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February 17, 2005 -- LEARNING Annex boss Steve Schragis is steamed at Bill Clinton for reneging on a promise to deliver a seminar in exchange for a $150,000 donation to his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. [snip] "Over 1,500 students registered and we rented the Theater at Madison Square Garden. We guaranteed a $150,000 payment to his library — and we were thrilled to do it." Tickets ranged from $49-$299. However, when Clinton was hospitalized with heart problems just before the event, it was postponed. "Every single student obviously understood," Schragis says. "And of course, we did also."...

Donald Trump will sail into The Guinness Book of World Records with a rate of $16,000 per minute for lectures at The Learning Annex. It's nice work if you can get it, and Donald Trump can get just about anything he wants these days. The billionaire business magnate has reached an agreement with the Learning Annex to present three classes in 2005 titled How to Succeed in Real Estate. Trump's fee will be a cool one million dollars for each one-hour class. That's over $16,000 a minute! He's scheduled to teach in three cities -- Los Angeles on May 1,...