A FOOL AND HIS MONEY

MOVE OVER PEROT. IMAGINE FARRAKHAN WITH A BILLION

What a pity that the Clinton administration won't let Louis Farrakhan accept either a $1 billion gift or the $250,000 that went along with the human-rights award he got from Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi last week. Unless the Nation of Islam leader manages to overturn the decision in court, we'll never know how he would have behaved as the world's first black billionaire flake. Assuming Gaddafi actually intended to hand over the loot, it would have been quite a show.

With money like that, Farrakhan could have taught H. Ross Perot and the late Howard Hughes a thing or two about...

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