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...plans to slap that giant signature around the world. His company, Wynn Resorts, is set to open Wynn Macau in China next year, has bid for a gaming license in Singapore, is investigating a London property and in 2008 will finish Encore, a $1.4 billion, all-suites hotel on 8 hectares adjacent to the Wynn. Within a decade, the company intends to rip up Wynn Las Vegas' brand-new, Tom Fazio-designed golf course to build housing developments and entertainment facilities...
...opportunist who has chosen to remain in Australia for lifestyle reasons. It's more plausible, however, to see Chen as someone taking an enormous personal risk, acting out of conscience and rejecting life and work under an authoritarian state. Whatever his motives, Chen has given one regime a slap in the face, while presenting the other with a highly visible test of its values, humanity and independence. You can bet the political pragmatists are working overtime in Canberra and Beijing to flatten out this bump in the road...
Though Hoffer says the University’s response to Tribe and Ogletree was barely a “slap on the wrist,” he argues that other factors must be considered when gauging the severity of their discipline...
...Fereshteh Street, one of Tehran's high-end thoroughfares and a cruising route for the young. The 70-year-old cleric's grinning face was plastered on a new-model Mercedes-Benz, and dandyish young men and pretty young women in snug, bright tunics leaped into traffic to slap stickers on passing cars. Some drivers swerved to avoid them, with expressions that seemed to say, This is all a lie. Others stared, as if they were taking in a strange exhibit at the zoo. You can see the uncertainty on their faces, as they drive into the night, chased...
...camaraderie that comes from group nudity—it is not sexual, but utterly human. In those moments, as male and female genitalia are not only displayed, but frequently brushed up against in the frenzy of the crowd, we are not disgusted—nay, we are invigorated. We slap five to the clothed onlookers, proud to be participating in this great communal activity, where we are the focal point, not as individuals, but as a blur of heroes...