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...World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games, is wildly inventive in losing his winnings the minute they accrue. It's not exactly fun to watch a guy keep self-destructing, but it gives the movie a curious kind of authenticity. Huck's mishaps have a nice unstructured feeling about them. Life just kind of keeps happening to him and his response, until the end, is always the same; he is, in poker-parlance, "a blaster" and blast he does - while we, watching, feel like crying out warnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Lucky You Get Lucky? | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

...only. The U.S. has a curious preoccupation with race, which runs through its history like a varicose vein, half-buried and chronically painful. Just ask disgraced talk-show host Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team, or any Arab American trying to board a flight. Hapa Girl is a reminder that Americans cannot have too many reminders of the un-American things they do when they're afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alone on the Range | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Most of my friends are curious, I guess,” biochemistry concentrator Michael D. Wang ’09 says. “[But] I haven’t really found anyone who is antagonistic towards Christians...

Author: By Allegra M Richards, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Faith and Reason | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Revolution. The group seeks to promote premarital abstinence among Harvard students and to provide a support network for its members. Never mind True Love Revolution’s cause—if someone wishes to save coitus for the marriage bed, then she certainly may and should. What is curious about True Love Revolution, however, is its premise...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Confusing Conservatism | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...life of one Harvard graduate whose choice of concentration was as unconventional as her current occupation.Meghan C. Howard ’04 says that the question of her future was hardly a consideration when she decided to concentrate in Sanskrit and Indian studies. Describing her course of study to curious friends and family was very similar, she said, to “dropping the H-bomb.”“The main misconception is that it doesn’t exist,” she says. “It’s like when people...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Small Concentrations, Opening Up Big Worlds | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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