The apparent transformation of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from ruthless master of metropolitan machtpolitik into compassionate hybrid of Hamlet, the Duke of Windsor and Graham Greene raises a fascinating question. Can a person really, and I mean fundamentally, change?
It's a pet theory of mine that women better accommodate change than men do because of the biological vicissitudes that mark their lives--ovulation, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause. By contrast, the typical man, usually around adolescence, invents a persona for himself. He establishes a personal brand identity and then struggles to maintain it, with mind-numbing intransigence, amid the fluctuations of the...
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