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...Icahn, this isn't his first foray into the casino sector. Between 2000 and 2006, he purchased four casinos - the Stratosphere, Arizona's Charlie's Boulder, Arizona Charlie's Decatur and Aquarius Casinos - for $300 million, and sold them for $1.2 billion in 2008 before the recession unleashed the worst of its fury. (The original price was $1.3 billion, but was adjusted down slightly at closing time.) "That's a pretty good reward for waiting, right?" says Icahn. "Hopefully history will repeat itself...
...First with them being a ranked opponent, we were viewed as an underdog going into the game,” Zdrojewski said. “For us to be able to step up to that and be able to have control during the duration of the game was a great thing...
...spotlight stories of real Americans whose lives have been improved by access to health care (pushed, no doubt, by Democrats from every competitive congressional district and state). The louder Republicans yell, the more they will be characterized and caricatured as sore losers infuriated by the first major delivery of candidate Obama's promise of "change." The focus on the weekend's alleged racial and gay-bashing verbal attacks by opponents of the Democrats' plan should be a caution to Republican strategists trying to figure out how to manage the media this year...
...journalist Mary Raftery's documentary film States of Fear was broadcast on Irish television. The film brought to public attention for the first time the systemic nature of abuse at Catholic institutions in the past. Since then, Raftery has campaigned for an investigation into child abuse to be held in every Catholic diocese in Ireland...
...shocking extent of child abuse by clergy in Ireland's parishes and Catholic institutions was exposed last year in two government inquiries, known as the Ryan Report and the Murphy Report. The first described "endemic sexual abuse" at schools and orphanages run by religious orders from the 1930s to the 1990s, while the latter accused the Catholic Church, the state and the Irish police of colluding in the covering up of sexual abuse committed by priests in the archdiocese of Dublin. (Catholic Europe: How Damaged is the Papacy...