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Rosemary has seen an alternative method for settling family feuds: her husband's grandfather got so sick of the bickering over family possessions that he piled his things on the front lawn and set fire to them. She says she's grateful to her parents for handling their small estate so well. "Considering how there are six of us and we fought like cats and dogs as kids, it's pretty remarkable, but my parents always said they didn't want us to ever fight about money. They told us they wanted us to enjoy our inheritance while they were...
...finds time for hobbies. He enjoys portrait sculpture—something he picked up while at summer art school in Florence, Italy. “I’ve always thought art and film were really interesting,” Farrell says. He also cultivates an interest in French lawn sports. “When the weather’s nice, I like to play petanque, which is a lawn game kind of like Bocci,” he says...
...goods would then be exported to the U.S., circumventing tariffs on raw steel products. "My company will be at a competitive disadvantage," says Gary Hill, president of National Metalwares in Aurora, Ill. Hill's firm, small and privately held, makes school furniture and finished tubular steel components for the lawn-and-garden industry...
...weekend in Saudi Arabia. crown prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud has rounded up a few brothers, sons and friends for a royal game of lawn bowls. Wearing a Bedouin robe and an incongruous pair of striped Adidas running shoes, the de facto ruler of the world's richest oil sheikdom is ready to play. He stands up to the pitch and hurls a weighty ball down the grassy turf with impressive precision. Throughout the afternoon, he is constantly up and down from his chair, despite his considerable girth and advanced age (78). In between throws and sips...
...mahogany table under the sparkling gold dome of the State House, Byrnes took full advantage of gubernatorial keycard access. After the fact, the two girls began rifling through the legislation on Weld’s desk. Byrnes sent them back to his apartment, fell asleep on the State House lawn for an hour and then wrote a speech in 30 minutes that Weld delivered in front of current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “It was less of an incident than a way of life,” Byrnes says of the jaunt...