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50 MOST LOATHSOME NEW YORKERS "How come you guys are such haters?" someone asked us recently. Shocked and insulted, we shook our heads. Our biggest issue thus far—last September's Best of Manhattan issue—was a compendium of positivity. On any given week we're founts of compassion: lovers, not haters; uniters, not dividers. Our Chelsea offices burst with fresh lilacs. We adopt kittens and support the arts. We volunteer in our communities. Haters? You must have us confused with those monsters at New York Family. When asked to elaborate, our detractor referred to last year's inaugural "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" issue....

SARAH Jessica Parker, the star of the television hit Sex and the City, is to hang up her trademark Manolo high-heels and embrace a career on the political stage by running for the US Senate. The actress, who plays the newspaper columnist Carrie Bradshaw in the series, screened on Channel 4, is a long-time supporter of the Democratic Party, having once dated the late John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president. Parker, 37, who is expecting her first child with her husband, the actor Matthew Broderick, joins many other celebrities who have become stars of the political...