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Wilsey's parents' divorce is not a quiet family matter. Owing to the couple's wealth and status (his father is a dairy tycoon, his mother a society columnist), the details are splashed all over their hometown San Francisco newspapers. Not long after, his mother tries to enlist her 11-year-old son in a suicide pact. With preternatural calm, the boy resists. The incident, however, does not leave him unharmed. With both parents too self-absorbed to offer stability or guidance, Wilsey, an editor at the literary journal McSweeney's, careens among boarding and reform schools, a journey...
...headline-grabbing skill as a dealmaker, Kerkorian is often described as a recluse. Vegas real estate tycoon Irwin Molasky, an old friend, says it's more that Kerkorian tends to be quiet and unassuming. He hasn't been entirely able to shield himself from the tabloids, however. In 2002 he was involved in a tawdry paternity case after his third wife, tennis pro Lisa Bonder, to whom he had been married for a month, admitted faking DNA tests to prove he was the father of her child. Still, when he attends boxing matches, Kerkorian sits up in the cheap seats...
...troops in Lebanon in time to win favorable comments in a United Nations report due out this week. With a new political era dawning, citizens learned the name of the man who may be their future Prime Minister: Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri, the billionaire tycoon and popular politician whose assassination on Feb. 14 triggered the mass protests and international pressure that forced Syria to pull out its forces. Last week, the Hariri family formally announced that Saad, 35, one of Hariri's four sons from two marriages, would take up his late father's political role. Saad...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Diana Ross, 41, sleek singer and actress (Lady Sings the Blues); and Arne Naess Jr., 47, Norwegian shipping tycoon and mountaineer; both for the second time; in New York; on Oct. 23. The two met last May in the Bahamas, where Naess was vacationing after leading an expedition to the summit of Mount Everest...
...down, forgetting for a second to give his toast. In Palm Beach, Fla., on the last leg of the Waleses' four-day visit, Charles' team stylishly won an exhibition polo match, but later at a $5,000-a-head charity ball for United World Colleges arranged by Oil Tycoon Armand Hammer, there were some tacky touches. Those who paid an extra $20,000 got to stand with the royal couple for a souvenir snapshot. The local Establishment snubbed the do, partly because Russophile Hammer and his nonlocal charity were considered not the right sort. Still, the audiences of royal freaks...