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...antique-laden mansion is sumptuously adorned with velvets and tartans, and over 200 years of Colquhoun-family portraits peer down at guests reading in the well-stocked library, savoring a single malt in the Rossdhu Bar or enjoying a formal yet friendly dinner in one of the house's two opulent dining rooms. (Two standout dishes are the fillet of beef with rosti potatoes, celeriac cream and wild mushrooms, and the honey-and-mascarpone parfait with roasted figs.) The golf course is closed during the winter, but if you still have a sporting itch, try your hand at salmon fishing...
Elvis' Memphis, Tenn., mansion is the king of all celeb museums, drawing 600,000 fans a year, including George W. Bush and then--Japan PM Koizumi in June. The king-size entry...
...parody of the light musical comedy that dominated Broadway between the World Wars. Underneath the strained gaiety lurks family tragedy. That sets up Act II, which is simply a musicalizing of the movie, this time with Ebersole as Little Edie and Wilson as the matriarch of that decrepit mansion...
SETTLED by Bill Cosby, 69, actor and funnyman; a lawsuit filed by a former employee of Temple University (where Cosby is a trustee), who alleged that the comedian sexually assaulted her in 2004 in his Cheltenham, Pa., mansion; under confidential terms. The woman, who called Cosby a onetime friend and mentor, said she took three pills he gave her and awoke to find her bra undone and her clothes in disarray. Cosby's lawyers said that after a dinner with the woman, he gave her Benadryl when she complained of stress and sleeping problems...
...passed in April, she has faced a dilemma in appearing too close to the governor, whose approval rating is 43 percent according to an October Survey USA poll. Healey has faced a tough road in trying to extend the 16-year Republican domination of the governor’s mansion in a year that portends well for Democrats. And though she has relied largely on the strategy that proved successful for her predecessors—highlighting her moderate positions on abortion and stem cells while pushing a reduction in the income tax—polls have Healey trailing Patrick...