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...House leadership announced it was going to ban travel on corporate jets-something that goes farther than what the Democrats had promised during the midterm election campaign-it signaled that they might actually be willing to give up the day-to-day lifestyle perks that have created what Fred Wertheimer, head of the watchdog group Democracy 21, calls a "culture of entitlement." Congressmen have always envied the corporate life, and never tire of telling you how much more money they would be making if they hadn't selflessly decided to run for office. In recent years, as commercial airline travel...
...Fred Goldman, Ron's father, filed a lawsuit last week against both Simpson and Lorraine Brooke Associates, described by Goldman's lawyer as a "sham entity" formed to funnel the book's proceeds to the ex-football star. Goldman hopes not only to retrieve the $880,000 he says News Corp. paid Simpson as an advance, but he also wants Murdoch's company to give him all rights to If I Did It - print, audio and other peripheral sources of income from the project. "There was originally an indication they might be open to such an idea [turning all profits...
...entrepreneur who at the age of 17 helped found the Subway sandwich chain gave students a candid taste of business life last night. Fred DeLuca described Subway’s tentative early days and dispensed advice for young professionals, speaking to about 40 students in the Dunster House Junior Common Room. DeLuca said he co-founded the Subway franchise in 1965 in hopes of covering his college expenses. Now the chain has nearly 27,000 branches worldwide. When DeLuca hit hard financial times early in Subway’s history, he faced a choice between shutting down the original location...
...stories told about him by other journalists. I have two. One is more an image than a story. I met Johnny on my first trip to Iowa of my first Presidential campaign in 1975. I was working for Rolling Stone and trailing an entertaining if futile Oklahoma populist named Fred Harris; Johnny and I were the entire press corps. We traveled in a camper. Fred often went barefoot, sang country music songs and, in the evenings, dispensed Jack Daniel's in a manner that can only be called liberal. One evening we pulled into a white Victorian farmhouse straight from...
...added. Also wrestling for Harvard were junior Bobby Latessa (157 lbs.) and freshman Frankie Colletta (165 lbs.), who had two victories each. Junior Jonathan Butler also had two wins at 197, although he lost his first round bout by pin, while freshman Fred Rowsey had one win at 174. The Crimson now prepares to start the dual meets portion of its schedule on Dec. 14 at Washington, D.C. against American. —Staff writer Tony D. Qian can be reached at tonyqian@fas.harvard.edu...