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...conduct a study of its effectiveness. "There's no documented evidence it had any value to the intelligence community," says David Goslin, of the American Institute for Research, which the CIA hired to do the study. So the three full-time psychics still operating on a $500,000-a-year budget out of Fort Meade, Maryland, will soon close up shop...
Chrysler filed suit against Lee Iacocca, claiming that its former chairman helped a failed takeover bid by disgruntled shareholder Kirk Kerkorian. The automaker says Iacocca, who retired in 1992 but stayed on for two more years as a $500,000-a-year consultant, gave confidential corporate information to Kerkorian during the Las Vegas billionaire's push to take over the company last spring. The suit seeks to force Iacocca to repay Chrysler for money and services received since shortly after his retirement, when they say he began meeting with Kerkorian, and cites Iacocca's "exorbitant" $42,000-a-month...
...WHAT WOULD THE FORBIDDEN SEGMENT OF 60 Minutes have contained? An interview with Jeffrey S. Wigand, a biochemist and endocrinologist who now teaches high school in Louisville, Kentucky. Between December 1988 and March 1993, Wigand worked at Brown & Williamson as a $300,000-a-year vice president whose work focused partly on attempts by B&W to develop nontoxic and fire-retardant cigarettes--a project that Wigand reportedly told CBS it never pursued in earnest...
Mike Lenich, from South Holland, Illinois, is learning. A quality-control supervisor for a public utility, Lenich shucked his $350-a-year health-club membership and takes daily walks instead. He and his wife Linda also trim costs by scissoring the Christmas cards they receive and making postcards from the unused parts. They buy most of their food in bulk and reuse their plastic sandwich bags. Patricia O'Leary, a bookkeeper from East Brunswick, New Jersey, has read 20 simple-living books and subscribes to three simplicity newsletters, which she says have helped her and her husband Daniel wipe...
...people who once paid $640 for toilet-seat covers, who went ahead with the initial raid on the Branch Davidians even though they knew David Koresh had been forewarned, who couldn't figure out that Aldrich Ames was selling secrets to the Soviet Union even when the $70,000-a-year cia officer moved into a half-million-dollar mansion and began driving to work in a spiffy new Jaguar. While government might seem faceless and all-powerful to outsiders, insiders know it's an organization made up of human beings, with all the incompetency that implies. Think of your...