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...Green freshman center Elise Morrison’s 30-point performance against the Crimson two months ago led many pundits to brand her the heir apparent to Peljto’s throne as the Ancient Eight’s preeminent player. But much of the success Morrison realized in Dartmouth’s overtime victory at Lavietes Pavilion came as a result of Harvard’s unfamiliarity with her game...
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...helping Kerry right now more than anything else is the fact that donors love a winner. When his campaign was careening in late December, it looked as though it would have trouble making its payroll. So Kerry tapped his fortune--a considerable one, thanks to his marriage to condiment heir Teresa Heinz--and mortgaged one of their five homes for $6.4 million to keep his campaign afloat. But once he started racking up primary victories, his fund raisers started getting their calls returned. They had expected to raise $400,000 at one event in New York City...
...MEANWHILE IN FINLAND ... A Quick Earner Speeding tickets can be such a nuisance. Take the one that Helsinki police slapped on 27-year-old Jussi Salonoja for driving double the legal 40 km/h limit. Since Finnish law links traffic fines to violators' income, and Salonoja is the heir to a family sausage empire, his fine was a record 3170,000. He made close to 37 million in 2002, but the penalty could be reduced if his income takes a hit before the case comes to trial. Early retirement has never seemed so tempting...
Teresa came by her fortune with her marriage to Heinz, the heir to the Pittsburgh, Pa., ketchup-and-pickle conglomerate, whom she met when she was studying at the University of Geneva to be an interpreter. (She's fluent in five languages.) Heinz told her his family made soup back in the States. She still calls him "the love of my life." When Heinz died in a 1991 plane crash, she turned down a chance to run for his Senate seat and poured her energy instead into refocusing how the Heinz family's philanthropic network deploys its $2 billion...