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...last three games for the Crimson came from co-captain Colin West, who finished his last regular-season competition for Harvard with another win, beating Yale’s Kenneth Chan by a 3-1 count...
...Even by the opulent standards of the gaming world, analysts say these are giant sums. "The Singapore casinos are by far the most expensive ones in the region," says Gabriel Chan, head of Asian gaming research for Credit Suisse, who points out that an average casino in Macau costs roughly half as much. The Venetian in Las Vegas, completed by Adelson more than a decade ago, cost roughly $1.5 billion - less than a third of his current Singapore project...
...recoup their costs, Singapore, nevertheless, is likely to see the benefit sooner. Casinos will likely help create tens of thousands of new jobs for Singaporeans, as well as entice tourists from across Asia. "The Singapore government sees the casinos as a means to an end," explains Credit Suisse's Chan. "They want visitors to come to Singapore and spend money on entertainment and hotels and shopping, not purely on gambling." Citigroup expects the casinos to help push up visitor arrivals to 12.8 million by the end of 2011, roughly a third higher than where they stand today. Says Noel-Johnson...
...wouldn’t be fair if more than half of the class deserved A’s, but couldn’t get them,” said Lawrence Chan...
Only a few hours after Hong Kong surrendered to Japan on Dec. 25, 1941, Chinese admiral Chan Chak helped lead 67 British and Chinese officers on a 129-km escape to unoccupied China. It had all the makings of a Hollywood film: car chases, speeding torpedo boats and an officer saving his commander from drowning amid a barrage of gunfire. Now, in an exhibition called "Escape from Hong Kong: The Road to Waichow," the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, hk.coastaldefence.museum, is displaying maps, medals and other mementos that bring the legendary journey to life. Reading the handwritten logbooks...