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...Qianlong is moored for the night at Wushan, and next to it at the dock is a large boat with a neon sign for WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards...
...within a couple of years," said Richard Gergel, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs suing the industry in the supreme court case. Jennings, for one, says the industry is paying the price for reaching too far into gamblers' pockets. His renovated Victorian law office in Bennettsville stands across from a bingo hall with 20 video-poker machines. Its owners recently put in an automated teller machine, though there's one at a bank right across the street. "The industry got greedy," said Jennings. "[Now] you can't find anyone in South Carolina who doesn't know someone who's addicted...
...runs a bingo game and I go say hello to all the elderly," Officer DeFrancesco says...
...Jimmy muscles them out of their bingo cards," Officer Branley jokes about his colleague. "East Cambridge is old school, everyone sticks together...
There is a certain, dangerous school of modern fiction that believes that a bit of trouble is all that's necessary in a good book. Throw in some personality tics, add a major societal problem for the main character to grapple with, and bingo! You've just won the Seventeen magazine fiction contest and a three-book deal with a major publishing house...