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...wave springs, and he picked up a $10 pair of skippies at Wal-Mart. As his wife rolled her eyes, Krafsur filleted the sole of each sneaker like a fresh trout, stuck springs in the heel and the forefoot and duct-taped them back together. He ran down his driveway in the crude shoes. Says Krafsur: "My eyes bugged...
...leafy, Washington, D.C. side-street, a few turns from the German Embassy, and fits right in with the other well-to-do homes around it. The open garage door displays the common items of family life: bicycles, kids' toys, garbage cans. Wilson's convertible Jaguar sits parked in the driveway. A paved walkway cuts through a manicured lawn to the front door, behind which children can be heard playing. But the slim, attractive woman who answers the door is anything but welcoming. ?Is my husband expecting you?? asks Plame, offering an icy stare as I introduce myself as a reporter...
...opens the door of her brick house on the leafy Washington side street, a few turns from the German embassy. A Jaguar convertible sits in the driveway, the toys and bikes in the garage. There are children playing on the floor inside, and her look is icy as she asks, "Is my husband expecting you?" A British journalist had recently turned up at the door unannounced, and she's still angry. "I almost tackled you," she admits to TIME's Massimo Calabresi, and you have to wonder what a trained covert operative who was known as a crack shot with...
...planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow enough here to fill up my driveway. "His comment reached the local Red River Valley Potato Growers Association, which decided to prove the catcher-manager and new Houston Astros coach wrong by trucking 46 50-lb. boxes to his door. Berra's not telling, but what deliveryman could have resisted shouting, "Hey, Yogi, this spud...
...Foreign Operations debated the merits of entertaining the exiled dictator in such high style, Marcos reportedly was looking for a haven outside the U.S., even as he was trying to close a deal on a Waikiki estate. The property, appointed with two single-story houses and signs in the driveway to scare away trespassers, has a market value of almost $1 million. The Marcoses may have left some of their splendor, but the love of splendor has not, it seems, left the Marcoses. --By Pico Iyer. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold and Nelly Sindayen/Manila