mary-kate and ashley

I love Mondays! Seventeen-year-old Jane Ryan thought as she sat at the kitchen table casually sipping her green tea and reading the morning edition of the Welling Pointe Post--her usual before-school routine.
She took in the headline on page three--Vandals Trigger Heightened Neighborhood Watch--and read the story. It seemed that affluent homeowners in the gated community of Stone Water Bend on Long Island, New York, were fed up with the slow police response to a recent rash of vandalism. Now the residents were taking the matter into their own hands.
"Vandalism?" she murmured. "Why would anyone...

    
Olsens launch assault on Aussie market

September 26 2002

The world's most successful television twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, have announced their billion-dollar empire was poised for an assault on the Australian market.

The mary-kateandashley brand is already a hit in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States where the twins, now 16, rose to fame in the hit series Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995.

Since then, they've built a billion-dollar empire that includes clothing, movies, television shows, videos and books.

The pair flew into Sydney on Tuesday and...

FULL HOUSE'S TYCOON TOTS

The Olsen twins of Full House are normal 7-years-olds, except they're rich, rich, rich!

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, the cute-beyond-measure, sparkle-eyed twins who share the role of Michelle on ABC's Full House, act just like any other 7-year-old girls. They are shy around strangers, giggly when left to themselves. They share secrets. They like ice cream and ponies and swimming-pool slides. And, like most little girls, they fidget when they're sleepy and pout when they're angry.
"I want a tiger, Daddy," Mary-Kate kept saying, over and over, squirming in the back seat of...