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...lunch and the time to begin the afternoon's main event--playing bunco. As games go, bunco ranks pretty low on the skill scale. It requires none of the strategy or finesse of bridge or even poker. It's pure luck and the roll of the dice. Players take turns trying to make three dice turn up as ones in the first round of play, twos in the second and so on. Rolling three of a kind is a "bunco...
Within minutes of Leone's summons to play, dice are rolling, Chardonnay is flowing and 12 women, ranging in age from their 40s to their 60s, who call themselves the "Bunco Babes," are engaged in rowdy competition. Two hours later, the players who have racked up the most points share the $60 the women threw into the pot at the beginning of the game. But everyone goes home happy. "If you're not in good spirits when you walk out the door, it's your own fault," jokes Barbara Baker, who has played with the Babes since last year...
...depended on it, when in fact the opposite is true? The sheer nerve of the White House strategy left even enemies in awe. "What they did was risky as hell," marvels Tony Coelho, a veteran operative who served as chairman of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "They rolled the dice, they won, and now Bush has a huge mandate. It's not about 9/11 anymore. He is the legitimate President...
...generation. "This is part of it," Rove told TIME last week. "It's not going to be a dramatic realignment of American politics in which one day it's deadlocked and the next day it's a blowout. The changes are gradual, but they're persistent." "They rolled the dice, they won and now Bush has a huge mandate," marvels Tony Coelho, who served as chairman of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "It's not about 9/11 any more. He is the legitimate President." - By James Carney and John F. Dickerson IRAN Win One, Lose One The battle for control...
...children will not be wiped off the face of the earth by some maniac. Maybe we will fail in our nation building in Iraq, but at least we will eliminate one of our greatest threats. We hope the next Iraqi leader will be human. Let's roll the dice. DAN DILLULIO Stamford, Conn...