Word: trumps
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...experience was not quite as glamorous as I had hoped. Last Friday's Donald Trump-run pageant took place in Gary, Ind., which meant it was short on the sophistication of Atlantic City and long on a really disturbing smell. Even worse, a new rule, designed to cut down on breast-augmentation surgery, allowed padding in the bikinis and dresses. It also turned out that I had been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent...
...support of its Middle Eastern allies, without whom the very purpose of going toe-to-toe with Saddam becomes unclear and sometimes even dangerous to wider U.S. interests. So while he may be up against some formidable power players in debating Iraq policy, Powell has the ultimate trump card - his policy of revised sanctions is the only one capable of winning the support of the Arab regimes who'll have to implement...
...Donald Trump wants to be host of his own syndicated television show, called...
That won't be easy. Since Suharto's fall in 1998, Indonesia has been left with a political system in which it's unclear who holds more power: the President or parliament. Wahid believes he holds the trump card; parliament sees things differently. Wahid's style isn't helping his cause. Even close friends use words like "arrogant" and "disdainful" to describe his attitude, which may be traced partly to his upbringing. An Islamic scholar, fluent in five languages, Wahid descends from a line of Javanese holy men, and it is difficult to convince him that he is not infallible...
...Ocasek, David Copperfield and Donald Trump are all first-ballot Hall of Famers in the "Weird-Looking Guy with Gorgeous Model" celebrity- romance competition, but a rumored new matchup could top them all. The hot gossip out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week was that GENE SPERLING, former director of the National Economic Council, is something of an item with supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL. The duo attended the forum's gala soiree arm in arm, and Sperling, 40, even issued the standard non-denial denial: "We're just friends." To be fair, Sperling is not all aggregate...