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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri on Monday reported a net worth of between $153,000 and $545,000, far below that of most of his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls in the U.S. Congress, who include three multimillionaires. The only announced White House contender on Capitol Hill who has reported a lower net worth than Gephardt, a former minority leader in the House of Representatives, is Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, who puts his at between $2,000 to $32,000. Annual financial disclosure statements by House members were released on Monday, three days after U.S. senators made theirs public. Gephardt's...

HE WAS only married to Marilyn Monroe for nine turbulent months, but Joe DiMaggio, the reclusive US baseball legend, vowed he would never forgive the Kennedys for her death. Now, four years after his own demise, the man immortalised by Simon and Garfunkel in the song Mrs Robinson appears to have his revenge. A new book, written by his long-time lawyer and close companion Morris Engelberg, reveals he really did believe the Kennedy clan killed Monroe. "They murdered the one person I loved," DiMaggio confided to Mr Engelberg. Officially, Monroe, who allegedly enjoyed affairs with both John Kennedy, the US...