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...bucks backer: tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Unruffled by sums requiring two commas, Duke posted $5 million bail for her close friend Imelda and, it is rumored, plunked down further millions for Spence...
...late 1988 for racketeering, mail fraud and obstruction of justice, Imelda was hoping to exercise her old influence. In a "Dearest Nancy" letter to the then First Lady, she pleaded -- to no avail -- for the Reagans to help with the Marcoses' legal problems. At least old friend Doris Duke came through with bail. For his involvement, Khashoggi, a man of multiple houses but no fixed address, was saddled with bail of $110 million -- and an electronic ankle band that keeps prosecutors informed of his whereabouts as he roams from smart Manhattan boites to the slopes at Aspen...
...Bush noted last week, "the law books are full of restrictions on free speech." It is not permissible to yell fire falsely in a crowded theater, as Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out, and likewise it could be illegal to ignite a flag in one. Yet according to Duke University law school professor Walter Dellinger, "the flag amendment would be the first real instance in which political expression is being suppressed because of objections to the message being communicated...
...Bill is prepared to rewrite that line to read: "throw him in the super-jumbo cup of Diet Coke in the next room." For $40,000, Bill will move the scene to the next room and show the Duke actually being drowned in a large Diet Coke (logo prominently displayed). For $60,000, the murderers will also drink the Diet Coke and comment on its thirst-quenching qualities after their heavy labors...