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Nobody plays "Can you top this?" better than Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson. Wynn, 64, is standing behind his desk, casually clad in a white polo shirt and beaming from ear to ear--with good reason. This morning he has just pocketed $900 million from the sale of a Macau gaming subconcession. A few days earlier, he opened the Wynn Macau hotel-casino with a barrage of fireworks and dancing fountains. The $1.2 billion, 600-room palace is the first Vegas-style luxury-hotel offering in Asia's booming gambling market. "This is a new Macau," says Wynn. "Would...
...five-minute drive away, Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands, is thoroughly unimpressed. Adelson, 73, is ensconced in a sofa-laden suite at his own casino, the shimmering gold Sands Macau, being fussed over by an overprotective bodyguard, an intrusive makeup artist and his doctor wife. The Sands has already been raking in a fortune in Macau for two years, and, after a recent expansion, it rates as the largest casino in the world. And he's just getting started. On a band of reclaimed land called Cotai, between Macau's two outer islands, Adelson is creating an Asian Vegas...
...Wynn vs. Adelson, Round 2. The two have been banging heads in Las Vegas for years, and now their feud has been airlifted to China. The stakes couldn't be higher--then again, neither could the opportunity. With China's booming economy boosting the incomes of its 1.3 billion baccarat-crazed people by the day, gaming revenues in Macau will probably overtake the Vegas Strip's this year...
What gives this rivalry its extra punch is the obvious antagonism between the Vegas heavyweights. In a corporate world where p.r. spin masters train CEOs to spout boring managementspeak, Adelson and Wynn think nothing of tossing barbs at each other. Adelson complains that Wynn has "a big ego." Wynn calls Adelson "Mr. Magoo, with an edge...
...equipped to stop it! And if it isn’t enough that ESPP concentrators can stop a new ice age or rub elbows with Al Gore when he comes to visit ESPP 10 (it happened in 2004), they may also get a surprise trip to Madagascar. Professor Glenn Adelson, the recipient of two Levenson Teaching awards, takes his junior tutorial, “Conservation, Nature, and Biodiversity,” to a different tropical locale each spring. Last year, students were treated to such an African adventure. The one major complaint with ESPP is that students are often forced...