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Before he died in 1990, flamboyant publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes told his kids to find their own fun rather than carry on with the things he enjoyed. True to the old man's wishes, his five offspring have been selling off chunks of the Forbes art collection that took a...
The Forbes five--led by eldest son and former presidential candidate Steve and his brother Kip, who is vice chairman of the family's media empire, Forbes Inc.--have been unloading Dad's gems for years. In 1993 they sold $3 million worth of Orientalist paintings and drawings; in 1997...
Some have likened the liquidation to a fire sale, raising questions about the health of the Forbes fortune--the size of which has always been a closely guarded secret. When Malcolm Forbes died, his estate may have been worth up to $1 billion. No one figures the kids have burned...
But, of course, that was not that, and now John Forbes Kerry gets the turn he has waited for all his life. He has told friends he learned something from Gore's fate about what really matters in a race. It was not about whether to run as a centrist...
But wait--isn't it a pretty good deal to cut a hospital bill from $135,000 to $40,000? Maybe in any other field, but not in health care. What the Westers found out is that they had just lost the second lottery. Hospitals everywhere--public, nonprofit institutions as...