Word: derailings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...count cards to turn the blackjack odds in their favor. Ben needs tuition money for Harvard Medical School and is soon seduced by the possibility of hitting it big with cards. The players lead a fantasy lifestyle during their excursions away from Cambridge until greed, jealousy, and casino security derail them.From the opening credits, where the camera pans over the surfaces of playing cards to a dark, flashy casino club, the film is highly stylized and polished. It contains the requisite shots of Ben staring in wonder out the window of a limousine at the gleaming Las Vegas landscape?...
...Jones, the former CCA manager, alleges that the company even began keeping two sets of books - one for internal use that described prison deficiencies in telling detail, and a second set that Jones describes as "doctored" for public consumption, to limit bad publicity, litigation or fines that could derail CCA's multimillion-dollar contracts with federal, state or local agencies...
...against Colgate. With the clock ticking down in the third period and the contest deadlocked at 2-2, the Raiders (12-15-5, 9-9-4 ECAC) took a 4-on-3 advantage after two penalties were logged against Harvard. For a moment, it looked like Colgate might derail the Crimson’s unblemished conference campaign.Then Sarah Vaillancourt took the puck.The junior forward tracked down a clear from the Harvard zone at center ice and advanced into Colgate territory on a breakaway. After a deke to the right, she netted the game-winning shorthanded goal past Raiders netminder Lisa...
...fate of his Pakistan Muslim League Qaid party, a faction that split from Sharif's party after Musharraf, then a general, overthrew the then Prime Minister in a 1999 coup. If the Q party dominates the polling, Musharraf's tenure is secure. But widespread antipathy for his regime may derail his next term in power. If the opposition parties, lead by Sharif and Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari, gain enough votes, they could call for impeachment...
...COUNT IT, HUGE THREE BY UNGER. Way to stop the momentum there. Harvard pulls within two now. Let's see if the Crimson defense can finally derail the Baumann train. Columbia 56, Harvard...