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...father of three, a contented grandfather and an avid fly-fisher...
With the exception of Donald Fisher, CEO of Gap, Inc., who has been a prominent donor to the 226 effort, California businesses have been staying out of this fight. To make sure they do, labor has threatened to introduce counter-initiatives that could negatively affect the tax status of corporations that make political contributions. And by some interpretations, Prop. 226 could be used to require corporations to get their stockholders' permission before making political contributions...
Ever since he discovered what he claimed was $400 million in sunken treasure in 1985 off the coast of Key West, Fla., Mel Fisher has been no stranger to controversy. It visited him again last week when a Florida coin expert determined that a number of coins being sold through Fisher's museum were fakes. The county attorney has warned concerned customers that others may be too. The coins, purportedly taken from a Spanish galleon fleet lost in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1733, are genuine gold but not necessarily authentic, even though buyers received certificates from Fisher...
Authorities, however, have yet to file charges against Fisher, who at 75 is in poor health. The treasure hunter, who received widespread fame with the discovery of the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1985, says he no longer personally dives for the coins. But Fisher is adamant that he has sold no fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver...
EVER AFTER: A CINDERELLA STORY (Aug. 7). The film's pedigree promises a fractured fairy tale: the last time its star (Drew Barrymore) and director (Andy Tennant) teamed, it was for ABC's trash package The Amy Fisher Story. So let's see...Cinderella lives on Long Island; Prince Charming runs a garage; the glass slipper comes from Wal-Mart; and the wedding is on the front page of the New York Post...