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...same time, Trump began to suffer from management problems. Last October his casino operations suffered a tragic loss, when three of Trump's top-notch casino executives died in a helicopter crash. Among them was Stephen Hyde, 43, chief executive of Trump's gaming operations. "Steve knew how to force Donald to listen," says Jack O'Donnell, who headed the Plaza Hotel and Casino until he resigned in April. "Once Steve was gone, Donald had to get more involved in the business. He started operating the budget based on his ego, not on reality." As the opening...
...Wilson has tried to have her cake and eat it too. While her actions reveal that she intends to turn Radcliffe into the foremost women's research center, she maintains the illusion that she can also provide sufficient support for female students. The result of this charade is the tragic sacrifice of women's issues on campus...
...state in March. They kept Sam, Tony's natural younger brother. Patrick Murphy, the Chicago public guardian who was appointed to serve as Tony's attorney, says the youngster is an "absolute joy to be around." But there have been scars. Says Murphy: "One of the tragic things is that Tony blames himself...
...that Russians have always been hostile to the socialist system and even that they harbored defeatist sentiments during World War II. These ideas, which I may have oversimplified somewhat, are little short of myths. If our people and our leaders ever succumb to such notions, the results could be tragic...
...heroic romanticism of these lines echoes my own sense of life as both wonderful and tragic. Another aspect of the truth that complements Goethe's metaphor is contained in these lines by the postwar poet Alexander Mezhirov...