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The day after he unseated New York's Governor Mario Cuomo, George Pataki -- Republican state legislator, onetime mayor of the small city of Peekskill, former political nobody -- was promising to stick to his promises. Yes, he said at his first postvictory press conference, he would definitely sign a bill approving...
UPENDING TRADITION Nothing says must-have novelty like a $600 upside-down Christmas tree! Or so Hammacher Schlemmer learned when the item sold out almost instantly. Target is charging a mere $500
Sheila and Peter Hebein learned that their first and only child had Down syndrome on the day he was born, in 1972. "I remember kind of stopping breathing," Sheila recalls. Prenatal testing was rare in those days, and because she was only 30, she was not a candidate. "One of...
Li Jianguo remembers the day he learned what his wealth might cost him. The multimillionaire owner of a Chinese herbal-medicine company, Li was living in Hainan in the early 1990s when a kidnapper snatched his friend's young son from school and demanded $400,000 in ransom. Police rescued...
“This year, we put Laura in a really difficult position, really switched up her role,” Weiss said. “She did a good job and she learned a lot—she’s going to be a great leader.?...