Wealth and Celebrity Ooze Through Monaco - 2004-01-01
Monaco Fortunes are won and lost through the night in the smoke-filled, exclusive backrooms of Monaco's casino, constructed by the architect of the Paris Opera House. Jewelry stores and Belle Epoque hotels with Italian-style frescoes and pink marble columns overlook the Mediterranean, where huge private yachts are anchored throughout the year.

But for all its wealth, this tiny, sun-kissed tax haven smaller than New York's Central Park and for decades a magnet for the international jet set seems to lack soul.

''It's like a film set,'' Marco Peruzzi, a day-tripper from nearby Italy, said as he gazed at the sand-colored royal palace where the Grimaldi dynasty has ruled for seven centuries.
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Laborers killed in A.C. may get tribute on Boardwalk - 2004-01-01
From a painter to a casino chamber maid to a firefighter, the names of almost two dozen union workers who died on the job here since the casino era began greet anyone who has stopped to look at a memorial in the small park at Arkansas and Arctic avenues.

But a few months after four more laborers joined their ranks after the Tropicana garage collapse, all of the union workers' sacrifices soon may be recognized with a tribute in one of the city's most visible locations: Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk.

Because of the development of The Walk retail district in midtown, the AFL-CIO Central Labor Council must move the more than 5-foot tall memorial that it put up in 1998, said its local President Roy Foster.
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