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...person: Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian (of the holy places of Mecca and Medina), a form of address he prefers to Your Majesty. And the difference between the profligate prince and the cautious King reflects something more than the aging of the young hell raiser into a 69-year-old monarch whose 275-lb. bulk has so weakened his knees that he has trouble walking. Some 37 years ago, Fahd went through a conversion that, though forced on him, has had a lasting effect...
...well, it is too soon to reward Pretoria for the reforms De Klerk has made, some of which are more cosmetic than real. Mandela can also hope to return home with several million dollars in new contributions to the A.N.C. In New York a $2,500-a-ticket fund raiser hosted by Eddie Murphy, Spike Lee and Robert De Niro aimed to raise $500,000 from a celebrity crowd that included Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Mike Tyson. At another gathering the same night in the Park Avenue apartment of prominent Democratic Party backers Arthur and Mathilde Krim, a crowd...
When the news of Poindexter's sentence ran through the capital, some of his former White House colleagues were in black tie at the President's Dinner, the Republican Party's grandest Washington fund raiser. "I felt sick," said one. "There was not a criminal bone in his body. He was doing what he thought his Commander in Chief wanted. He got a jail term for political incompetence. Since when is that a felony...
...Century Association, an elite club in Manhattan, to meet their new boss. They were all senior staff members of the New York Public Library and, not knowing who the new president might be, they were all edgy. For one thing, who could possibly replace Vartan Gregorian, the charismatic fund raiser who had led them out of fiscal ruin? And, of more immediate concern, should they have a drink while waiting? Perhaps not. After all, a leading contender was known to be Timothy S. Healy, a Jesuit priest. Sure enough, when the door opened, the big, bulky man who entered...
...campaign fund raiser at a Cleveland hotel, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden noticed that similar events were being staged for two Senate colleagues, Bill Bradley and Tom Harkin. The irony struck him: "Harkin's from Iowa, Bradley's from New Jersey, and I'm from Delaware. What are we all doing in Ohio...