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...When poker first gained a following on Mississippi riverboats in the mid 1800s—think adolescent Abe Lincoln—four players divided up a deck of 20 cards between one another, and then bet on who held the most valuable hand. Traditional poker mavens thus depended upon their ability to analyze human expression, a skill made obsolete by keyboards and screen names. A lip twitch there, a cleared-throat here, and a sharp intake of breath from competition to the left—these were the precursors to quick uploads and winning odds. Bluffing was an art; graphic...
...plans a November concert, what most students don’t understand is that in the past the HCC has managed to pull off successful shows despite the fact that the deck has been stacked against...
...they did in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. There's no good way to locate Kim's nukes using special technology. Inspectors will have to ask the regime to learn more, and Kim is sure to demand that the U.S. make concessions for every answer. In this game, Pyongyang's deck will always be larger than ours...
...Galveston Bay, which is just 13 feet above sea level, but planned to ride out the storm at Kerry's house in Houston. Brothers Matt and Michael spent Wednesday at my parents' house, helping move furniture and valuables to the second floor, boarding up windows and clearing the deck of anything that could become a dangerous projectile in 175 mph winds. As a child, I remember hiding out in the bathroom during Hurricane Alicia in 1983. When the eye passed over, we ran outside to a spooky, greenish world with absolutely no sound. After the terrifying noise of the hurricane...
...thought to be a senior financier of the insurgency in north-central Iraq. After a brief stay at a farmhouse near Samarra, he met with military leaders of religious and nationalist rebel groups in Baghdad and with Rashid Taan Kazim, one of the few faces from the deck of cards (al-Duri is another) still at large, who is thought to be running a support network for the insurgency in the north and west of Iraq. Al-Ahmed's final stop was Ramadi, where he distributed $500,000 to local insurgency leaders...