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...rock stars live for, but it's impractical for a political advocate. Two weeks after the Super Bowl performance, Bono is in Los Angeles to accept a $100,000 donation from the Entertainment Industry Foundation for DATA. He calls a meeting on the porch of his suite at the Chateau Marmont with Michael Stipe, Quincy Jones, Bobby Shriver (the record-producing and fund-raising son of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver) and Jamie Drummond, DATA's director. It's a new-ideas meeting, and Bono hopes to tap some of the music industry's sharpest philanthropic minds to raise public...
...columnist David Aaronovitch is scathing of his colleagues' rush to judgement. "Some people emit outrage like elephants' piss," he writes. "The sheer quantity of it soon covers the psychological landscape." He cites a number of accounts suggesting that the revolt was triggered by kamikaze prisoners. "Had, in 1944, a chateau full of captured SS men killed their captors and then holed up inside shooting at anything that moved, I doubt whether anyone now would have called their extinction a 'war crime', he writes. "Even so, we need to have an inquiry into what took place at Qalai Janghi. Because, though...
...Filney 02 will be spending the weekend at the Connecticut estate of Andover classmate Q. Danforth J. Harriman IV (Yale 02). Im a trifle worried that the mansion wont be ready yet, because the rest of the help are still tending to our cottage, our penthouse, our villa, our chateau and our chalet, Harriman said. Only our manservant Geoffrey has arrived. I am still awaiting my chauffer and my cook, as well as my gardener, butler, governess, wet nurse and masseuse. Apologies, but I dont remember their names. I get their attention with this bell. He then escorted Gossip...
...grandmother was a negress. [He was] the wildest romance of a man, who could and did openly maintain at 70 numerous "establishments," and a literary factory as well, whose quantitative output in the arts is equaled only by Reubens? studio. ... ?Tis no secret and no shame either than the Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters, and that its author signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write. ?Tis not expected of Pharaoh that he build with his own hands his own pyramids. But the mere blueprint of one Dumas plot is an airtight alibi...
...search for a bargain chateau can begin at home, where one can scan specialized websites like vacationspot.com castles.org and athomeinfrance.com Chateau hunters should also flip through upscale French real estate reviews such as Demeures et Chateaux, Proprietes and Belles Demeures, available at international newsstands in most large U.S. cities. Prospective buyers should contact reputable agencies experienced in steering foreigners through the shoals of house hunting and real estate transactions in France. Agents like Garcin (emilegarcin.fr) and Henu (france-chateaux.fr) can arrange hotels for prospective clients, visit properties with them, help arrange financing and oversee the closing formalities...