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Steven Begleiter isn't the only Wall Streeter to have hit pay dirt at the poker tables in Las Vegas. But he might become the first to claim the game's biggest prize - and in an odd way he owes it all to his former employer, the collapsed investment house Bear Stearns...
...Main Event beginning Nov. 7 at the Rio Hotel. To get there he had to outlast all but eight others in a field of 6,494 in play over the summer. He's already won nearly $1.3 million (as has each finalist) and is shooting for the top prize: an additional $7.2 million. (See the financial crisis after one year...
...introducing plays by Mamet, Sam Shepard and others, popularizing a high-voltage performance style and spawning stars like John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. The city's biggest resident theater, the Goodman, has produced everything from major revivals of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller to last year's Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, while a growing roster of smaller off-Loop theaters have nurtured experimental works like 2007's critically acclaimed musical version of Elmer Rice's expressionist play The Adding Machine...
REED BRODY, an officer at Human Rights Watch, on the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's decision not to award its annual $5 million prize--the world's largest--for good governance on the continent...
Were you surprised about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize? I think everybody was, no more so than he. I almost felt sorry for President Obama. You can't blame him for getting it. It wasn't his fault. He didn't apply for it. He didn't ask for it. I thought it was really more of a statement about the political correctness of the committee than it was about Barack Obama. Along with many other people, I had some fun with it, talking about that we're now going to give out the Nobel Peace Prize...