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...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-based Tunisian, a British investment banker and a Greek tycoon. Affleck says it's not hard to see why poker has wide appeal. "There's elimination," he says, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal...
...ZAHA HADID, 53, avant-garde architect legendary for designs so extreme they rarely get off the drawing board; the prestigious $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize; in West Hollywood, California. Since the opening of the striking, Hadid-designed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, last May, the Baghdad-born architect has received a number of commissions around the world. After winning the prize, Hadid remarked: "I suppose some will see [this] as a sign that I have gone from being a difficult person to [being] part of the Establishment...
London-based, Baghdad-born Zaha Hadid has three F words working against her as an architect: she's female, she's a foreigner, and the buildings she designs are fantastical. All of which for many years trapped Hadid beneath architecture's glass ceiling, the big emblematic projects she put in for going to the head boys of the profession. But Hadid, 52, now employs more than 40 architects in her studio in a converted London school, and none has time to doodle: she has projects underway in Germany, Spain, Italy, the United States, Abu Dhabi, Singapore ... Surrounded by young...
Chosen to head Israel's Ashkenazic Jews was Shlomo Goren, 54, former chief of army chaplains and Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. New leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews is the Sephardic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, scholarly, Baghdad-born Ovadia Yosef...
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