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Less than one year ago, Herbert Haft and his family embodied the American business principle that if you get out from behind the counter, keep your elbows sharp and put your family to work, you can become a very rich clan. But lo, the destruction when that same ferocious solidarity and energy turn mean and inward...
...Hafts' vast retail empire was born 39 years ago in Washington, with Gloria nudging her husband Herbert out of the back of their drugstore and the couple boldly borrowing from Gloria's parents and liquidating their children's bonds to gamble on a discount pharmacy. The venture thrived and grew into the Dart drugstore chain, which the Hafts went on to parlay into a retailing conglomerate. With $1.2 billion in sales today and about 600 outlets in seven states, the Hafts' Dart Group, which includes Crown Books and Trak Auto stores, has kept the family in Range Rovers and Florida...
...June, Herbert Haft kicked Gloria and their older son Robert off the Dart Group board for allegedly conspiring to speed him out the door. Directors then fired Robert, 40, as president of Dart and replaced him with his brother Ronald, 34, who had headed a subsidiary...
Late last week Clinton's team was concentrating its fire on Richard Bryan of Nevada and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. Worried about the impact that limited deductions for entertainment would have on Nevada's casinos, conferees wrestled with an exemption on "live entertainment" that they dubbed the "Wayne Newton provision." Kohl, who wanted more tax cuts and incentives for business, dined at the White House last Thursday night but was surprised to find that Clinton didn't ask him for his vote. "There was not a word said about the budget bill," said Lieberman, who attended the same dinner...
...think some people still get exercised over Rush Limbaugh. They have obviously never run across Dr. Herbert Poinsett. A square-jawed, balding former chiropractor, Poinsett is host of a nationally seen talk show based in Tampa, Florida. With Nazi and Confederate flags as backdrop, he rails against everything from the Jewish-controlled media to "black bucks" taking over our cities. A typical Poinsett point: serial killers are mostly white because "blacks don't have the brains to be serial killers...