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...Jim Murren waited five years to welcome the world to CityCenter, the 18 million-sq.-ft., $8.5 billion resort complex that opened this week in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. When he took over as CEO of MGM Mirage a year ago, he was a youthful 47. "I'm now an old 48," he says, and he's got the gray hairs to prove it. That's because CityCenter came within a whisker of not opening at all, even as it was billed the most expensive private construction project in American history and thought of among locals...
...teenage Victoria was heir to the throne held by her uncle, King William (Jim Broadbent), but living in royal lockdown at Kensington Palace. "Even a palace can be a prison," she tells us. We're well acquainted with the downside of royalty, thanks to the current Windsors' chatty ex-in-laws, but Victoria isn't just whinging. She sleeps in a room with her German-born mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), has only her spaniel Dash for a playmate and isn't allowed to walk down stairs alone. Her governess, the Baroness Lehzen (Jeanette Hain), is the closest...
Still, Congress faces a heavy burden in searching every nook and cranny for ways to fund the health care reform bill's $849 billion price tag. Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senator Reid, dismisses suggestions that women are being targeted and notes that Senators are looking everywhere for ways to fund the bill. "There was a point a few weeks ago when Senator Reid needed some additional revenue for this bill - the goal was to keep all the financing within the health care arena, and in the end, he decided to include this provision in the bill," says Manley...
...left flank against his moderate supporters. Meanwhile, Republicans have found some traction on the economy, for which Americans traditionally blame, for good or ill, the guy who calls 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home. As soon as Obama finished speaking, his foes pulled out their knives too. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint called Obama "delusional" and "out of control...
...Bush Administration energetically supported these efforts. So did National Security Adviser Jim Jones when he served as a Middle East envoy during the Bush Administration. When Jones wanted to make the town of Jenin a model of how security could be improved, he worked closely with those of us who were encouraging private investments...