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...Heritage Dictionary defines murder as "the unlawful killing of one human being by another." In recent rallies around the country, the animal rights movement promoted a different definition for murder: manufacturing, selling and wearing fur coats...
...Fur is not murder. It may be a needless fashion symbol, it may involve the death of many animals and it may even entail cruelty to these animals. But, because it does not involve the death of humans, it is not murder...
Some of Ivana's ideas of decoration were a little odd, like sending to London for fur hats to bring a touch of Buckingham Palace to the doormen at Trump Tower. But she worked hard, and the Donald, as she sometimes calls him, kept giving her new responsibilities. When she ran his Atlantic City casinos, she was the boss of 4,000 people. "I run my operations like a family business," she says. "I sign every check, every receipt. I'm not tough, but I'm strong. You can't be a pussycat." This was, in a way, a necessity...
...with the fleshy Capasso, who is serving three years in federal prison for income tax evasion. Born in 1945 -- the year Myerson was crowned Miss America -- Capasso came along during Myerson's losing Senate bid in 1980, helped her pay off campaign debts, bought her a Mercedes and a fur coat, and gave her the run of his Long Island mansion. All was seeming paradise until Nancy Capasso found out about Bess two years after the affair started, kicked Capasso out of their $6 million Fifth Avenue duplex, and asked for alimony...
...rain-streaked faces of the speakers blurred in the gathering darkness. A bleary-eyed Yerevan doctor in a fur-collared coat who had worked for four whole days without sleep. A bespectacled economist who told of digging out one lone survivor from among 48 corpses in a Leninakan classroom. An airport worker who had held a dying child in his arms. A grizzled old man in a shabby winter coat simply shook his head from side to side. "There is nothing left there," he said. "Nothing. Everything must be built from scratch...