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...secure the release of his brother Maulana Masood Azhar, among other prisoners, from an Indian jail. The two Azhar brothers top India's wanted-terrorist list, but Pakistan brought no charges against Abdul Rauf. Musharraf did vow to keep Masood under house arrest, but staff members at his ornate mansion in Bahawalpur say he is free to travel, give incendiary sermons against the U.S. and collect donations for the Kashmiri insurgency...
...lines of tricycles, one rolling in empty, one clinking out full, past packed restaurants; and there would be Germans, lots of jolly Germans, licking foam from facial hair and shouting for another round. But the empty boulevard carried us in efficient quietness to the gates of Yanjing's Mansion of Science and Technology. The guard saluted the car around the fountain and under a granite colonnade. Clocks told the time in Paris, London and New York City. A man in a suit waited with his namecard. I wished I had worn...
...sordid saga began in October 2001, when Ted Ammon, chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a financier with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million, was found naked and bludgeoned to death in a bedroom in his ivy-covered mansion. Ammon, 52, was days away from signing divorce papers with Generosa, his wife of 15 years. The two were separated and battling over custody of their adopted Ukrainian twins, Alexa and Gregory, 11. At the time of the murder, Generosa was dating Pelosi, whom she met when he helped renovate her Manhattan town house. Pelosi had also installed...
...Prachanda, called off a seven-month cease-fire on Aug. 27, has been characterized by their usual ruthless efficiency. By the night of Aug. 29, the rebels had shot dead a colonel on the doorstep of his Kathmandu home, gunned down a former government minister, firebombed the ancestral country mansion of the Finance Minister, robbed two banks and announced a three-day nationwide general strike. Some of these attacks bore a strong flavor of retribution. Fifty-two-year-old Kiran Basnet, the colonel shot in the chest and head outside his home, had been earmarked to take charge...
...puts on Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' (the theme to Hoffman's Midnight Cowboy), sneaks up behind Hoffman and whispers breathily, "Zees eez for yoo." It's their running joke. That's not to say there haven't been setbacks. In the late 1990s, the Costes bought a mansion in the Marais district that they were planning to turn into a five-star hotel with over 100 rooms; instead, they recently sold it to residential real-estate developer Cogedim, and won't say why the plan fizzled. But the exception just proves the rule. As Jean-Louis Costes puts...