Word: trumps
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Short, chunky and menacingly combative, Harvey Myerson is one of the country's most talented trial lawyers. But according to charges that will be heard in Brooklyn's federal courthouse next week, he is also one of the most tainted. After building a reputation representing the likes of Donald Trump, Shearson Lehman and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Myerson stands accused of swindling $3.5 million from clients and partners and faces as much as 20 years in prison. Said prosecutor Sean O'Shea after the initial indictment last year: "We have here an unprecedented pattern of greed and dishonesty...
Another pal, real estate peddler Donald Trump, last week proposed that Tyson buy his way out of jail by fighting again and donating his take to Indiana rape centers. This scenario will not unfold, even if Tyson could find an opponent (Holyfield, says his promoter, Dan Duva, will not fight Tyson). Bert Randolph Sugar, publisher of Boxing Illustrated, gives three reasons: "The state athletic commissions will lift his license. No hotel chain will sponsor it. And the event would have no advertising. You just can't see the announcer saying, 'And in this corner, the convicted rapist . . . Mike Tyson...
Nevertheless, Harvard still holds a few trump cards. Penn has the worst field goal percentage in the Ivy League at .318, and its leading rebounder, freshman Natasha Rezek, is out for the season with a broken hand...
...installed in Shad Hall, a fitness center that brings new meaning to the term "conspicuous consumption." If pre-bankruptcy Donald Trump decided to build a gym, Shad Hall would just about fit the bill...
...THOSE NAUGHTY EIGHTIES. The John DeLorean-Stealth Bomber-Dynasty-Gordon Gekko-Material Girl-Black Monday-Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-SDI-Ivan Boesky-Trump Tower-Trump Palace-Trump Castle decade. The decade of Nancy Reagan's $200,000 china, the Pentagon's $640 toilet seat, the country's $200 billion budget deficits. A shamelessly materialistic decade. An irresponsible decade. A morally bankrupt decade...