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...narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing on Montaigne and preparing exquisite meals...
...Edwards doesn't struggle anymore. I drove out to the Edwardses' high-gabled mansion, not far from the Carolina Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. It's a stunning sight, the kind of thing you can afford when you have made $25 million as a trial lawyer. It's hard to be a good ole boy when you wear expensive suits. So is it condescending when he tries to bond with Southerners living in poverty? "I've worried about the same thing, actually," he says. "I've gone back and forth. Sometimes I've said 'we,' but I think...
Hehir led the Divinity School through a period of tumult after his predecessor, Ronald F. Thiemann, stepped down in the fall of 1998. Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran, was forced to resign from his deanship after technicians found pornography on a computer at his University-owned mansion...
Thai lawmaker Hangthong Tumwattana was visibly upset when he turned up at his family's 12-bedroom mansion on the night of Sept. 5, 1999. A scion of one of Thailand's richest business clans, Hangthong's personal fortune had been depleted by costly political campaigns and his familial relations strained by an ugly inheritance feud. "He was nervous, hands shaking as he ate," recalls younger brother Nopdol Tumwattana, who lived at the compound in Bang Khen in northern Bangkok with Hangthong and may have been the last person to see his brother alive. Hours later, after calls from panicked...
Retirees living and learning at Lasell Village in Newton, Mass. he and his wife Harriet, 84, moved in shortly after the $40 million retirement community opened in may 2000 on the campus of Lasell College. After living in an 11-room mansion in nearby Brookline for 53 years, the couple was lured to Lasell by the desire to rejoin a scholarly community--reasonably priced health-care insurance was an added incentive. The Kaplans put down a $400,000 entrance fee (90% of which will be refunded when they leave) and pay a $4,000 monthly residence...