Word: red-carpet
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...Jones did not live a red-carpet childhood. She does not speak to her father, and her relationship with her mother, also named Marion, is delicate. As she describes it, "What happened there was I got injured, and without sports I got depressed. I moved away from my mom emotionally, and in college I drifted further. We still don't have the typical mother-daughter relationship where she's baking me cookies, but we're comfortable. I love her, and she loves me, and we're fine...
...going to defect from a "rogue state" and are looking for the United States to provide a quick resolution of your asylum case, best be equipped with a briefcaseful of shocking state secrets. Then you'll both end up on "60 Minutes" and with red-carpet treatment from the State Department. Washington looks likely to give serious attention to the claims of Ahmad Behbahani, the self-styled former Iranian intelligence honcho who, despite being sequestered in a Turkish refugee camp, managed to get his message to the Sunday-night CBS news show. His bombshell claim: that Iran, rather than Libya...
...easy for Clinton to lay on the red-carpet welcome, the 21-gun salute, the Oval Office pageantry in Washington. The problem is the rest of the country, where Jiang is sure to face protesters, hecklers and tough questions from pesky reporters. At a Capitol Hill breakfast, half the Congressmen attending will be critics of China. Political demonstrators are going to dog his every step. China's officials say Jiang is visiting such hallowed points as colonial Williamsburg, Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to show his "deep democratic impulse"; Clinton's aides say these stopovers lend themselves...
Lindner received the same red-carpet treatment as some of Clinton's more flamboyant benefactors, including coffee with the President and a night in the Lincoln Bedroom. Last week the WTO panel issued a preliminary ruling in Lindner's favor. When that is made final, Lindner stands to gain millions in revenues from new sales in Europe--a good return on the $2 million in soft money that he and his firms have handed both parties since 1990. Republicans too have supported Lindner's banana crusade. (Lindner and Kantor declined to comment...
...late. "From Noah's friends at Dianetics" read the card that accompanied a bouquet of flowers at Lottick's funeral. Yet no Scientology staff members bothered to show up. A week earlier, local church officials had given Lottick's parents a red-carpet tour of their center. A cult leader told Noah's parents that their son had been at the church just hours before he disappeared - but the church denied this story as soon as the body was identified. True to form, the cult even haggled with the Lotticks over $3,000 their son had paid for services...