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...question remains whether CityCenter will help spur a rebound in the city - the common wisdom in Las Vegas is that new supply creates demand - or the addition of more than 4,000 new hotel rooms will depress an already oversupplied market. Murren describes it as the "stimulus package of all time for this community," pointing to the 12,000 jobs CityCenter has created. Expectedly, he's bullish that CityCenter will lure new visitors to Vegas. "There's no doubt in my mind that more people will come to Las Vegas next year than this year...
...Sometimes it's simply impossible to get to the bottom of them. But that doesn't mean that our law enforcement authorities shouldn't be trying." The issue was even raised during a live call-in TV show with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earlier this month. Responding to a question about how the government planned to tackle reiderstvo, Putin said a proposal to unify various raider tactics under a single criminal statute would help law enforcement officials work "more effectively...
...Guardian (UK): "A reply to a question in Notes & Queries yesterday recommended purchasing lion and tiger urine from Chester Zoo to stop neighborhood cats from urinating in a vegetable patch...Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats' urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in fact sell either tiger or lion urine. Many years ago the zoo sold elephant dung, but it no longer does...
...President's office has come out fighting. "There is no question of President Zardari resigning," said presidential spokeswoman Farahnaz Ispahani. "The only constitutional way to remove [the President] is impeachment by both houses of Parliament with a two-thirds majority." Members of the ruling Pakistan People's Party say their leader is the object of a vicious media campaign intent on ousting him because of his pro-U.S. stance. Zardari spent more than 11 years behind bars under previous regimes on charges that he denies and maintains are politically motivated...
...source close to the navy told TIME, "The marines, besides having excellent intelligence and keen analysis, have discipline and esprit de corps, have all the tools that are needed to be successful in this so-called war. Now the question is, Will they be on the street, like the army and the police? Will they be used as a special ops, or what, and for how long? And if this is the last resort, then what...