"Sarah Palin's Alaska" is like "Megan Biggs' Memphis." I could host a show, I'd take my viewers around town. I'd show them Stax, Sun Studio, Elmwood, Graceland, and I'd even take them to a cool spot on Beale. It would be total crap though.By the time I reached high school, the "Tonight" show struck me as somehow too phoney, too Establishment. My ardour had cooled. But as a child, I loved it, not just for Carson, but also for the version of New York it signified: glamorous, witty, grownup and, especially, nocturnal (even after I knew it was taped around sundown)..

McCain is a committed Russophobe, and Obama is virtually unknown. Moreover, the last time I participated in the elections, I voted for a woman, Irina Khakamada, and even though she has lost to Putin, I can remember anybody voicing any objections about the fact that she was a woman and a halfJapanese her liberal views were much more of a problem. Alas.New York's defense is built to wi