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...businessmen never finished college. But that would be overstating the case with Nelson. His I.Q., at 121, makes him brighter than 9 out of 10 boys on the bus, but still leaves about 500 million people on the planet even brighter than he. And perhaps more still who are nicer. But only a tiny, tiny few who are richer...
Yeltsin came as a guest of Congress but was treated like a visiting head of state, with red carpets and a jostling retinue of Secret Service agents. "Last time we both played it wrong," said former presidential adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. "We should have been nicer. This time we were...
...behind the President. She rejected her natural father, spied on her kids and lied about her age. In short, she was the Wicked Witch of the West and East coasts. "Believe it or not," says a fashion industry executive who helped outfit Nancy in Adolfo clothes, "Leona Helmsley was nicer...
...White House meeting by suggesting that the President might actually campaign against members of his own party who opposed the deficit package. When Pennsylvania Congressman Bill Goodling objected, saying, "I know George Bush, and he would never do anything like that," Sununu snapped back, "George Bush is a much nicer guy than I am." (Goodling voted for the plan.) At a session the next day, Michigan Congressman Fred Upton explained that he would vote against the plan because it was "a rotten deal." Erupted Sununu: "What are you smoking?" (Upton voted...
...starkest separations plague the most intimate areas: home, church and recreation. Although more black families are moving into northwest Greensboro's nicer houses, the area remains overwhelmingly white. Beyond the downtown underpass, which traditionally marked the other side of the tracks, southeast Greensboro remains almost all black. Several years ago, Ron and Betty Crutcher, who are black and lived in a mostly white neighborhood, put their split-level house on the market to seek a less traffic-filled neighborhood for their young daughter. The real-estate agent suggested the Crutchers hide their family pictures, implying that white buyers would...