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...strategist James Carville at Clinton headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. Currie told high school friend Sefton that she was working for this guy Clinton because after years of backing losers, she thought he really had a chance. Before the race was over, she was working in the Governor's mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Currie Riddle | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island) and in the sprinkling of Anglicisms (among them xumeca for shoemaker and tornescru for screwdriver) that add a quaint historical dimension to the Minorcan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minorca: The Out Island | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...began to surface last July after Deborah, his wife of 26 years, discovered a deed showing that he shared ownership of a house with Bernice Edwards, a convention liaison. Deborah, believing she had caught her husband in adultery (a charge he denies), made her way to the $700,000 mansion in the tony Tierra Verde neighborhood. Finding his clothes and effects in the lavishly decorated home, she set at least four fires. During the trip home, she hit a tree in her own, less expensive St. Petersburg neighborhood and soon admitted to police that she had set the fires. Deborah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sins Of The Pastor | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...have done him much good as far as movies are concerned. Whatever else his legacy may be, Clinton will be remembered as the man who was in the White House when Hollywood decided to release one film after another that makes the place a cross between the Playboy mansion and Dracula's castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Thorne Hill--This year-roundestablishment is popular for its romantic appeal.Dinners by candlelight provide an especiallyintimate atmosphere. The mansion is renowned forits exquisite New England cuisine and maintains anideal location just outside the town center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Towns Provide Quiet Alternative | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

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