Sometimes, when I'm lonely, I peruse the high-end relationship-wanted ads. Then I feel better about myself, knowing others feel worse. For a little while. This week's best is actually something of a blind item. An ad has been placed in the New York Review of Books, Harvard Magazine, and the Yale Alumni mag, by a "Best-selling Boston author, media commentator (MacNeil/Lehrer, Nightline, NPR)" who is known for her "laser-like intellect balanced by warm heart and disarming ability to laugh at herself." She is an "Ivy educated, Ivy professor." Whoever could this wonderful, lonely lady be?

SMART AND BEAUTIFUL, yet unequivocally cute. Playful intelligence, international sophistication. Best-selling Boston author, media commentator (MacNeil/Lehrer, Nightline, NPR). Known for laser-like intellect balanced by warm heart and disarming ability to laugh at herself. Ivy educated, Ivy professor. Slender divorced brunette with expressive sexy eyes, head-turning presence. Ardent about politics, media, technology, the arts. Delights in great theater, favorite destinations, and close friendships. Urban explorer, loves to get lost in new cities, but remains addicted to staring at the water from my Cape Cod vacation home and to Boston pleasures—the new ICA, breakfast at the old Ritz, Widener stacks, O Ya, Sel de la Terre. Seeks really smart, physically fit, sophisticated man, 47 to 64, Boston/New England/NYC strongly preferred. abx2348@yahoo.com.