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...deal for Bass was set, but Winfield held the trump card. Being a "five and 10 man" (a player who has played for one team for more than five years and has been in major league baseball for more than 10 years), Winfield had the option to veto his trade. He did just that. He wanted to stay in New York...
PROFESSOR of Government Martin Kilson played a moral trump card yesterday. In a letter to the editor, Kilson took issue with a column in which my editorial page colleague Matthew Joseph argued that Jesse Jackson lacks elective experience necessary to be president of the United States. Kilson labelled Joseph's views "neoracist...
Exchanges about Jackson's experience follow a predictable enough pattern. Now, according to this ritual, it is time for someone to argue that the real racist would spare Jackson's record the scrutiny it would receive were he white. This might trump Kilson's trump, countering his slander with another slander...
...When Trump responded by filing a $250 million suit against Griffin for interfering in the Resorts/Trump merger, the entertainer promptly countersued for $500 million. Trump, he charged, had misled stockholders about the company's value and breached his fiduciary responsibility by not considering a more attractive offer. "It's a real war," says Marvin B. Roffman, a senior security analyst for the Janney Montgomery Scott investment firm. "Griffin is dead serious...
...Angeles and is constantly on the phone to Griffin Co. President Michael Nigris, who directs 100 employees in New York City. Griffin the businessman is a tougher character than the talk-show host who sympathetically listened to an endless parade of guests. To beat Donald Trump, Griffin will have to be as aggressive behind the scenes as he was agreeable in front of the camera...