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...filed their witness list in a $150 million federal civil lawsuit against Kilpatrick and the city, alleging that the former mayor, his top aide and local police hindered the investigation into Greene's murder because of her rumored presence at a 2002 party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwame Kilpatrick | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...almost half the total volume of international equities are traded in London--more even than in New York City, its only remaining rival as the world's financial capital. Hedge funds piled into Mayfair on the heels of private-equity players. Any self-respecting Russian oligarch has a Knightsbridge mansion, sends his kids to élite private schools and has listed his company on the London Stock Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Falling | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...economy. Brown also championed a new governance system for financial services that he and other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation. In June 2007, just days before he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Brown gave a rousing speech at the traditional black-tie dinner in Mansion House, the residence of the lord mayor of the City, brashly predicting an "era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age for the City of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Falling | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Eastwick that the witches remember is gone. The mansion where they held their unholy revels has been cut up into condos. And they have been transformed too: Time has stripped them of the hotness that was once the source of their power. The bodies that gave them such glorious satanic leverage over the world are now dragging them down. One wonders whether anybody has ever described the small physical indignities of the aging process with as much tenderness and good humor as Updike. "Energy," Jane says. "I can't remember what it was like to have any. The thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older Writers Revisiting Their Younger Selves | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Paris gets tips from the greatest Fake President of our time, Jed Bartlet - better known to those of us who don't obsessively watch West Wing DVDs as actor Martin Sheen. The BFFs share a quiet moment at the kitchen table as a party rages elsewhere in Paris' mansion. Wearing what appears to be a "transvestite Paris" Halloween costume, Hilton asks Sheen for help crafting her "FoPo" (foreign policy, silly) and economic platforms. Citing the current global economic crisis as "the biggest Depression since The Notebook," she gives a stiff, rehearsed stance on what should be done in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris for President! (Again) | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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