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...week Griffin surprised anyone who doubted his dealmaking acumen. Settling a month-long wrangle, Trump agreed to go along with Griffin's offer to buy the company's outstanding stock, including the developer's majority share, for an estimated $300 million. In exchange, Griffin will sell Resorts' nearly completed Taj Mahal hotel-casino, other real estate and its fleet of helicopters to Trump, assets that the developer says are primarily what he wanted. While both sides claimed success, Griffin clearly foiled Trump in his plan to fold the entire Resorts company into his casino empire...
...threats, and as of now, Drabinsky says, "the two corporations are not doing business together." Viewing all these skirmishes, one industry solon is impressed but skeptical. "Drabinsky is very bright and articulate," he says, "but he's also very arrogant. Other exhibitors watch from afar as he builds his Taj Mahals. The next few years will be the telltale heart. Can he handle theater expansion, film and TV production and distribution, and run the theme park as well...
...gambling business, the action in corporate boardrooms is almost as furious as it is at the craps tables. Real Estate Developer Donald Trump last week announced a $101 million acquisition of Resorts International. Resorts owns two Atlantic City, N.J., casinos, including the Taj Mahal, which will rank as the world's largest gambling hall when it is completed next year. When the merger is accomplished, Trump will control some 15% of Atlantic City's assessed real estate...
...baseball team," confides his aunt), has a deeply developed philosophy based on the principles of strict separation of powers and a disdain for far-reaching federal remedies for social problems. He has a peppery prose style and an acid pen: he once called the Freedom of Information Act "the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored." In a caustic critique of affirmative action, he facetiously proposed a system he dubbed "R.J.H.S.--the Restorative Justice Handicapping System," in which individuals would be awarded points based on their ethnic backgrounds to determine...
Tigers and temples and the Taj Mahal. Maharajahs and turbaned warriors and old men ritually wandering penniless in order to purify themselves and become holy. Snake charmers and bear tamers and wizened artisans using the simplest of tools to chisel out tiny, intricate talismans of beauty. Images of India, crossroads of the exotic East, have lingered in the Western imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions...