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...Sault Ste. Marie Chippewas, a Michigan tribe rich from casino revenues, know something about spreading their bets around the table. After G.O.P. Governor John Engler trumped their plans to build a casino in downtown Detroit, they gave $100,000 to the national Democratic Party in early '96. That helped win the attention of then deputy White House chief of staff Harold Ickes, whom they pressed to get the Interior Department to back their casino proposal. Actually, the tribe gave the President's party almost four times that much. But to avoid further angering Engler, who was already furious about their...
...vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...
...Seattle Assistant Police Chief Harvey Ferguson, yesterday, referring to Tony Allison, a former mental patient who disrupted Seattle traffic for nearly half a day by wielding a samurai-style sword. It took police 11 hours to knock him down with fire hoses and subdue him on a busy downtown street Thursday night...
First of all, I like it better at the Broadway theater. For real. The Nederlander Theater is not exactly a pristine theater. It's not the Shubert. And in one sense, it does recreate the theater downtown. It's very, very similar. I think it plays better in an 11 or 12 hundred-seat theater than a 200-seat theater. And if it didn't, I would tell you. There's no question we were concerned, when we were moving the play, that first of all we were moving it out of the area that it was born...
...have become. A stronger-than-expected showing could set off another Wall Street jolt fearing further interest rate increases by the Fed. For investors, the skinny remains: don't panic. Good news is still good news, and the economy, after all, is strong. But as snow fell Monday on downtown New York, the traders in Wall Street s vaulted warrens continued to usher March out like a polar bear...