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...father of two children, 21 and 8, Curtis credits his wife Kaysandra, a registered nurse, for encouraging him to write full time. The financial sacrifice has paid off: "As soon as this award was announced, my wife went from house hunting to mansion hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Buddy | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...rehash all those debates." But this tape was crystalline in its message: it had been carefully edited to exclude all the other candidates, leaving only Bush onscreen with his scripted, repetitive answers and awkward impromptus. The Texas Governor plopped the tape into a VCR, watched it alone at the mansion and got the picture. "I'm a competitor," he told TIME last week. "I want to win. And I'm wise enough to understand that all of us need to improve in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bush Bears Down | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Dumbarton Oaks consists of a mansion and the surrounding grounds that were donated to Harvard in 1940, along with a large art collection. Since then, Harvard has added to the collection and used the site as a center for a small group of research fellows to study both art and literature about art in an intimate and intensive environment...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Construction May Endanger Dumbarton Oaks Gardens | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

...them don't--lineage, family crest and primogeniture--not to mention that modern tool of war, a massive treasury. He also wooed them, as if he were back at his fraternity house. And he still does: he arm squeezes and bear hugs; he calls; he has them to the mansion. He gives each one a nickname. What does it matter if he isn't the wonkiest among them? These are can-do guys who admire a winner and want more than anything to regain the throne lost to an illegitimate king in 1992. They aren't concerned that their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bush's New Fraternity Brothers | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...seems the 1900s will end on a sour labor note. Last week five former employees filed a $1.5 million suit against SYLVESTER STALLONE and his wife JENNIFER FLAVIN, saying working for the couple was a "nightmare." The five claim that during their brief employ in the actor's mansion in 1995, they were required to follow a list of rules (dubbed "the Emperor's 10 Commandments"), including instructions to refrain from looking Stallone in the eye, to vanish immediately when he entered a room and never to speak to his mother. They say their failure to adhere to these rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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