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New details about Romney’s wealth confirm F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quip about the rich

The Christian Science Monitor

As everybody knows, Mitt Romney is a very wealthy man. Net worth somewhere around a quarter billion dollars, not counting the $100 million trust set up for his five sons. Offshore investments. A beach house in La Jolla, Calif., a town house in Belmont, Mass., and a summer compound on the shores