Word: bandness
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...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 Strip-- practically by himself. By early 2009, he plans to build 12 hotels for $10 billion, anchored by a 3,000-room version of his Vegas classic, the Venetian, with its famous canal...
...chance for the best-known group of activist Democrats to play footsie with the party's most charismatic speaker, and vice versa. But it was a disappointment, the closest I had seen Obama come to seeming a standard-issue pol, one who declares a crisis and answers with Band-Aids. In this case, he produced a few scraggly carrots and sticks to encourage Detroit to produce more fuel-efficient cars. The audience of students and activists sensed the Senator's timidity and became palpably less enthusiastic as Obama went on. Just two days before, Al Gore gave a rousing speech...
...PETER BHAKTA, former contestant on The Apprentice and Republican candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, who paraded an elephant and a mariachi band through the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico frontier to make a statement about lax border control...
...pick up their unsold CDs. Through Tower’s consignment arrangement, John T. Drake ’06—who is also Harvard College’s campus life fellow, or “fun czar”—sold CDs recorded by his rock band, The Blanks. Over the last week, he has collected the remaining Blanks CDs from the store. “Tower Records was the only store willing to take the Blanks,” Drake said. “They were a surprisingly friendly and cool company, even under the umbrella...
...being Muslim Lite, for all its fluidity, is ultimately messy. At its heart, there lies a tremendous confusion about values. When you're running around playing in a band and keeping up your religious hobbies on the side, this is not immediately obvious. Usually Muslim Lite claims its victims around marriage age, when young people discover their parents haven't changed at all, and that tough choices must be made. A family friend realized this when he found his parents refused to consider his girlfriend a suitable marriage candidate. Though polite and educated, to them, she was loose and tainted...