The new Las Vegas is not only the country's ultimate adult playground -- the pretense of being a Disney-like family destination has largely been dropped -- it's a permanent World's Fair, where American industry convenes to show off its wares. It's a classic cafe Royal (coffee with amaretto) but with a dash of creme de cacao for a nutty, chocolaty finish.A coffee drink is only as good as the coffee you use, so brew a fresh pot. CHICAGO Known for using humor and music to attract their members, a labor movement known as the Wobblies that was founded in Chicago in 1905 created one of the most important and colorful chapters in American union history.The Newberry Library has announced its acquisition of "an outstanding archive" of extremely rare publications and ephemera that record the history of the Wobblies, more formally known as the Industrial Workers of the World.The collection had taken a Chicago couple more than 40 years to amass. Nick Naylor is a guy you hate to love."Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exciting and fun because it's politically incorrect and titillating -- you get great jokes out of it," Eckhart said.An outrageously impious satire of the culture of spin, which skewers corporate mendacity, political correctness and legislative hypocrisy with equal ferocity and humor, "Thank You for Smoking" was adapted by Reitman (son of veteran director Ivan Reitman, making his feature debut) from a novel by Christopher Buckley. Bolten acknowledged that some of this year's revenue gains reflected onetime considerations, and that data were insufficient to determine the sustainability of the bonanza."I'm guessing that economists will argue about that for some time," Bolten said. In some ways, real life was more traumatic.Though Taos is Moore's hometown, she lived away from it during most of her high school years, attending boarding school in Colorado Springs, Colo. WASHINGTON Democratic leaders in Congress, attempting to shift the Iraq war debate from funding to strategy, said Sunday that they planned to propose binding legislation that would limit the role of U.S.

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Ramadi is an insurgent stronghold 70 miles west of Baghdad.Another roadside bomb missed a U.S. All but one of her complaints were unsubstantiated, they said.Andrade, however, insists that every complaint she has filed was valid.She concedes that she knows many of the gang members who police say terrorize residents daily. Riding to the team's rescue is former Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, who has been charged with the task of restoring the team to its former glory, when the Spartans were a name to be feared in the football-crazed townships of western Pennsylvania.It won't be an easy task."They were looking for a team that was in the doldrums but had been great before," said Joseph Findley, superintendent of Montour School District. I was hoping that would help, that I could play better, and it did."Pierce's slow pace between points has often been an issue, but Clijsters said it would not bother her. After that we have to stop at a playground at some point, and then we might go to Third Street Promenade and get something to eat at a relaxed outdoor cafe My sons love to watch the buskers and singers.