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• Haunted by Seamus

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:28 pm

  Tags: Source Ny Times, Romney Mitt, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 4, 2007 Most high-profile politicians acquire weird little bits of biography that you just cannot shake out of your mind. A reporter once told me that he sat next to a member of Congress on a trip, while said lawmaker kept eating mayonnaise out of those little packets they give you at fast-food

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• Getting One for the Price of One

  Published: August 2, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Giuliani Rudy, Times Op Eds, Giuliani Judith, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 2, 2007 This week, Rudy Giuliani is focusing on health issues, attacking Democrats' plans to get the government more involved in covering the cost of medical care. In a campaign tour of New Hampshire town meetings, he used the word socialism so often that it crowded out the old

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• An Ape Types in Iowa

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:46 am

  Tags: Great Ape Trust Of Iowa, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 9, 2007 Des Moines Des Moines is the most ape-literate city in the United States, said Robert Shumaker proudly. People come up to me on the street and start talking about bonobos. A bonobo is a small chimpanzee-like ape. Which you would know if you lived here. Shumaker is the lead

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• Republicans in the Straw

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:44 pm

  Tags: Romney Mitt, Iowa Straw Poll, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 11, 2007 Des MOINESHappy Iowa Straw Poll Day! Today40,000 Republicans are expected to make a pilgrimage to a large tent in Ames, Iowa, where they will eat an enormous amount of free food and vote for a presidential candidate. Mitt Romney is going to serve barbecue, and one of his sons has just

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• Must Be the Season of the Fred

  Published: August 16, 2007, 12:23 am

  Tags: Presidential Race 2008, Thompson Fred, Collins Gail

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 16, 2007 August. Everybody but you is out of town. Congress is in recess. The Iraqi Parliament, of course, is long gone. You-know-who is in Texas. It's 107 degrees in Crawford, but that brush wants cutting.Karl Rove is going on hiatus forever. The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been

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• Of Mitt, Monks, and Mowers

  Published: August 18, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Times Opinion, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 18, 2007 Mitt Romney's campaign has been trying to position him as the conservative alternative to Rudy Giuliani. They went searching desperately for examples of Rudy's closet liberalism that do not involve things Mitt himself was doing until about five minutes ago. (Divorces will only take you so

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• The Leona Chronicles

  Published: August 21, 2007, 12:33 am

  Tags: Helmsley Leona, Times Opinion, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 21, 2007 The news that Leona Helmsley died yesterday at 87 reminded me of the time I interviewed her husband, Harry, the real-estate magnate who owned a vast empire of Manhattan hotels, office towers and apartment complexes in the 1980s. He was over 70, the first billionaire I had ever met, and I

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• The Great Clock Plot

  Published: August 23, 2007, 12:17 am

  Tags: Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 23, 2007 This week, The Times reported that President Hugo Ch vez is planning to move Venezuela's clocks ahead by half an hour. The story created one of those wonderful moments of newspaper community, as readers around the nation suddenly shared an identical thought: Say what?Ch vez unveiled his

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• Men's Room Chronicles

  Published: August 29, 2007, 11:46 pm

  Tags: Craig Larry, Gop Hypocrisy, Times Op Eds, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: August 30, 2007 It is time for Republicans to start asking themselves whether there's something about ceremonial leadership positions that causes their colleagues to collapse under stress. Larry Craig was co-chair of the U.S. Senate Mitt Romney for President campaign until the recent unpleasantness caused

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• And on the 4th Day, They Voted

  Published: September 1, 2007, 2:18 am

  Tags: Times Op Eds, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: September 1, 2007 LOWELL, Mass.It's time for the 23rd debate in the Fifth Congressional District Democratic primary campaign! Or perhaps the 22nd. Everyone seems to have lost count, but we can definitely say that if the candidates were puppies, somebody would have been arrested for cruelty. We are ready

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• The Do-Over Theory

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:35 am

  Tags: Craig Larry, Times Op Eds, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: September 6, 2007 It has probably come to your attention that Senator Larry Craig is not sure he wants to resign after all. It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore, said his spokesman. Craig has assembled a crisis-management team, including public relations people and the Michael-Vick-dogfighting

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• Giuliani's Ground Zero Legacy

  Published: September 8, 2007, 1:30 am

  Tags: Times Op Eds, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: September 8, 2007 Rudy Giuliani is going to be at ground zero next week, taking part in ceremonies to remember the victims of Sept. 11. That was inevitable the man has so identified himself with 9/11 that it's amazing he hasn't tried to patent it. It's also a terrible idea. After the attacks, Giuliani

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• Sleepwalking in September

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:56 pm

  Tags: Thompson Fred, Times Op Eds, Collins Gail, Times Select

  GAIL COLLINS Published: September 13, 2007 Fred! Fred! He's here. He's tanned. He's ready. He looks like he needs a nap. When it comes to overhyped underperformers, Fred Thompson's entry into the presidential race was right up there with Britney Spears at the MTV awards. The Republican Party's great tall hope announced his

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