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...esqu1n4”, “_TGm_”, “Stealh”, and the mysterious “S.” They also left the address of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. IRC is the online analog to a seedy downtown bar scene—an enormous world-wide free-for-all of public chat rooms where people conduct all sorts of business from arguments about obscure topics in system administration to cruising for dates or trading copyrighted music and movies...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anatomy of an Attack | 5/3/2005 | See Source »

...cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J. (with financing from junk bonds floated by Michael Milken). His next big move put an indelible stamp on the Strip: Wynn opened the Mirage, a shimmering temple of camp, with white tigers behind glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynn's Big Bet | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...that and promptly took the junior downtown, where he awoke the next morning with no recollection of the night’s events, no clothes, and a massive headache. Now faced with repeated calls from the Cambridge Po regarding other incidents of break-ins that night, the honest boy can only reply, “It’s possible...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum and Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

Directions: Take the Red Line to Downtown Crossing and the Orange Line to Sullivan Station. Good Time is within walking distance...

Author: By Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pinball Wizard | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...While Hong Kong's government was milking the harbor as a tax cow, it missed what was happening elsewhere in the world. As shipping moved from downtown wharves to purpose-built container ports, old cities discovered that their weedy waterfronts could be reworked into the sort of environments that would attract?and retain?both tourist dollars and the creative minds that give a place fizz. From Boston to Bilbao, from Singapore to Sydney?even, for heaven's sake, in Liverpool, the ultimate rusted-up port?city planners have remade harbors into lively, people-friendly places full of restaurants, design studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Lose a Harbor | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

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