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...want to be a First Lady? Wives with careers are cast as Lady Macbeth; wives without are dubbed dull. What's more, the most casual comment about your spouse can generate headlines. In a rare interview last week, Lyudmila Putin let slip that her husband comes home late and doesn't often discuss his day at the office. Russian President Vladimir Putin "works too hard," she said, adding that his long hours make him forget that "one needs not only to work but also to live." Judging by the recent chorus of complaints from leading ladies, there's more than...
...apartment for a calmer, cheaper life in the country. Still others have stayed put and splurged. Lucky Erganian and her husband, now deceased, bought their Woodland Hills, Calif., home in 1982 for $260,000. Today she's in the midst of a six-figure renovation. Real estate agents daily slip flyers onto her porch boasting of the windfalls they have won for her neighbors. "The one I have now," says Erganian, 58, "lists three that sold for $1.2 million, $1.3 million and $3.9 million. I love to go look at [the houses] and say, 'They don't have this that...
...work has its drawbacks. "After multiple meals at a hotel recently, I just couldn't take another bite," confides Pokodner. "If I did this all the time I'd weigh 400 pounds." Mystery shoppers quickly pick up tricks of the trade: how to spill drinks into potted plants or slip uneaten pork chops into a hidden plastic bag (a trick that can backfire if the waiter looks around for the bones...
Moguls will endure fewer of Cruise's crotchets if his box-office numbers slip. His movies still gross $100 million or more in North America, but the profits are shrinking. Not that there's much competition; the only actor whose films regularly gross higher is Will Smith. Nothing lasts forever, however, including film stardom. And Cruise is mistaken if he thinks he can reach younger moviegoers by acting their...
...North and South Korea are scheduled to meet this week; according to South Korea's Unification Ministry, Seoul will again press Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks. But polite prodding could give way to big sticks if the North detonates a nuclear device. "The situation would slip out of control," says a senior South Korean official. "It would create such an uproar, such a strong reaction from around the world." A brother's patience is not boundless...