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...neglected American gambling casinos. Last April, Ginji Yasuda, a Korean-born Japanese, reopened the 1,100- room Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas after buying the ailing complex for $54 million and spending $30 million more to restore its glitzy decor. He plans to shuttle customers from Japan in a posh jet equipped with sleeping cabins. Says Yasuda: "You have a lot of dreams still available in this country that you don't have in Japan...
...young comics, helping launch the careers of Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, David Letterman and dozens more. Now clubs with names like the Punch Line, Laff Stop and Funny Bone are spreading the yuks everywhere from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Ozark, Ala. At least 260 full-time comedy clubs -- ranging from posh nighteries like New York's Caroline's to converted Chinese restaurants -- are currently in operation, according to Barry Weintraub, publisher of a magazine called Comedy U.S.A.; two-thirds of them were launched within the past five years...
...electric at this posh London casino. A beautiful woman is losing big at chemin de fer. How can the stranger across the table keep drawing better cards out of the shoe? Desperately, she borrows more to cover her bets, and the stranger says, "I admire your courage, Miss...
Shortly before sunrise, some 30 heavily armed security troops rode by truck into the posh residential neighborhood of Altos de Golf. Quickly, the Israeli- trained riot police fanned out in front of a white-walled house. Overhead, two Huey helicopter gunships hovered, soldiers and their machine guns peeking through the open doors. At 5:30 a.m., the first shots rang...
...Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt has such difficulty with decisions that he chose plaid when asked to select a color for his campaign. Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, struggling to become the old Confederacy's new champion for 1988, chose "Southern" as his foreign language when attending a posh Washington prep school...