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...hand-delivered. Some 50 such notes have so far been retrieved. Since sending his wife and two sons back to his native town of Corleone in 1992, his communication with them is also limited to pizzini. Investigators say that Provenzano's sons - one a university student, the other the proprietor of a Corleone dry cleaners - have recently grown disenchanted with their absent father's career choice. The elder Provenzano also has an apparent religious streak. In one late 2001 note, a photocopy of which was obtained by Time, Provenzano finalizes an underling's repayment of a small debt and then...
...Since then, the Perth International Arts Festival estimates that more than 4,480 visitors have got to know the people on the lake. At the service station, proprietor Christine proudly shows a photo of her sculpture sent to her by an American tourist - "he said it was so nice to have a connection," she says. At lakeside, a Scottish traveler is illegally setting up camp for the night. "I don't know whether the statues are intrinsically meritorious," he says, "but I like the idea of creating them and installing them in such an out-of-the-way spot." Earlier...
...some very smart people as well. "The dotcom generation loves poker. It gives you a sense of control you don't find in other games," says Howard Schwartz, the proprietor of Las Vegas' Gambler's Book Shop. "It's a roller coaster with an adrenaline high." Schwartz links poker's popularity to a natural migration from other games. "Blackjack players have gone to poker because the casinos are breathing down the necks of anybody who counts cards or increases their bets substantially. They're so afraid that these M.I.T. kids are going to take them down for a million dollars...
...elimination," he says, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal people." And some very smart people as well. "The dotcom generation loves poker. It gives you a sense of control you don't find in other games," says Howard Schwartz, the proprietor of Las Vegas' Gambler's Book Shop. "It's a roller coaster with an adrenaline high." Schwartz links poker's popularity to a natural migration from other games. "Blackjack players have gone to poker because the casinos are breathing down the necks of anybody who counts cards or increases their bets...
Things have certainly become more complex since 1936, the year Sy left China for the Philippines to join his father, the proprietor of a tiny grocery store in Manila. In the 1950s Sy opened his own shop, selling shoes. He branched into department stores in the late 1950s and supermarkets in the 1970s. But his big breakout came in 1985, when he opened his first supermall in the Quezon City district of greater Manila, which was then practically undeveloped. The business community expected Sy to lose his (Hawaiian) shirt. Instead, his clean, air-conditioned venue introduced modern shopping...