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...Scorsese's Casino, Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal ran four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and was labeled "the greatest living expert on sports gambling" by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Head of the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos, he was famous for his alleged ties to the Mob. After surviving an attempt on his life, Rosenthal left the city and ended his gambling career. He never admitted any wrongdoing, once invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 35 times in a 1961 Senate hearing on gambling and organized crime...
...which would win out in the end.Unfortunately, we found out more than a year ago. By the second half of season three House ended up alienating his staff and causing them all to leave his department, but not before he convinced them all he had cancer in an attempt to get high at an experimental drug trial. In the last season and the start of the current one, he’s worked to ruin the marriage of one of his new staff members and accidentally caused the death of his best friend’s girlfriend, for which...
...James Bond film, but rather because its intrigues do resemble a higher-stakes version of our own party politics. What makes this case pertinent is that those prosecuting the group have been accused of representing the pro-Islam government, the ruling AK Party, in revenge for a failed court attempt to ban the party this summer for undermining Turkey’s secular government system. For years, secular Turks have battled more Islamic Turks over the direction of their country. The result of this case and any cases that follow could very well dictate the long-term direction...
...Dean Lisa M. Boes and two HUPD officers several weeks ago to address safety. Since the meeting, however, incidents have continued to occur, including multiple burglaries and a car theft. According to Hadaway, the HUPD officers told her that given the economic downturn, people hard-strapped for cash would attempt to steal more. The petition created by Hadaway, fellow co-chair Rafael A.P. Miranda ’09, and HoCo executive Krista E. Weiss ’09 follows an Undergraduate Council meeting two weeks ago that featured a discussion between students and HUPD Chief Francis...
...single sentence.While Ghosh has a capacious imagination and a nimble authorial voice, his prose does not share in the exoticism of his story. There is no “odour of spices creeping through the timbers” in his words, as there is on the Ibis. Ghosh does attempt to evoke that aroma, but to do so he relies on the exoticism of foreign languages rather than the exoticism possible through rhetorical artistry. There are so many imported words, though, and he uses them so liberally that the effect is more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from...