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...collection Winter Sex, attempts prose in her memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. The book brings the world of professional gambling to life, offering a perceptive account of growing up as well as gambling. Lederer’s childhood includes an English professor father, a mother hooked on crossword puzzles, solitaire, and scotch and two older siblings who rob their mother’s purse. All gamblers and all fiercely competitive, the family becomes split after the kids go to college and the parents divorce. It is in the central hub of American gambling—Las Vegas?...
Gemayel also stressed the utmost importance of addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in restoring stability in the region. In turning the focus of the speech to his native Lebanon, he called his country “the crossword of the Middle East,” and a potential bridge between troubled Middle Eastern countries. Its diverse, internal communities, he said, made it a positive example for establishing “harmony amidst diversity?...
Proponents of damage caps say they simplify malpractice cases and weed out frivolous claims. But they can also entangle victims of heartbreaking tragedy like McDonough. No longer able to work, he spends his days doing crossword puzzles and preparing again for court. That was not the intention of the first jury, whose award was based not on mere sympathy but on calculations of McDonough's direct financial burden. According to foreman Joanne Kramer, in arriving at the $5.8 million in damages, the jury considered everything from home health-care aides to a van, a wheelchair, the loss of his home...
...know is how to connect my Palm V to the USB serial adapter to work with Mac OS 10.2.1. If anyone can figure it out, let me know. Also, I don’t know geography. Whether I’m reading the paper or doing the crossword puzzle, I have no knowledge of where rivers are located...
...clock yesterday afternoon, Bill Willard was busy tinkering with a crossword puzzle. Willard, the warden at Cambridge’s Ward 7-3 polling station in Gund Hall, said traffic was unexpectedly light...