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...become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw...
...become Solidarity's national chairman. Walesa claims he needs to return to work because presidents are not provided with pensions under current Polish law. "I'm without money for living, and it's necessary for me to work," he said after arriving at the shipyard in a state-owned chauffeur-driven Mercedes, a perk he is entitled to as a former president. But Walesa won't be punching a clock for long. He will take an unpaid leave next week to go an a U.S. lecture tour. "This is such a cabaret," says TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski from Warsaw...
...Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, Martin Amis notes that as a student at Oxford, he "sometimes wished that E.B. White would call by, in a chauffeur-driven limousine, to offer me a job on the New Yorker. It never happened. But it happened to Updike...
...movies. Dick Van Dyke, now an avuncular 68, portrays a crime-solving physician in the CBS series Diagnosis Murder, and Gene Barry, 74, is back in Burke's Law, a new version of the '60s series about a millionaire police detective who tools to crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce...
...former customers ever get a chance to confront him, Albert Cardone may need plenty of health insurance. Before his ouster in May as chairman of New York's Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, he took home $600,000 a year in his chauffeur-driven Lincoln Town Car. The salary and transportation were paid for by the nation's largest nonprofit health insurer at a time when it was trying to stave off insolvency by drastically raising the premiums of the elderly, the poor and the chronically sick. But, as Cardone once asked a New York Times reporter...