Deal Maker: Famed financier Donald Trump put...

Deal Maker: Famed financier Donald Trump put together a different kind of deal this week. On his way to a concert in Manhattan with ex-fiancee Marla Maples, Trump passed a man being beaten with a baseball bat and ordered his driver to stop. Trump told the bat wielder to put down the weapon. Said Trump: “I guess he recognized me because he said: ‘Mr. Trump, I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said: ‘How could you not do anything wrong when you’re whacking a guy with a bat?’ Then he ran away.”

* Brigham Young University women want to curb campus violence with a nighttime curfew on men. “I want to be able to walk wherever I want without being attacked,” said activist Jill Thompson. Women proposed the curfew for the Provo, Utah, campus for Thursdays so that men will be more aware of women’s restricted freedoms, and to give women “one night a week to walk across our own campus unaccompanied and unafraid,” said Thompson.

* Orlando Patterson, a descendant of slaves who wrote a sweeping history of freedom in the Western world, won the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday with his book “Freedom.” Norman Rush won the fiction award for his first novel “Mating.” The poetry winner was Philip Levine for “What Work Is.” Each received $10,000 in the New York ceremony.

* Kevin Hermening, a former Marine who was one of the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran, is 0 for 4 in his bid for public office in Wausau, Wis. Republican Hermening was defeated for the state assembly by Democrat Thomas Springer, 23. Hermening, 32, was taken hostage in Iran in 1979.