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...Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board, however, seems to regard a lack of ancestry as a wee piffling obstacle. So grateful was it when Madge married director Guy Ritchie in a Scottish castle last winter that the board, as "a special thank-you," commissioned a new tartan, Romantic Scotland, in honor of the duo. "Madonna is the original Material Girl, so a length of fabric seems doubly appropriate," said the board's marketing head. The color scheme: pearl white, for Like a Virgin; blue, for the early True Blue album; yellow, for the Blond Ambition tour; and purple, for Scottish heather...
...really taken aback,” Wood said after being asked about his reaction to the award. “It’s not your typical honor...
Wood spent the weekend with the Lampoon, attending a dinner on Saturday night in his honor. He was also brought to Annenberg dining hall before the speech Sunday in an attempt to advertise the event to freshmen...
...Bush Administration, having run up against its first honor-and-dignity issue in the person of Enron's former chief, longtime (and politically generous) Bush buddy Kenneth Lay, is fervently washing its hands of the whole mess. George W. Bush on Thursday announced that he would have the Treasury Department look into the whole corporate pension issue "to make sure we learn from the past." Oh, and that he hadn't talked to Lay in who knows how long...
...which we thanked him but declined. We were about to leave, wondering whether it was safe to go on without more troops, when we decided upon one last ploy. We caught Mirwali in his garden. One of our fixers implored him to help, playing on his sense of honor: "These men are journalists, they work for no nation," he told Mirwali. "They want to tell the world what is here. They are working for you. If something happens to them, it will bring shame to us." Amazingly, Mirwali seemed moved. He nodded in agreement and passed out orders. A junior...