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...less luck or judgment than Bina in choosing men. Mrs. Dole would not have married a man without knowing that he'd been married three times before. Once widowed, Clinton's mother married again, to a philandering, cologne-wearing bootlegger nicknamed Dude who beat her with her shoe...
...founder of the Marquis de Sade running club. When he'd return from their runs, he couldn't stop extolling her virtues to his wife. (Wyatt denies any romantic involvement with Clinton.) Hillary would typically say nothing then. But later there would be arguments, shouting matches, a thrown shoe or two. Both Bill and Hillary had volatile tempers, which they didn't hesitate to inflict on each other. To longtime observers, it was an essential dynamic of their relationship, and the fights were often followed by loving reconciliations. But privately, Hillary expressed pain and dismay. She sought out the husband...
...tobacco, which has traditionally deployed veritable armies of attorneys from such white-shoe firms as King & Spalding in Atlanta, Covington & Burling in Washington and the Kansas City firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, this new assault amounts to a dangerous game of dominoes. "The moment they lose one the other states are going to have to file," says Daynard. "Imagine being the attorney general of a state and saying while my neighboring attorney general is getting $400 million in restitution for the taxpayers of his state, I am not going to file as a matter of principle. At that point...
...footwear industry has almost been wiped out in the past decade; imports now account for about 90% of shoes sold here. But John Stollenwerk, owner of Allen-Edmonds, one of the few American shoe manufacturers left, says protectionism would not have saved others. Says he: "This isn't a shoemaking country. It's a high-tech one. There aren't a lot of Americans interested in sewing shoes together." Stollenwerk has survived by paying his 450 employees in Port Washington, Wisconsin, high wages of $12 to $15 an hour and turning out premium-quality shoes...
...This was a shoe that was bound to drop," he said. "The issue was not whether, but when...