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Iujm Barbara H. Colby, wife of controversial CIA spymaster, dies at 94
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. AP ?Steve Norton, who ran the first U.S. gambling facility outside Nevada ?Resorts casino in Atlantic City ?and gave advice around the world on how to set up and operate casinos, has died. He was 89.His son, Rob, president of Cordish Gaming, said Norton died on Sunday following an accident in his Oceanside, California, home.Norton spent more than half a century in the casino industry, running companies and advising state governments on the expansion of gambling, including on riverboats. He helped create the industry national trade association and worked to address gambling addiction. Steve was an early and influential gaming executive in Atlantic City and at Resorts, said the casino current president, Mark Giannantonio. He was an important leader in the Atlantic City market dating back to the 1970s. He was always a pleasure to speak with over the years, and a true g stanley germany entleman in our business. Norton was executive vice president of Resorts when the New Jersey casino opened on May 26, 1978. The Boardwalk casino was inundated by thousands of people trying to get inside, and authorities considered diverting traffic trying to enter Atlantic City to ease crowd control.People bought tickets for buffets they had no intention of eating just so they could sneak inside the casino before anyone else. Men relieved themselves into plastic coin cups to avoid losing their stanley cup spots at the tables. And cash ?more than anyone had ever seen and more tha pink stanley cup n man Dkze C.J. Sansom, bestselling British author of Tudor crime thriller series, dies at 71
Those in power virtually never give it up willingly; in Congress or on the local school board, at the office or on a coaching staff, who do you know whos done that Pope Benedict XVI, thats who, and before we skip straight to guessing who will succeed him on the Chair of Peter, lets acknowledge how brave and extraordinary a thing hes done in knowing when to say when. We should all be so wise.Funny that a man so many associate with the Middle Ages will go down in h stanley cup istory for modernizing ?but he will. Thats because his retirement bows not only to the reality that we live longer now, but to the fact that for all the incense and candlelight surrounding the papacy, it is, among other things, a job, with real-world obligations that one either can or cannot fulfill. Odds are good that no one around Benedict ?each of whom depends on the pope for his own job ?was urging him to do this.Why the former Joseph Ratzinger is bowing out at 85 is what everyone wants to know, but to my friends who wonder whether th termo stanley e Vatican is cannily trying to shift the narrative from sex abuse and Cardinal Roger Mahony to self-sacrifice and Holy Week, Ill just say that one thing I never suspect Rome of is PR savvy.In fact, Benedicts motivations in stepping down arent a mystery at all: He never exactly hankered for the job, and, according to someone with direct knowledge of his thinkin stanley cup g, in the years since ascending to the Chair of Peter in 2005, he has on several occasions voiced doubts about whether he s
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