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But Sanford, a conservative Christian, has long portrayed himself as a model family man. While he asked for his state’s forgiveness, his hypocrisy, and that of other Republicans of late, may exhaust the patience of Bible Belt voters. Watch CNN iReporters discuss cheating politicians »
“A lot of Bible-steeped power brokers will still give him a pass,” said John Jeter, a South Carolina writer whose new novel, “The Plunder Room,” examines Southern mores. “But American and especially Southern conservatism is going to have to find a new kind of face.”
And that face has eroded over the years with other high-profile GOP figures’ fall from grace.
In July 2007, Vitter, the Louisiana Republican, apologized for a “very serious sin in my past” after his phone number showed up in the records of Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort service run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, also known as the D.C. Madam.

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They got a taste of how people from different ethnic cultures – sometimes from feuding countries – could live and work together during a recent tour of Jackson Heights.
Each of the 17 participants were in New York for three weeks to learn how to better manage their organizations. The Jackson Heights trip on June 19 was their last New York excursion as part of the annual Ford Motor Co. International Fellowship of the 92nd Street Y.
“I hope they’ll see how diverse communities can work toward common goals,” said Alison Gardy, director of international relations at the Y. “People live together here that could not live together back home. And they make it work.”
That’s certainly one of Grace Yeanay’s goals. She runs an organization that helps Liberian women get out of prostitution and poverty by teaching them marketable skills. Often, the women are from feuding tribes.

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The best strip clubs in New York City
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Pussycat LoungeIf you do your drinking at a place like Doc Holliday’s, then you’d do well to go ogling at Pussycat Lounge. Part after-work bar, part strip club and part circus sideshow (at least when the freaks do their burlesque), PL is a curiosity—a place to see cute but unspectacular girls jiggle their assets on a long stage behind and above the bar. The performers are as diverse as New York; many are of African, Caribbean, Eastern European and Latin American descent. Their hands-on approach to lap dances can be more pleasurable than the going-through-the-motions moves administered by the tired émigrés at some other clubs. Just be careful: The tiny space reserved for the club’s private dances—four leather chairs facing each other—offers little privacy. 96 Greenwich St at Rector St (212-349-4800, pussycatloungenyc.com)
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The VIP Club New YorkThis Wall Streeter hang spot boasts plenty of VIP couches, red-velvet chairs and, as its website proclaims, “never more than four ugly [s …

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ANALYSIS: Politicians have weaknesses that are all too human
LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — What is it with philandering politicians?
Why do men in power — the ones on pedestals — think they are above us and can get away with cheating on their spouses, particularly when media scrutiny is so intense and peccadilloes are arguably more politically damaging than in the past?
There’s a long list of those who thought they could jet off to Argentina, or cruise on the Monkey Business, or check into a hotel under an assumed name or use an escort service and never get caught, never have to come clean.
The names quickly come to mind — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., Sen. David Vitter, R-La., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., one-time Democratic presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Gary Hart, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, current New York Gov. David Paterson.

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Updated Friday, June 26, 2009 10:00 am TWN, By Liz Sidoti, AP
Why do politicians cheat on wives?
WASHINGTON — What is it with philandering politicians?
Why do men in power — the ones on pedestals — think they are above their constituents and can get away with cheating on their spouses, particularly these days amid intense media scrutiny and when peccadilloes are arguably more politically damaging?
It is a long list of those who thought they could jet off to Argentina, cruise on the yacht Monkey Business, check into a hotel under an assumed name or use an escort service and never get caught, never have to come clean.
The names quickly come to mind — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Sen. John Ensign, Sen. David Vitter, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, one-time Democratic presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Gary Hart, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, current New York Gov. David Paterson.

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AMY GOODMAN: What is your focus when it comes to police and educating police? What are the issues you have with police?
MYA LEILANI VAZQUEZ: Personally, it’s searching. You know, I prefer a female to search me, because I do prefer—like I am a woman. That’s how I feel. You know, as long as you talk to me in a proper tone and ask me questions, you’ll get something out of me. If you’re coming to me in a nasty attitude, then you’re possibly going to get, you know, me ignoring you or like, you know, running—whatever you have to do, you know. And you tend to be profiled when you’re out in the Village, you know, just for being trans. You know, I constantly get stopped and asked if I’m loitering with the intent of prostitution, you know.

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… The Bride Will Keep Her Name” by Jan Goldstein; Shaye Areheart (272 pages. $24)
So many things can go wrong for a bride in the week before her wedding. Dress alterations go haywire. The flower girl gets pink eye. The colorist turns her hair a wrong shade of something.
Goldstein adds a few new (although seriously farfetched) items to the long list of potential bridal nightmares with his hurly-burly novel. Manhattan art gallery manager Madison Mandelbaum is six days away from marrying the man of her dreams, dashing TV reporter Colin Darcy, who sits on the precipice of a grand career in muckraking.
But then a flurry of anonymous messages begins, and Madison must question whether Colin, whose job is to uncover unsavory truths, is hiding a big secret involving a dead call girl.

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… First and foremost, we’re here to say no the mayor,” said Mark Winston Griffith, meeting moderator and a member of CHRM, in his opening remarks. “And to affirm our support of homeless men who need better services, not to be crowded into the shelter and further into despair. And to affirm our statement that people of all generations, all stripes come together to form a common strategy.’”
Speakers and audience members were highly critical of the existing Bedford-Atlantic Shelter, which already houses more than 300 homeless men.
“It’s the worst in the system,” Mr. Griffith, a city council candidate, said in a brief interview. “Notorious. Known for illicit activities: drugs, prostitution, violence.” He added, “It is bad homelessness policy: to make this current shelter an intake center intensifies current problems and has a negative impact on the homeless population it’s supposed to serve.”

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… THE RIVALRY’ Norman Corwin’s play, constructed largely from transcripts of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, had relevance when it was seen on Broadway at the dawn of the civil rights movement, and of course it has a new resonance now. Christian Kauffmann’s Lincoln makes this production by the Vincent Dowling Theater Company and Irish Rep work; his portrayal grows on you, just as Lincoln grew on the American public (2:00). Irish Repertory Theater, 132 West 22nd Street, Chelsea , (212) 727-2737, irishrep.org. (Genzlinger)20090625
★ ‘RUINED’
Lynn Nottage’s strong and absorbing new work, for which she recently won a Pulitzer Prize, is a comfortable, old-fashioned play, set in an African brothel, about an uncomfortable, of-the-moment subject: the rape and mutilation of Congolese women. A raw and genuine agony pulses within the sturdy framework of this vividly acted drama, directed by Kate Whoriskey (2:35).

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SYLVIA RIVERA: My name is Sylvia Rivera. My name before that was Ray Rivera, until I started dressing in drag in 1961. The era before Stonewall was a hard era. There was always the gay bashings on the drag queens by heterosexual men, women and the police. We learned to live with it, because it was part of the lifestyle at that time, I guess, but none of us were very happy about it.
SEYMOUR PINE: My name is Seymour Pine. In 1968, I was assigned as Deputy Inspector in charge of public morals in the first division in the police department, which covered the Greenwich Village area. It was the duty of public morals to enforce all laws concerning vice and gambling, including prostitution, narcotics, and laws and regulations concerning homosexuality. The part of the penal code which applied to drag queens was Section 240.35, section 4: “Being masked or in any manner disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration; loiters, remains, or congregates in a public place with other persons so masked…”

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