Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...owns a casino. He's rich. He's nutsy. Donald Sinclair (John Cleese) is Howard Hughes with a cheerfully sadistic attitude. He puts $2 million in a duffel bag 700 miles from Las Vegas and sets six desperate, disparate groups in pursuit of the swag--winner take all. Meanwhile, to enrich himself further, he has a roomful of rich guys betting on the outcome...
...fault. For not reading the fine print. For not noticing the asterisks. When my wife bought a first edition of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street on eBay and the book arrived and was not a first edition, or even a second or third, the blame was hers--for not being suspicious. And when I used an online broker to buy shares of Micron Technology at 40 1/4 and received a confirmation five minutes later that I'd purchased the shares at 43, the blame was mine--for not knowing that "real-time quotes" aren't so real time...