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...after she became a Republican. Seer Jeane Dixon can conjure up $7,000 but donates all fees to charity. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger goes for $18,000; his former boss, Richard Nixon, could command $25,000 but speaks for free. "The fees," says Speaker Agent Carleton Sedgeley, "simply follow the laws of supply and demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions of Lecture Lucre | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Schwartz, 74, of North Hollywood, Calif., now lectures for $1,000 a shot. on how to beat retirement. The exiled monarch of Tunisia, King Rechad al-Mahdi, 38, was virtually unknown when he spoke soporifically about the need for a constitutional monarchy two years ago. But an enterprising agent now gets him $2,500 for a lecture called "A Royal Saga." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visions of Lecture Lucre | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...struck, he was heard to worry, "Cobb is getting further away." If not in Philadelphia at the mean end of the 1983 World Series against Baltimore, then in Montreal at the bad beginning of last year, the chase seemed doomed. Thanks in huge measure to Rose, their richest free agent, the Phillies in 1980 finally celebrated a world title after 97 barren years, but when they neglected to win another, he was discarded as too old. Benched in the third Series game against the Orioles, Rose got a glimpse of twilight. The Expos gave him a trial last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo agent; and a case Hathaway has burned out (Jonathan Gries) until the others recruit him for the climactic revenge plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Guess Who Flunked the IQ Test? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

After FBI agents caught John Walker Jr. trying to pass classified documents to a Soviet agent in rural Maryland last May, authorities said that Walker, a retired Navy chief warrant officer, had been spying for about 17 years. In betraying top-secret details of the military's communications systems, they said, Walker apparently recruited his son Michael, a clerk aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz, and several other helpers. Last week, three days before he was to go on trial before Federal Judge Alexander Harvey II in Baltimore, Walker accepted a plea bargain. Government sources confirmed that both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Nov 4, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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