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Colson Whitehead: Novelist, Essayist, Professional Poker Player

Bill Simmons’ Grantland, the new site by ESPN’s most popular sports writer, has already racked up some impressive bylines since its launch in June: Chuck Klosterman and Molly Lambert have written stories and Dave Eggers and Malcom Gladwell are consulting editors. We just found out that one of our favorite novelists, Colson Whitehead, will be Read More

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ICSC Opening Mantra: Everyone Smile!

Maligned by politicians (including the president-twice) and busted by the boom, Las Vegas isn’t the place you’d think there’d be a lot of optimism.

But Joanne Podell, a Cushman & Wakefield executive vice president, smiled as she headed to her dinner table at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel. Here she’d feast on Read More

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State Tries, Tries Again at Aqueduct

The State of New York is nothing if not persistent when it comes to adding slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack.

And it is nothing if not slower than expected.

In what is now at least the eighth year of attempts to remake the Aqueduct in one form or another, the Paterson administration’s Division of Read More

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Paterson Says He’ll Just Pick the Aqueduct Winner Himself

Apparently fed up with the tortured politicized process of selecting a firm to build a slot machine operation at the Aqueduct Racetrack, Governor Paterson said this morning his administration would simply, by itself, pick a winner through a standard procurement process. This would jettison the unusual process set up years ago for the racetrack that Read More