ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: A WOMAN ON THE VERGE

WHEN YOUR HUSBAND THROWS nearly $30 million at a Senate seat and has nothing to show for it but a hilltop stone mansion in Washington, what's a woman to do? For Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the answer has been to use will, charm and provocation to become one of the capital's leading conservative lights. "In the last few months, I started literally waking up with these columns," she purrs in a cadenced Greek accent. Prominent newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, have been happy to publish her. And while Senate majority leader Bob Dole, whom she's pronounced unelectable as President, might wish...