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...tobacco's top ambassador in Washington, who controls thousands if not millions of dollars in political contributions. In the past 18 months, Republicans have pocketed $1.9 million from tobacco. (Democrats got $300,000.) Barbour makes Roger Tamraz, the star of last week's campaign-finance hearings, look like a sucker. For the $300,000 Tamraz proudly admitted spending for access, he got only a few minutes with the President at one of his six social visits, and he never nailed the help he needed for his pipeline. Barbour, in contrast, got actual results. Neither Lott nor Barbour would comment...
...says. "I was living in San Antonio, Texas, where I knew no one. I guess I was lonely." Right there is a combination that screams "victim." The American Association of Retired Persons (A.A.R.P.) figures that while anyone 60 or older is likely to be on at least one "mooch" (sucker) list, a woman 75 or older is virtually guaranteed to be. Like Downs, such women are often widows, lonely and suffering from ills that make them desperate for someone to talk...
...burst my bubble. TIME ran two regional versions of its magazine. The one featuring the Green Bay Packers on the cover was distributed only in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The rest of the U.S. got a cover featuring a bereaved and saddened Bill Cosby. Boy, do I feel like a sucker--a Cheesehead bumpkin from the small-time Dairyland. Apparently our team didn't qualify for a nationwide cover, just something the local yokels would go for. JILL WATRING Kenosha, Wisconsin...
...market when stock prices are soaring, as they are now. The lesson is this: anything goes. So-so companies are fetching top dollar from the public, while insiders and early investors head for the exits and Acapulco. Some 125 companies are waiting their turn at this sucker's market, readying some $3 billion in stock for initial sale. A record-shattering 799 companies have sold $47 billion in stock through IPOs this year...
...Mike Tyson to become the only heavyweight besides Ali to win a title three separate times. By beating the supposedly invincible Tyson with an 11th-round TKO, Holyfield dealt a resounding blow to Don King's gangstas of boxing, not to mention the bookmakers who were happy to take sucker bets on the 7-1 underdog. "I got caught in something strange," said Tyson...