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...just be diplomats having "full and frank discussions" during this week's demi-summit. Like a monk touring Las Vegas to understand what the fuss over sin is about, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will travel to the mountaintop of conspicuous consumption and wretched excess: Trump Tower...
...York City tourist attractions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center, Broadway -- Gorbachev also accepted an earlier invitation: to visit the brass- and-glass high-rise office-and-apartment complex and atrial shopping mecca on Fifth Avenue, and enjoy a private dinner with megabuilder Donald Trump and his wife Ivana. Does private mean just the Trumps and the Gorbachevs? Trump, who was called directly by a Soviet official, says, "It seems that...
...idea for a buddy movie: Capitalist and Communist Do Manhattan. In Moscow on the Hudson, the Sequel, Gorbachev confers on Trump, who already lives like royalty, the head-of-state status he has been seeking since he publicly implied in 1985 that his premier dealmaking skills were what the strategic arms reduction talks were missing. For his part, Gorbachev gets a view of capitalism run amuck: Trump owns one of the city's biggest apartments (a $10 million, 20,000-sq.-ft. triplex), a palatial country house (Marjorie Merriweather Post's 118-room villa, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach...
...many accounts, should not have won. Despite the surface appeal of "peace and prosperity," the public's distaste for Bush and widespread uncertainty about the nation's economic future dealt Republicans their worst opening hand since the post-Watergate campaign in 1976. Yet the Democrats still could not trump...
...Sears itself becoming a raider's target. To make its stock more dear, Sears plans to invest at least $1.5 billion in buying back 10% of its outstanding shares. Yet later in the week came rumors that a takeover bid was being considered by such candidates as developer Donald Trump and Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman. With a market value of at least $16 billion, Sears is still a long shot as a takeover victim. But analysts think the company would be worth $36 billion if its assets were auctioned off separately...