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...throbbing boomtown like Macau. In 2002 the Chinese government lifted a 40-year monopoly on casinos in Macau, prompting a gambling-and-tourism explosion that brought a record 22 million visitors to the territory last year. Fueled by punters from mainland China, it has surpassed the Las Vegas Strip as the world's biggest gambling center. As it has grown, Macau has begun to shed its image as a shady place that handles illicit international finance. When the U.S. Treasury Department in 2005 named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, regulators in Macau...
That it is also a strip-malled, traffic-clogged mess does not take away from the fact that it is one of the great economic success stories of our time. With Fairfax County leading the way, the Washington area is becoming a job machine. So why aren't regions around the country trying to emulate it, as they did Silicon Valley in the 1990s? The simple answer is that they can't. "If you can force the rest of the country to send you money or go to jail, it does wonders for your economy," says northern Virginia writer...
...Arab community for eight years. Begin, whose conservative Likud bloc ascended to power in 1977, was praised for his ! statesmanship, but he apparently saw the return of the Sinai as a final act, not as a prelude to negotiating the return of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Then in 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon in an attempt to wipe out the Palestine Liberation Organization once and for all. For the first time, Israel launched a war for essentially political reasons, not because its immediate survival was at stake but as part of a larger design to alter the distributions...
...said than done in a throbbing boomtown like Macau. In 2002 the government lifted a 40-year monopoly on casinos, prompting a gambling and tourism explosion that brought a record 22 million visitors to Macau last year. Fueled by punters from mainland China, it has surpassed the Las Vegas strip as the world's biggest gambling center. The territory has also been dragged into the current standoff between North Korea and the U.S. The U.S. Treasury Department has named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, prompting the territory's regulators to freeze...
...mainly, something in me is suspicious about using this show to elevate the pedigree of comics. It's the venue as much as the works that compels visitors to think that a comic strip can be taken as seriously as a Lichtenstein. I agree with Pettibon, who writes, "For fans of comics the Museum of Art is as foreboding and scary a place as the Comics Convention is for lovers of art." As fascinating and as vindicating as it is to see all this wonderful material on museum walls, the enterprise speaks to two slightly neurotic trends in our culture...