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Matt Hubbard ’00 took home an Emmy for Best Writing for his work on the hit comedy series 30 Rock on Sunday night. His episode, “Reunion,” beat out three other episodes of 30 Rock to win the award on a night in which the show was nominated for awards 22 times. Kentaro Fujita ’00, who was Hubbard’s freshman year roommate in Thayer and is now a professor at the Ohio State University, said that he was happy to hear the news but not surprised...
...17th casino in the city, and the company plans to launch another, Casino Oceanus, by the end of the year. In June, Ho's son Lawrence, CEO of NASDAQ-listed Melco Crown Entertainment, opened a mega-resort called City of Dreams, with a 520-table casino and a Hard Rock Hotel. An 800-room Grand Hyatt opens at the resort later this month. Wynn is also finishing a $650 million expansion of his Wynn Macau. Called the Encore, the addition, expected to open in April, 2010, includes 400 luxury suites, an expanded casino and more restaurants...
...health care - or at least virtually alone, with Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, the one moderate Republican who has remained open to supporting the bill. Walking down the corridors of the Senate on Sept. 17, I encountered a senior Senate Democratic aide whistling Simon & Garfunkel's classic "I Am a Rock," the lyrics to which, he noted bemusedly, Democrats should take heart...
...large painting hangs in Abdullah's drawing room. It is a variation on the traditional Persian theme of a Sufi master sitting on a rock, jesting with his loving disciples. In this canvas, though, the turbaned Sufi teacher is replaced by Masood and his disciples are several scruffy-looking guerrillas plus Abdullah, who stands out, neatly combed, with the hint of a halo. As a military man, Masood understood that in Afghanistan, political disputes are often settled by force. This is a lesson passed on to his disciple Abdullah and one, he says, that Karzai should learn, too. "Karzai blames...
...internationally televised concert in Havana's Revolution Plaza on Sunday, Sept. 20, Colombian rock superstar Juanes looked out at a crowd of more than 1 million and shouted, "Cuba libre! Cuba libre!" (Free Cuba!) It was a mantra you could take two ways: If you're a fan of Cuba's communist government, it was a cry to keep the island safe from U.S. imperialism. If you're a foe, it was a plea for the political and economic freedoms that Fidel Castro and his brother, current President Raúl Castro, have muzzled for 50 years...