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...mercurial political neophyte incapable of creating the consensus building necessary for such a giant undertaking. He seemed distracted and impatient last week at the first public meeting of his Bring New Orleans Back Commission. Just days earlier, without consulting the commission, he had announced a controversial proposal to allow casino gambling in several large downtown hotels--only to see the idea panned by everyone from Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to chambermaids. And his opponents certainly haven't forgotten his performance in the first, darkest days after Katrina, when Nagin admonished sluggish federal officials to "get off your asses...
...Casino owners are not known for their selflessness. But if their recent relationship with the Harvard Medical School can be said to suggest warmth and caring, then some casino owners apparently do have hearts. The MGM Mirage, Harah’s Entertainment, Boyd Gaming, and the Las Vegas Sands have all granted funds to Harvard Medical School to help finance a new casino employee education program. Employees from Vegas casinos can come to Harvard for a two and a half-day crash course in gambling addiction. There, they learn from the nation’s experts, gaining the skills needed...
...couple of miles up the Mississippi, on an aging casino ferry hired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house homeless parish employees, councilman-at-large Joey DiFatta is echoing that subversive sentiment after hearing some critics in Washington claim that St. Bernard should not be rebuilt at all. "I'll tell you why we need to rebuild this parish. When that bastard up north is paying $5 a gallon because the two biggest oil refineries in Louisiana--both located here--are not producing gas for his fat-cat car, that's when he'll learn about St. Bernard Parish...
...onshore, the 30-year-old ferry Scotia Prince serves as St. Bernard's meeting place and dormitory. Inside, Red Cross posters (STRESSED?, they ask) compete with the hand-scrawled signs of the parish (ST. BERNARD PARISH'S REBIRTH: RETURN, REBUILD, REMAIN). Council meetings take place in the worn-looking casino, under signs for the $1 and $5 card tables. Only a handful of people show up for meetings, but the news gets out online: where to file insurance and compensation claims, when schools might open. Employees, used to sleeping on the floor and eating packaged meals ready...
...Most of the capacity crowd over 10,000 strong at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas last Saturday hadn't even come to see Chavez fight Johnson. They were there for the co-main events: Sugar Shane Mosley versus Jose Luis Cruz and Marco Antonio Barerra versus Robbie Peden. The Chavez/Johnson fight was the undercard. It was clear that Chavez was going to win the fight. Into the early seconds of the 11th round, he had thrown more than 900 punches, more than 400 of which had landed, a significant number to Johnson's head. Until then...