Heinz Meanz Beanz: Is America ready for a sassy, intelligent, outspoken, wilful, foul-mouthed, irreverent, garrulous, domineering, flamboyant, freethinking and utterly charming First Lady?* Portugal certainly is - as Teresa Heinz Kerry, born Teresa Simoes Ferreira, is Portuguese and it would be nice to have
a secret agent such a close ally in the White House. But there's also
a lot of hate about. Do most American voters really take candidates' wives, husbands or partners into account?
*
Heh. The "utterly charming" was added at the last minute when I realized that all these adjectives could apply to Hilary Clinton.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jan 26, 2004 -
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Millionaires' Havens, Heavens And Hell Holes: Ghastly, depressing
Monaco comes in for a deserved drubbing from Philip Delves Broughton in this week's
Spectator. The idea of billionaires surfing the Web looking for a hide-out makes me giggle and gag, but it appears poor people can play too. Have a look at (free!) e-zine
Escape From America; run your index finger down
a list of
tax havens and choose the
paradise place you'd scarper off to, if your money problems, whether from excess or lack of money, ever become too [
sorry...] taxing.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Nov 29, 2002 -
9 comments
