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...Jacky's hut, Bing and a few bar girls are seated with their legs folded under them, taking hits from the sheets of tinfoil. As Jacky applies a thick layer of foundation makeup to her face, and then dabs on retouching cream and then a coating of powder, she talks about how tonight she has to find a customer; she needs to make a thousand baht. She'll work the dance floor at Angel's and, if she can't pick up a foreigner, she'll try Thermae, a sleazy after-hours joint and the evening's last resort...
...dinner was arranged by columnist George Will, himself a congenital baseball fan, who thought the President might like a relaxing night talking about his favorite sport. After a dessert of ice cream and cookies shaped like French fries and hot dogs, Bush gave the group a tour of his new home including the Oval Office and the Cabinet room. "He was so gracious," said Glavine. "He said: 'If you don't mind, I'd like to show you around.' We were looking at each other like: 'Are you kidding me?'" Though the conversation touched occasionally on issues...
...Which may not be surprising coming from hippie ice-cream magnate Ben Cohen, or even the politically liberal George Soros. But there are two Rockefellers on the list as well - philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr., former chairman of Rockefeller & Company, and Steven C. Rockefeller, chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Not to mention Agnes Gund, a philanthropist whose family owns stakes in many companies. Warren Buffett, the zillionaire investor who's newly revered these days for weathering the tech bubble-bust with his zillions intact, didn't sign - but only because the petition didn't go far enough...
...ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful doctor and wealthy manufacturer of Moonwhite Thyalam fairness cream, a sensation among young women in the south who wish to appear fashionably light-skinned...
George W. Bush President The Oval Office is cream colored and filled with Western art. Lincoln and Ben Franklin busts are in, F.D.R. and J.F.K...