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Straying husband? Language difficulties? Persistent dark roots? The Globe has an agony aunt for you: Ivana Trump. In her first column, she brings what the tabloid's editor calls a '90s perspective to readers' problems. "I know exactly how you feel," Ivana tells a letter writer who says her success scares men. "I'm an attractive career woman and a celebrity to boot...
...other Trump news: Harry and Leona Helmsley are suing the Donald for $100 million. The Helmsleys, who lease the Empire State Building from Trump and his Japanese partners, say a lawsuit that Trump filed in February claiming the Helmsleys had mismanaged the landmark (key phrase: "rodent infestation") was an attempt to drive down rental rates and scare off tenants...
...Department sided with her. So did the court. The school board has appealed. The Clinton Justice Department, which inherited the case, remained on Taxman's side until last summer, when it switched. ``It was an appropriate affirmative-action plan,'' insists Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick, ``because race did not trump anything that matters.'' Except Taxman's job. A court ruling on the appeal is expected well in time for use in Republican campaign...
...American politics but much of American society as well. That guise is the cult of victimization, about which much has been written (such as Time critic Robert Hughes' wonderful book Culture of Complaint). By now the game is to accuse others of playing the victim card, and then to trump them. Blacks and women having had their turn, it is apparently the moment for white males to enjoy semiofficial permission to feel sorry for themselves-and to demand redress. This is a class war everyone is fighting, and no one is suing for peace. Maybe...
...entire hierarchy, as in the case of the Dutch bishops. More usually it involved inviting to Rome difficult or disobedient bishops for a quiet but firm admonition -- "an awesome experience," as one of them put it to me, "a premonition of being received by St. Peter at the Last Trump." John Paul has also taken more trouble than any of his recent predecessors to ensure that all new bishops appointed are loyal, orthodox and reliable. Over the past 16 years, virtually the entire episcopate has been renewed on the lines of the new traditionalism...