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...best place to see how the Kennedy past serves the Kennedy present may be the leafy Maryland estate of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, J.F.K.'s brother-in-law and sister. One recent summer Sunday afternoon found Arnold Schwarzenegger strolling across his in-laws' park-size lawn in a lavender polo shirt and pondering the $28 cigar someone had handed him. "The most dangerous thing," he chortled, "is Democrats with money." Eunice and her television-star daughter Maria, Schwarzenegger's wife, were working the driveway, where people were arriving by the hundreds. And over by the rented pony ride...
That "family picnic" was the second fund raiser there in less than a week for Mark Kennedy Shriver, who is looking to step up to Congress from the Maryland state assembly. A month before, the $10-a-head "50th-birthday party" the Shrivers threw for Kathleen backed up traffic more than a mile as nearly 5,000 people showed up for R.F.K.'s eldest...
...sweat-soaked Mark Kennedy Shriver trots up to yet another front porch in suburban Maryland, he admonishes a reporter not to step on the grass. When someone opens a door, he begins, "Sorry to bother you..." And when someone doesn't open one, he scribbles a note on one of his campaign flyers: "Sorry to have missed you..." Mark has met lots of mean dogs this way, and one mean homeowner with a handgun. "You related to Maria Shriver?" the man demanded. Mark put his hands up and said, "Depends...
Children have never wielded this much power in the marketplace. In 1984 children were estimated to influence about $50 billion of U.S. parents' purchases; the figure is expected to approach $300 billion this year. According to the Maryland-based Center for a New American Dream, which dispenses antidotes for raging consumerism, two-thirds of parents say their kids define their self-worth in terms of possessions; half say their kids prefer to go to a shopping mall than to go hiking or on a family outing; and a majority admit to buying their children products they disapprove of--products that...
...like the conviction of grifters Kenneth and Sante Kimes for killing New York City widow Irene Silverman, have involved circumstantial evidence. But you also need to show where a crime is likely to have occurred--a problem in the Levy case. The putative crime could have happened in D.C., Maryland or Virginia. Which state could prove a crime occurred there...