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...Coalition purports to be). He will simply ask the common folk if they want to clean up the political system and get rid of all that tainted money. It becomes immediately clear, however, that Baldwin is going to have a communications problem. A scream rips the air, and a saleswoman from the Foot Locker, dressed like a black-and-white-striped referee, charges Baldwin and throws an arm around him. "Can I have your autograph?" she asks. "Quite frankly, I'd like to have yours," replies Baldwin in a cool comeback. He starts to explain his cause and the need...
...former real estate saleswoman, widow of a judge and mother of a prosecutor, Mary Ann Downs had far more financial and legal acumen than most aging fraud victims. Even so, con artists had little trouble scamming her out of $74,000. Why? How? Her story is a classic study in what makes fraud against elderly people, especially women, one of the biggest growth industries in America. Con men are bilking the elderly out of $40 billion a year, by one FBI estimate...
That doesn't mean we can't complain about it. "Money doesn't go as far as it used to," says Sandra Ambrookian, 43, a medical-supply saleswoman from Milwaukee. She's relaxing in L.A. after a vacation in Palm Desert, Calif. Drinking with her is lawyer David Adelman, 41, divorced and in debt but looking great. "I think people are pretty good at hiding the fact that times are not as good as we'd like them to be," he says. Sean Love, a 26-year-old movie post-production worker, couldn't agree more. He smiles. He knows...
...free lunches. Bankruptcy judgments can blemish credit ratings for up to 10 years, boosting interest charges for new debts such as car loans and mortgages. And despite the lessening stigma, many people still cannot shed a sense of failure and shame. "You feel like s--- forever," says Anne, a saleswoman who changed jobs and moved to another state after declaring bankruptcy three years...
...those instances of extreme behavior which powerfully telegraph Kron's peculiarities, such as that memorable workday when she decides to come out at work via an inter-office memo. Or better yet, when she gets sucked into buying a truckload of Prescriptives cosmetics by a very heavily made-up saleswoman who has what Kron calls the Shroud of Turin effect going on--then pays for the cosmetics with the office's petty cash supply. An expensive and traumatic four-hour lunch break just to find out she's an autumn...