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Clad in black, he wore to breakfast a gold pin, emblazoned with the fraction "3/4." That represented the three fourths of black men who had never faced legal trouble, he said...
Marriage has been ratings gold before. Thank Tiny Tim, Luke and Laura, and, most of all, Chuck and Di for that. But it used to be that at least one partner needed to be famous. Fox upset that rule--and just may have found its answer to the ABC phenom Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--with the crass namesake and surprise smash Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? In the process, it underscored the new reality of TV's New Reality: oddball, cheap nonfiction programs, from game shows to voyeurism stunts, are elbowing aside sitcoms and dramas...
...single guy (at a cool $40 billion) but also its greatest recluse. Larry Ellison of Oracle ($13 billion) and Yahoo's David Filo ($3.7 billion) have girlfriends. Randolph A. Hearst is worth $1.6 billion, but his age (84) may put off all but the most Anna Nicole Smith-like gold diggers...
...Czech Republic. The official reason is to commemorate the 150th birthday of Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, known as the father of Czech democracy. Her schedule could be torn from a page in a presidential campaign: Next Monday she will fly to southern Moravia to receive a gold medal at Masaryk University in Brno; then it's off to Hodonin to visit Masaryk's birthplace. Either Albright is testing the waters, or Czech-American relations are in need of a lot of TLC. On Day Two of her exploratory tour, she lays a wreath at Masaryk's tomb...
...atmosphere of gold rush - of 24-year-olds in Gap khakis making billions - creates invidious expectations and a simmering resentment of Why Not Me? The stock market flaps higher and higher, soaring magnificently, but something in us expects the sun to melt its wings and bring it down like Icarus. Free-floating anxiety causes anger...