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...When the Cuban government announced last week that it had placed the fugitive American financier under arrest, Vesco was little more than a cipher, a relic from an earlier generation, recalled in vague outline for his criminal odyssey around the Caribbean and for a broad range of roles -- millionaire, gambler, stock cheat, illegal campaign contributor, Watergate shadow, drug dealer, scoundrel. He was, for archaeologists of roguery, the fossil evidence that money can buy power and immunity from the reach of the law. Now, suddenly and surprisingly, he was back in the news. But last week Robert Vesco became...
...year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California to pan for gold. "Nothing I love better than being in the mountains, going months without seeing...
Dealmaking seems to satisfy the gambler in Kerkorian, a man more at home in Las Vegas than in Hollywood. After World War II he bought refurbished planes to fly bettors from Los Angeles to the casinos. From that he developed a small airline, which he sold in 1968 in a deal that eventually brought him $104 million. That money helped him build and then sell ever larger Vegas hotels, a sequence he capped with the 1993 opening of the $1 billion MGM Grand, with its 5,005 rooms, 15,000-seat arena and 33-acre theme park...
...entirely original) intellectual mystery novel, with Scalopino as the fat, slightly revolting genius, whose nut is Lang's to crack, and Sophie as the romantic interest, a nut of a different flavor. In another novel, Lightman might have found better use for his more intriguing characters--Uncle Maury the gambler who tries to expiate himself by fixing the plumbing, Davis the aging, macho thesis adviser who bets bottles of vodka on his own conjectures...
...stands now, broker-client is the most one-sided of all human relationships. Before you can open an account, brokers make you fill out a questionnaire in which you must reveal your net worth (something you wouldn't tell your best friend) and whether you are a gambler or a tightwad -- all in the interest of designing a custom-made portfolio. At the end of this inquisition the broker knows a great deal about you, whereas you know almost nothing about the broker. Then you hand over your life's savings to this total stranger...