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With good reason obviously. Although the princes at one point were $2 million ahead, they went on to prove that old axiom once formulated by Casino Founder Camille Blanc: "Money won by gamblers is just money loaned." The sheiks kept on gambling and not only blew it all but racked up losses of more than $6 million...
Medicine, dispensed by the proverbial Florence Nightingale across the river, is still a novelty--therefore to be avoided. Prescriptions are seldom followed and infant mortality is high. Several times a week, the familiar orange helicopter from the hospital at Blanc Sablon, the border town between Quebec and Labrador, lands on the riverbank to collect and deposit patients on the orders of the nurse. It is not unusual for parents to try to convince her that healthy babies are in fact sick, thereby placing the child in the hands of the hospital and reducing the burden of extra dependents until...
...left I went to University Health Services to hash it out with a psychiatrist. But I was slightly disappointed in the tiny man with a heavy German accent who sat me down and began to ignore me. He wrote notes continually during the session, using a thick, phallic Mont-Blanc pen that was twice the size of his hand. After I told him everything that was happening, he turned to me and said, "It seems to me you are running away from yourself...
JEANNINE LE BLANC...
...greater freedom and fairness for others? The answer is uncertain. One ominous precedent: some small-claims courts, created for the benefit of the individual, have been all but taken over by company lawyers who have mastered all the rules and can use them against unsophisticated buyers. Nancy Le Blanc, a New York lawyer who specializes in welfare cases, is already wary of due process's bounty. "There has been a tremendous increase in the number of hearings held," she says, "but not in the amount of justice dispensed...