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Jack E. White's commentary on baseball's Jackie Robinson [ESSAY, March 31] should be required reading--not only for multimillion-dollar utility infielders but also for every young person who aspires to be anything. It is powerfully eloquent in its simplicity and brevity, which should well serve a generation that has the attention span of a strobe light. MIKE KALLAY Honolulu
...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...
...made him fall from a four-story building. The fall broke his spine and paralyzed him from the waist down. But after his father made his third comeback, in 1978, the paraplegic Pufang used his connections to create the Chinese Federation for the Disabled, which is now a multimillion-dollar charity...
...archrival Anatoly Chubais as they jockey in preparation for Russian after Yeltsin. Before his ouster last July, Korzhakov had worked for Yeltsin since his days as head of the Moscow Communist Party. He emerged in the Russian press as a shadowy figure with lucrative business interests and his own multimillion-dollar military compound, whose support was sought for everything from state policies to key ministerial appointments. Last July, Korzhakov was fired by Yeltsin amid feuding with Chubais, a key Yeltsin campaign official who now serves as chief of staff. Korzhakov contends that Chubais and Yeltsin's daughter and influential aide...
...N.F.L. and the Screen Actors Guild, which he will start drawing on in five years, and half a million dollars, which will ultimately land in the estate of his children and which will be available to pay expenses such as schooling. He owns a small equity interest in his multimillion-dollar home, but that is expected to be consumed by legal fees. Defense lawyer Baker and moneyman Taft have already slapped liens on it. Simpson also has a life-insurance policy, believed to have a substantial cash value, that would be available to pay him an annuity...