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...shot?and he takes, and often makes, shots others don't see or won't risk. After Houston, he won American tournaments in several different categories?nine ball, straight pool, rotation, one pocket, carom billiards?and two Southeast Asian Games gold medals in 1987. In 1995, he was Billiards Digest's Player of the Year. In 1997, he survived a three-day, $100,000 race to 120 in Hong Kong?billed "The Color of Money I"?against top American Earl Strickland, winning 120-117 and collecting $75,000 (less a $10,000 winner-to-loser payment he and Strickland agreed...
...There's a distinct Filipino style of billiards, says Helfert, "flowery," with a lot of movement in the backswing. More crucially, observes Billiards Digest editor Kirstin Pires: "The Filipinos are great gamblers. They always play their best when there is winner-take-all money." In tournaments, consolation money is still a payday. But when $10,000 or $20,000 is on the table, and only one man can take it home?that's why it's gambling?they find that additional motivation provides a little extra focus...
...philosophy of the Core Curriculum, the website’s mission statement explains, is that if students are familiarized with different ways of critical thinking about cultural, social, historical, and scientific problems instead of told to master “a set of Great Books” or digest “a specific quantum of information,” they will be equipped “to pursue additional knowledge which they may need to or wish to acquire later on in life...
Though the Faculty as a whole is still taking time to digest the findings of the report, compiled by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), individual Faculty members told The Crimson they are taking the problem very seriously...
...Forum was ostensibly an opportunity for members of HCECP to hear public comment on its initial findings. But in choosing to wait until the day of the meeting to release its report, the HCECP largely defeated that purpose. One day is hardly enough time for the Harvard community to digest the contents of a technical 30-page report and provide thoughtful commentary...