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Bill Gates may be the richest American, but even he can complain that $15 billion ain't what it used to be. According to The Wealthy 100: A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, by Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther, Gates ranks a mere 31st. He is ahead of the modest Mark Hopkins, one of the powers who built the Central Pacific Railroad, just behind meat-packer Philip Armour, and way, way behind John D. Rockefeller at No. 1. Gates doesn't figure to threaten old John D. The authors determined the standings by looking at the tycoons...
...Your bigoted and hateful words against transgendered persons disgust me," the letter states. "If you think you've heard nasty things over e-mail, you ain't seen nothing...
...ain't going to run. I can't run any more, and if you run from a man older than you, you're in trouble."--34-year-old Hector Camacho, about the fighting style he'll use against 40-year-old Sugar Ray Leonard...
...campaign to get what Republican fund raisers call a "season ticket"--access to the committee chairmen of your choice--and about the same amount to get what President Clinton calls "a respectful hearing" at the White House. As they used to say on the South Side of Chicago, that ain't yogurt...
...Amuck" is the first meta-cartoon. Daffy is denied scenery, erased, and put through all sorts of animated torture until he demands to know "who is responsible for this!" The perpetrator turns out to be Bugs Bunny, who sits at the animator's table and says to the audience, "Ain't I a stinker...