If you've never been in therapy, let me summarize: You can't escape your family. As I watched the vice-presidential selections unfold, I couldn't help noticing that this cliché was holding true. In pleasingly Freudian fashion, Barack Obama hired the father he never had: solid ol' Joe Biden. And John McCain...

I had an unusual seat for the Palin-Biden debate last week. Like Arianna Huffington, I was surrounded by female titans of industry, all of whom were gathered for a conference of Most Powerful Women organized by Fortune magazine. So my fellow watchers were leaders from Wall Street, insurance, design, Silicon...

Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin may be inspiring voters, but more surprisingly they are also inspiring retail sales. When Obama appeared on The View this June in a $148 dress from White House/Black Market she created an overnight shopping frenzy that helped the company move 2000 units. In September, the...

The first thing I noticed about Michelle Obama when she walked through the door of the Chicago hotel suite (which we'd converted into a temporary photo studio for MORE's October cover shoot) was her height. A commanding 5'10"--plus heels--she was even more imposing than the T.V. cameras project, perhaps because...

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You've gotta hand it to these guys. First there's Jennifer Hudson singing the national anthem, then they whip out Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow. With everyone rockin' in the aisles to recordings of Springsteen's "Born in...

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He's the reason I sat last night in the Old Chicago restaurant here in Denver with about a hundred other refugees from the Pepsi Center, watching Bill Clinton on a TV screen as he gave his...

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Before I got to Denver, I watched the TV talking heads (mostly men) wonder aloud if Hillary, like some sneaky, skeevy Eve Harrington from All About Eve, would pull a last-minute power grab to disrupt the...

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Am I the Hebe Dorsey of the DNC? She was the famous (now deceased) fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune who decided, when given a particularly awful seat at a top collection, to review the...

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I was the generation that just missed the 60s.

I was ten when the Beatles were doing world tours and my guitar-strumming neighbor, a hip girl of 17 who babysat me occasionally managed to convince me that they were actually choppering right into...