| Mandalay Bay President To Head $5B MGM AC Project
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CBS/AP) ― The president of the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas will oversee MGM Grand's massive $5 billion casino-hotel project in Atlantic City. The company announced Thursday morning that Bill Hornbuckle, Mandalay's president and chief operating officer, also will serve in the same capacity for MGM Grand Atlantic City, a three-tower complex to be built on land next to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in the city's Marina district. It is due to open in the first quarter of 2012. "We are going to be taking what the Borgata has done in terms of recreating the Las Vegas experience, and take it to a whole different place," Hornbuckle said. "We want this to be compelling enough for you to get on a plane in Chicago and fly east instead of west." A 25-year veteran of the gambling industry, Hornbuckle previously served as president and COO of MGM Mirage Europe, after spending three years as president and COO of MGM Grand Las Vegas.
This year, the American people will choose between two diametrically ...
The Democratic Party looks at our nation and sees the twilight of the American soul. Republicans affirm that now, as throughout history, the spiritual and intellectual genius of the American people will create a better nation and maintain a just peace. To Republicans, creativity and growth are imperatives for a new era of opportunity for all. The Republican Party's vision of America's future, the heart of our 1984 Platform, begins with a basic premise: From freedom comes opportunity; from opportunity comes growth; from growth comes progress. This is not some abstract formula. It is the vibrant, beating heart of the American experience. No matter how complex our problems, no matter how difficult our tasks, it is freedom that inspires and guides the American Dream.
Bernanke Signals Further Rate Cuts
As for near-term policy, he said the Fed will need to judge whether the rate cuts to date are having the intended impact, and that the policy stance must be determined in light of the medium-term outlook, where downside risks remain. Commenting on monetary policy, Bernanke said a critical task for the Federal Reserve over the course of this year will be "to assess whether the stance of monetary policy is properly calibrated to foster our mandated objectives of maximum employment and price stability in an environment of downside risks to growth, stressed financial conditions, and inflation pressures." "In particular, the FOMC will need to judge whether the policy actions taken thus far are having their intended effects. Monetary policy works with a lag. Therefore, our policy stance must be determined in light of the medium-term forecast for real activity and inflation as well as the risks to that forecast." Expect a 50-Basis-Point Cut As for other key challenges to the U.S.
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Sure, sure, it's all been done before, but now I get to do it. Without further ado, here is my all-name team. 20 - Rod Smart - Who the Hell is Rod Smart you ask? Well he is none other than the fool who called himself "He Hate Me" and pretty much epitomized the debacle that was the XFL. 19. Elbert L. "Ickey" Woods - Running back his entire carreer for the Bengals. Hey, how many guys not named Humpty Hump have a dance named after them. The Ickey Shuffle remains high on the all time celebrations list. 18. "Chocolate Thunder" Darryl Dawkins - Perhaps more appropriate for wrestling or porn, but still has a nice ring to it. 17. "Pistol" Pete Maravich - LSU grad was a known practicioner of yoga, a part time ufologist, and could also play a little basketball. Died of a heart attack in 1988 at a young age.
Prep Zone: Shanel’s true pain comes from not competing
The pain was so searing, Katie Shanel had to force herself to listen to reason.She had to quit.Shanel, one of the standouts on the St. Charles co-op gymnastics team, left the team in January because she no longer could justify showcasing her graceful, precise movements when her back howled in agony.She walked away for six days, then she was back.The pain didn’t go away. Shanel just realized the other pain, the kind caused by leaving the sport she had adored since she was a toddler, was worse."I came in and I said ‘I’m done,’ and I don’t think anyone took me seriously," Shanel said. "I don’t even think I took myself seriously."Shanel missed a pair of competitions before deciding to return for the rest of her senior season – a season that will end this weekend, when Shanel and her St.
'Dinnertime Bandit' tells of life on lam
SUFFIELD — Alan Golder led a charmed life as a fugitive, strolling the markets and museums of Paris where he lived with a view of the Eiffel Tower. The man who bragged of being a top burglar traveled the continent for years, blending in with his blond hair and fine suits.But after nine years on the run Golder, who police call the "Dinnertime Bandit" finally is locked up at a noisy U.S. prison. "I was living so good over there," Golder told The Associated Press in an interview at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, his first since he was extradited. "My heart aches when I lay in bed and think of Paris."Golder was arrested in 2006 in Belgium and extradited in November back to Connecticut, where he pleaded not guilty to nearly 40 felony counts, including burglary, larceny, robbery and kidnapping, that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.Police say he burglarized Connecticut's wealthiest residents by scaling mansion walls wearing a black "ninja"-type suit and hood, slipping through second-floor windows during dinnertime while alarms were off and stealing precious jewels.Seated in a small room while wearing a yellow prison jump suit and plain white sneakers, the 52-year-old Golder described how he began his life of crime in New York, burglarized the homes of celebrities such as Johnny Carson and Glen Campbell, turned on his Mob-connected associates and led a stealth life in Europe.
CHIGWELL: Woman finds boyfriend almost castrated
A WOMAN on holiday in the Caribbean has spoken of her horror after she returned to her hotel room to find her fiancee semi-conscious with his penis almost sliced off. Eleanor Rothery, 21, who has been living in Chigwell during her gap year, was celebrating her engagement to Alan Reed in the Dominican Republic when he suffered the injury apparently after an unexplained attack. The couple had become separated after a night out. After several hours of searching, Miss Rothery discovered her boyfriend in their hotel room in a pool of blood. She said: "He was sprawled out on the bed in just a pair of shorts that were covered in blood when I walked in. I alerted hotel reception immediately and they phoned for an ambulance as soon as they came to the room." Mr Reed, a 33-year-old plumber, from Paddington, London, has now been operated on and told he should suffer no long-term damage.
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