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...industries, particularly the crowded banking sector. The dream was that a single European currency would leap over national priorities and prompt banks to reach across borders for merger partners, the better to compete with America's megabanks. But a funny thing happened on the way to banking consolidation: nothing. Except for a few small deals, such as the 2000 takeovers of Bank Austria by Munich-based HVB, and Unidanmark by Swedish-Finnish lender MeritaNordbanken, banks have preferred to merge with homegrown rivals rather than competitors abroad. Until last week, that is, when the first big European cross-border deal...
...issues." Laverton's Wongatha Wonganarra Aboriginal community is luckier than some - it's dry. The first indigenous community in W.A. to enact plain-English by-laws to help its members stay out of trouble, it's a relatively peaceful and orderly town, with simple modern architecture and vegetable gardens - except when chairman Bruce Smith turns on his outdoor electronic keyboard: "I can make all the noise I want and entertain the fruit trees," he says...
...their film and Asian themes.) "I wanted to build the ultimate party place," says George Maloof, 40, the brother who runs the hotel. "I wanted to make sure I cultivated young Hollywood. In the '70s, '80s and most of the '90s, Hollywood didn't really come to Las Vegas except for a big fight. Now it's every weekend...
...sluts, but in Vegas this is a respectable job to the locals," says Sami, 33, who is known as the Fire Bitch because of her ability to light on fire a surprising number of her body parts. Sami says she's not that good at the gig, except for the fire part, because she's too straight-talking to give the guys the doting, ego-stroking GFE--girlfriend experience--for which they spend the big money. Sami doesn't drink, likes dogs a lot and just bought a really nice house. Toward the end of our chat, she lets...
...designed to reel in mainlanders like Li Duoshan, a businessman from nearby Zhuhai, who once dropped a six-figure sum in one of Macau's VIP baccarat rooms. Li has lost money at the Sands too, but still pooh-poohs its competitors: "There's no music, no shows. Except for gambling, there's nothing else...