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Glenn was bred to be a Republican and straddle racial lines. The youngest son of a retired grade school principal and counselor, he grew up in Columbus, Ga., with parents who stood out for their affiliation with the G.O.P. "My father believed in individual responsibility and less government," says Glenn. He spent his last three years of high school at Episcopal, a D.C.-area boarding school, before heading off to Davidson College, a favorite of Southern gentry. That was followed by stints as a legislative aide to Cochran, a policy assistant in the Bush White House and convention adviser...
...Wendt case, the couple's marriage began at the University of Wisconsin with few assets. After 30 years, when Mr. Wendt asked for a divorce, the couples' assets stood at a value of approximately $100 million, Strober said...
...Reno and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin stood side by side in Washington Monday to announce the culmination of a three-year sting operation targeting Mexican bankers who laundered drug money for the Cali cartel of Colombia and the Juarez cartel of Mexico. The booty: $35 million seized -- with another $122 million to be confiscated from U.S. and foreign bank accounts, and more than 180 expected arrests. And there were drugs, too: Two tons of cocaine and four tons of marijuana...
Vernon Dahmer stood out from his neighbors of both races. The son of a mulatto mother and a white father, he was light-skinned enough to eat at whites-only restaurants. But Dahmer chose to live as a black man. He inherited land and in time farmed 400 acres; he also ran a sawmill and grocery store. His success brought respect from some whites, including prominent businessmen, and resentment from others...
...stands over me, which is something you don't do to another man," the director told Howard Stern. "He starts it all up again." Tarantino told the guy to get out of his face. "And then our friend says the magic words: 'Make me.' At that point I just stood up and popped him." Somehow, the man's girlfriend also sustained a blow. But what really irked the apparently quite irkable director was that the New York Post labeled him a racist because of the incident. "What I put into my life and work," he said, "with that one sentence...