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...families, Vegas is changing faster than the older, more conservative gaming-control board wants. Two billboards that the Hard Rock put up this year--one had a naked woman lying on a blackjack table with a card in her mouth above the line THERE'S ALWAYS A TEMPTATION TO CHEAT--were yanked by the board. The casino agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a complaint that claimed the Hard Rock's ads had damaged the state's image. This, remember, is a state where some cities have legal whorehouses...
...changing faster than the older, more conservative gaming-control board wants. The board yanked two billboards that the Hard Rock put up this year - one had a naked woman lying on a blackjack table with a card in her mouth above the line THERE'S ALWAYS A TEMPTATION TO CHEAT. The casino agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a claim that the ads hurt Nevada's image. This, remember, is a state where some cities have legal whorehouses...
Some parties are meant to be skipped--like when a convicted tax cheat dons a crown in a federal office building, declares himself the Messiah and claims to have redeemed the souls of Hitler and Stalin. When Salon.com revealed last week that dozens of legislators attended a bizarre event staged by eccentric businessman and wealthy campaign contributor THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON in the Dirksen Senate Office Building last March, red-faced pols said they had been duped by invitations to a "peace-awards banquet." "This went far beyond anything that I expected," said Representative Danny Davis of Illinois...
...uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket history and an icon in cricket-mad Sri Lanka, a cheat...
...rhetoric, evolved over the course of his two terms as the ground began shifting beneath him. After a decade of Presidents carefully talking detente, Reagan denounced the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and accused its leaders of claiming "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." To armor such rhetoric, Reagan demanded and got a huge increase in U.S. defense spending. He nearly doubled defense spending during his first term while deploying medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and battling communists in Central America. He rarely gave ground, and fumbles in foreign policy--like the deaths...