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...were organizing a peasant co-op. Desperate not to lose the best of its youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident, who runs the local numbers game, to "buy" a 30-ft. sloop from police...
...Philippines, about 40 miles south of Manila. Many sex tourists return there again and again, and have established permanent relationships with not just the boys of the town but their families as well. According to Ronnie Velasco, secretary of the Center for the Protection of Children in Pagsanjan, the wealthiest pederasts buy homes, businesses, automobiles and other expensive items for the boys' parents. Some even "adopt" boys and take them home to Europe or America...
Cambridge is divided by the Census Bureau into 30 tracts, which the city has grouped into 13 "areas." The top tracts have a per capita income of about $42,000. Many of the banks lend heavily to the city's wealthiest neighborhoods...
...anyone who believed Clinton would fulfill every promise he made during the campaign--anyone who believed he would cut the deficit in half, dramatically redistribute America's wealth, reverse twelve years of misguided spending priorities, reform health care and tax only the wealthiest Americans--anyone who bought this illusion was pathetically naive. Ronald Reagan should have been lesson enough for the American electorate...
...appearance since Camelot in 1961, the show seems absurdly overabundant for its venue, a nonprofit house seating 299. But then, impresario Cameron Mackintosh (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables) has been showing up night after night, pondering a transfer when the sold-out run ends May 23. Mackintosh, the wealthiest producer in theater history, launched his U.S. career with Side by Side, and is keen to take a sentimental journey, provided reviews allow it to be a profitable...