Mr. BLOOMINGDALE: Now, they have to deal with this other - well you know, we have a woman running and we have an African-American guy, so now we have to deal with - get over that, those inherent things that they've never had to deal with before.

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"This is the most desperate situation I've ever seen, " says Guy Bishop, an American who has worked with the destitute in the capital for seven years.

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This, on the heels of a beer-drinking contest that pitted an American against a Canadian and a guy from the U.K. The loser--the Brit--climbs into an enclosed waterslide that snakes along the restaurant's ceiling and sloshes into the lagoon outside.

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But he has not moved fast enough for activist investors such as Mr Marcus (with a stake of 10.3%) and Guy Wyser-Pratte, an American raider (with a 5% stake).

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As an actor, he was the handsome all-American good guy, which in his case required knowing his lines and being himself.

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