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...madness of gambling is based on the belief that either the player will win or somehow come up with the money if he loses. Since gamblers frequenting casinos rarely win, the real issue is their ability to pay off debt. Las Vegas has become like the rest of America. Visitors to the city were just late coming around to the realization that borrowing has gone out of vogue. If most large American banks were based in Las Vegas they would still be buying toxic paper and lending money for leveraged buyouts...
Against all odds, my friends and I somehow managed to land tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration. But while our silver-section admission granted us a closer view than millions of Obama fans teeming on the National Mall, we were still in the most plebeian of ticketed areas. If we wanted the best possible spot, we were going to have to battle with 140,000 other early risers. And unbeknownst to us, we were also going to have to tolerate appalling police incompetence. And so late at night on January 19, I put on three pairs of pants...
...very focused. Very focused,” says Docken. “Somehow he had a key to some room in Leverett House in the towers—I’m not sure how he got it—but if he had a paper or something due, he’d be down in that room, hacking away at the typewriter...
...follow him on the social-networking service of the trip that he and five others, including House minority leader John Boehner, had embarked on. Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, took exception to the criticism from both the left and right that he had somehow jeopardized the security of those on the trip through his messages, or Tweets. "On this trip, nothing was classified as secret or top secret or anything like that," Hoekstra told TIME. "A whole range of people know about the trip, people with no security clearances, including my wife...
...Standing almost parallel with the goal line, Michaud somehow redirected the puck into net from a near-impossible angle...