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...delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and two other lawmakers plan to carry out their own, unscientific study. Each will mail about 20 test letters to various destinations to see how long it takes for them to be delivered. Several lawmakers want a more radical approach: ousting Runyon. Maryland Representative Albert Wynn alleges that under Runyon, skilled postal workers have been dismissed to save money and African-American employees have been fired at a disproportionate rate. Says Wynn: "We can no longer allow Runyon to continue to destroy the second largest agency in the Federal Government...
...paced on the day by the hitting of right fielder Derek England and second baseman Jason Wynn, the Lions proved a surprisingly-strong challenge...
...human texture is well established. In her five years as a TIME correspondent, writer and editor, she has covered the contradictions of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the complexities of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, and she has profiled figures from media mogul Ted Turner to gambling czar Steve Wynn. Now her grasp of such reporting will be put to more comprehensive use as Painton, 35, becomes the magazine's new business editor...
...understandable that the citizens are a bit embarrassed by their criminal founding fathers (Steve Wynn calls the Dunes "the original home of tinhorns and scumbags"), but the mixed feelings go beyond the mob. Last year Davy-O Thompson got zoning-board approvals to establish his haircutting salon, A Little Off the Top, where the female stylists were dressed in frilly teddies or paste-on breast caps and panties. But the board of cosmetology denied him a license an hour before he was set to open, citing concerns over "safety" and "hygiene." (He was eventually allowed to operate.) A similar protest...
Semantic nuance, it turns out, is important. "They don't see themselves as gamblers," says Steve Wynn of the new tourists he is attracting. "They think of themselves as folks who are on vacation, and while they are there -- hey, let's put some money in the slot machine." Wynn hired screenwriter Jim Hart (Hook, Bram Stoker's Dracula) to write a one-hour family-adventure TV movie (NBC, Jan. 23) set at Treasure Island, and while Hart says the movie reaffirms family values and he flew his children out during production, he understands the place has an intrinsically dark...