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Three Harvard players were honored with All-Tournament Team status following the games: Estevez, Luzak and Reilly. Fresno St., 3-1 in Las Vegas Fresno St. 0-3--3 HARVARD...
Shots: Fresno St. 13; Harvard 8. Crimson, 2-0 in Las Vegas UNLV 0-0--0 HARVARD...
...city fathers have no intention of turning their town into another Las Vegas. Branson sees itself as a family attraction: almost every production has a flag-waving number, and there are several gospel shows. Jack Herschend, president of Silver Dollar City, points out that no blue shows have succeeded. "This is such a family place that anyone who tried to capture the off- color niche wouldn't work...
...with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin. These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy with financing from the Medellin cartel), or Elvis (he's living in Las Vegas, working as -- what else? -- an Elvis impersonator). The wildest theories are received with a blissed-out smile. "Sorry I'm late," somebody says; the reply is "That's O.K. -- time doesn't exist." Yes, it does. Though set in the '90s, Slacker has a spirit that is pure...
Life in much of the American West would be unimaginable in its present form without the Colorado. Those cascading fountains adorning Las Vegas casinos? Take away the river's largesse, and there would be tumbleweed blowing along an abandoned Strip. San Diego could turn into a very thirsty place should something go wrong with the river: almost 70% of the water its citizens use every day is piped in from the Colorado. And what of California's Imperial Valley, which grows a major portion of the nation's vegetables? Goodbye Colorado River, hello cactus and mesquite...