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...kilometers of flashing neon and monster casinos that look like billion-dollar monuments to kitsch, the Las Vegas Strip might seem impossible?not to mention inadvisable?to replicate. But Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands and the city's richest developer, thinks America's gambling mecca is ripe for cloning. Last week he flew to Macau, the only place in China where casinos are legal, to unveil a glittering scale model of the Cotai Strip, a $12-15 billion development modeled on Las Vegas' famed stretch of luxury hotels and gaming dens...
...setting the contract, known as Future Combat Systems, outside the normal procurement process. "The type of contracting leaves the government extremely vulnerable because there is no transparency or taxpayer protection," says Eric Miller, the senior defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group. "It is ripe for abuse and often misused." A Pentagon representative said the program is being properly monitored...
...same time, Hizballah's leader is signaling broad agreement with opposition objectives, even conceding that the time may now be ripe for a Syrian withdrawal. Most importantly, he shares absolute aversion of all the Lebanese factions towards any resumption of civil conflict. Violence against other Lebanese, he told his supporters on Tuesday, was a red line that dare not be crossed. Indeed, his performance led Lebanon's leading pro-Western liberal daily newspaper, the Daily Star, to enthuse in an editorial that "Hizballah is not a problem - it is part of Lebanon's solution." The question, however, is whether...
PASCARELLA: There's $19 trillion spent by consumers and businesses on cash and checks. That's ripe for the picking by Visa or any other card. Our banks are going to test some things with American Express and Discover, but if we have the right value proposition, we're going...
Judy Garland lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss