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...most important thing all of this speaking and writing and protesting and debating can do is to change us, to help us define our own voices. There have been few moments of silence in the past four years at Harvard, but our debate has hardly touched the Ivory Tower. We can only hope that we have touched each other, challenged each other and--perhaps--changed each other...
Like rival gunfighters, the National Rifle Association and Handgun Control Inc. stalked each other for months. The contest hardly seemed equal: with 2.7 million members and an annual budget of $86 million, the giant N.R.A. seemed to tower over the bantamweight gun-control group, which has only 1 million members and a $6.5 million budget. But after the smoke cleared from last week's shootout on Capitol Hill, advocates of gun control had triumphed in a surprisingly lopsided 239-186 House vote for the so-called Brady bill...
...befallen him. While he will give up his beloved Trump Princess yacht, the Trump Shuttle, the Regency, his half- interest in the Hyatt and his 27% interest in the Alexander's store chain, he will retain the Manhattan trophies he values most: the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue's Trump Tower and a valuable tract of undeveloped Hudson River waterfront. He'll also keep his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., which features a 118-room mansion and a nine-hole golf course...
...interest payments. His bankers bailed him out last summer, realizing with a chill how badly they had been taken and how thoroughly mired they were in the mess. He was carrying a $300 million mortgage on the Plaza, $120 million on the Grand Hyatt, $75 million on Trump Tower. In December his father Fred, a builder in Queens, N.Y., had to lend him $3.5 million to pay his bills. Appropriately enough, Fred did so by purchasing that amount in gambling chips from one of his son's casinos. Even as Trump's fortunes continued to decline, though, the bankers tried...
...giving up the Trump Shuttle, his yacht, The Trump Princess, and other properties, the developer could keep such prizes as the Plaza Hotel, Trump Tower and his three Atlantic City casinos while slashing his debt...