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...whiskey merchant, and little Whittier College against mighty Harvard. (Yet after that very close election, which Kennedy won with some questionable vote counts in the crucial state of Illinois, Nixon overruled his aides' urging that he contest the result, saying that any delay in naming a new president would tear the country apart.) He felt scarred by outsider status even when he became the most powerful man in the world. His notorious Enemies List became a badge of honor for liberals like Paul Newman and Daniel Schorr, though being declared presidential pariahs couldn't have been funny at the time...
...before he sold it to me,” said Wronoski. “The price it sold for wasn’t even that high,” he said. “It was in poor condition—the spine was broken and there was a tear along the front hinge.” In fact, the other first edition copy of “Lolita” that Wronoski sold, which was in better condition, was priced at $65,000. The rare book business is notably complex and clandestine, with a personal flair...
...mostly old and running a variety of software. Small patrol boats have been ordered to watch the country's 700 km of coastline, but they have not arrived because of a dispute with contractors. There is hardly any equipment for recording or electronically storing fingerprints. There are only 120 tear-gas guns and 150 pepper-spray canisters, equipment U.N. forces found indispensable during the rioting that followed the 2007 elections...
...commissions in a bid to make the Chatelet stage a true crossroads for the arts. From a Bollywood-style remake of the 1923 opera-ballet Padmavati, to a stage mutation of the sci-fi horror film The Fly, the Chatelet has had opera purists hyperventilating as it seeks to tear down walls between genres...
...government injecting a total of $27 billion into Citi and getting warrants to buy more shares, existing shareholders will be diluted - in other words, every shareholder now owns a smaller slice of the business. On the upside, the government's involvement has already sent the stock on a mini tear, to $5.95 at Friday's close, up from last week's low of $3.77 (about the cost of an ATM fee at one of Citi's branches, as one commentator pointed out). (See 10 things to do with your money...