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Oprah, who was fat when you met her and thinner when you left, is fat once more, and swears that she will never diet again. Donald Trump used to be rich, but his emirate is currently under siege by creditors...
...That is the amount Philadelphia-based brokerage Janney Montgomery Scott must pay gambling-industry analyst Marvin Roffman, according to a decision last week by a New York Stock Exchange arbitration panel. Roffman's complaint: that Janney had fired him as a result of pressure from self-styled dealmeister Donald Trump...
...When Trump launched his colossal Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City a year ago, a Wall Street Journal article quoted a skeptical Roffman as saying that "once the cold winds blow from October to February, it won't make it." Trump threatened to sue Janney if Roffman did not apologize. The analyst refused, and Janney dismissed him, citing "violations of company policy." As for Trump, whose Taj Mahal has felt the cold wind and is flirting with insolvency, Roffman is suing him for $2 million...
...recent Adams House decision to ban smoking in the dining hall and other common areas is a long-overdue change in policy. The reason behind this change in policy is simple--the rights of non-smokers trump the wishes of smokers. No one should have to breathe smoke-filled air. And the Adams House dining hall was getting disgusting...
These questions represented to Etzioni case studies in which the aggressive ! defense of individual legal rights is at odds with the safety of the larger community. But Galston, who signed on as a co-editor of Responsive Community, stresses that his own approach "is not to water down or trump certain rights in the name of something else. Instead, we need to think in a fresh way about what rights we do have...