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...that while the hurricane had inflicted tremendous physical damage, the major elements that had made Mississippi attractive for the entertainment and casino industry were still there," he says. But basing casinos on the water was looking like a bad bet, so the state moved quickly. In October, a special session of the Mississippi Legislature changed state laws to permit casinos to move 800 ft. inland, opening the way for gaming rooms to open inside casino hotels, most of which survived Katrina's tidal surge. "We knew the future of gaming in Mississippi, the future of our economic recovery, depended...
That’s not to say that you should pick a topic that you definitely loathe just because you hear the preceptor brings Dunkin’ Donuts to every session. But don’t shy away from topics you haven’t written about extensively in high school...
...State Condoleezza Rice. To be invited to the Davos-style gathering, each guest was expected to promise to do something specific within a year in one of the conference subject areas: worldwide poverty, religious conflict, corruption and global warming. It claimed 300 commitments worth $2.5 billion from that first session. Says Clinton: "After 10 years of that kind of action, we should have made the world a better place...
...pool in the spa, it's one of many flourishes that distinguish the 33 bedrooms from each other and from the accommodation in lesser hotels. On the last day, Andy and I stretch out on adjacent tables in the spa as two masseuses prepare to knead and exfoliate. Each session is tailored to the individual - that's probably what Andy's masseuse means when she tells him she's about to administer "a personality treatment." Or perhaps she's acting on secret instructions from the management who may have expected us to show contrition for footprints left...
...believe in," Paton says. "There's the whole argument about weapons of mass destruction, but I really just felt that what Saddam Hussein was doing was wrong, and we needed to finish the job that we had started years before." He adds that the first few weeks of session are usually devoted to issues like naming the state butterfly and not hammering out the state budget. The move also leaves his opponents in a sticky position: do they attack Paton in his absence? Or even suggest that his volunteering is an election gambit...