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...sports entrepreneur Ray Benton, the senior-tennis circuit now conducts tournaments around the world. This year 20 events are scheduled at which $3.6 million in prizes will be handed out to players 35 and older. Now called the Worldwide Senior Tennis Circuit, it includes in its impressive galaxy such former stars as Connors, 47; John McEnroe, 40; Bjorn Borg, 43; Guillermo Vilas, 47; John Lloyd, 45; Yannick Noah, 39; Andres Gomez, 39; Henri Leconte, 36; and Mats Wilander...
Despite the edict, one room has already been booked. The guest? Former President George Bush. He was in Philly giving a speech and asked for the $1,400-a-night Presidential Suite at the Rittenhouse Hotel. Who could say no? Not David Benton, the tony hostelry's general manager, who has been taking "tongue-in-cheek flak" from his competitors ever since. But the rule that no rooms can be booked still stands, says Rendell, unless "the person asking to book the room is a former President whose son is the leading contender...
Trump is not the only big name hovering at the party's edge. Buchanan, former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, Ross Perot and Warren Beatty--each, along with Trump, has considered (casually, at least) a run. And why not? With more than $12 million in federal matching funds and, perhaps, a chance to be in the presidential debates, the party's nomination is the stage for an angry voice. There's no ideological price of admission. The party, founded by Perot, welcomes earnest centrists eager for entitlement reform as well as anti-new world order conspiracists. So each potential candidate, from...
What would Trump get from a race? He burnishes his brand name and, like Buchanan, he's peddling a book--The America We Deserve--due out in January. What does Ventura get out of a Trump bid? The former wrestler objects to Buchanan's social-policy views and may run on the Reform ticket in 2004. Trump is a perfect placeholder. And Ventura genuinely admires Trump. As one Ventura pal puts it, "They're both entrepreneurs who've had wild lives and believe in living their life as an open book. Their views are simpatico." Indeed, Ventura recently snickered that...
...Exhibit A in proving his readiness to step into the President's job. Now it makes him accountable for the Administration's decisions. He will face questions about where the money that he helped pump into Moscow actually went and about his friendship with Viktor Chernomyrdin while the former Prime Minister was suspected of stashing away millions. Administration officials concede that they underestimated the groundswell of corruption that came with Russian privatization. They had plenty of intelligence about the kleptocratic shenanigans, but didn't want to let it derail more important business like nuclear security and preventing any rollback...