Word: tans
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...boasted navy blue baseball caps and glossy buttons emblazoned with the candidate’s name. McCain supporters earned classic white T-shirts for their day of work. Jacky Kwong ’11, who was the only student canvassing for Fred D. Thompson, brought back a purple and tan sign touting the candidate, drawing ridicule from other HRC members for its odd color scheme. Despite the rain outside, spirits ran high on the bus ride home as HRC members enthusiastically debated the merits of the various candidates. “All of the candidates bring something to the table...
...Heim,” the second disc of new album “Hvarf-Heim.” Without the opaque production of their previous albums, the arrangements on “Heim” use abundant strings and horns to fill the gaps. “Heysátan,” with its delicate brass swells, outshines the original version. Standout track “Ágætis Byrjun” features the album’s sparsest instrumentation, allowing the listener to focus on the vocals. Never has Jonsi Birgisson’s otherworldly falsetto...
...dozen people have gathered inside the Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship's modest community center in Macau, where the Rev. Jimmy Tan strums his guitar and belts out Christian songs with the small group before him. Latecomers trickle in well past the meeting's 9:30 p.m. start time, but no one seems to mind - many of them work multiple jobs and are used to odd hours. Seated in a semicircle of plastic chairs, the engineers, police officers, health-care workers and casino dealers have something in common: they are all addicted to gambling. The group meets once a week to hear...
...than doubled to 27, boosting tourism and investment and revitalizing Macau's economy (the city's gaming industry took in $6.95 billion last year, vaulting Macau past Las Vegas as the city with the most total annual wagering revenue). But for a small proportion of Macanese like those at Tan's meeting, the gambling boom has been a curse that has fed their addiction. For habitual gamblers and those prone to developing the habit, "Macau is really dangerous nowadays," says Ava Chan, former counselor at the Yat On Pathological Gambler's Counselling Centre in Macau. "Next to your house, there...
...that relatively small surcharge hardly seems sufficient to overcome the seductive pull of casinos and their multimillion-dollar marketing budgets. "The gambling industry is so big," says Poon Yan-chi, director of the Macau center where Tan delivers his PowerPoint presentations on the evils of gambling. "It's like David and Goliath." David sometimes wins. But that...