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...Donald Trump and Bill Zanker...
...Trump mixes advice--"Go with your gut" and "When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades"--with self-aggrandizing outbursts, like declaring that his dealmaking is so superb he "could negotiate peace in the Middle East." He is echoed only somewhat less obnoxiously by his co-writer, Bill Zanker. Thankfully, Trump stops short of listing the powerful women he claims to have slept with. "If I did, this book would sell 10 million copies," he says, adding smugly, "maybe it will anyway." Unfortunately, he's probably right...
...classrooms Zanker first used borrowed offices or living rooms, then began renting public school rooms at $5 to $10 a night. To promote his curriculum, which he dubbed the Learning Annex, he took $5,000 that he had saved from his Bar Mitzvah, printed a course brochure, dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...
...evening and weekend study programs on everything from boudoir photography to computer programming to women's body building. There are more than 300,000 adult students in twelve cities coast to coast. A typical course like Belly Dancing meets once a week for only four weeks?just right, says Zanker, for "people who don't have the time or the energy to take long-term courses and who don't care about credits." The price is right too: an average...
...took a very, very boring industry?adult education?and we created a little pizazz," says Zanker, who rarely speaks below a shout and tends to sound like an LP played too fast. "Quality education we give, but in a showbiz atmosphere," he adds, drawing his legs up beneath him on his office chair and rocking back and forth as the words rattle out. "I give an average of 150 shows a night." The Annex is not the only show of its kind. In the past decade some 50 similar enterprises have started up, from California's thriving Learning Exchange...