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...eight years after opening on Las Vegas' neon-lit Strip, the famed Dunes Hotel has closed for good. The Dunes casino helped nurture Las Vegas' popularity -- and notoriety as a magnet for sharp-dressed mobsters. Its arching marquee became a relic in an age of larger resorts. Owner Steven Wynn plans to raze it and erect a new $400 million casino and family park...
...issues today are really more class issues,and they are harder for people to get hold of,"says Patricia A. Wynn '67, an associate judge withthe Superior Court of the District of Columbia...
...Wynn Dalton, a down-on-his-luck dinner-theater actor, finally gets a break: pegged as a dead ringer for serial killer Dwayne Gary Steckler, he is cast as the fugitive psycho for a segment of All Points Bulletin, a catch-the-criminal show patterned after America's Most Wanted. His appearance is a hit with everybody but the real killer -- who disposes of the actor, assumes his identity and sets out to give the role some real authenticity. That's just the starting point for PUBLIC ENEMY 2, an ingenious comedy special tucked into Showtime's schedule this month...
Sayles' works have a distinctive recipe: a thinly plotted story, complex characters and clever dialogue steeped in the author's characteristic 1960s- style concern for outsiders and underdogs. Politics, however, never gets in the way of getting things done. Thus Wynn Himes, the high-minded black councilman in City of Hope, reluctantly plays the down-and-dirty game of political hardball in order to gain power for his black constituents. "Basically," says Sayles, "I'm for whatever makes people's lives better and against what doesn...
...Shirley Wynn of Miami wrote to Coral Gables Federal Savings and Loan last July to tell the bank that it made a mistake in computing the interest due on her mortgage, overcharging her $1,464 in the course of three years. The bank apologized and refunded the overpayment. Wynn was one of the lucky ones. According to a congressional review and a study by a former federal auditor, John Geddes, thousands of others across the nation with adjustable-rate mortgages may have been overcharged. Basing his estimate on an examination of 7,000 loan accounts, Geddes says a third...