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...friendly, gambling alone won't be enough to fill thousands of new hotel rooms. "Right now, Macau is for the gambler, period," says Wynn, who is planning to break ground on a $550 million hotel-casino he calls "the most ambitious in the Pacific Rim" later this year. "The trick is to add other dimensions to the town, open the door to people who haven't been going to Macau...
...year is still young, but - in its passion, its craft, its belief in the grace and pain of love - 2046 may be the film of 2004. If Cannes' solid program lacked anything, it was an old-fashioned film scandale. In another venue, Fahrenheit 9/11 might have done the trick; but since nearly everyone at Cannes is left wing, the debate was minimal (except for Godard, who impishly said the film would help re-elect Bush). British director Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs, with its hard-core porn elements, showed only in the Marché du Film, so it was ineligible...
...celebration of weight lifting. True, a few stars transcend their sports and a regional base. Babe Ruth, Pelé and Michael Jordan did so, and today I'd put David Beckham, Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods in the same category-but very few others manage that trick...
...trick is knowing when to stop. The behavior of the military police at Abu Ghraib seems to blur into hazing, sadism and mockery. Whatever the motives, says Kutz, the soldiers virtually guaranteed that the inmates would be susceptible to post-traumatic stress--and useless to interrogators. "This is stupidity. It's not useful. In fact, it's harmful," says a former Israeli military intelligence interrogator. "After a man's humiliated like this, if there was a chance he'd open up, now there's no way. If there was a chance to recruit him and send him back...
...Plainsong was published five years ago, its gentle but indelible tale of people getting through life on the high plains of Colorado was adopted with a passion by independent booksellers, the same ones who had pushed Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain up the best-seller list. They did the trick for Plainsong too, which eventually was also nominated for a National Book Award...