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...well in the members-only aeries these days. During a recent race at the Sha Tin racetrack one sunny Saturday afternoon, HKJC CEO Lawrence Wong warned that horse racing in Hong Kong is facing "irreparable damage" from illegal bookmakers and hefty taxes. Horse-race-gambling revenue taken in by the club?which is less a sanctuary for the moneyed classes than it is a government-sanctioned monopoly gaming enterprise?has fallen in six of the past seven years. Last season's take was 30% lower than in 1997. Says Wong in an e-mail to TIME: "The situation [has] caused...
This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every racetrack and lottery counter and on every riverboat and square foot where...
...want when I'm at home. I am considering taking the beer so I can finally get sick and get the nurse to send me home. This New Vegas, this stomach-churning Vegas, was built from a scrap heap of roller coasters. When gambling popped up at every U.S. racetrack and lottery counter and on every piece of ground where a Native American once lived, Las Vegas had an identity crisis. It built theme parks,believing that if its vices had become acceptable, it might as well turn family-friendly. And it stumbled. Because what Vegas hadn't understood...
...opening sequence of the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day. But since childhood Hamilton had been mesmerized by the huge outer reef breaks that appeared after some Pacific winter storms. He regularly surfed the biggest waves he could catch: "It is as if you are on a racetrack, and it is moving too, [and] all of a sudden turns pop up and bumps are flying at you ... and that is part of the excitement," he says. But as the swells got bigger, their speed increased, and even Hamilton's pumped-up arms couldn't paddle fast enough to launch...
...spoken out against the mistreatment of immigrants and in support of antiglobalization demonstrations. Progressive Catholic groups such as the Community of Sant'Egidio and the archtraditionalist Opus Dei seem to like him equally. He can reach out to the laity as well: the Archbishop showed up at the Monza racetrack last month for a spin in a Formula One car before the Grand Prix...