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...phones, not just in New York City but in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington as well. Someone picks up a credit-card number, often by looking over a legitimate user's shoulder or listening in on a charge call placed at a rotary phone. A working number can fetch $50 to $100 from a middleman, who then retails it to long lines of customers eager to pay $5 to $15 to call friends and relatives in, say, Colombia, Poland or the Philippines. A single number can quickly run up a tab in the tens of thousands of dollars, which...
Meanwhile the offers ring in like a cash register. His memoirs could fetch seven figures, his speeches $30,000 a pop. He has been mentioned as an ideal football coach (the Philadelphia Eagles) or university chancellor (Texas A&M) or business leader (Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca is batting his eyes). Van Poole, chief of the Republican Party in Schwarzkopf's home state of Florida, is exercising monumental restraint. "I thought I'd give him a couple of weeks," he says. The hope is to persuade the general to run against popular Democratic Senator Bob Graham. "I've not talked...
...guru's wisdom grips the hall. Within hours, new placards appear: AL GORE FOR VEEP; DICK GEPHARDT KNOWS HOW TO BE NO. 2; BILL CLINTON IS CUTER THAN DAN QUAYLE. Corporate jets supplied by Strauss's legal clients fan out to fetch the prospects. The Democratic delegates rejoice; they have seen the future, and it is bipartisan...
...Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is already completing a plan that would set federal fishing quotas for 39 shark species. It would also ban live finning -- the cruel practice of catching sharks, slicing off their fins and tossing the maimed creatures back into the ocean to die. Dried fins, which fetch up to $117 per kg ($53 per lb.) in Asian markets, are used to make shark-fin soup, a gelatinous delicacy that sells for as much as $50 a bowl in a fine Hong Kong restaurant...
...apparently a work that Van Gogh painted in Paris in 1886. By 1930 it belonged to a Swiss banker, and it was later bequeathed to his Milwaukee relatives. When Chicago's Leslie Hindman auction house puts the painting on the block in March, the obscure work could fetch as much as $800,000. Its discovery has sent fortune hunters rummaging through their attics, hoping to strike oils...