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In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy

  • Written by Mark Gottdiener, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageTourists play slot machines at the Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

In Sin City, people often do bad things to themselves.

Rather than deal with their lapses – moral, financial, marital – there’s a ready-made marketing slogan to fall back on: “What happens in Vegas stays in...

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