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...event in a nonboycotted Olympics. And Paul Hamm became the first American man to take gold in the individual all-around. The Koreans protested the scoring; although their appeal was rejected, three judges were suspended, leaving Hamm's victory under a cloud. Behind the graceful façade, gymnastics is brutal...
...trick is to add other dimensions to the town, open the door to more people." The other U.S. licensee, Las Vegas Sands, averages more than 30,000 visitors a day at the $240 million Sands Macao, which uses the Portuguese spelling. But the Sands, with its golden façade and shimmering neon-purple fountain, will have some sibling rivalry in 2006 when its parent company finishes an $800 million replica of the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, complete with imitation canals and singing gondoliers. Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners...
...This façade of political correctness and even generosity has not gone unnoticed. I can’t even begin to count the times that Lebanese people have welcomed me into their stores or houses to talk and relax. Visiting the southern city of Sidon, a friend and I were given sweet pastries to try, free of charge, by the beaming store owner. Everyone from desk clerks at the bank where I cash my traveler’s checks to the guy who makes me awesome nutella crepes on the street has only one demand for Uncle Sam: give...
...have no confidence in all of you ... This is a façade of a fair trial." Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, at a hearing in the final appeal of his 1998 conviction for sodomy
...course, there are plenty of sophomores who seem happy (although, as any Slumper will tell you, anyone who seems to enjoy themselves must certainly be crumbling beneath their façade, or be completely naïve in their irrational bliss). I don’t intend to make light of those who suffer serious depression or personal problems. But for many sophomores, in a very real way, The Slump has got them...