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...smart about gambling to parents. "We know that poker comes along with a lot of bad habits, but so do a lot of other things," says Cindi Williams, whose son Jeff, 20, began playing poker in high school by holding regular games around the pool table in the family basement in Atlanta. Her strategy, she says, was to talk to Jeff about the risks and always make him play with his own money so that he stayed within a budget. Under those rules, she says, Jeff and his friends developed the ability to size up other people and deal with...
...group of VA colleagues chipped in for McDonald's gift certificates just before the holidays. About the same time, Jim had befriended a Vietnam vet and Washington restaurateur named Hal Koster, who offered to host Walter Reed patients at his Fran O'Brien's Stadium Steakhouse, located in the basement of the downtown Capital Hilton. Jim rounded up transportation and circulated the invitation on 57. Before long, Friday nights at Fran's became a tradition. Koster drew a big enough crowd a few days before Christmas to fill up four tables, amputees wielding steak knives in their hooks and hobbling...
...women’s center that students have long been advocating opened last night, marking another victory for supporters of women’s issues on campus. The long-awaited and oft-debated women’s center opened in the freshly renovated basement of Canaday B, drawing scores of students to tour the new center and listen to 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s keynote address...
...long after women were first integrated into Harvard Houses, an ad-hoc group established the College’s first women’s center and library staffed by volunteers in the basement of what is now Pfrozheimer House. Plagued by problems such as insufficient funding and lack of institutional support, the make-shift center shut down in a just few years...
Besides revamping all five storefronts and the interiors of four stores, HRES also plans to install central air-conditioning and heating throughout the building, improve electricity and lighting, and add a laundry room to the basement for graduate student tenants. The project will also make the entire building, including all storefronts, handicap accessible, Hill said...