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...went on national television to compete for, and win, a husband on Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? She is also a Christian woman. We know this because she told every television reporter who asked and because she took part in an Easter egg hunt at the Playboy mansion. In fact, Conger's been hanging out a lot at Hugh Hefner's house, and is now in talks to pose nude for the magazine. Conger, who lost her nursing job after the whirlwind marriage and annulment, will reportedly receive six figures for the pictorial. A spokeswoman for Playboy says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 8, 2000 | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...these gems for the headline-grabbing, designer showcases for the stars (do the Paramount and the Mondrian ring any bells?). These luxury hotels don't want you to know who stays there. The Lowell, for instance, is an elegant 17-story building adjacent to Revlon billionaire Ronald Perelman's mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Although the Lowell caters to members of the same crowd you might find around the pool at the Mondrian, it is the behind-the-scenes movers and shakers who retire to the understated salons of the Lowell. "Our guests are from the worlds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creature Comforts | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...exterior signature is its gold nameplate: xv beacon. By contrast, the Soniat House in New Orleans is draped in its history: it was created from adjoining Creole town houses that date back to the early 19th century. Houston's Colombe d'Or began in 1923 as the Prairie-style mansion of Humble Oil founder W.W. Fondren. Like Soniat House, it exudes Old World elegance--and offers Internet access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creature Comforts | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

Chen and about 100 others were taken to the house of a Taiwanese who lived with his Guatemalan wife on the outskirts of Guatemala City. "He was a big boss. His house was like a mansion, and there were 100 servants." Chen quickly discovered that local peasants had "much worse lives" than farmers in China. He and his fellow illegals were not fleeing desperate poverty. Their coastal province is relatively well off for China: Fujian gets investment from Taiwan, just across the strait, and the land is fertile enough to feed everyone. But Fujianese have a centuries-old tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Rivers proposes marriage with the promise of a lifetime honeymoon spent preaching to unenlightened savages of India. While a man of the cloth suggests some stability, marrying your cousin just isn't cool. Nobody's fool, Jane shoots him down and hightails it to Thornfield, where she finds the mansion in ashes. As the neighbors inform her, the misanthropic Mrs. Rochester lit up one time too many, burned herself to death and her home to cinders. Finishing up the hat trick, the missus managed to blind her hunky husband with her mishaps just moments before her timely demise. This...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: What Would Juliet Do? | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

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