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...Wynn's hotel is so much newer, he could catch up. Amazingly, Lerner expects Wynn's new Macau hotel to earn more than a 100% return--as Adelson's Sands already does. The bottom line is that running a casino in Macau is, as the sports books say, a lock...
Warren’s Chrome messenger bag is the envy of all tote-carrying males: sleek and masculine, fully waterproof, and equipped with a seat belt closure. Inside, he carries a bike lock, two-inch analog tape, a water bottle, and his work clothes (he’s a valet). But his bag is no man purse, he insists. The distinction? “A man purse sits on your side,” says Warren, “but a messenger bag sits on your back.” Obvi...
...that any attempt by North Korea to share its new toys with others would bring harsh consequences. That, of course, is a prudent position in dealing with a nuclear-armed state. The international community would like every nuclear-armed state to disarm, but barring that, it must try to lock such states into arrangements that prevent nuclear weapons from actually being used, or from being exported...
...lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women who wear it want to observe fellow citizens, but remain unseen, as if they were cctv cameras...
...applaud Harvard’s decision to end its Early Action (EA) program. However, today’s editorial repeats the canard that “EA programs are often incorrectly understood to be binding contracts that lock students into attending their institution of choice, should they be accepted.” Really—if you’re not smart enough to understand that an Early Action program isn’t binding, you’re not going to stand much of a chance of being accepted by a university like Harvard, let alone succeed there...