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...pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping with royal preferences, was light: lobster mousseline with Maryland crab followed by glazed chicken capsicum and a dessert of peach sorbet. The President and the Prince each was to give a toast; but the Prince, complaining of jet lag, sat down without actually offering one. He then stood up, saying sheepishly, "Excuse me, I've forgotten the toast...
...cheek, declining to speak for his wife for fear she would be cross with him later. The pair inserted some nice adlibs into the script. Upon being presented with a quilt at one stop, Charles asked, "Is it king-size or queen-size?" Explaining his resistance to jet lag, he noted, "It's all in the breeding, you know." When Clint Eastwood said lightly that Diana was too old for him, as they danced at the White House, she flirted back, "But I'm only 24!" Told during a hospice visit that one woman resident would soon be 100 years...
...Mere coincidence or subtle insinuation? Who knows, but every college girl worth her tequila salt has been in the position of the real-life “party girl” who says “I drank too much fruit punch and vodka, forgetting there is a lag between when you drink it and when it hits you. I spent the night hurling in my bathroom and my friends have photos of me leaning over the toilet...
That's good news for the LPGA. Ratings and fan interest have improved but still lag behind those of the men's tour. Two years ago, everyone was talking about teen phenom Michelle Wie, but at 15 she's still struggling to find consistency. Why wait for Wie to become the "next Tiger" when Sorenstam is perhaps playing above Tiger's level now? --By Mitch Frank...
Howard stringer says that sake is "not an antidote to jet lag," but he's sure going to need something that is. The American citizen, born and raised in Britain, was named CEO of Sony Corp. last week, replacing Nobuyuki Idei, 67, who, at a packed press conference in Tokyo, announced that he was voluntarily stepping down. Stringer, 63, is going to keep offices in both Japan and New York, and will continue to spend what little free time he's likely to have at his homes in New York and Oxfordshire, England. That amounts to a lifestyle that...