What do they do, sell the stuff on Ebay?

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It’s always fun, the annual roundup of gift-giving to U.S. officials from foreign dignitaries; under current ethics rules, presents worth more than $305 are considered property of the U.S. government while those less than that are the recipient’s to keep, though exactly what you’d do with “a 16-inch bronze statuette of an Arab man helping a woman from a bath, mounted on a black-slate base, valued at $300” is not entirely clear (you’d have to ask former CIA head George Tenet, who got the artwork from an unnamed foreign official). Hillary Clinton turned a Versace wallet she was given in India over to the State Department, whose rummage sales must be something to see. Donald Rumsfeld, meanwhile, didn’t get to keep the $380 aromatherapy gift set he got from the Jordanian royals around Christmas ’04. Pity that.