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Powell has also been on the phone to possible members of his motley financial team like Ronald Lauder, an heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, Wall Street dealmaker Ted Forstmann, Bill Cosby and especially Powell's cousin Bruce Llewellyn, one of the wealthiest blacks in the country. He wanted to know how much he would need to raise to mount a challenge to Dole; they said about $10 million between now and the February starting gun. Given his allies and stature, that wouldn't be hard, with a series of major dinners in about 30 cities. What would be tricky...
...that department. She was on a full scholarship to one of the world's most prestigious universities, en route to a career in medicine. She was a graduate of an international school in Ethiopia, and, let's face it, in one of the worlds' poorest countries only the wealthiest of families could possibly have afforded to send a daughter there...
Overnight Minnesota will be transformed from corn belt to money belt. Gigantic glass skyscrapers will rise in downtown St. Paul, home of the nation's wealthiest state legislature, and as the money floods in, Minnesotans will look for acquisitions: IBM, UPS, USX, GTE, Time Warner, Minnecorp, J.P. Olson, Chase Minnesota. Presidential candidates will hold their big, $100,000-a-plate fund raisers in Minneapolis, will pledge their support for water diversification and mention that, conservative though they be, they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for Hubert Humphrey...
...Texas-size model Anna Nicole Smith. His previous, more substantial career began with a position in the Interior Department drafting New Deal oil regulations. Armed with his knowledge of the field, he went on to amass a fortune--$725 million at its peak--that made him Houston's wealthiest citizen. His marriage to Smith was his third...
Macias' break came when the postconviction phase of his case was assigned to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom -- one of the nation's largest and wealthiest corporate law firms. Douglas Robinson, a partner in the firm's Washington office, had volunteered with the American Bar Association to take a capital case, and he was randomly assigned to Macias. Robinson and a team of Skadden lawyers and paralegals went at the Macias case the way they would that of a private client. They spent money ($11,599 just for expert psychological testimony); they ran down leads (a partial eyewitness was located...