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Diet Postwar British; ate roast pork and potatoes before the race...
...there he was in full birthday mode last week, munching a Morton's roast-beef sandwich after tumbling wildly through 5,000 feet of Texas sky. He was so blissful up there, he missed his skydiving instructor Glenn Bangs' signal to pull his rip cord. (Bush's other parachuting companion, Andy Serrano, pulled it.) "What a high!" he laughed as his promise to Barbara not to jump again slipped away with each memory of touching the clouds in free fall...
...woman who had this master plan--I guess it goes with the territory but it's a little disconcerting," says Dozoretz, who in March was named finance chairwoman for the Democratic National Committee and is running a nonstop schedule of big-money events. This week it's a planned roast at her home for Terry McAuliffe, the capo di tutti capi of Democratic fund raisers. At $25,000 a couple, the expected take: more than $3 million...
Goodman's practice includes civil law, and he represents only a few reputed wiseguys, but that's where his celebrity comes from. Goodman played himself in the movie Casino, as the attorney for a Mob character portrayed by actor Joe Pesci. At a roast honoring Goodman, tributes poured in from prisons across the land, including a teasing video from an alleged mobster who said, "Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today...
...hard gamers within the house argue that despite all the mockery that assassin typically invites, it represents one of the best ways to foster house spirit in Quincy. Just as Dunster has their traditional goat roast and Kirkland has its evening of Shakespeare, we have our assassin...