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...daughter of a Richmond, Va., machine salesman, Kathleen had married into the old money and Virginia politics of the Willey clan. Her father-in-law, one of the state's most powerful legislators, did not approve of the match, but her husband Ed loved her. Willey spent many of her married years working on Democratic campaigns, including Chuck Robb's senatorial bid and several of Governor Douglas Wilder's campaigns. As part of the constant round of political giving and receiving, Kathleen Willey met Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, at a 1989 Charlottesville fund raiser. At a party following...
When OL' DIRTY BASTARD, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, left his Brooklyn studio on Monday, he was met with the sight of a 4-year-old girl trapped under a 1996 Mustang that had run her over. O.D.B. and several members of his posse rushed to the rescue and helped lift the car off her body; he later visited her while she was recovering in the hospital. Then, at Wednesday's otherwise boring Grammy awards, O.D.B., who had lost an award to Sean ("Puffy") Combs, tried to add some excitement by rushing to the stage, grabbing the mike...
...sunny" homecoming for Shawn Colvin, whose "Sunny Came Home" won song and record of the year at last night's Grammy Awards. However, when Colvin came up to the stage to accept the first of the two awards, Ol' Dirty Bastard, of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan, grabbed the microphone and bragged about his group. ODB later was escorted from the stage and stalked down the center aisle of Radio City Music Hall -- and out the door. Of her award, Colvin, the veteran folk artist, said, "It's been a long road and this does matter. I appreciate...
Lewis' book caused little buzz in the opera world, but it did pique the interest of R. Peter Straus, an opera buff who met Lewis at one of her book signings in New York's Westchester County. Straus, 74, the widower of New York Times clan member Ellen Sulzberger Straus, soon began dating Lewis. They are now engaged. "She's a very good friend, and I love her very much," he told TIME last week. There are other wrinkles. Straus is also a close family friend of Vernon Jordan's. "I feel like I've known Vernon forever," he says...
...stuff. Dr. Dre is dipped in Karl Kani, Mase gets giggy in Mecca, and Busta Rhymes is decked in Ecko. "Videos are hands down the best advertising you can have," says Mike Clark, the chief operating officer of Wu-Wear, the label started by the rap group Wu-Tang Clan, all of whose members wear it constantly. "It's the best way to cross over." And those who can't yet afford an official-endorsement deal send free outfits to as many famous people as they can find addresses for and hope they will wear the clothes in public. Celebrities...