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...British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely. Alex Jennings' George W. Bush cannily suggests the confidence and drive beneath the cowboy persona. And the dramatic high point comes when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (Joe Morton) battles with Nick Sampson's silkily threatening French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin over the all-important right to a second United Nations resolution. If all that sounds more like a news story than a play, Hare the playwright has defeated Hare the propagandist. The veteran dramatist knows that great characters make...
Reported by Kate Betts, Sarah Raper Larenaudie, Camilla Morton, Nadia Mustafa, Kate Novack, Josh Patner, Michiko Toyama, Rebecca Winters and Kristina Zimbalist
...biker and motorcycle builder known as "Indian Larry"; of injuries suffered while performing a stunt; in Charlotte, North Carolina. A favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash-and-burn" lifestyle, he was most famous for a chopper he built and dubbed "Grease Monkey." died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive who oversaw construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England; in Bosham, England. His leadership helped the project survive a series of political and financial crises before the 50-km tunnel finally opened in 1994. DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered...
Following Morton's lead, the owners of Palms Casino Resort, which opened at the end of 2001, decided to aim even younger. The Maloof brothers, who own the Sacramento Kings basketball team, sold their local casino and built the Palms off-Strip and gave it no particular theme, figuring Vegas visitors would find out which hotel fit their demographic. (Wynn will also be unthemed, as will the Palazzo. The MGM Grand and the Mandalay Bay have almost entirely shed their film and Asian themes.) "I wanted to build the ultimate party place," says George Maloof, 40, the brother who runs...
...good chunk of this growth is driven by people under 30, the ones who can spend money until at least 7 a.m., apparently with no significant stomach problems. Peter Morton, 56, the first to see that youth was an untapped market, in 1995 built the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in the middle of the sagebrush off the Strip. "It was totally intuitive," he says. That demo is funding the Richard Meier--designed tower he's building later this year. "Our demographics studies have shown that young people who come to Vegas are better educated, have more disposable income...