Modern Living: Crooked Shake

"The customer may lose his money, but he will lose it honestly," Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Frank Johnson likes to say. And so most tourists believe; they are content to play at the tables in hopes of beating the odds, fully aware that they favor the house. If the players lose—and most do—they can go away at least feeling that they have had a fair shake. Then abruptly last week Nevada's gambling industry found its image marked with two black eyes; the state Gaming Control Board closed the big Lake Tahoe Hotel Casino after detecting crooked dice—the second casino in...