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...setback left business leaders and jet-setters abuzz over the billionaire's misfortunes. Says Baron Edmond de Rothschild, patriarch of the French banking dynasty: "Karim, like so many others, has been caught in a cyclical downturn more severe than any we have seen in Europe since the end of World...
...jeers at Tailhook were two forms of the manhandling that would go on until the second-class status of women in the Navy was ended. To get respect and a fair chance at promotions, they said, they would have to be allowed to serve on warships and fly jet fighters and bombers. "Women will never make it into the Star Trek generation," said Lieut. Paula Coughlin, who exposed the Tailhook scandal, "until they're given equal opportunity to do the jobs open only...
What Las Vegas has instead is Steve Wynn, a casino king who is the son of a compulsive gambler and has an eye disease that could make him blind; who in his late 30s took up steer roping, wind surfing, rock climbing, motocrossing, jet skiing and body building; who once called Donald Trump "twinkle toes"; who let Frank Sinatra pinch his cheek in a commercial for his casinos; who divorced his wife, never moved out and remarried her five years later; and who shot off his index finger two years ago while handling a pistol in his office...
...Dennis Gomes, has laid out what colleagues and even some relatives of Wynn's have said about him privately for years: he has a tendency to explode at the people around him. There are many offenses Gomes lists in his lawsuit, including using the company's contractors and its jet for personal reasons; routinely harassing female employees; ordering executives to obtain the phone numbers of cocktail waitresses; and referring to blacks, and employees in general, as "niggers." The lawsuit also addresses the infamous Wynn outbursts, as in the time he "started becoming very upset with a casino executive...
Bold tyrants take heart. Fearful minorities take heed. As NATO jet fighters assigned to Operation Deny Flight screamed impotently across the skies of Bosnia last week, what resounded around the world was the thunder of Serb artillery, its cannon and mortars trained on the Muslim town of Srebrenica, its shells primed for airbursts, which would cause maximum carnage. After the deadliest barrage last week, the shattered bodies of the dead, including 15 children, lay in mute testimony to the world's age-old ability to turn its face away from the suffering and subjugation of others...