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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...
...enamored by the thought that he should [steer alumni donors to other divisions of the University] because he thought it would come out of the business School's contributors," Alpert said. "But [President Neil L. Rudenstine] was very persuasive and [the Business School is] now sharing with the other schools...
...June E. Osborn, chair of the National Commission on AIDS expressed support for the bill in a press conference at Radcliffe Friday, saying it will create a newly centralized and organized command center to "direct and steer research in many institutions...
Jacobs is already spending his weeks at the NIH campus. With a staff that includes a pharmacist, an immunologist and a psychologist, he is crafting standards for the 10 two-year research projects the office plans to fund at $100,000 each. Jacobs expects to steer clear of alternative therapies already being studied by other NIH departments, including the use of transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued...
THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS, BILL CLINTON LOOKED relieved to be wrestling with a problem as relatively manageable as, say, the economy. Having strayed into nasty thickets like gays in the military and the nanny gap, he needed to steer his message back to deficit cutting. To do so, Clinton used his campaign- tested technique of taking questions from a TV audience, which allowed him to try to prepare Americans for the "shared sacrifice" of the economic plan he will unveil this week...