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...that a new year has dawned, observers of the Trump empire can rather easily imagine some of the emperor's resolutions for 1989: to make more money than ever, to buy more expensive gewgaws than ever, to get more publicity than ever -- and if Mikhail Gorbachev passed up a chance to visit Trump Tower during his visit to New York last month, well, there's always next time. Failure plays no large part in Trump's resolutions. On the contrary, he can tot up enough acquisitions for several lifetimes. Among them...
...year to add a touch of class to his kingdom. Jay arranges meetings, meals and galas with foreign dignitaries and fields charity requests. "I am not the Salvation Army," bellows Maxwell, as he signs checks for needy causes. But Jay's real challenge is simply to keep the emperor's attention. After the first few letters, Maxwell's mind ticks elsewhere. He can drill to the core of any issue, but his attention span is that of a gnat...
...This mood seems to represent a triumph of hope over experience. Three of the visits recorded here were prompted by somber, decidedly unromantic events. Shoumatoff went to Rwanda shortly after naturalist Dian Fossey was hacked to death with a machete in her remote mountainside camp. The trial of former emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa -- on charges ranging from corruption to cannibalism -- drew him to the Central African Republic. And the spread of AIDS across the continent inspired a depressing pilgrimage through a belt of impoverished, afflicted countries...
There are virtually no Asian movie stars besides Pat Morita, who played "Arnold" on Happy Days (in heavily accented English) and Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid (also in appropriate patois). Last year when John Lone and Joan Chen delivered two excellent performances in The Last Emperor they were both completely ignored by the Academy Awards...
This year, the Multiflex produced seven points against Dartmouth (a team Harvard had defeated, 42-3, last year) and eight points against Princeton. Critics of the Multiflex have taken to the streets and are proclaiming, "The Emperor has no clothes. The Multiflex is a myth...