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Across the board, advising is a crapshoot. Some lucky souls land the jackpot, scoring a full professor with time on her hands, but don't count on anything more than a confused graduate student. Research the labyrinthine academic bureaucracy for yourself and start thinking soon. At the end of your first year, you'll have to choose a concentration (calling it a "major" is just too plebian...
...writer pointed out at the time: "[It's] like hitting the jackpot on the slot machine in Las Vegas, and then returning to your hotel room to find Kim Basinger." Although this 80's lingo might be better translated now as winning a million on Regis's show and finding Carmen Electra, the impressiveness of his feat remains evident...
...gaming on their reservations. Some use the resulting income for community development, education and investment. Others simply make big payouts to their members. The Shakopee, a small Minnesota tribe, writes checks for as much as $700,000 to each of its adult members every year. This kind of jackpot has attracted a host of non-Indian investors, willing to put up millions of dollars to back would-be Indian tribes in their attempts to win federal recognition...
...combined MGM-Mirage is a jackpot worth fighting for. It would become the No. 2 U.S. gambling behemoth, behind Park Place Entertainment, and would own 50% of the lucrative tables for baccarat, a card game in which players can wager as much as $250,000 at a turn. So coveted are Mirage's four Las Vegas casinos that both Park Place and Harrah's are reportedly weighing their bids for the company...
...that the shows in Vegas tend to be more sophisticated and exciting than anything you'll see on Broadway. It's a bold statement, but you need at least 10 trips to Vegas to catch all the worthy productions. On this, our 17th go at it, we hit the jackpot. After seeing the spectacular musical "Chicago" at Mandalay Bay the first night, we somehow managed to finagle tickets to see sold-out 'NSync at the MGM Grand Garden Arena the following night...