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...chief promoter of one of the more ambitious pieces of social legislation ever crafted on a state level. Picking up where the U.S. Congress left off when a proposed $368 billion federal tobacco lawsuit settlement was killed in June, Prop 10 would add a 50[cent] tax to each pack of cigarettes sold in California. The money, up to $700 million a year, would be channeled into antitobacco programs and early-childhood health and education. The higher prices would result in an estimated 25% drop in smoking--and consequent savings in the state's $7 billion annual cost of tobacco...
...American city has so successfully reinvented itself as many times as Las Vegas. The only constants in Las Vegas--from the dream of Bugsy Siegel to the haunt of the Rat Pack to a collection of theme hotels evoking other times and places--have been the gambling and the wisdom that it is no destination for the culturally inclined. The opening last week of Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Bellagio hotel and casino, modeled after an Italian Riviera village, is the initial step in a plan to change that perception. Among the first to sample the Bellagio's attractions were...
Once again, the Mob's former desert stopover is on the remake. This joint once prospered as a venue for naughty, even dangerous diversion. Then in the 1980s, Las Vegas tried to go mainstream, transforming itself into a desert Disneyland--the Rat Pack gone to the rug rats. Up went casino hotels with exploding volcanoes, battling galleons and amusement parks. Alas, the folks who showed up with their kids had the audacity to spend time with them instead of gambling away the college funds. The casinos compounded their marketing error by offering cheap rooms and cheaper food...
...Then He Overreached...] ...and tried to pack the Supreme Court, damaging his reputation...
Duchamp, famous for the signed urinal and The Large Glass, and Joseph Cornell, not so famous for living with his mother in Queens, N.Y., and making densely intricate boxes of ephemera such as apothecary jars, photos, paper clippings and decorated wood cubes, formed a kind of pack-rat pack of two in the '40s after Duchamp enlisted Cornell to work on his portable museum, Boite-en-Valise. Cornell's collection of the trimmings--notes, receipts, old glue boxes--of their meetings forms the Duchamp Dossier and the centerpiece of this show. Neither a great Cornell nor a great Duchamp exhibition...