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...three times and, as your heart clenches, you shoot -- and you know instantly that you've blown it. The ball goes left and clangs cruelly off the rim. Your wife has tears in her eyes. She'll always remember that she turned 42 the day her husband bungled the million-dollar bucket...
...found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...
...Brendan Daly, spokesperson for Rep. Studds, said the proposed million-dollar cut was not unexpected. "I don't know why they said we were surprised by it," he said...
...paid, high-powered corporate lawyers did not see trouble coming. When Clinton put millionaire superlawyers Warren Christopher and Vernon Jordan in charge of his transition, he laid the foundation for Baird's destruction. "What happened here," said a transition official, "was that a lot of people who live in million-dollar houses and think nothing of hiring illegals were in charge of the process...
Suicidal profligacy was the least of the owners' sins. The Cincinnati Reds' Marge Schott scrambled to apologize for slurs against "Jew bastards" and "million-dollar niggers." (Jesse Jackson called the phrases "shots heard around the world" and promised further protests.) The moguls also voted to try renegotiating the players' union contract, though a spring lockout would cripple already ailing attendance. In a horrifying climax, Florida Marlins president Carl Barger suffered an aneurysm during the owners' final meeting and died a few hours later...