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...tribe's proposed casino. Their fee: more than the legally allowed 40% of net revenues. The deal with the NIGC was negotiated in private, and then chairman Harold Monteau rubber-stamped it. The other two commissioners and several staff members objected, complaining that Monteau had worked out the generous package in secret. Monteau is now a lobbyist on casino issues for more than a dozen tribes...
...gilded cage, Gao is back at work on an ambitious production of his latest drama, Snow in August, which opens at Taipei's National Theatre on Dec. 19. Of course, the Nobel Prize does have its advantages. Thanks to Gao's literary celebrity, the production budget is unusually generous, allowing him 60 actors, a choir and a 70-member orchestra. All that manpower has created an unclassifiable theatrical experience. "It's not a drama, or a Peking opera, or modern dance, or Western opera," says Gao. It's all of the above, an avant-garde East-West fusion that tells...
...palatial d?cor and stunning views of Bangkok, the Rang Mahal restaurant in the Rembrandt Hotel is flashy dining at its finest. And the sumptuousness doesn't stop at the kitchen door. For those who want to eat like royalty, the Maharajah menu?one of three set meals?offers a generous selection of delectable northern Indian dishes, including saffron-flavored fish and crispy fried Punjabi samosas. Thai Queen Sirikit has dined there "not once, not twice, but no less than three times," whispers the manager. A three-course set menu costs $20 per person. Call (662) 261 7100 for reservations...
...million of that is used domestically for research, leaving a paltry $700 to $800 million for global AIDS. Bush and Congress came up with $40 billion to fight the war on terrorism, and yet they say a 7.5 percent share of the AIDS fund is plenty generous to fight epidemics that kill six million people globally each year. (For perspective, the U.S. economy is 31 percent of the global economy...
...addition, the newly revamped curriculum at the BFA has played a seminal role in shaping the current, nascent generation of filmmakers. Through generous government subsidies, programs modeled closely after methods drawn from European and American film studies departments extensively expose students to foreign films and film history. Whether they be from the canonical European classics dating from the 1890s, Chinese film from the 1930s or contemporary Korean and Japanese work, all ensure that graduates of the academy leave with a keen competitive edge in the international market and go on to create important, original work informed by a firm sense...