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We get pillow talk. We learn she can spend up to $500,000 on clothing in a banner year and tends to favour Hugo Boss. Her confidants confirm she's had a "cosmetic improvement or two.'' My copy of [Don Martin]'s book didn't come with any dog-eared pages marking the salacious parts, but not to worry. If you go to the index and look under [Belinda Stronach] and sex life, Martin directs you straight to the revealing passages.
"In a political life which has spanned only two years, she's fought a leadership contest, been elected and re-elected in her riding, triggered a national firestorm as a government-salvaging defector, served in cabinet, and backed away from her party's second leadership race at the last minute,'' writes the National Post and Calgary Herald columnist. "For someone who was supervising a Magna essay-writing contest just 10 years earlier, that Herculean leap could be driven only by lustful ambition.""I have no regrets about my political experiences,'' [Sharon Carstairs] wrote in the foreword of her 1993 book. "However, they will only be of true value if others can learn from them. There is now a woman prime minister (Kim Campbell) and the first woman premier has been elected in Prince Edward Island. It is my fondest wish that they will be able to reach out to other women and change political life as we know it in this country. They will only succeed if they dare to be different. Otherwise, it will be politics as usual, the Old Boys' way.''See the full content of this document
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Do We Really Need Stronach in Politics?
OTTAWA -- I now have two girlie books on my desk. The first is a slightly faded copy of Sharon Carstairs' autobiography, Not One of the Boys: A woman, a fighter, a Liberal with a cause.
The second is Don Martin's hot new biography: Belinda: The...See the full content of this document
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