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...Katharine B. Dixon, president of the Law School’s Animal Legal Defense Fund, the line between rightful protest and acts of extremism often blurs...
...fees paid to big names are a powerful inspiration. Bob Hope commands the highest price: $40,000 a speech. Radio Personality Paul Harvey pulls down $25,000. Jeane Kirkpatrick doubled her fee to $20,000 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...
...sweet it was earlier this month when Elliott Dixon scratched off the concealing film on one of California's new instant-winner lottery tickets and discovered he had won $1,000. How bitter he was when he learned that none of the money would be his to enjoy. All of his winnings were confiscated by the state to go toward payment of a $2,100 child-support debt. Moaned the winner-loser: "I don't mind seeing my debts reduced, but I would have rather made the decision myself...
...players work out and hit on their own. Last year, Farkes probably took more cuts in the batting cages than anyone, but this year he’d get the emails to the team list—“Hey, I’m going down to Palmer-Dixon to hit, anyone want to come?”—and wince...
...insists that Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford and the Army's research center in Natick are ideal for studying the high-tech hardware Rumsfeld covets, since they're close to science centers like M.I.T. The state also hopes that one of its hired guns, former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon, will give it an edge because of another job he once had: he chaired the base-closing commission in 1995, the last time the mothballs started flying. --By Douglas Waller