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...referendum was nonbinding, and local officials, thirsting for revenue, invited it to dock anyway. "I got mad," recalls Grey. Now, with this nationwide campaign, he adds, "I'm getting even." This hometown fight led to invitations to speak in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other states grappling with a riverboat onslaught. Grey's message: Despite the $1.4 billion in annual tax revenues it pays states and localities nationwide, casino gambling is bad economics, draining dollars from restaurants and shops, spurring crimes such as burglary and embezzlement, preying on the poor who wager a bigger proportion of their income and tempting addicts...
...undermines Fuentes' confidence in the only two things he ever found salvation in: his ability to write and to love. However, her inward vulnerability, romanticism, and rebellious nature eventually catch up to her; she becomes one of J. Edgar Hoover's "reliable enemies". The goddess is crushed by the onslaught of the FBI and the American media and Fuentes is left to reconstruct the ideals of his literary career and his perceptions of love...
...Wharf to drink Carib beer, eat lobster tails and listen to the pulsing beat of soca music. Outside, crickets chirp and waves murmur on the beach. The air is soft, the breeze sweet. It's hard to imagine a cozier, more peaceful spot to unwind from winter's onslaught, which explains why every year at this time thousands of sun-starved American and European tourists migrate to St. Kitts by plane and cruise ship. Most of them are unaware that the sleepy little isle also accommodates a more sinister group of visitors, emissaries of the Colombian drug lords who have...
...Barry Hillenbrand. "If the terror campaign does not work in London, it could be expanded to other cities, and the killing between the Unionists and Republicans in Northern Ireland could start again. The situation would be back to where it started before the negotiations began." A renewed bombing onslaught is unlikely to force a British capitulation, says Hillenbrand: "The IRA has misread the situation: it can't push the British back to the negotiating table. Still, the IRA's frustration is understandable. The British Government promised talks in exchange for a cease fire and for 18 months, did essentially nothing...
There was absolutely nothing B.U. could do to stop the offensive onslaught of Harvard, or to mount an attack of their own. The Crimson women were stronger, faster and more talented, and certainly proved from the outset that they were the better team...