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...business of narrative, craftsmanship and delivering prolific amounts of work that connect viscerally with the masses and are roundly ignored by the academy. While he's capable of making the sensuous and almost cozy little bays of Philadelphia's Pod restaurant, his piece de resistance, the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., is pure spectacle. "What drives us is invention," he says of his firm. "We're specifically looking for something...
President Bush's response to the misdeeds of corporate ceos [Nation, Aug. 12] reminds me of Claude Rains' famous line in Casablanca. As Captain Renault, Rains closes down Humphrey Bogart's casino and says, "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"--just as the crooked roulette dealer hands him his winnings. DOUG WEISKOPF Cincinnati, Ohio...
...rain-soaked readers back home. Almost as memorable are some of the eyewitness contributions by American fans of Nice. They range from 14-year-old Henrietta Maria Schroeder of Boston, who in the 19th century was refused entry to the nearby gaming rooms of the Monte Carlo casino; through Elizabeth Foster, an elderly woman unaccountably stuck in Nice throughout World War II; to teenager Abby Green, who took a language course in the city in 1994 and found the topless bathing "liberating." One American who never visited Nice was Mark Twain. "Travel," he wrote in 1869, "is fatal to prejudice...
...market value has been destroyed--a chunk of it no doubt coming out of your 401(k). Far from sensing a bottom, sellers kept digging deeper last week, driving the S&P 500 to a level last seen in May 1997. A lot of folks long ago lost the casino's money; whatever they still have in stocks is money they earned on the job. Should you ride out the slide? Or bail...
SOHN: There is a crisis of confidence in the stock market. It is wider and deeper and more basic than it used to be. People are saying, "I knew the stock market was a gamble, but I thought it was an honest casino. I am mad and angry, and I am going out and buying a car or house instead of being in the stock market...