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...Stupak surveys his realm, the $550 million Stratosphere Tower, Hotel and Casino that rises 1,149 ft. above Las Vegas like a gleaming blue syringe in the neon night sky. For a moment, his taste of triumph is soured by a nagging memory. "A few days ago," the 54-year-old entrepreneur says, "I had a nightmare that the tower was cracking and starting to lean. Luckily, I woke up before it fell over. Which I guess means something is going on self-consciously...
...Kong is for later. The Stratosphere's immediate and unique enticement is the 12-level, spaceship-shaped "pod" at the top of the tower. Along with the conference rooms, wedding chapels and inevitable revolving restaurant there is an observation deck whose huge slanted windows allow you to lean over and peek at the ground; because the building's spine is barely visible beneath, you feel you are hovering over Vegas in the Enterprise. Ascending three more levels, you find two things that no one before Stupak thought to put atop a skyscraper: a roller coaster and a space-launch reverse...
...anything to keep Harvard Square from being student-friendly (i.e., keep fast-food restaurants from entering the Square's sacred gates). In the past, it has adamantly barred McDonald's from the Square, all the while allowing in Bertucci's, Pizzeria Uno, California Pizza Kitchen, the Gap, HMV, Tower Records...the list goes on. The Fund's contradictions are multitudinous...
...turns out, public impressions of what is the tallest or the largest or the oldest are not decided by precise measurements. Once the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower were built, for instance, I thought that those of us who pride ourselves on our accuracy should begin referring to the Empire State Building as "the third tallest building in the Greater New York area." Nobody else seemed to think that...
...partly because of its name. It sounds like the tallest building in the world. On the other hand, as Sears must have discovered, a reputation for bringing affordable work pants to a broad customer base, however worthy that may be in other respects, does not conjure up a tower that dominates the skyline...