She's very smart and she's been able to do things. She's got friends here and a job cleaning buildings so she could do it, but she's scared. I want to help her get back to a more independent situation.

She was a very generous, serious and thoughtful critic and arts reporter. She didn't write like anybody else. She had such a personal voice. She wrote novels, too, which most people don't know. They're not published, but what really struck me about them were her powers of describing landscapes and plants, this extraordinary sensitivity to natural beauty.

James has become, in effect, an 'apostle' of the free market, selling Third World governments a vision of boundless riches that comes from Western-style economic development. The free market gospel America preaches today is like the Christian gospel the Spanish friars preached in the New World. It cloaks a brutal pursuit of national economic self-interest.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

For many of our friends who are gay, this is not a significant event in their lives. It doesn't mean that I can now claim Marilyn as a dependent. It doesn't mean that I can leave her my money without consequence. It doesn't give me the same rights as the average American.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.