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...many leveraged holdings. In its May 14 issue, Forbes magazine has cut its estimate of Trump's net worth by two-thirds, to a mere $500 million. Trump denies he is a little short: "When you have $400 million in cash, you don't need cash." More pocket change may be coming Trump's way. The Trump Princess, his 282-ft. yacht, is sailing the Far East looking for a new owner. Asking price: $110 million...
...terrible at math and was left back twice in elementary and high school. Carpentry or plumbing were the careers advised for him. Or basketball. Hartman was a local legend on the court. From what is now known as three-point range, his two-handed set shot was deadly. For pocket change, and the chance to play, Hartman spent summers on a Borscht Belt team that toured upstate New York. So fierce was the competition that a few Holy Cross Catholics were imported as ringers. Which is how, in one game in the late 1940s that he remembers...
...occasional beatings of prisoners, Dieter cannot understand why so much loathing is aimed his way. He insists he was only a maintenance man in a Stasi center, a mere speck in an elaborate organization that not only offered full-time employment to 85,000 people but also provided pocket money to a network of 109,000 citizens who snooped on their neighbors and co-workers...
...look at the HUD scandal and see whose pocket the money is in. But you can't see any money in the pocket of Edwin Gray, the former Federal Home Loan Bank Board chairman, who fingered you. What's the motive...
...plan comes at a time when the emptiness of much of the national agenda has become painfully obvious. Like a teenager promising a night on the town without a dime in his pocket, the Bush Administration is beginning to look a little silly issuing long reports outlining national problems without coming up with any funds for the solutions. Just two weeks ago, Bush unveiled a glossy 129-page "transportation strategy," a litany of crumbling roads, collapsing bridges, clogged highways and congested airports, with such suggestions as states' picking up the tab and installing tollbooths. The transportation strategy resembled the Bush...