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Print edition for July 14, 2007

Gomez faces world's best in Venezuela
Thirty security guards, with AK-47 machine guns, stood sentry on the floor of the hotel that housed the U.S. national soccer team last week at the Copa America tournament in Venezuela.
Editorial: Nixon's dark legacy
Timothy Niftali, the new director, has already been scrubbing the museum of some Nixon whitewash. Gone is a display on Watergate that declares the scandal was a "coup" plotted by Democrats, as well as claims that The Washington Post reporters who broke the story, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, offered bribes for their scoops. Also gone is the dubious claim that the infamous 18 1/2-minute gap on a White House recording was caused by a mechanical malfunction.
Win big or small, casinos ask more questions
By Liz Benston
Let's say you get lucky at craps - you're up by more than $5,000 - and you decide to cash out.
Scramble to be American
By Timothy Pratt
Click here for a printable graphic.
Letter: Post-apocalyptic world and Yucca
All articles I've ever seen about plaques at Yucca Mountain assume a literate creature is reading them. What, though, if the creature is a Neanderthal-type that now peers at us through museum glass? How do we communicate to it the lethality of a Yucca Mountain repository?
Day 8 of the main event of the World Series of Poker
AP
BIG NEWS: Adam White moved into the chip lead after several hours of play Friday with 2.8 million in chips, followed by Jon Kalmar with 2.2 million and Josh Evans with 2 million. Copenhagen-born pro Gus Hansen was in contention with 1.3 million.
Editorial: Be careful out there
Nonetheless, as a recent story in The New York Times points out, consumers don't have authoritative information as to which sunscreens offer the best protection. In fact, the Times notes, Consumer Reports and the nonprofit Environmental Working Group have come out with new studies that show a wide range of products don't offer adequate protection.
Editorial: Cutting school funds
As reported by Emily Richmond in Wednesday's Las Vegas Sun, most of the money for educating students who have a low proficiency in English comes to Clark County , where one in five students has been identified as needing this help.
Letter: Situation in Iraq was predictable, unenviable
Then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney had stated that, as we had Saddam Hussein cornered in Bagdad with 550,000-plus U.S. and coalition troops and the whole world behind us, that it would be a quagmire to advance on to Bagdad and finish off Saddam and his Republican Guard.
Obama's in the house
J. Patrick Coolican and Phoebe Sweet
It's hot at the Williams home in Las Vegas, and as the crowd arrives, the air becomes stifling, pungent with the smell of packed humanity. But no one is moving because Barack Obama is expected soon.
Letter: So much for us being safe from terrorists
We are fighting them over there, aren't we? Darn, just when I thought it was safe to go in the water. Do you suppose it is more fear and intimidation to control the American public and get them back behind the Bush war effort ?
FLASHPOINT for Jul 14, 2007
Whatever else she does in her congressional career, Rep. Shelley Berkley's activism on behalf of a former constituent imprisoned in Kazakhstan will be remembered as one of her shining moments. Without her tireless and mostly out of the spotlight advocacy for Mark Seidenfeld, he may well not have been acquitted last week. He's still not out of the country, but Berkley, who traveled there last week, is the reason he will be finally able to leave. It was almost comical that when Berkley arrived there, one Kazakhstan media organ put out a quote from her that read: "I know that ...
LOOKING IN ON: GOLF
Rounds in which Brett Kanda shot below par during his redshirt freshman season at UNLV
LOOKING IN ON: BOXING
The promotional title of a prizefight is usually relegated to the status of an afterthought, all but ignored by boxing fans.
PARTY ENDS IN FIGHT, BUT IT'S NOT SAME OLD STORY
Sam Skolnik, Las Vegas Sun
The post-Super Bowl party fracas involved angry name-calling and drunken fisticuffs, depending on whose story you believed. Even a couple of the fighters' mothers were cursed.
No time for luxury
Michael J. Mishak, Las Vegas Sun
Sen. Barack Obama surveyed his spacious 44th-floor suite Friday, marveling at the over-the-top luxury. Outside was a spectacular view of the Strip.

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