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...access to private jets and exclusive high-limit gaming areas is to persuade more foreigners to ante up on the Strip. These new casinos abroad are "Vegas Lite," says imagemaker Billy Vassiliadis. If anything, they "will whet the appetite. They'll get just enough of a taste to stoke their fires for coming here." The Strip is ready and waiting for the world's big spenders
However eager Kerry and Edwards are to stoke the idea of Cheney as an overreaching force of darkness, Edwards has yet to make much of an impression at all. Nearly 55% of registered voters say they know little or nothing about him, and nearly half--49%--say they're not sure whether the impression they do have is favorable or not. That's a situation the Kerry campaign set out to rectify last week, with a new $17 million advertising blitz in 20 states, including its first buy of ad time in Edwards' home state of North Carolina...
...think the restrictions of Cairo have done nothing but exacerbate my restlessness and stoke my exhibitionist urges. I have belted Bob Marley while careening through the Sahara in an ancient Humvee, friends at my side, to a campsite in the white desert. I have reclaimed my independence atop a desert ridge, ripping off my shirt and claiming the land for myself—“Operation O’Brien Freedom,” I called it. Then I scampered back down to find our Bedouin guides laughing at my idiocy. I’d left my only water...
...emergency and cement his hold on power. According to this theory, he died when the original plot to kill only his bodyguard was hijacked by foreign agents. For six months, the trial of 13 alleged conspirators accused of killing the pro-reform Prime Minister has served mainly to stoke the rumor mill. The testimony last week of the infamous ex-paramilitary boss Milorad Lukovic - the man police say orchestrated the hit - seemed calculated to send the proceedings spinning out of control. Before his court appearance, Lukovic's attorney had promised his client would provide "irrefutable evidence" proving who was behind...
Enterprising undergraduates this year pioneered a handful of innovative social and networking websites intended to improve Harvard’s social scene, stoke students’ entrepreneurial impulses and even help students get a date...