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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Via James Wolcott, this is from the end of Vanity Fair's profile of Rudy Giuliani:

• The position of "Mrs. Giuliani" has not historically been a secure post. Although the candidate has lately been warned by advisers to avoid any hint of scandal, there is a sense that perhaps he is not listening. "Does a leopard change its spots?" says one close friend. Recently, Starr Shephard, a Texan who informs me she used to be on the "U.S. world team of rhythmic twirling gymnastics," emerged in The National Enquirer, which ran a story suggesting she might be a Giuliani love interest. "I am not having an affair with Rudy Giuliani. I do not need a political power stick," the 36-year-old redhead says when I call her. "I believe in his vision and his voice even if I do not believe in his family."
  
  
  "What do you mean by that?" I wonder.
  
  "Oh, you know, you hear things about his family," she replies.

Says Wolcott (who also writes for VF):

• I have no idea what this strange contortionist is intimating about the family, but I am relieved that Rudy's leopard-spotted power stick has not fallen into her twirling hands. Such a scandal would only serve to upstage Jeri Thompson's snowy Alps, which, I'm sure David Gergen would agree, is not the direction this country wants to go.

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