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...While financial details have not been made public, one can estimate the tycoon's windfall. Lim provided two loans, one for $60 million, the other for $175 million. His company, Kien Huat Realty Ltd., will receive interest on the loans for years to come. But Lim really hit the jackpot with a clause that reportedly gives him 10% of Foxwoods' net income until 2018. Foxwoods' gross revenue is more than $1 billion a year. Assuming no downturn in the casino's fortunes, TIME estimates, Lim and his family will walk away with $1 billion over the life of the agreement...
...lose again bet four dollars on red, and so on and so on. When the board finally comes up red, you win a dollar. He gave the dollar to his girlfriend in 20 nickels, who lost 19 of them at the slots before winning the jackpot of $8 on the very last nickel. Eight dollars was, coincidentally, exactly the price of a marriage license in Nevada—and the couple were married the next day. “My life could have been very different if she hadn’t hit the jackpot,” he says...
...draw on my whiteboard at work," he recalls. "People said, 'You should try to get that published.' I was just playing the odds. It seemed like the corporate life was safe and cartooning was wacky. But wacky started looking better." He sent samples to a syndicator and hit the jackpot...
...long ago, there's no better medium than television for putting chipper, derivative pop singers on top of the singles charts. KELLY CLARKSON, 20, the former cocktail waitress from Burleston, Texas, who won Fox's American Idol talent contest along with a record deal with RCA, hit the royalties jackpot with A Moment Like This, the song she performed on the show's finale. The tune rose from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini. By the time...
...appeals has ruled that three leases in the basin were granted illegally because the environmental impact of drilling for methane had not been properly studied. Interior officials tell TIME that the lease problem is "surmountable" and the objections are "resolvable." If so, Bush would finally have his energy jackpot. But the price would be steep--new fodder for critics who say the White House is willing to trample on the environment in order to serve the energy industry...