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...High. Las Vegas's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is offering two packages. Start with an in-room fitting with lingerie designer Love Jones and then a Swedish massage. Enjoy a complimentary bottle of wine, and once you're relaxed enough, hop a champagne helicopter ride (the champagne's for you, not the pilot) to get a different perspective on the city's night life. Rates start at $220. Mention code CSP0109. 455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, 702-693-5000 (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...court, but he has found himself cast as a villain on it. Tennis purists have long bleated that his jarring, defensive game is less pleasing to watch and less effective than Federer's fluid style. Recently, though, the game's élite have started to come around. Swedish great Stefan Edberg has declared Nadal "unbeatable" by today's professionals, and Pete Sampras told reporters on Dec. 2 it may be Nadal, not Federer, who breaks his career-defining record of 14 major championships (Nadal has 5; Federer, five years older...
...speaking could be far more suggestive, dangerous, theatrical, eloquent. Like Beckett, he renounced the flossy rhetoric of such postwar playwrights as Christopher Fry and Jean Anouilh for a back-to-basics starkness - a two-men-on-a-stage simplicity that Aeschylus would have admired. In its citation, the Swedish Academy said Pinter "restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles...
...after financial and real estate bubbles collapsed there. Then there's the less well known but more encouraging Scandinavian experience of the early 1990s. Sweden in particular is now held up as the model for how to restructure a busted financial system. How did that work out for the Swedish economy? It shrank for three years running, from 1991 through 1993 - ending up 4% smaller before it began growing again...
Intuitively, this Swedish model seems like a plausible enough scenario for the U.S. today - what Reich calls a "Mini Depression," or what one commenter on my TIME.com blog has dubbed the "Great Recession...