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...create a small fortune? Start with a large one. The late Pamela Harriman, British-born U.S. ambassador to France, went through money faster than husbands, and her amazing social and political skills stood in stark contrast to her investing acumen. She seems to have squandered most of the more than $100 million she inherited from her third husband, New York Governor and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. Her estate: some $15 million to $20 million, mostly in jewelry, property...
...prove him and Nichols guilty. In one revelation, McVeigh contradicted a witness claim that she knew the identity of the person who drove the rental truck. "Mr. McVeigh . . . insisted that he was the one who drove the Ryder truck," a defense interviewer wrote. McVeigh also described to interviewers in stark detail the make up of the bomb that blasted the Oklahoma federal building. According to the documents, he said the device was made with 5,400 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, six hundred pounds more than the government's estimate, and that it was mixed with $3000 worth of racing...
...prove him and Nichols guilty. In one revelation, McVeigh contradicted a witness claim that she knew the identity of the person who drove the rental truck. "Mr. McVeigh . . . insisted that he was the one who drove the Ryder truck," a defense interviewer wrote. McVeigh also described to interviewers in stark detail the make up of the bomb that blasted the Oklahoma federal building. According to the documents, he said the device was made with 5,400 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, six hundred pounds more than the government's estimate, and that it was mixed with $3000 worth of racing...
...which side of this canyon it ends up on. According to Wright, the decision is expected to be made by next Monday. In the meantime, thousands of locals are hoping the movie marquee across the street from their beloved post office isn't a grim coincidence. In stark black capital letters, it reads, THE RELIC...
...film's poster is boldly simple: a close-up of Clint staring both out of and into the darkness, with a visage as stark and stony as if it were a fifth face on Mount Rushmore. The image is fully aware of its iconic import, of the strength and frailty of stardom in late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life...