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...distribute racist vitriol to thousands of people in newspapers, because no newspaper would print it. Unbridled enthusiasts of freedom of speech implicitly rely on the forces of accountability or capitalism to do the dirty work of censorship for them. More free speech does not to do necessarily make us richer in freedom...
...fact, the pot may have been richer. Rumors have long circulated that Madalyn had stowed away millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. Elder son Bill Murray guesses "tens of millions." He says that as long ago as 1978, Madalyn kept multiple secret accounts around the world, at least one of which contained hundreds of thousands of dollars (declared funds from estates in 1995 came to a relatively paltry $340,000). Withers, the Murray-O'Hairs' legal inquisitor, supports the hidden-money theory, volunteering that a Murray-O'Hair phone log that he had access to featured numbers of Swiss...
...corporate tycoon. When nonwealthy couples divorce, the assets are generally divided equally, according to Michael Ostrow, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. But for the wealthy--unless you're in a 50-50 community-property state--when love fades, the wife's value is inversely calculated: the richer the household, the less, proportionally, she gets. One such wife, Lorna Wendt, 53, has decided to fight that principle. She returns to court in Stamford, Connecticut, this week, having turned down a $10 million offer from her husband Gary Wendt, 54, the chief executive of General Electric's GE Capital...
...must admit that America is no worse off for the Tickle Me Elmo dolls; they are just this year's leading symbol of the unabashed capitalism that plagues every American December. One company is surely much richer for producing the toy that turned parents into larger, more insistent versions of the whining children for whom they were buying the dolls. I can even dismiss my curmudgeonly opinion that dolls shouldn't talk, giggle or move on their own--that human imagination should be more important than technical ingenuity--in the face of the techno-addicted, video-game-actuated children that...
...heard the line, 'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.' Well, that's been true for the last 20 years," he said...