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...Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr.’s name has emerged as one of the top candidates to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s ’54-’56 Senate seat in media reports, even as speculation swirled late last night that Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 would instead pick Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60, a longtime friend of Kennedy’s, as a stand-in for the late liberal senator...
Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced yesterday that Paul G. Kirk Jr. ’60, a former aide to Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, will fill the late U.S. senator’s seat until a special election is held in January...
...appointment closes the door on far-flung speculation regarding Patrick’s choice for a successor to Kennedy, who died of brain cancer last month. News of the impending appointment gained widespread attention—especially among some Congressional Democrats—as the move to speedily fill Kennedy’s seat was seen as a concerted effort to ensure the passage of a health-care reform package...
...needs to be, given that the unemployment rate in Nevada is a formidable 13.2%. The company has already offered 4,000 of those jobs to current MGM employees (95% of whom accepted). And on Monday, Sept. 21, it started to process the remainder - all previously vetted. In total, to fill the 12,000 positions, CityCenter fielded 160,000 applications. (See pictures of hard times in Las Vegas...
...There could be many more Chinese gamblers around to fill up those new casinos. Part of the reason Macau has suffered over the past year is Chinese government policy. Aiming to cool down what was seen as an excessively heated gambling sector, government officials last year imposed visa restrictions that, at their tightest, limited some Chinese to only one Macau visit every three months. Now analysts believe those limitations are starting to ease, which would allow greater numbers of Chinese to enter the city to gamble. (See pictures of the world's most expensive hotels on LIFE.com...