Word: amateurness
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...crowd is a mixed bag of eclectic amateur politicos and wealthy egotists; I’m reminded of those Harvard Book Store readings and all the crazy Cantabrigians who invariably show up. Lapham warns of the oncoming end of democracy: “It’s much easier to live in a monarchy,” he intones. There is, however, an air of humor in his voice; I believe it stems from his happy knowledge that he’ll be long dead before the country really starts falling apart. I find this unnerving...
...hard and hot: 150 km of corrugated red dirt road from Halls Creek, through a flat expanse of spinifex and low scrub. This Tanami Track, if you had a couple of days to spare, would lead you to Alice Springs, near the center of the continent, but instead the amateur crater hunter turns left into the desert. Twenty km on, the rim comes into view. Its 35-m slopes seem high after a few hours of traveling in only two dimensions, but a brief scramble over the rocks puts you on the lip. A wedge-tailed eagle, glossy black against...
...ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California State Poker Championship, is something of a poker poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher. He credits the media for the game's revival and points to the Travel Channel's widely watched World Poker Tour series. "There's elimination," says Affleck, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal people...
...Bart Pestrichello. Celebrities play it, Ivy League students play it; even educated kids play it. "It has exploded," says actor Ben Affleck. He ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California State Poker Championship, is something of a poker poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher. He credits the media for the game's revival and points to the popular World Poker Tour TV series, which also shows the game's global reach - in one episode, a French ex-junior tennis star triumphed over a Baghdad-born engineer, an American poker pro, a Paris...
Crockett was a third-round selection of the Rockies in the 2002 Amateur Draft, and in two years of minor league ball entering this season was a combined 14-16 with a 3.42 ERA over three levels while...