In mid-2007, GPEI thought it had made significant headway; a third party had brokered an agreement with the Taliban to let polio vaccinators work unimpeded.

While this was no doubt true for da Vinci and his sodomy suit, and Cellini's escapades, the contemporary mass media and the urge for candor carry celebrityship to new heights, as part of aesthetic appreciation, broadly conceived.

Their feeling, anachronistic as the servants’ call button in their dining room, is that if you don’t have the money for something, you don’t buy it.

With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan.