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Caroline Kennedy: 'Gaelic for Chutzpah'

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Don't worry Uppity - I don't think your obsessed. Caroline's just too easy. Born nine months, to the day, after me and married 17 months after me I feel fully qualified to pass some muster on her. My narcissist/ mother (a die-hard Republican) cleaved to the Kennedy mystique and used to compare me to Caroline (or any other person my age she thought was "better" than her own daughter) quite a bit over the years. I think I know you Caroline... or what little there is to know. In 1986 a friend of mine was working at the Door Store in Manhattan, near the Citibank building on Lexington. I went in to meet him and drag him to lunch and there was Caroline and her then-fiance Mr. Schlossberg - ordering furniture and pawing at each other like two sixteen year olds at the "submarine races." Classy. Now she wants Hillary's seat -- and the ONLY thing she or her supporters can talk about is her Father, her Mother, her Uncle, her Cousins. WHAT ABOUT HER? I g...

Chutzpah

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more animals B"H This world operates on chutzpah. It has the chutzpah to declare itself a world, to assert that it is autonomous from its Creator, to deny any relationship to the very force that is continually bringing it into being every moment. We will fight chutzpah with chutzpah. A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe -words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman SHABBAT SHALOM