and Yale researchers suggested that white, college-educated women who didn't marry by age 30 had a 20 percent chance of ever finding husbands. By age 40, those chances dropped to 2.6 percent.

So much for the digital age advancing women's rights. We have the Internet to thank for intergalactic proof that girl jocks can behave just (about) as badly as boy jocks.

Is Botox the latest cure for depression? Before hordes of us run out and get our first injections, we need to read the controversial article in May's edition of Dermatologic Surgery—and listen to the response from women's health experts.

Who are the mass affluent? Don't be afraid to ask, because I didn't know either. The "mass affluent" are Americans with "investable" assets ranging from $100,000 to $1 million, according to Spectrem Group, a consulting group (sprectrem.com) that studies the mass affluent and retirement markets.

Days before the much-vaunted worldwide première of The Da Vinci Code, a crescendoing chorus of church officials and the faithful are rallying against, protesting, and railing against the movie's debut and, in some cases, pleading for a ban.