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...dealer. On this trip, I will get a hotel room for less than the upkeep on the room, eat a meal for near what it costs to serve it and - at least according to a sign in the Cheetahs dressing room berating the strippers for undercharging - get some kind of deal in the VIP room. For the first time ever, it is possible to complete a monetary exchange in Las Vegas and feel bad for the other person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...Paul, who died today at 94 in White Plains, N.Y., was no mere antique hitmaker to the rock generations that both learned from him and put his kind of music out of business. He was an inventor and an inspiration. He pioneered recording on tape, creating dozens of layers of sound with an early reel-to-reel tape machine. He designed (though he did not construct) one of the first synthesizers. He devised the first eight-track tape recording system, which would not become generally accepted until 15 years later, when the Beatles made their White Album. And he invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...values go up, up, up/ And the prices go down, down, down") and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act - and their marriage. (Ford died at 52 in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery. It was one of the first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead, he was named to the Rock Hall of Fame in 1988. At the induction ceremony, Jeff Beck said, "I've copied more licks off Les Paul than I'd care to admit." Paul subsequently said to Stephen Peeples, "I'm glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...clothing deal, some of which mirror challenges the polo team has faced. "I think it's going to be bad for Harvard's image," he said. "We already have an image that all of our students are aristocratic, preppy bastards, frankly. So as an undergraduate student I'm kind of taken aback a little bit that that's going to be happening, and I almost want to laugh...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Licenses Brand for Preppy Clothing Line | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...prep has become a style for a broad section of Harvard students, Stilz said. "Anybody from the richest final club president to somebody there on financial aid is typically walking around in khakis," he said. "Prep is kind of blurred into the new Harvard...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Licenses Brand for Preppy Clothing Line | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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