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...board has been criticized after management missteps, it is still the city's corporate crown jewel. "Among Bob's peers it was an important recognition," Blank says. Nardelli was host to about 200 prominent conservatives last month at a $3.2 million fund raiser for President Bush in his 10-bedroom mansion...
...mention at 5:30 one recent morning bang on a houseguest's bedroom door, elbow it open and deliver a tray of hot coffee and grapefruit wedges and then trumpet the start of an adventure that would in a few hours take him inside the roaring wind tunnel at Fort Bragg. There, in the levitating blast of air, he grins and trains for free fall from an airplane, looking like Buck Rogers (his era) in helmeted black zip-up, forming an untethered star with half a dozen new buddies of the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team...
...where they stay, because the ladder is then removed. Choose between a "bohème service," which means you bring your own food and bed linen, or the more comfortable deluxe option, where meals and blankets are hoisted up to you in a basket. There's a kitchen, bedroom, veranda with a hammock and-rest assured-a toilet...
Every reality show needs a mansion," jokes Patrick Lynn, a segment producer for American Idol. The rented eight-bedroom manse that houses Idol's finalists, in the mountains above Los Angeles, is like the show itself: big, showy and just tacky enough to be amusing. There are faux-castle turrets, an Egyptian-style horse statue, a gargantuan wooden wagon, a mammoth futuristic fake-suede couch--and three very ordinary teenage women battling America's largest case of butterflies. A few weeks ago, over a catered dinner of poached salmon and Chinese chicken salad, the contestants chatted with TIME about taking...
...Smith continued to hear from his constituents that they wanted a return to the way the county's schools were in the early '70s. Says Smith: "[Voters would] ask me, 'How come my kids can't go to the school that I can throw a stone at out my bedroom window? How come they're being sent away, riding down 95 because of their skin color?'" In 2000, after an emotional debate played out in the Op-Ed pages of the local paper and in public hearings, Smith pushed the Neighborhood Schools Act through the legislature. The law requires children...