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...will these two epic biographies end? When Gates built his sprawling $60 million mansion, he had a quote from The Great Gatsby inscribed in the library: "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it." It was an odd choice, and the software magnate may have missed its tragic import. In the end of the novel, Jay Gatsby does fail to grasp his dream, and success destroys him. The two Bills are already modern Gatsbys of a sort, having achieved their very different...
When Neil L. Rudenstine took the University's helm in 1991, Harvard lent him a bright yellow mansion on posh Brattle Street for free. But even though Rudenstine lives on University property without rent, he borrowed $176,000 from Harvard for a mortgage...
...still in the nine-bedroom, seven-fireplace Tudor mansion. He must still be the Governor...
...advisory committee wondered whether to muzzle him after Ventura mused that his wife ought to collect a state paycheck for running the mansion and planning soirees. But Jesse's appeal to voters was that he comes unwrapped, so the advisers left him to his ways...
...remains to be seen, of course, how long the big guy can tell struggling Minnesotans to fend for themselves while he drives his Porsche out to the 32-acre horse ranch, the Governor's mansion or the lake cabin. But the truth is, it's going to be hard for him to screw things...