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...Omaha, Nebraska, Warren Buffett wanted to be very, very rich. His first possession was a nickel-plated money changer that he proudly strapped to his belt. By age five he was selling Chiclets from a stand outside his house. At six he bought a six-pack of Coke for a quarter and hawked the sodas for a nickel apiece. He soon was charting stocks and made his first purchase--three shares of energy company Cities Service preferred stock--at age 11; they rewarded him with a $5 gain. Thus launched, Buffett vowed to become a millionaire by the time...
...weren't for the fact that Gingrich stands to become a multimillionaire in the long run, you would feel sorry for the guy. After all, the best thing about a book tour is suites in nice hotels with unlimited room service, the $5 Coke on a silver tray that drops down from publishing heaven. On HarperCollins' tab (backed by an advertising, marketing and promotion budget of $500,000), Gingrich was looking at the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton, according to publicist Steve Sorrentino. On his own nickel, the Speaker may be using up his frequent-flyer miles and wolfing...
...activities of Colombian drug kingpin Carlos Lehder-Rivas, who from 1978 to '80 was using the Bahamas as a transshipment point for cocaine. Vesco was living in the Bahamas at that time and is thought to have helped Lehder bribe influential Bahamian officials to look the other way while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip. Vesco was also said to have arranged for Lehder's planes to fly through Cuban air space. There was speculation last week that Havana would turn Vesco...
...never sat in the Fenway Park press box on a summer night with the windows wide open, the breeze in your face, a Coke in one hand and a pencil to keep score with in the other, well...
...Would we do this with marijuana? Would we do this with coke?" she asked. "If what we're doing as a matter of policy is countenancing these displays by tobacco companies, that's appalling...