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...roller skates for little brother) or get-even ones (buy the firm and fire the boss) if their luck prevailed. In the final hours before the drawing, it seemed nobody could be thinking of the mathematically exact odds of 6,135,756 to 1. Banker Jurgis Savaitis, 64, who doubtless knew better, said while waiting in line that as an investment, a Lotto ticket purchase was "better than...
...have plans on the drawing board. On Sept. 3, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will launch the nation's first multistate lottery. In 1985 government-sponsored gambling is expected to generate revenues of $10 billion and net the states $4.1 billion. As lotteries reach across the U.S., criticism will doubtless grow. But with billions at stake and new tax revenue hard to come by, it would be risky to bet that the politicians will pay much attention, or that millions of ticket buyers want them...
...every reason to share Assad's concern over the fundamentalist Shi'ites' growing power. A permanently radicalized Lebanon would doubtless try to sow subversion among moderate Arab states throughout the Persian Gulf, many of them U.S. allies and oil suppliers...
...kind of forcible vulgarity, as American as a meatball hero, that takes itself for genius; Jacqueline Susann died believing she was the peer of Charles Dickens. "My peers," Schnabel told the New York Times last winter, "are the artists who speak to me: Giotto, Duccio, Van Gogh." Doubtless this list will change if he tries a ceiling, but Schnabel has never learned to draw; in graphic terms, his art has barely got beyond the lumpy pastiches of Max Beckmann and Richard Lindner he did as a student in Houston. The dull, uninflected megalomania of his kitsch- expressionist imagery (Sex, Death...
...Pentecostalism with her husband and two sons last year, Hyman says, "For Mother to change, she has to discover God through facing herself in this book." To be sure, Davis may not change. As her daughter recalls, "She certainly has the capacity to be very mean when crossed." And doubtless very cross when demeaned...