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Women's Tennis (Beren Tennis Courts): Maybe the real gem this weekend. Granted, tennis isn't exactly known for being a great spectator sport, but these players may be the exception...
Kinkade is foremost of more than 30 palette-to-paycheck artists whose status as multimillionaires flies in the face of the archetypal image of the starving artist. Among the other great successes: Terry Redlin, who sells more than $20 million worth of Americana images each year and built a $12 million museum in Watertown, S.D., to showcase his work; Bev Doolittle, a painter of Native American themes who in the past decade has sold more than $60 million worth of prints; G. Harvey, who sold 30,000 prints last year, many at $1,500 or higher; Robert Bateman, a Canadian...
Your columnist Daniel Kadlec suggests we eliminate the penny [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR MONEY, Aug. 9]. I think not! Having grown up during the Great Depression, I have a great respect for money, even the lowly cent. My supermarket has mechanical ponies that children can ride for a penny. If the penny is gone, who's going to worry about the kids? And with no penny, won't postal rates go up in 5[cent] increments? LEONARD HEIFERLING Aurora, Colo...
VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN A great person may be bad as well as good. Lenin, whose use of power in the Soviet Union, which he created and whose influence in the wider world was wholly for the bad, is undoubtedly the century's dominant figure. The ideas of Karl Marx were of little more than philosophical importance until 1917, when Lenin applied those ideas with revolutionary force and established the Bolshevik Party throughout the government. Bolshevik Russia became an example to Marxist revolutionaries everywhere and energized nationalist reactionaries, of whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological...
...only 38 items exceeding the $200-per-gift limit. However, after reviewing more than 30 boxes of documents from the Georgia Amateur Athletics Foundation, investigators say there were many gifts worth more than $1,000, including offers of scholarships to IOC family members. In fact, the discrepancies were so great that earlier this month the law firm that represented the city's Olympic committee asked Commerce if it could "amend" the report. Let's hope it is right this time...