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...even easier. Sam Katz, a Philadelphia financier who has arranged multimillion-dollar financing packages for sports stadiums from Denver to Miami, has become the Lyttons' guardian angel. Katz and his partners found and bought a 10-acre parcel of land for a casino amid the graying stores and modest homes of San Pablo on the East Bay, a 25-minute drive from San Francisco. You might call it a "gaming reservation" because the Lyttons do not intend to live there. Katz has acquired a second piece of property--near Windsor, 60 miles away--for the tribe's "residential" reservation...
...casino. Paragon is headed by Diana Bennett, a gaming executive and daughter of Vegas veteran and co-founder of the Circus Circus Casino William Bennett. Martin's Augustine Casino opened last July. With 349 slot machines and 10 gaming tables, it's the fifth and by far the most modest casino in the Palm Springs area. But it stands to make a lot of non-Indian investors--and one Indian adult--rich...
...when fishing was finally banned in 1992, the fishery stood at 1% to 3% of its historic levels. Even today the fish have not returned. In the mid-1980s, the fishery produced over 200,000 tons a year, but fishermen today cannot catch enough to fill their modest 7,000-ton quota. Scientists fear that the same disaster could befall European stocks. One factor in the Newfoundland collapse may have been an effect of climate changes caused by man. During the period 1988-96 the Atlantic was anomalously cold, because of very cold meltwater coming down from the Arctic...
...Many Ukrainians fear their country may be slipping back into totalitarianism. "We have failed to create a system that guarantees democracy," warns Viktor Yuschenko, leader of the Our Ukraine bloc, the largest opposition faction in parliament, and a former Prime Minister removed by Kuchma in April 2000 for his modest attempts at reform. "We are not just close to a dictatorship; we are already in a serious phase of dictatorship." Don't expect to hear about this through the temniki. The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch recently described the government directives as "subtle but very effective censorship...
Cinematographer Hou Yong is struggling with a screenplay he hopes will be the vehicle for his directorial debut. So he has journeyed to a modest office in an apartment block in Beijing to seek advice from the master, Zhang Yimou. He's come to the right place. The celebrated director favors Hou with an impassioned soliloquy on his interpretation of the script: why Hou should use narrative repetition to create pathos, why the antique wardrobe stays in the same place for three decades, why the mother and the daughter never speak to each other at dinner...