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...home to the Yearly Kos convention - a near-thousand-strong gathering of progressive bloggers and the reporters who love them - the Riviera has become a three-day oasis of earnest activism amidst a landscape of sin. Not that the Riviera holds much temptation itself. Concurrently hosting the American Cue Sports convention in addition to Yearly Kos, the "Riv" is a rambling, mirrored box wreathed in antiquated neon with a Las Vegas address but a distinctly Reno ambiance. Inside the conference facility, the faded carpet is nubby with wear, the mirrors that line the halls are dim and pock-marked...
...over-oxygenated air, and partially from the constant assault of temptation. Gamble, drink, dance, ogle - if it seems even slightly lascivious, there's an ad for it on some flat surface somewhere and, of course, a place to engage in it not too far away. But today at the Riviera Hotel and Casino, most of the available laps are occupied by computers, not dancers, and I hear someone mention drugs exactly once, and even then it is followed by the word "policy...
...workshop leader turned the awkward admission into a teachable moment, noting that it's usually a good idea, right before you go on TV, to check the latest headlines, adding, "Of course, you obviously didn't have a chance to do that, because you're at the Riviera...
...good at playing back.” The superior season of the twin captains began in the fall, when Anderson and O’Riain captured the doubles title at the Cissie Leary Memorial Tournament. After falling to the nation’s No. 1 doubles team at the Riviera ITA All-American Championships, the pair won the Wilson/ITA Eastern Regional Championships, their second title of the fall. “We’ve never really done this well in regionals, especially in doubles,” Anderson said after the win. The win at the Eastern Regionals earned...
...worse than Mobutu, who reduced a nation that should be among the richest in Africa to utter penury. Meanwhile, Mobutu and his cronies looted the treasury of billions of dollars. In addition to his many secret bank accounts, Mobutu owns nine villas in Belgium, an estate on the French Riviera and an apartment in Paris; property in Johannesburg, Dakar, Abidjan and Morocco; a coffee plantation in Brazil; and, in the cellars of his estate in Portugal, 14,000 bottles of past-its-prime wine from 1930, the year of his birth. The dictator, who is suffering from prostate cancer, will...