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When the story of the decline of Washington is written, historians may decide that its beleaguered citizens finally snapped on the day the city decided to seek out and fine homeowners who failed to rake leaves from the public space in front of their houses. The unraked-leaves strike force emerged this month after a winter of discontent, when the city with one of the nation's highest tax rates ran out of money and stopped providing some basic services. The streets are almost never clean (grit and cigarette butts blow up from littered gutters on K Street), only...
Steven Jobs, the co-founder and later ousted chairman of Apple Computer, stands to rake in a windfall of more than $1 billion as his latest venture, Pixar Animation Studios, issues a public offering of stock. Pixar, a tiny computer company based in Richmond, California, created the current blockbuster movie Toy Story. Jobs bought the company for $10 million...
...spacious homes and private therapy to sneer at their financial inferiors and label their pathetic moments of stardom vulgar. But if I had a talk show, it would feature a whole different cast of characters and category of crimes than you'll ever find on the talks: "ceos who rake in millions while their employees get downsized" would be an obvious theme, along with "Senators who voted for welfare and Medicaid cuts"--and, if he'll agree to appear, "well-fed Republicans who dithered about talk shows while trailer-park residents slipped into madness and despair...
...heftier contract for "My Journey to Justice: The Autobiography of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr." The Simpson trial has also been a windfall for a number of other would-be authors, including Christopher Darden ($1.7 million) and Robert Shapiro ($1.5 million). The big loser? Alan Dershowitz, who'll rake in just $300,000 up front...
January 6: Women's basketball vs. Dartmouth. Dartmouth grabbed the Ivy title last year in the regular-season finale between these two teams, and Ivy League Rookie of the Year Allison Feaster and the Crimson would love nothing more than rake in Big Green this time...