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Paris Hilton has invaded Gstaad, Switzerland, and the regulars in the posh Alpine resort aren't thrilled. "Poor Phuket got a tsunami, and we got Paris Hilton," ever-insensitive Taki Theodoracopulos quipped. "It's an outrage." The Greek aristocrat said Paris was brought to the exclusive enclave by a diminutive, tattooed playboy named Latsis, whose father, a water-skiing instructor known as Katsidocostas, married a rich heiress. When Paris and her entourage arrived at GreenGo, the hot nightclub at the Palace Hotel, one young lady, a friend of Prince Pavlos and Marie Chantal of Greece, yelled loudly to her friends, "We don't want these...

  The Peter Pan Syndrome   by Robert Mahood     Kerry is UNFIT #21: THUMBSUCKER SERIES-BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE- (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   A typical scenario for this boardhead is to be skimming back and forth across the lake on Misty, my aging Mistral Competition, in a 12 knot breeze gusting to 15. I'm hanging onto a 7.6 rig, riding a gentle natural swell occasionally punctuated by the man-made chop excreted by jet skis and stinkpots. In my adolescent ears are a symphony of boardsailing sounds: the vit, vit, vit of the board,...

Something to Yak About – Billionaires for Kerry: Birds of a Feather Flock Together John Kerry, the richest man to ever seek the presidency, is receiving plenty of help from his fellow billionaires in his quest for power. His latest ally is billionaire entrepreneur and erstwhile dog-cloner John Sperling, who’s spending millions to divide the nation into two camps. According to Kerry’s billionaire buddy, the ‘Metro’ camp is cool and hip and chic and backs John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, et al. Sperling’s ‘Retro’ camp is un-cool and square and supports George Bush. After all of John Kerry’s talk about...

ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France — Imagine the scene here a year from now if this genteel village enters U.S. history. On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir. Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde — a former candidate for the French presidency — Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis. Speaking fluent French, Kerry greets crowds filling narrow lanes and a town plaza festooned with flags...

NANTUCKET, Mass. - After a week of campaigning for the less fortunate, John Kerry (news - web sites) went on vacation with the fabulously wealthy. Kerry is a rich man who promotes the Democratic ideal that government should do more to help the poor. He moves between both worlds, spending the past week traveling to downtrodden places like South-side Columbus, Ohio, and the affluent island playground of Nantucket. Not since President Kennedy have Democrats been prepared to nominate a man of such riches. President Clinton (news - web sites) didn't own a home until he left the White House and...