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TEXT 21 Show me the money 给我钱！ （陈继龙 编译 仅供参考，欢迎指正） May 4th 2006 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition （1）THE words “probate exception” do not titillate[1]. And yet a saucy[2], decade-long legal battle ______① a fortune of nearly half a billion dollars hinges on[3] this clause, which deals with the boundaries between state and federal courts in estate disputes. At issue[4] is whether Vickie Lynn Marshall, a former Playboy pin-up[5] and exotic dancer better known as Anna Nicole Smith, will get anything from the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, an oil tycoon with assets estim