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GESTURES: Your mother was right. Don't point. But if in Singapore you must, use your thumb, not your forefinger, lest it be taken as an insult or obscenity. In Russia, don't shake hands across a threshold; it might invite bad luck. In Buddhist lands like Burma, don't...
In the blood-is-thicker-than-water department, Billy Baldwin is said to be upset with big brother Alec because Alec didn't invite him to the fund-raiser. The New York Post says the trouble started when the brothers endorsed different candidates for a New York Senate seat and...
Presidents never get to choose their SAIC--a fact that has led to dustups between the service and past Administrations--and relations between a President and his bodyguard can get awkward when professionalism conflicts with familiarity. Gerald Ford used to invite his chief agent up to the family quarters for...
He cites an offending item from a long ago Earl Wilson column: "'Would you believe that not once has Joey Bishop sat down to dinner or drinks with Frank Sinatra without being invited?'" The slight isn't that Wilson got it wrong, exactly. What rankles Bishop is Wilson's mocking...
TEHRAN: The U.S. soccer team may get support from an unexpected quarter in its World Cup clash with Iran on Sunday -- the Islamic country's conservative mullahs. The last thing Iranian conservatives want is a victory that would produce another outburst like the one that happened when Iran qualified to...