Print edition for August 24, 2007

10 LETTERS = 42 SCRABBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN SPELL THIS GUY'S NAME DO IT YOURSELF: CUT OUT THE TILES BELOW AND SPELL!: By Ron Kantowski; Although you won't find it in the NCAA record book, if you could spell Mike Krzyzewski's name in a game of Scrabble, you'd receive 42 points - 5 for K, 1 for R, 10 for Z, 4 for Y, 10 for Z, 1 for E, 4 for W, 1 for S, 5 for K and 1 for I.

Ron Kantowski on why UNLV's new multimillion-dollar sports marketing deal rates more than 'Miscellaneous': Headquarters: Winston - Salem, N.C.

Death of social linchpin, Enigma Cafe founder shakes arts community: By Kristen Peterson; The death of Julie Brewer shocked the Las Vegas arts community this week.

Letter: Smoking law should not exempt anyone: Why are they exempted, when people walking with their children on their way to their rooms or to restaurants are subject to the smoke from those areas?

Jon Ralston on the bizarre mail he gets: By Jon Ralston; Or perhaps I need to be more precise: Are more and more people losing their grip on reality and threatening the very fabric of our great republic?

Editorial: Picking on children: The Bush administration waited until after Congress had recessed last Friday and issued a new policy that sets what state health officials say are impossible eligibility standards that severely limit efforts to cover more children.

FLASHPOINT: If there is anyone out there not named Oscar Goodman who thinks not one, but two arenas will be built in the Las Vegas Valley, raise your hand. I'd guess no hands are going up, although I am sure some folks wearing straitjackets are trying. After Harrah's announced that deal to build a $500 million arena with AEG, His Honor kept a straight face and said, "With the competition, they're going to be able to get a better deal. So it's a win-win." Competition between arenas in a city that doesn't have one professional sports team? A downtown scheme that ...

Letter: Rove has brought shame to this country: His divisive and dirty political tactics have succeeded in making many Americans think that the opposing political party cannot have a good idea and that only he and the Decider know what is good for the country.

Letter: Flights' 'punishment' doesn't fit the whine: I think letter writer Marc Jeric ("Way of life ruined by planes taking off," Aug. 14), should stop complaining. Since when is the northwest an "industrial hell"? The planes fly early morning and late evening. The "growling and grumbling," as Mr. Jeric described it, lasts about eight seconds and does not occur every day , all day.

Editorial: Stifling public views: A story by The Washington Post on Wednesday says that the once-secret "Presidential Advance Manual" dates from October 2002 and is stamped with the words "Sensitive - Do Not Copy." It was released to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a lawsuit that the ACLU filed on behalf of two protesters who were arrested for refusing to cover their anti-Bush T-shirts at the president's July 4, 2004, speech in West Virginia. Federal officials settled the case last week for $80,000, the Post reports.

Editorial: On the verge of lunacy: By national party rules, most states are not allowed to have their primaries or caucuses before Feb. 5. But the absence during early contests of a Western state, one with diversity and a large urban population, had long been a flaw in the presidential nominating process. The same was true of a Southern state, so South Carolina's primary was also permitted to move up - to Jan. 29.

Stationed in Iraq, Marines to get eyeful from Vegas: It's better than a candygram. Much better.

Letter: Teachers deserve to earn decent wage: A lot of money, no, but I bet most education students think you can at least live on the salary, pay your student loans off, then save a little money and after a reasonable amount of time buy a house, becoming at least moderately middle class.

Bam! Real crash unexpectedly drives message home: Television camera crews that gathered Thursday at a Las Vegas intersection for a news conference about the dangers of running red lights couldn't have asked for a better backdrop.

Happened in Vegas, now playing everywhere: By J. Patrick Coolican; Mitt Romney rode into Nevada this week on a high, a top-tier Republican candidate for president fresh off a sweeping victory in the crucial Iowa Straw Poll. A new poll showed him ahead in Nevada.