Word: las
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...could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three--or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist. In fact, when he was an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology back in the 1970s, Ho hung around the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, tilting the odds in his favor by memorizing each card as it was played. He got so good at counting cards that he was thrown out of several casinos...
...November 6, two months after rap superstar Tupac Shakur died in a storm of bullets while driving with his record-company owner, Marion ("Suge") Knight, Sergeant Kevin Manning of the Las Vegas police turned on his television to find Knight chatting with a correspondent for ABC. "If you knew who killed Tupac," asked the reporter, "would you tell the police?" "Absolutely not," answered Knight...
...imagined as a civilization of pre-moral, technologically advanced three-year-olds, the kind of mean widdle kids who cheerfully tell you that they come in peace just before they zap you with their ray guns. The earthlings, from the family in the White House to the gang in Las Vegas, to the dysfunctional bunch living in a trailer near a small Kansas town, are presented as entirely worthy of zapping; they are all either too dumb or too self-absorbed to warrant salvation. Indeed, the big, slowly dawning joke in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! is that, unlike Independence...
...brought joy to my childhood. I am grateful for that. Now the company's standing up to China's reactionary position on the film Kundun [BUSINESS, Dec. 9] dignifies my everyday life. There is no higher satisfaction than seeing a company make money by following its ideals. MARIA GLOVER Las Vegas...
...fourth Harvard team to compete over the holiday break is the wrestling team, which is coming off of a very strong showing in the prestigious Las Vegas Invitational Tournament. Joel Friedman, Ed Mosley and Joe Killar are going to Northwestern in Chicago to wrestle in an invitational tournament that usually features an NCAA champion in one of the weight classes. The rest of the team is going to Pennsylvania to wrestle in the Wilkes Open...