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...concert stage, enough savvy to have harvested $2.73 billion in the last year from bettors in its casinos, and enough allure to be the most popular destination in America. But the benefits of this resurrection have been unevenly shared. "This is a town noted for taking suckers," says Thomas Carver, president of the Casino Association of New Jersey. "But it's the biggest sucker...
...most of it earmarked for the elderly and handicapped. "People see the contrast between the facilities we've put up and the rest of the town, and they think, 'What happened? Why did these bastards not do what they were supposed to do?' The fact is, we did," says Carver. "We came here to produce the money, not to run the city...
Minimalists trying to imitate the pin-drop prose of the late Raymond Carver would consider Banks' style uncool. But judging from the author's output, cool seems like a social disease. His structures lack grace but carry the weight of his passion and concern...
...Hello. Have it. Good riddance," was the simple greeting of Astrid M. Carver '89 as she handed in her essay. The two students who followed her were busy peeling Coop price tags off their thesis binders, and didn't laugh...
Cheever believed that most people, not just writers, live lives that are charmed with a daily interaction between reality and imagination, and that what impresses us in a writer is not the mystery of the interaction, but the slant that the writer applies to the mystery. Raymond Carver's brave experiments are well worth reading...