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Donald Trump scored 50 percent of the Big Apple's Empire State Building--without putting up any cash. In return for equity financing and the Donald's singular real estate expertise, NS America handed over halfthe shares for the famous building, which the company bought last October for $45 million. The move is rumored to have further inflamed the ongoing Trump-Helmsley rivalry, as Harry Helmsley currently runs the group representing the Empire State's leaseholders. Trump criticized the management of the building and promised to re-establish the landmark as a world-class real estate possession.parparparpar
...plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages.) In Fitzgerald, the court held that a President is absolutely and forever safe from lawsuits attacking his official acts. "Because of the singular importance of the President's duties," the court said, "diversion of his energies by concern with private lawsuits would raise unique risks to the effective functioning of government...
...English Channel and by Clinton at dawn from the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington. More than one water-borne spectator sensed how fragile the whole D-day operation must have been, successful finally by its audacity and the spirits of young servicemen sustained by the singular strength that comes from freedom...
...There are plenty of cartoonists satirizing the Washington political scene. But none do it with the singular blend of whimsy and insight of Mark Alan Stamaty, whose cartoon strip Washingtoon has appeared in scores of newspapers across the country for more than a decade. With this issue, Stamaty brings Washingtoon exclusively to TIME, where it will appear each week in the Chronicles section. "Mark's arrival is a natural step for us," says Chronicles editor Bruce Handy. "The section already looks at news from a 90 degrees angle. And TIME has long nurtured the individual voices of essayists and columnists...
Perhaps best known for Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn is one of the world's most widely produced playwrights (translated into 32 languages) and surely among the most inventive. Over the years he has found plausible plot uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial...