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Has life outside the limelight gone to Barbra Streisand's hips? When the diva showed up at a party in L.A. recently, many guests remarked about how zaftig she looked. "She must have put on 20 pounds," a spy tells us. But one friend argues, "She's still in great shape for 60." You can bet she'll be hitting the treadmill before her performance at the Democratic fund-raiser in L.A. Sept. 29. NY Daily News

I just love the word zaftig. Here's a news flash, x42 and 97 spending some time together (for a political cause, of course):

Vaclav Havel caught up with New York friends Friday night on what he's calling his "farewell trip" to the U.S. before he steps down as president of the Czech Republic in four months. On hand for a symposium on Havel's career at the Graduate Center on E. 34th St. were ex-President Bill Clinton, Lou Reed, Toni Morrison and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. They all met up with Sen. Hillary Clinton at Ian Schrager's Morgan's Bar on Madison Ave. afterward.