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...billionaire Ross Perot used his tremendous wealth to fund a serious campaign for the presidency. Malcolm "Steve" Forbes, Jr. is the latest super-rich prodigy to capture the attention of American voters. Polls show the magazine fortune heir leading former frontrunner Senator Bob Dole in New Hampshire, the site of the first Republican primary...
...murder case, practically every defendant is indigent," says Larry Hammond, a criminal lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona. "They may not have started that way, but for anyone other than the super-rich, they will be indigent before the case is over...
...foreign policy planners, the military and the intelligence community consistently thwarted popular social reform movements in the Third World and backed brutal right-wing dictators. Countries that followed the U.S. model for development ended up with stupendous degrees of economic inequality--usually in he form of a tiny, super-rich elite and a mass of destitute people...
...have little sympathy for the argument that a graduated tax will encourage wealthy Massachusetts residents to leave the state in search of lower income tax rates. Even if a couple makes $200,000 each year, their overall tax rate is still under 7.4 percent. Moreover, most of the super-rich's money comes from interest income, which can be shifted to tax-exempt investments...
...wolfmen need sympathy. They are, after all, profoundly victims, since they are usually nice guys who didn't ask for supernatural powers and take no pleasure in possessing or being possessed by them. It's Michelle Pfeiffer's task to provide Will with TLC, and as Laura Alden, his super-rich boss's daughter, she is tough, patient and fearless when at the end she must become an especially passionate animal-rights activist...