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...threat of kids and gambling. In his keynote speech, Jeffrey Derevensky, co-director of the McGill University Youth Gambling Research Clinic, called out government and private industry for the unprecedented marketing of gambling to kids--from using cartoon characters on state lottery scratchers to mainstream retailers' selling World Poker Tour chocolates. He cited a number of studies showing a link, although not necessarily a causal relationship, between teen gambling and higher rates of drinking, drugs and suicide. He estimated that there are 5 million youths in the U.S. and Canada who have some kind of gambling problem. Parents...
...This is crazy. Police found a pound and a half of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in Willie Nelson's tour bus. Willie is nervous about this. He's afraid he may have to spend the rest of 1969 in jail." DAVID LETTERMAN...
Recognize those eyes? That knowing smile? That's the Piano Man's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL, who's on tour to promote her first EP, Sketches. The offspring of Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley, Alexa Ray, 20, hasn't quite found her stage feet: she fainted onstage while performing in upstate New York in mid-September. But one of the advantages of coming from a famous family is that you always have plenty of material (like, for instance, your mom's headline-heavy divorce). And Alexa Ray isn't afraid to use it. Her tune...
...weight into them as he murmured into the microphone. Later, he would go on to play a near-perfect set, surpassing expectations and revealing a few surprising talents not exhibited on his studio albums, the latest of which, “Post-War,” he is on tour promoting. Still, for a few minutes, in the milky darkness of the classic theatre, he was just another audience member – just a regular...
...center that students have long been advocating opened last night, marking another victory for supporters of women’s issues on campus. The long-awaited and oft-debated women’s center opened in the freshly renovated basement of Canaday B, drawing scores of students to tour the new center and listen to 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s keynote address...