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Sittig's company represents hundreds of U.S. corporations--she won't say exactly how many--that have offshore affiliates in the islands. This isn't as demanding as it might sound. It's largely a matter of filing papers and mailing out invoices. After all, the companies she represents are just paper entities. But they have come to represent a drain, created by Congress and perfectly legal, of $1.7 billion annually on the U.S. Treasury...
...only a matter of time before other professional wrestlers followed Jesse ("The Body") Ventura's lead and declared their political candidacy. Personally, we were hoping it would be a long time. But this week ("Hollywood") HULK HOGAN plans to throw his bandanna into the ring and announce his intention to run for President in 2000. "When Jesse won, I said to my wife, 'My God, I'm 10 times more popular than him,'" says the man once known as Sterling Golden. "People know Hulk Hogan like they know McDonald's and Chevrolet." According to Hogan, those people include Ross Perot...
David M. Nicoll '02, a student in Moral Reasoning 28: "Ethics and International Relations," said although those in the class have a wide range of experience, many had already been exposed to the subject matter...
...with his redesign of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. This enormous, 5 million square foot space resonates with cultural significance, since it is both the former cultural center of Europe as well as the center of tragedy. The Cold War divide between East and West Germany, however, is now a matter for the history books, and Piano's task, as he noted, was to build in six years a place that would restore the site to its pre-war exuberance--in effect, to create a site that both remembers and obviates the past...
...small bills help? Paula Jones settled her four-year-old sexual harassment suit against President Clinton Friday -- and the case that brought the country to the brink of impeachment is finally closed. "The President has decided he is not prepared to spend one more hour on this matter," said Clinton attorney Bob Bennett, who will hand over $850,000 on behalf of his client within the next 60y days. Paula is also "very pleased that it's finally over," according to Jones lawyer Bill McMillan. She'd better be. Her legal fees are climbing toward the $2 million mark...