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...company is the subject of this week's story. "She's just as smart, savvy and shrewd as the next guy, but without all the macho and bluster," says McCarroll, who has covered his share of corporate movers and shakers, including Bill Gates, Michael Milken and Donald Trump. "I can see how her adversaries often make the mistake of underestimating...
...Peninsula incident demonstrated the extent to which the Holocaust has become little more than a rhetorical grab bag, one that any Tom, Dick or Harry feels free to reach into any time he needs an argumentative trump-card. Similarly, the debate question exemplified the recklessness with which people tend to throw around the vocabulary of mass-destruction. You want to talk about the discrimination that exists in the criminal justice system, you call it a "genocide." You disagree with someone's brand of politics, you affix the Nazi swastika to his or her door--that seems to be the name...
Each sketch pivots on a chance meeting that leads to romantic betrayal. In the first episode, a young woman hears that her beau is seeing other women; she decides to trump his perfidy only to find herself caught in an elaborate farce. In the third, a painter ditches his date to track a more sensitive type, who happens to be on her honeymoon. The plot mechanics don't interest Rohmer as much as the posturing beneath the would-be lovers' informed chatter and, beneath that, the hidden pain and expectations of rapture...
...Democratic Convention. The New York Times reported that she had been pressing for a role and that the White House was considering it. What better way to get prime-time coverage than to roll out your best-kept secret, a truly new voice? And what better way to trump the Doles' mantra--my family values are better than your family values--than to show off a poised, well-mannered teenager...
...Bally Entertainment's hotels and casinos, adding 4,826 rooms to Hilton's collection of 99,105 and, more important, giving Hilton two gambling tents in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a place now fairly bursting at the seams with wage burners. "He's brilliant and a terrific guy," says Trump, the once and future king of Atlantic City, whose own company can't build rooms fast enough to meet demand...