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...wouldn't be the first to call Mutt Lange a little strange." And more than a little rich. He has an undisclosed stake in Zomba Music Group, which was purchased by BMG last week for $2.7 billion, and with his songwriting and production royalties, he is one of the wealthiest men in music...
...fees and by further targeting such "sins" as alcohol, gambling and tobacco. In Virginia the DMV levies a service charge on credit-card payments. California is expected to triple motor-vehicle--license fees, adding nearly $4 billion a year to the state's coffers. Higher income taxes for the wealthiest Californians are a possibility too, according to Democratic state senator John Burton. In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a surtax on those who earn more than $200,000 a year...
...Wall Street lawyer gets a booming voice capable of permanently drowning out the mere squeak a field hand in California can muster. If campaign contributions really are a form of free speech, then the status quo means “expression” for only the wealthiest of Americans...
Alums from the wealthiest of Harvard’s schools will be solicited to donate to a new University Fund for Graduate Student Aid, Summers said. And, for the first time, formal incentives will be created to encourage these donors to support priorities at the University’s smaller and less financially flush schools...
Rein, who did not learn Chinese until college (his book is translated into Chinese by his fiancee), wants to show Chinese audiences that it is not the best-looking, best-connected or wealthiest students who receive acceptance letters to Harvard every spring. Rein intends his book to serve as a cultural exchange, elucidating the differences between the Chinese and American university admissions processes. “It’s not always good to be the loudest and most ambitious person in China who sees an opportunity and seizes it,” Rein says. “Modesty...