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...When he won his five grand, the table gave him a rousing ovation. Some players even stood to applaud him for doing little more than putting $16 on some green felt in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut. As he leaves the table, he tips Tony heavily and also gives $25 to everyone playing at the table, including me. This sort of camaraderie is one of the other moderately decent things about the Connecticut gaming experience. Everyone feels bad for everyone else. The dealers who owe their lot in life to the casinos clearly feel bad for the players...
...council critics applaud these efforts, but say they still wonder if these innovations are worth $1,000 per year in a time of financial difficulty for the Undergraduate Council...
...were. The floor manager, an imposing woman with a tight pony-tail, taught us to applaud wildly, shut-the-hell-up quickly and listen intently to Chris Matthews as he interrogated Alan Simpson and Jack Kemp. We could feel our faces burn from the sweltering lights and from the knowledge that we had no right to be in the middle of an NBC show proffering wisdom on the primaries. We write for FM, not The New Republic. Noah Oppenheim '00, the closest we had to a guru on political affairs, was the spokesman. The rest...
...While I applaud what Harvard's doing, I also think we should understand that it's a very large problem that won't be turned around easily," he says...
...undergraduates seeking pre-Simpsons entertainment last Sunday night had to turn to the vice president's yellow-ribbon wearing entourage. At the trial, anti-impeachment students sported stylish yellow ribbons pinned to their lapels, reminiscent of the red ribbons worn to commemorate those who have died of AIDS. I applaud these individuals for co-opting this brilliant advertising campaign. Some might have hesitated to equate victims of this century's greatest plague with the plight of an Ivy League student embroiled in minor-league political controversy. These courageous warriors for justice refused to abandon their quest for increased visibility...