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No wonder that the image of the Wessi is a fat man with alligator-hide shoes and a Mercedes-Benz, a Goldgraber, best translated as carpetbagger. "They are unbelievably arrogant," says Stephan Engelberger, 24, an east Berlin hairdresser who recently opened his own salon. "They have plenty of money, but...
Since the tax threshold on cars is $30,000, most of the affected models are foreign, but U.S. dealers are complaining all the same. "It's killed us," laments Norman Scott, a Mercedes-Benz dealer in Houston. "Those guys in Washington are crazy." Consumers seeking to avoid the levy are...
When times were golden for Florida coffee importer Munther Ismael Bilbeisi, he would tell friends his business was so important that the Bank of Credit & Commerce International set up a special branch in Boca Raton just to handle his accounts and those of a few other high rollers. His boast...
"Five years now. I've been living in Fresno with my son Moonray and my daughter Aquarius--she was born after we moved into our first condo, before we bought our first Mercedes."
The Democrats have always had patrons and participants of great wealth, but they were guided by a lot of folks off the streets and shop floors. Fifty years ago, the caustic, rumpled Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas would stomp through such gatherings reminding people that he rode the rods...