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...when Dr. Detre explains that an Italian's repeated "Ti voglio bene" had meant not "I wish you well" (as it would in a textbook) but "I love you." At other times the culture shock is ours. Merrill inhabited, when he chose, both the inaccessible world of the super-rich (James Merrill's much-married father, Charles Merrill, helped found Merrill Lynch) and the world of young, well-educated gay men long before either Stonewall or AIDS. When Charles first suspected that James had a male lover at Amherst, Merrill's mother had to talk Charles out of hiring...
Lawmakers hastily crafted programs to appeal to everyone from the super-rich to the working poor. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, stirred the most talk by proposing a $72.5 billion tax cut aimed squarely at the middle class. It would grant families a $300 tax credit for each child under the age of 19 and would permit all taxpayers to deduct as much as $2,000 a year invested in Individual Retirement Accounts. Bentsen would pay for the cuts by reducing defense spending. That would throw open last year's budget agreement for renegotiation, because...
...patent appears to apply to all microprocessor chips and the millions of personal computers and other products (from pocket calculators to videocassette recorders) that depend on them. Industry executives by and large are keeping mum, but if Hyatt's patent is broadly interpreted by courts, it could make him super-rich. According to analysts, a standard nonexclusive licensing fee of 3% of the value of computer products sold would translate into a $210 million payment just for last year...
...religious leadership of the Nizari Ismaili community. The present leader (Iman) of the Ismailis is thus more accurately designated as Aga Khan IV. It is therefore quite absurd for your reporter to treat the word "Khan" in "Aga Khan" as if it were a last name (e.g. Khan, the super-rich Pakistani leader....). The inappropriateness of such a usage can perhaps be best illustrated if one were to refer to the British Prince of Wales as simply "Wales...
...mouth the proper sympathies, but Belushi's tragedy provides a welcome reassurance that celebrity and riches sometimes becomes a bad trip. Asked by Barbara Walters why many fashioned the super-rich an unhappy lot, the wife of Gordon Getty, America's richest man, replied, "People like to think you can't have everything. Well...