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...year-old tycoon who held a monopoly on Macau's casinos for four decades until the government issued new licenses in 2002. Lawrence and sister Pansy both started working in the family business but struck out on their own after the market opened up - in competition with their father. Pansy teamed with Vegas firm MGM Mirage to develop casino-hotels in Macau, opening the MGM Grand Macau in 2007. Stanley and Lawrence founded Melco Crown as part of a joint venture with Australia's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd., founded by the late billionaire Kerry Packer. (Kerry's son James...
...success has come at the expense of his father, who has lost a large chunk of his high-roller business to Melco Crown and others this year. Ho says his mentor has remained supportive. "He's been great," Ho says. "Even when we weren't doing so well, he did give us advice. It's almost like the two of us have formed our own little casino association. When we have meals together, he looks at me as his son rather than a competitor - even though we go after the same piece of chicken sometimes," Ho says...
...Jarreau first showed signs of vocal prowess at age 4, performing a garden recital in Milwaukee, Wis., where his father was an ordained minister who welded auto frames for a living. As a boy, "young Alwin" (his parents addressed him by his given name) used to sit beside his mother as she played piano in church, and later sang in the choir. Jarreau was bright, and after high school opted to study psychology, earning a masters degree and landing work in San Francisco as a vocational rehabilitation counselor. One problem: "I was a horrible bureaucrat and organizer," says Jarreau...
...held the most weight. "I was listening with a small group of close friends," Padilla said, "and two phrases stood out for me: 'When you get knocked down, get up,' and 'God sends no cross you cannot bear.' It's been a rough year with my father's health, so hearing those stories about falling down, but having the courage to get back up, held the most meaning for me." Overall, Padilla thought that Democrats stayed on message by emphasizing party unity and including party members from all walks of life. However, Padilla said that he had some problems with...
...Party - even more than in past conventions, speakers were free with Scripture citations, religious exhortations and mentions of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Other Republicans received video tributes - Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and, of course, Ronald Reagan. There was a film and abundant praise for the president's father, former President George H.W. Bush, whose appearance in the hall with wife Barbara brought the drowsy crowd of delegates to its feet. They chanted "Forty-one! Forty-one!" in honor of Bush Sr.'s place in the parade of the nation's chief executives...