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Vacations were short and simple for Mary Kay Conlon and Chip Plumb in their fast-track corporate days. "One phone call, no planning, never more than a week," says Conlon. "We'd just plop on the beach somewhere." But to celebrate their early retirement last year, the Evanston, Ill., couple rented a spacious Paris apartment for six months. "We always regretted that neither of us had done a junior year abroad," says Conlon, 48, a former health-care-industry executive who was eager to immerse herself in another language and culture...
...Greece is really clean ... and the company was very good." Meanwhile a bit farther north, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had just wrapped up a notably more austere Mediterranean holiday in the Tuscan coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia. Prodi could bask in several recent Italian successes on his beach break: a key role in the Lebanon cease-fire, and a merger of Sanpaolo IMI and Banca Intesa to give Italy its first major European banking player. But by the second week of September the sunny summer spirit was fading. Telecom's announcement that it was splitting its fixed-line...
...marriage to British actor Peter Lawford wedded her family to Hollywood; in New York City. Said to be the prettiest Kennedy sister, she was also the most independent--though her parents thought she lacked ambition. She worked in TV, wed the Rat Packer and settled into a California beach house later dubbed White House West because of J.F.K.'s regular visits. After moving back east--and divorcing Lawford in 1966--the mother of four published That Shining Hour, reminiscences of R.F.K., and later founded the National Committee for the Literary Arts...
...real estate is what got you where you are today, hold on to your residence if you can but consider shedding any real estate investment trusts, spec homes, mortgaged rental properties and maybe even the beach house. "A lot of people look at a pie chart of their assets and find that real estate is a very large wedge," says Skip Massengill, managing director of Commerce Capital Markets, a financial planner. "Yet they may not have any idea what could happen if a bunch of properties come on the market." Hint: prices typically fall...
...tangy buffalo wings—also available boneless—or the crisp fried calamari. After gulping down half of your milkshake, bite into the one and only restaurant-quality Philly cheesesteak you can find in the Square. The Low-Carb Enthusiast: Whether you are on the South Beach, Sonoma, or Atkins diet, Zoe’s has a wide variety of options. Try one of the salads— my personal favorite is the baby spinach with walnuts, apples, and goat cheese, or delve into one of the many omelets (egg-whites are available for an extra charge). Just...