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...most profitable chapters in his career. In the early 1990s, when Indian gaming was in its infancy, Palmer and a partner formed Buffalo Brothers Management Inc. to develop and manage two casinos for the St. Croix Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The company negotiated an agreement to collect 40% of the casinos' total net revenue for running the operations. Then it recommended that the tribe lease slot machines from Interstate Gaming Services Inc., a company that Palmer and his associate happened to own. The fee: 30% of the gross take from each machine. Since slots account for most of the gaming...
Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) programs collect the interest earned on certain client funds that eligible lawyers in each state must deposit in banks to fund the legal aid and improvements...
...down and diagonally in a grid of lettered cubes. Though some use a 4-by-4 grid, FM favors the deluxe 5-by-5 model for, as the box reads, “those BOGGLE lovers who can’t stop connecting letters to spell words and collect more points.” True! In the space of three minutes, one must find words no less than four letters in length. Proper nouns are not allowed and the same letter cube can be used only once per word. A quick tutorial for clarification...
...full of those Boggle lovers who can’t stop connecting letters to spell words and collect more points, turned to Arts for a chance—three rounds of Boggle—to prove their word-finding superiority. Arts met the challenge through puffing out their chests and many calls of “Bring it!” These actions were returned in the form of good old-fashioned e-mail thrashings...
...have to take it for granted that art patronage, as once understood, no longer exists in today's America. People collect art, buying it for their own enjoyment. But spending millions on an inflated comic by Roy Lichtenstein or outbidding a rival heavy hitter at an auction isn't public patronage. Such patronage suggests some intent of public edification, and in the U.S.--thanks to its barbarously ignorant politicians and its media-sodden public--that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever...