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...realizing that Whitewater could be a drain forever, McDougal decided to sell the remaining lots to Chris Wade, the Whitewater broker who had bought Lot 7. The payment: the assumption of $35,000 in bank debt plus a used Piper Seminole airplane, valued at $35,000 by Wade. McDougal took the plane, and Wade began making at least some payments on the debt. Citizens Bank, however, did not release either the McDougals or the Clintons from liability for the full amount of the loan...
...September of that year, Rosalee Wade, Chris' wife, who handled bookkeeping at Ozarks Realty, forwarded the county property-tax bill for Whitewater to McDougal. The bill, however, was not paid, and on Nov. 14, the local paper included the Whitewater Development Co. on a list of delinquent taxpayers. People in Flippin knew Clinton was a partner in the enterprise, and soon they were gossiping that the Governor had not paid his taxes...
...next weekend, Chris Wade, the owner of Ozarks Realty in Flippin, looked out his window and saw a large Mercedes pull into his lot. Hardly anyone in Flippin (pop. 1,000) drove an import, let alone a Mercedes. Out walked Jim McDougal, impeccably dressed in a dark suit even though it was the weekend, and Susan in a tank top. The two came in and announced they had just bought 1,200 acres nearby. Wade pointed out that the acreage consisted of scattered parcels, some of them lacking road frontage or access. McDougal was impressed that Wade seemed to know...
...mother's womb doesn't mean that it has life or even a self. The fetus, in fact, does not and should not even have any legal rights apart from the mother until it has reached a state of viability, defined by the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade as the ability of the fetus to survive on its own or with the aid of machinery if extracted from the womb. It is true, though, that because of technological advances in the coming decade or two, almost every fertilized egg will be able to develop independently outside of the womb...
...When Wade Miller called Atlanta to order volleyball tickets, everything went smoothly until he gave the agent his Santa Fe, New Mexico, address. She said she couldn't sell tickets to anyone living outside the U.S.; he would have to call his own national Olympic committee. Miller says he spent the next half an hour trying to convince the agent and a supervisor that New Mexico was part of the U.S. An Olympics official later apologized to "everybody out in New Mexico...