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...Ivana Trump in her "cozy," 10,000-sq.-ft. Palm Beach house on At Home with... ("Set yourself a budget!" Ivana advises.) "Though," he adds, "certainly people also watch for the catty appeal of saying, 'Eh, she bought that?'" Ivana's Transylvanian-castle foyer, complete with an actual medieval crest, springs to mind...
...envelope" containing the secret P n' C greeting, which I will now divulge. Chicken 1, quoting the inscription on Man Ray's gravestone, says, "We are unconcerned but not indifferent." Chicken 2 replies, "For five dollars, I will give you the reach around." I also discovered that their "crest" is a chicken being choked. I also learned that quote marks make everything all mysterious and creepy-like...
Next would have come a hike along the hill's crest, which would have led him to a place now occupied by a hotel called the Seven Arches. The view here is stunning. Directly below is an ancient necropolis--an immense graveyard dating back long before Jesus that could cause anyone, not just a religious rebel with a price on his head, to consider his mortality. The ground falls off sharply, dotted with stands of pine and, yes, silvery green olive trees. Jesus--or his donkey--would have picked his way from here down into the Kidron Valley...
...digital media wave was recently at a crest. CD burners were widely used (and widely accepted) as do-it-yourself piracy kits, bringing much joy to the lives of nearly every computer-literate student and much distress to the careers of Tower Records executives who, coincidentally, declared a no-return policy on all compact discs. Thanks to Napster, people didn't need to leave home for a five-fingered discount on music. The recording industry's nightmare was the morally flexible college student's dream...
...technique involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like the false return addresses Hanssen used, trigger an investigation. The FBI's failure to use mail cover might have killed another man's career, but nobody surfs the crest of scandal like Freeh. By the time he was done with his would-be minders on the Hill last Wednesday, they were jockeying to throw money at him. Before Senators could focus on any problems, Freeh was selling them the supposed solution: more polygraphs, compartmentalization and--of course--money...