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Sat 12 Dec 200948 hours in Vegas
This is a city impossible not to love – so long as you play your cards right. CONOR POPEpays a whistlestop visit to the place Hunter S Thompson called ‘the meanest town on Earth’
IT’S 7AM and things are getting messy. “It’s Vegas baby, Vegas!” my somewhat flushed companion bellows to no-one in particular. He’s ordering another round of cocktails off the bemused waiter working the breakfast shift at the Casino Bar in the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the southern end of the most famous Strip in the world.
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