Word: bee
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...Dunster dining hall and shootout tournaments on the weekends, poker aficionados can earn several hundred dollars each week. This profit pontential is prompting many players, in school and out, to pursue higher stakes and bigger returns from the newest house around (no, not the Bee): the web. Between empire.com, poker.com, and Mrsupergames.com, any 18-year-old can sign in and ante up, playing up to 60 hands an hour. At $10 a hand, 60 hands an hour, 10 hours a week… well, you’re getting the dealer, I mean deal...
...President dies of a stroke, in the drama Commander in Chief, debuting Sept. 27. That's fair enough. Given the prejudice she would face, the nation might feel safer with a female leader possessed of great height, athleticism (Davis nearly represented the U.S. in Olympic archery) and robust, bee-stung lips. I look forward avidly to the Jolie Administration...
...debut novel, 2000's Bee Season, Myla Goldberg intricately etched four members of a contemporary Jewish family and set them in motion against one another, charting the repercussions of even their subtlest interactions. For her follow-up, the author changes tack completely, striving for the historical epic. In Wickett's Remedy (Doubleday; 336 pages), the travails of Lydia Kilkenny, a young woman from an impoverished Irish Catholic family, are rooted in such global events as World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic that left millions dead...
...teach it again, but "he never flaunted his intelligence over the other kids." Classmate Betsy Starr Swan remembers the science fair in which her team's water-purification exhibit lost out to a Roberts-designed automatic table fork. "I don't think he ever lost a spelling bee. We'd all line up at the chalkboard, but we knew John was going to win." When he got things wrong, classmates assumed it was the teacher who had made the mistake...
...California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger boasted last week at Yahoo!'s headquarters in Silicon Valley. Just two days later, the wealthy Republican--who campaigned on his self-proclaimed independence from special interests, and forgoes his $175,000 state salary--was trying hard to prove it after the Sacramento Bee reported that he had accepted a mondo free-lance gig from a muscle-magazine publisher. According to documents filed with the SEC, just days before taking office in 2003, Schwarzenegger signed a five-year consulting deal, worth at least $1 million annually, with a subsidiary of American Media Inc., publisher of Muscle...