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...Room on the executive mansion's second floor, the Clintons, avid history buffs, sought to replicate the style of Lincoln's era -- in retrospect, a risky choice. Mid-19th century American decor was in its, shall we say, bawdy-house phase at the time. The Victorians never met a swag or tassel they didn't like; if one patterned fabric was good, surely four would be better...
...later years he hired tutors, was a regular at the Miami Beach Public Library and a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club. To his retired cronies he was an engaging cafeteria philosopher. His underworld associates found his ethical views sufficiently compatible to still trust him with their swag...
During the past five years, TIME AUSTRALIA has gone from strength to strength, collecting a swag (as they say Down Under) of national journalism awards and increasing its circulation to 105,000. Michael, 44, is well equipped to continue this progress. A 1968 graduate in economics and politics from Melbourne's Monash University, he had a distinguished newspaper career in Australia and London before he joined TIME as a senior writer in February 1988. Eight months later, he won the Walkley Award, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize, with his first TIME cover story, an analysis of the debate over...
...know when I'm in a "good" area--when I arrived here in November, the streets were homogenous brick; now trees on the pavements, swag curtains, the cars parked outside, all have a sense to them, where previously they streamed by, unnoticed or insignificant. I have picked up the Londoner's trick of creating a sense of place, a little village mythology, about my own hundred square yards. This is my off licence; when friends come to stay, I walk in with a noticeable air of propriety. This is our supermarket. Look, isn't that the car that's usually...
Five years were far more than the family had bargained for when Pistone began the undercover operation in September 1976 with the idea of spending six months infiltrating fences who dispose of Mob swag. Pistone's name was erased from agency files, and contact agents were selected to deliver his spending money (sometimes meeting him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and to take his phone calls several times a week. Donnie Brasco (Pistone chose the name at random) never took notes and rarely carried a recorder or radio transmitter because they might be discovered when he greeted fellow Mafiosi...