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...Trump has not missed any payments on his estimated $3 billion in loans and junk bonds. But his lenders and suppliers have begun to fear that Trump's domain is an overleveraged structure built on swagger and bluff. His creditors have suddenly demanded proof of his financial prowess, and he is coming up short. "He's a desperate man. Everywhere Trump is walking, there's a fire under his feet," observes Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis financier and sometime raider. "It shows how quickly things...
...offended. Mrowka was getting home," Konjoyan said, irked that Navy underestimated his hitting prowess...
...symbiotic relationship with Warsaw Pact agencies is threatened by reformist governments in the region. Though these countries' foreign operations have not yet been curtailed, some spies -- especially East Germans -- are trying to come in from the cold. Last month Markus Wolf, the former head of East German intelligence whose prowess at placing agents in Bonn's highest offices led to his depiction as the formidable Karla in Le Carre's spy novels, went to the Soviet Union, presumably to help the KGB roll up the East German operations. "Some of the best analysts from Eastern Europe are probably in Moscow...
...clear demonstration of fundraising prowess, Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II ranked fourth among delegation members even though he has only been in office for half the period covered by the report. Kennedy collected $344,191 and that total was only 11 percent of all the money he has raised...
...center of the story is their younger son Brick, a football hero turned alcoholic who is mourning his lost youth, the fading of his athletic prowess and, above all, the death of his best friend Skipper, whose devotion to Brick was deeply, if never explicitly, sexual. In some interpretations, Brick is unquestionably homosexual himself. In others, his rage at his wife Maggie stems from her having forced him to confront an uncomfortable truth about his friend. Daniel Hugh Kelly splits the difference. His Brick unmistakably was capable of physical love with Skipper; just as unmistakably, he remains capable of physical...