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Posted At : March 4, 2008 01:35 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Sheldon Adelson,Stanley Ho,The Strip,Steve Wynn
Sheldon Adelson is nobody's idea of a cuddly teddy bear and he's wont, at times, to conduct himself with a petulance ill-befitting one of the world's leading businessmen (and third-richest man). Then again, how boring might life be without the amusement afforded by the incessant backbiting betwixt Adelson and arch-nemesis Steve Wynn.
However, Adelson has just been done a grave injustice. Upon receiving HP's new copy of Winner Takes All by Christina Binkley, I turned to the index and found a bare six mentions of Adelson. Six!
That's a raw deal for someone who revolutionized the Las Vegas Strip business model by leveraging the Sands Expo Center into the platform from which the Venetian and Palazzo megaresorts arose. Not to mention that it was Adelson who cracked the Macao and Singapore markets -- a head start that has other companies running to catch up. Heck, Macao may soon be as much Adelson's as it was once Stanley Ho's.
So, whatever you think of him, he deserves better than six shabby mentions in a 304-page book.
Maybe his propensity to sue people who write things about him that he doesn't like is having an effect. Let's hope he doesn't sue Ms. Binkley for not giving him proper recognition in transforming Las Vegas.
In regards to Mr. Addelson being cuddly...no comment. I have, however, found him to be consistently friendly toward me and gentlemanly toward my wife in all the times we have met.
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