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...Kerzner earned his rep as a world-class risk taker by building Sun City, a Las Vegas-style gambling and entertainment complex in a black "homeland" at the height of the apartheid era in South Africa. Critics argued that he was profiting from a much-criticized feature of the apartheid regime; Kerzner countered that Sun City was a place where blacks and whites broke racial barriers by partying together. Kerzner later became friends with Nelson Mandela, attending the South African hero's 90th birthday party in London in June. By the time apartheid fell, Kerzner was selling off his properties...
...stimulus package that includes unemployment benefits, Medicaid help for the states and some assistance for small businesses. House Banking Committee chairman Barney Frank will call on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson for a roasting on how the $700 billion bailout - passed at the height of the crisis - has been spent...
...trash,” said Robert Gogan, manager of recycling & waste services in Facilities Maintenance Operations who worked with REPs—a branch of the Harvard Office for Sustainability—to coordinate Mt. Trashmore. The heap had a 12-foot pole, indicating what the height of the pile would be without recycling. There were also various signs surrounding the trash with recycling tidbits, such as the fact that a ton of trash costs Harvard $87 to remove, compared to $20 for a recycled ton. REP volunteers were on site from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to talk...
...there is no guarantee if the shield works or that it increases security. There has indeed been much Democratic derision focused on what has mostly been seen as a Republican program, one that has been lavished with $100 billion since Ronald Reagan called for such a shield at the height of the Cold...
...scores.“He’s probably the best quarterback in the league,” Penn coach Al Bagnoli said of Pizzotti. “And they’ve got huge wide receivers—I think there’s got to be a height minimum.”Held to only 78 yards, the running game was stifled by Columbia’s front line, but the home team was never truly threatened. Taking the lead in the first quarter, the Lions held it for a total of 20 seconds before falling permanently behind.On...