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...personality. He can't help himself," Wynn says. His posh inn, Wynn believes, will draw customers who will run up larger tabs--and create fatter profits. "Bigger ain't better. Better is better," Wynn says. The Wynn Macau "would look not like an office building, but a resort. We will always get our market share, because we've got a better mousetrap." Adelson has "got an advantage, but I'll catch up lickety-split," Wynn says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Egos Bigger Than China | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Even if true, it was a desperate ploy, and one that garnered him little sympathy. But Foley was not the first disgraced public figure this year to resort to alcoholism as an excuse for bad behavior...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Alcoholics Accountable | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...cell phones. In January 2004, a CIA team flying on a Boeing Business Jet, registered to Premier Executive Transport in Massachusetts - which Grey said appeared to list only one employee, and which has refused comment to Grey and other journalists - bedded down at the five-star Marriott Son Antem resort in Palma on Majorca, the Mediterranean island, after a long, grueling day: they had flown prisoners under cover of darkness from the Moroccan capital Rabat to Kabul, and then on to Algiers, before arriving in Palma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...hotel bills, under their CIA cover names, show they made use of resort facilities, including the health spa. Later that year, the Milan anti-terrorism prosecutor Antonio Spataro began investigating whether CIA agents had rendered an Egyptian prisoner, Abu Omar-Osama Nasr, illegally from Italy. Spataro told Grey that among the findings that most surprised him was the high-ticket hotel bills in his city; two alleged CIA agents under the names of Monica Adler and John Duffin spent $18,000 in a three-week stay at the Milan Savoy. Spataro has since issued warrants for their arrest, along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...willing to endure nine months of icy stares at study breaks, give HUPD a call. They’re used to fielding noise complaints and will likely be more intimidating than a lowly tutor (read: they’re armed). Keep in mind that this should be a last resort tactic, and it should only be used when the noise is truly disruptive and occurring after quiet hours. Call the cops on someone you can hear snoring through a fire door, and you deserve that “Resident Psycho” moniker that you’ll be stuck...

Author: By Sara J. Culver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR SARA | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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