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...Fitzgerald proudly counts off the growing clan that inhabits the orchard grounds...
...Bush girls have had plenty of time in the spotlight, both as daughters of the governor and as members of the Bush clan. But none of the local press?s gentle pawing could have prepared them for the savagery of the national feeding frenzy...
...first column, just a couple weeks after Bush took office, I wrote that it would take time before we would come to know Bush’s team as we knew Clintons. Now, four smirk-filled months later, we are comfortable enough with the whole clan to mention them in casual conversation, recognize them on television and even refer to our Defense Secretary (a grown man, no less) as “Rummy.” After four months, what have we learned...
...university student; Wong's stepmother shoveled them much of the dirt. It turned out she wanted her own children to run the company. Her husband, Wang Yung-ching, who has three wives of his own, backed wife No. 3 and forced his son to leave Taiwan for embarrassing the clan. Wong (who spells his name differently than his father), son of wife No. 2, lost his corporate inheritance, moved to the U.S. for several years and, according to someone who has done business with the family, "resolved to start his own empire to prove himself to his father...
Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra): I have heard, among this clan/ You are called the forgotten man. C. K. Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby): Is that what they?re sayin'? Well, did you evah?/ What a swell party this...