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...fact that Beasley has made video poker the hottest issue in the state reflects in part a nationwide backlash against most forms of gambling: it's evident from Oklahoma, where voters in February overwhelmingly rejected a referendum to bring casino gambling to the state, to Michigan, where voters may have a chance this November to overturn a plan for three Detroit casinos. But much of the new resistance has focused on video gambling, which experts have called the crack cocaine of wagering because of its quick and deep hold on players. Four years ago, a statewide referendum in South Carolina...
Parse the language and it means many banks have a new sideline: gambling. "Derivatives have turned the financial markets into a hi-tech, international, 24-hour casino," notes Richard Thomson, a former merchant banker and author of a book published in London, Apocalypse Roulette: The Lethal World of Derivatives. "Right now you have a small number of banks sharing a very large risk. But this could turn out to be a serious problem if these banks are in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Until not so long ago, Sinatra's notion of cool was deader than an imploded casino in Vegas. Bourbon on the rocks and snap-brim hats were your parents'--no, worse, your grandparents'--idea of hip, stuff that looked quaint beside the bug-eyed alienation of the 1960s. Hippies wore blissed-out smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder...
...collective consciousness only after Bogart's death in 1957, when Sinatra assumed leadership and gathered in new buddies like Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. Their supreme moment arrived in early 1960, when Sinatra, Davis, Lawford, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop gathered in Las Vegas to film the casino-robbery caper Ocean's Eleven. Every night for three weeks, after the day's shooting was over, they all played--and played!--the Sands, a Mob-connected casino in which Sinatra held an interest. They called their act the Summit, a convergence of star power. Crooning, one-upping each other, rolling...
...Though Johnson's ruling on Merletti's claim is still weeks away, her decision is regarded as more pivotal to Starr's probe than her ruling last week voiding Executive-privilege claims for White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal. "The Secret Service question is the big casino," said a White House official...