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...would never allow my daughter to play--or see or know about--any game involving violence. When she plays the bunny game, Lily is learning about computers and refining her hand-eye coordination. So that's all good, right? Just to make sure, I called Susan Gregory Thomas, author of Buy Buy Baby, a scorching investigative study of how corporations target underage consumers. She also happens to be the most technologically aware mom I know. Or, as I now call her, Susie Joykiller...
...based on my nonfootball expertise, something that would make me feel smart on a day I feel dumb. So I called oddsmaker Art Manteris to see if we could come up with a bet that he would post on all 19 sports books he runs for Station Casinos. Manteris, author of Super Bookie, was responsible for making proposition bets a huge business when, in 1985, he offered 20-to-1 odds at Caesars Palace that an incredibly fat defensive lineman named William (the Refrigerator) Perry would score a Super Bowl touchdown. Unfortunately for Manteris, there was a rare outpouring...
...have a veiled Muslim woman in a French ad - and rare to see one at work. Those who can get jobs tend to work in back offices. As CEO of the French communications group CS, Yazid Sabeg is perhaps France's most prominent French-Arab businessman and the author of a study on workplace discrimination. Asked if any of his 4,000 employees wear the hijab, he says he remembers one who did, but adds that she wouldn't have had contact with clients: "I'm against wearing the hijab at work. Shows of religion just result in antagonism between...
...match, although that waned as it became clear the Soviet champion was headed for defeat. Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games was one of my first chess books. (It had been translated into Russian and sold in the U.S.S.R. with no respect for copyright or royalties, infuriating its author...
Kasparov, author of How Life Imitates Chess, was the world's top-ranked player from 1985 until he retired from the game...