Eye of the storm

Reality was a friend of Sebastian Junger's until two weeks ago, when the New York Observer printed a painstaking audit of errors that made their way into his surprise bestseller The Perfect Storm. We visit him on Cape Cod, where he is trying to recall what life was like before he was a media darling. Is this dreamboat taking on water?
by Ellen Barry

Decision time

Senate president Tom Birmingham knows the dangers of blind ambition, but an open seat in the Eighth District could tempt him into making a run for Congress
by Michael Crowley

Fear and Bloating on the Vineyard

Nude beaches. Sunburned Secret Service agents. Gossip columnists. Paparazzi. Airhead TV reporters. Wired caterers. Carly Simon. Just another day on the trail of the First Family's vacation.
by Jason Gay

Campaign snapshot

Profiles of the contenders: Anthony Schinella, Gareth Saunders, Suzanne Iannella, Diane Modica
by Yvonne Abraham

Pretty vacant

JFK Jr.'s once-promising George is as vapid as his own narcissistic prose. Plus, ethical questions at the Wall Street Journal and mush from Microsoft's wimps.
Don't Quote Me by Dan Kennedy

Ask Dr. Lovemonkey

by Rudy Cheeks

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