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...like Al Gore than he is like his easygoing brother. The Governor is a policy wonk who has to grind away for his successes. When George, not Jeb, was the first to win a statehouse, Mom exclaimed, "Can you believe it!?" Jeb isn't nearly as playful as his palm tree - covered tie would suggest. At a retirement center in Boynton Beach, he solemnly shakes hands, quietly adding an "honestly" to his "I need your vote." He tells Time the race is close "but not as close as Mr. McBride's internal polls suggest. That's a fund-raising tool...
...bleak. Part of the reason for Versace's troubled fortunes can be seen in the last room of the show. Dresses by Versace's current designer, Gianni's sister Donatella, show that while she's done an admirable job of keeping the family name in the spotlight - her plunging palm-leaf dress made headlines when it was worn by Jennifer Lopez - she doesn't have her brother's world-class talent. If there's to be a Donatella Versace exhibition in the future, she'd be wise to partner with a designer whose creative skills match her networking ones...
...sleepy tropical island city of Malabo had hardly changed in years. The capital of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West African nation of fewer than 500,000 people, consisted of little more than some moldering Spanish colonial buildings, a few palm-lined plazas and the tightly packed shanty towns which encircle most African settlements. Its one claim to fame was that novelist Frederick Forsyth lived there while he wrote his military thriller The Dogs of War. But over the past three years, Malabo has been transformed. Office buildings have shot up, hotels and banks have opened, and foreigners - once a novelty...
Every afternoon, New York City's Plaza Hotel serves high tea in the Palm Court, a bright winter garden with towering palms and a harpist. And every day, among the set of silver-haired dames in wool suits are demure but excited little girls who have come to pay homage to Eloise. They nibble on cucumber sandwiches and rocky scones, just like their beloved literary heroine...
...Palm Court does not take reservations for afternoon tea, but when a reporter mentions that her guest will be Mr. Hilary Knight, she is promptly booked. At tea, a waiter brings complimentary glasses of champagne. Knight, a natty, exceedingly polite gentleman in a black silk shirt, still adheres to a rigorous work schedule in his Manhattan home studio. He recalls being summoned to Rome in 1963 to work with Thompson on Bawth: "Unlike the other books, which took a year each, this went on for four years." When Bawth was given its rebirth, no one was more excited than Knight...