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...reflective meditation" sessions with New Age psychic philosopher Jean Houston, who persuaded her to enact conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi; she talked about tracking the progress of welfare reform for her husband but has done so only from the sidelines in an unofficial capacity; facing the empty nest, she thought of adopting a baby. Says longtime friend Diane Blair, a member of Hillary's inner circle: "She was trying to figure out how she could be who she is--a thinker, a doer--without arousing hostility from those who felt she was overstepping her bounds. I think...
Some advisers think the high minimum isn't such a bad thing. Maybe betting the nest egg on hype-heavy IPOs is just another way for middle-class families to lose their shirts to financiers who wear nicer shirts to begin with. What will happen the first time Wit sells shares of some loser at $12 and they promptly sink to, say, $4? "These deals tend to be highly volatile," says a banking executive. "They appeal to people who can afford a certain amount of risk. But the mom-and-pops? God love 'em. It's not easy...
Lady. That was the image Dandridge projected, and it seemed nicely suited to a Hollywood just then scouting for a dark face to introduce to audiences. But beneath this delicate elegance, Dorothy was a nest of insecurities. Born in 1922, she'd been drilled for stardom by her bisexual mother Ruby, who fled a Cleveland marriage for Hollywood with her two daughters and her domineering girlfriend in tow. Dottie and sister Vivian were onstage from childhood and in films from 1935. Did they want to be? Ruby never asked...
...wanted the kids to be proud of me, wanted to increase my nest egg," says Ruth Crosson, 79, of Golden, Colo. She pooled her life savings with money borrowed on an insurance policy and turned over $100,000 to Richard O'Donnell, an insurance agent who had vowed after the death of her husband 10 years earlier that Crosson would be taken care of. Over the years, O'Donnell told Crosson and 17 other victims that he would invest their money in insurance ventures that would pay them dividends of 13% a year. Actually, he was running a Ponzi scheme...
...held a press conference, claiming Dodi as her betrothed and flashing a sapphire ring and a $440,000 breach-of-contract and fraud suit. Diana's future wedded abode was hotly debated: Would it be Julie Andrews' former Malibu home, reportedly just purchased by Dodi, or the Paris love nest of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, now owned by the father-in-law-to-be? No word yet on a honeymoon site...