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Maybe it makes perfect sense that Steve Wynn would turn into the Mister Rogers of Las Vegas. Sitting in his new hotel in a red V-neck sweater and gray wool pants, Wynn, 63--famous for yelling at employees, taking up steer roping and accidentally shooting off his index finger in his office--is talking about building neighborhoods in his latest land of make-believe. Explaining that his hotel will be a mellow retreat, without the glitz and campy themes that have made him such a sensation in the past, Wynn breaks into a rendition of Bali Ha'ifrom South...

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

...sweeping motion. “You have to be able to physically move your body.” Stanul fears that if students do not physically engage with the task at hand, they could possibly end up losing limbs. The table saw is the “number one finger cutter-offer...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wood Workin' | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

When a severed finger makes its way into a fast-food order, the first phrase that comes to mind generally isn't victim corporation. But that's how an assistant district attorney described Wendy's last week after a patron claimed last month that a manicured fingertip had been served with her chili in San Jose, Calif. The ghastly publicity, which has cost the restaurant chain an estimated $1 million a day, eased a bit last week when the supposed finger finder was arrested for trying to shake down the fast-food giant. Anna Ayala, 39, a Nevada resident with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insert Icky Pun Here | 4/26/2005 | See Source »

...could not be backed up by U.S. intelligence. Bolton, they said, tried to have them removed from their jobs. Witnesses say that after one of the analysts, Christian Westermann, wrote an internal memo warning of Bolton's embellishments, he was summoned to Bolton's office and subjected to a finger-wagging tirade. Westermann's boss at the time, Carl W. Ford Jr., told the committee in a public hearing two weeks ago that he considered Bolton "a serial abuser" of underlings and "a quintessential kiss-up, kickdown sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temper, Temper, Temper ... | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

Klein may be right that the exploitation of congressional rules is strangling democracy. But pointing a finger at the Democratic Party rather than Congress as a whole is disingenuous. Led by Republicans, Congress meddled in the Schiavo case, using legal process and technicalities to counter the courts' decisions. Klein may not like the outcome of that case, but that is democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In God's Hands | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

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