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...useful tips from Joy Philbin interviewing 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...
...George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, reveals its most generous patrons on a gray marble wall in the foyer. When the center, located at Texas A&M University, was being erected, money flowed in from as far away as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, places that had good reason to thank the 40th president of the United States. But for one donor of at least $100,000 - Texas oilman Edwin L. Cox, Sr. - gratitude may have been closer to home...
...Gong Zhili, an out-of-work music teacher with a reputation for mental instability who immediately took a liking to the gentle American. But that affection would eventually spin out of control. Just before a Christian youth meeting earlier this month, as worshipers were milling around the church foyer, Gong suddenly walked up to Bruce, muttered a few words, pulled a knife and stabbed him just below the heart. The 37-year-old American was pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital. Valori showed up minutes later, and as a last prayer, repeated the scripture she had been teaching...
...Before we continue, full disclosure: We in no way feel that we are qualified to run PBS. Or to hold a high position at the OMB. Or even, really, to sweep out the foyer at the Air & Space Museum. All of which we applied for. And neither of us expects that this letter will change anyone's mind in the new administration, or give us a better chance at that great government pension in the sky. We just want to set the record straight, and to perhaps warn other soft-hearted folks who, foundering in the tempest-toss'd seas...
...refused to have coffee with Truman. The Clintons, true to form, were nearly half an hour late to meet the elder Bushes at the White House in 1993. This time they had a few minutes to kill, so the First Couple enjoyed one last dance in the White House foyer while they waited for the Bushes to arrive...