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Two Japanese women who live in Las Vegas struggle with a language barrier and raw emotions to explain how their lives were affected by Japan’s triple disaster of a massive earthquake followed by a mammoth tsunami and compromised nuclear reactors at a power plant.
Michael McClendon, a poker room supervisor at the Sahara, wasn’t surprised when he was called into a meeting at 7:30 a.m. with other employees and was told the nearly 60-year-old Strip resort would cease operations in May.
McClendon, who recently celebrated 25 years at the casino, said the announcement Friday shouldn’t have been unexpected.
The Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana held a soft opening “preview” Tuesday. Participants were given “name tags” that boast radio frequency identification technology. Just for fun, they then could have whacked one another. Or they could have gotten “made.”
