The Brass Ring

[zhangfei]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_bruck

Macao casinos, Beijing, the Olympics, the White House, the Middle East, 2008 election...

[ktkbs]

Who needs a balding fat white man to build a casino? The process is pretty straightforward is it?

[zhangfei]

The casinos have made him the third richest man in America. He uses his wealth and influence to bully U.S. legislators and meddle directly in internal Israeli politics, and he might spend two hundred million dollars on the 2008 elections. It's funny that gamblers in Macao somehow play a role in how Americans vote.

[maogirl]

Who needs a balding fat white man to build a casino? The process is pretty straightforward is it?

oh, the innocent...