Five On Five.(The Talk of the Town)(Mitt Romney's sons; blogs)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 11-FEB-08

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Fraternal pride has led to the establishment of many an enterprise: ask the Lehmans, the Warners, the Marxes, or the Jonases. Several months after Mitt Romney announced his intention to run for President, his sons--Tagg (thirty-seven), Matt (thirty-six), Josh (thirty-two), Ben (twenty-nine), and Craig (twenty-six)--decided to start a blog. Called Five Brothers, and illustrated with a picture of the toothy, block-jawed boys with their arms slung, Rockette style, around each other's shoulders, it is meant to serve as a public extension of the five-man e-mail distribution list through which they have long kept in touch. Tagg's two favorite moments so far: (1) when a reader wrote to say that Tagg looked like Tom Cruise and Josh wrote back, "No, it's Booger, from...

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