Word: resorted
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...also be the Disney World of the 21st century. Scrubbed (or at least whitewashed) of its reputation as a Mob town infatuated with scuzzy strippers and sleazy comics, Las Vegas today is a leading family-resort destination, with theme parks, water parks and high-tech arcades in nearly every new hotel. And where families go, wholesome entertainment follows. That's one reason the Flamingo Hilton, the house that gangster Bugsy Siegel built, hired the Rockettes, whose high kicking and higher kitsch remind us that their brand of dance is as much a part of 20th century culture as anything choreographed...
Understandably, journalists resort to writing about the people and the things that seem to be important in their time, like Gina Grant and O.J. Simpson. And it should not be ignored that these are in fact important and provocative issues: after all, the Simpson affair is probably the biggest and most influential trial in legal history. The question of whether or not a high school student convicted of killing her mother should attend Harvard is certainly a question that affects Harvard students and faculty quite strongly...
...rational, philosophical arguments heard in a Law School classroom have no force against the fear that dominates public and political thinking on crime. The death penalty is a deceptively easy way to fight back, a tactic of last resort at a time when all our other approaches to crime seem to have failed and violence appears epidemic. It is characteristic of our helplessness, however, that our latest strategy is to answer violence with violence...
...Stop laughing, Mr. and Mrs. Loeb. Yes, the University--in the midst of a record-setting fund drive--will resort to crying poverty. Associate Dean of the Faculty Susan K. Feagin tried out this line at last week's Faculty meeting, telling professors that the FAS part of the capital campaign is running behind because of a lack of any sizable gifts...
CHEERS WENT UP IN FUTURES MARKETS everywhere when the news broke of Leeson's detention in Germany last Thursday after his Royal Brunei airliner landed in Frankfurt after a 12-hour flight. Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu, and there, after plunking down $1,600 in cash for seats in the economy section, he boarded the plane in his own name. Malaysian authorities just missed catching up with the Leesons. But reports of their flight immediately circulated abroad. In Frankfurt, German police, carrying pictures of the couple...