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...gambling. His bingo-parlor-owner father, to whom Steve was reportedly close, was a compulsive gambler. On the eve of his father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J. (with financing from junk bonds floated by Michael Milken). His next...
Barney Old Coyote Jr., a respected elder of the Crow nation from Billings, Mont., echoed Burnette...
...Pope's funeral brought out the usual political accusations of snubbery but in fact Carter was asked twice to go and decided, perhaps in one of his quaint bouts of political pique, not to join the delegation. Carter lobbied the world both in the Clinton and the elder Bush presidencies and again in George W's time against U.S. policy, which did upset all three Presidents. (They complained a little bit among themselves in Rome.) But the Clinton and the Bushes are forgiving people and would have locked arms and marched off in harmony as a threesome, the world...
...have any, and went to church twice on Sundays. The Keillors did not shun the world rigidly, however, as some Brethren do, and their children were allowed to play with neighborhood children outside the faith. Gary was a quiet boy, recalls his father John, a retired postal worker. The elder Keillors, who now live in Orlando, listen to the program, recognize the germs of a few stories and think that "some of it's good and some...
During a debate before alumni on the subject earlier this year, Corporate Law Professor Robert Clark, a leading opponent of the crits, charged that they had purposively created "prolonged, intense, bitter conflict" and engaged in "a ritual slaying of the elders." One wounded elder is Professor Paul Bator, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general. After 26 years at Harvard, he is moving in January to the more congenial precincts of the University of Chicago Law School, a redoubt of legal conservatism. Calling the C.L.S. movement a force for "philistinism" and "mediocrity," Bator believes that the intellectual integrity and academic excellence...