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...sometimes we need to find motive to calm us down. Then hate-crime laws, for all their inconsistencies, seem to be the only resort. As night fell at the vigil for Matthew Shepard outside the Capitol last Wednesday, the stony resistance of many Republicans to federal hate-crime legislation melted amid rosy predictions it would be revived, and passed, when Congress resumes in January...
...driving feature of Vegas will always be gambling, but the days of giving away rooms to gamblers are over," says Stephen Bollenbach, CEO of Hilton, which is building the $760 million re-creation of Paris. The idea now is to command better room rates, more on a par with resort or European vacation destinations, by offering comparable accommodations. A discounted room on the Strip now goes for $49 to $99. To sleep in Hilton's Paris will probably cost double that...
...hours a day in the casinos, after all.) Gamblers who used to make an average of 11 trips to Las Vegas over a five-year period now make only seven. So the city of "Lost Wages" is repositioning itself in the leisure market. "We're no longer a gaming resort but a destination resort," says Chamber of Commerce senior vice president Kara Kelley...
...best known as a serious, soul-baring folk-rocker, but the chart success of Sheik's 1996 single Barely Breathing outed him as a pop tunesmith with a knack for gorgeous songwriting that doesn't resort to schmaltz. Sheik's new CD veers back toward his dour side, where he finds plenty to be glum about--the perils of record-business starmaking in Nothing Special and the falseness of big-city life in That Says It All. It's no surprise that he intends to avoid being trapped in lightweight pop: he's 28 and wants a long career...
...into Head of the Charles revelry and already you're bored. Two words: ROAD TRIP. Stop in the name of love and head over to the Diana Ross concert at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Relish the divadom of it all. 9 p.m., Foxwoods Resort and Casino (Take 1-95 south, Exit 92 for Route 2), Ledyard...