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...National Post, which he founded in 1998. "It was a painful decision, given that the Post was my baby," he says. "But a national newspaper needs a resident proprietor and I've not been a resident of Canada for 12 years." Indeed Black, who is married to columnist Barbara Amiel, a Briton who grew up in Canada (he has three children from a previous marriage), spends half the year at his home in London. He has close ties to the British Conservative Party and, like his friend Margaret Thatcher, opposes increased British integration into the E.U. Born to a wealthy...
...last time the Bush family hosted a Mexican president at a White House state dinner, an international incident was narrowly avoided. Former first lady Barbara Bush picks up the story from her memoir: "We almost had a real crisis during the dinner for the new president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas. The pastry chef had described the dessert on the menu as 'Mexican Fantasy.' Just as the platters were leaving the kitchen to make a dramatic entrance into the State Dining Room, Laurie Firestone, George's social secretary, noticed that the chef had constructed an adobe house out of edible sweets...
...senator, who's often mentioned as a presidential candidate in 2004. And though the carpetbagger charge won't stick, Democrats believe the fact the Dole hasn't served on so much as a city council in North Carolina will resonate. "She's really never held an elective office," says Barbara K. Allen, who chairs the North Carolina Democratic Party. "You've got to be better than just being great...
...arguing customers, harried workers, and whiny children, we heard the strains of a lilting melody. It was Barbara Streisand, there to comfort us with “Send in the Clowns.” We sighed, relaxed, and toughed it out until morning...
...replica of Barbra's gold record for People. But the real innovation is a section in which Barbara rebuts erroneous news reports. (She did not make staff at the MGM Grand avert their eyes when she passed...