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What makes the issue trickier is that there's often a fine line between assisted and unassisted playing. When Klaus Schaloske, a retired schoolteacher from Ontario, takes a backswing with his left arm--from a right-handed stance--the stump of his missing right arm grazes the club. Under the society's rules, that counts as assisted play, though its president, Malcolm Guy, has promised to review Schaloske's case with his rules committee. "It's a silly rule," an incredulous Schaloske says. He holds up his appendages. "How many do I have?" But that stump makes a difference...
Bloch met with congressional aides, attended a capacity-crowd "policy forum" and got a few hands in too. He and some of the other player-lobbyists turned up at the National Democratic Club after a long day of walking the halls. At one table they held a clinic for beginners. At another they staged a no-limit Texas Hold-'em shoot-out while fans watched and some lawmakers joined in. "It was just with play chips," said Bloch. "But then, whenever I'm at a poker table, all the chips are play chips...
...Henry Gassett ’34 (1834, that is) played on in solitude before convincing another flautist to join him in duets, and eventually coaxing others to help reinvigorate the organization.Besides the HRO, one of America’s oldest musical organizations, other groups ranging from the Harvard Glee Club to the Boston Symphony Orchestra can trace their roots back to the Sodality.The road to tomorrow’s performance has been a rocky one, both in the institution’s recent and distant past. But its members and leaders remain optimistic that the bicentennial concert will signal...
...International, was also a guest and welcomed the crowd to a night of “microfinance and Natalie Portman.” Doug Henry, who is in his second year at HBS and is one of the vice presidents of international development and microfinance for the Social Enterprise Club, which sponsored the event, said Portman’s fame helped draw attention to the subject. “I think it’s great that she’s using her celebrity to generate awareness for the issue,” he said...
...over the benefits of changes in the film industry. “With YouTube and all that craziness going on, there’s an opportunity for young people to get in,” Thompson said. “Before, it used to be a more close-knit club, because so little was getting made.” “I always like to look for the hopeful parts,” the self-proclaimed optimist said.“I like to look at the more hopeless parts,” Deutch responded dryly. He pointed...