Martin divides his time between a Gold Rush-era house atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where the theme is the Wild West (racks of Colts and Winchesters, plus an 1880s roulette table with scrimshawed ivory chips), and a country house in the Napa Valley town of Rutherford.

FORBES: Trigger-Happy

W. Bush sat at a table on the South Lawn of the White House and signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law.

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