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...although President Neil L. Rudenstine leads the University, his compensation ranks seventh, with his Elm-wood Avenue mansion, car and driver not included...
OLVESTON, Montserrat: Faced with a volcano ready to blow and a population clamoring to go, Montserrat's British Governor Frank Savage found his plush mansion surrounded by hundreds of screaming protestors today...
...this tenacious corporation, not coincidentally, is Elvis Presley Enterprises. It controls much of the half-billion-dollar global Elvis industry, strictly limiting the world's supply of singing hound-dog dolls, Heartbreak Hotel matchboxes, leather-jacketed teddy bears and pink Cadillac key chains--not to mention the Graceland mansion in Memphis, headwaters of all things Elvis. As that city licks its lips in anticipation of the 75,000 free-spending fans who are expected for the 20th anniversary of the King's death on Aug. 16, Elvis Presley Enterprises reigns supreme as the guardian, keeper and main arbiter...
...estate's cash, $560,000, on their own plan to open Graceland to the public--a smart move, as it turned out. EPE made back its full investment in a mere 38 days when Graceland opened its doors for tours in 1982 at $5 a head. Today the mansion has some 750,000 visitors a year and generates revenues in excess of $20 million. Meanwhile, EPE has steadily bought up much of the adjoining land, clearing the way for the sort of Disney-like development (without the rides) Priscilla and Soden have long dreamed of, including convention hotels...
...describe William J. Brennan Jr. as one of the greatest Justices of all time is to put things too abstractly. Before Brennan, the Bill of Rights protected people mostly from the Federal Government but scarcely from states and cities. Government couldn't seize a mansion without a hearing, but it could repossess a car or kick someone off welfare without explaining why. Desegregation was required in principle but not in practice. Sex discrimination was legal. Officials could punish their critics. Religious practices could be penalized...