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With Harvard no longer an option, it is unclear where Hornstine will spend what should have been her first year of college. Hornstine had also been accepted to Princeton, Duke, Stanford and Cornell universities, but it’s too late for her to enter those freshman classes, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this summer...
...prevent cheating. Then they added play-by-play in postproduction. "You don't see everything they play," says McEachern. "You see a representative number of hands, exciting hands, to be TV friendly." In between the action, there are refreshingly cheese-free player profiles introducing the likes of Annie Duke, the top poker-playing woman, who came in 10th in 2000 while eight months' pregnant; Dutch Boyd, a math genius who went to college at age 12; and Chris (Jesus) Ferguson, a graduate student at UCLA who can slice a banana with a thrown playing card from 50 ft. away...
...TWEED INDEED Even though she was a snob, Chanel loved tweed. The fabric was cheap, but she used the Duke of Westminster's factory and lined the jacket in fur to up the cost--and the status...
...action-hero Governor. We wrote that particular comic book. And now California, so often on the cutting edge, is following in our footsteps. Us, a little dairy and turkey-raising state on the upper Mississippi. This is great. It's like the townsfolk in Huckleberry Finn who attended the Duke and Dauphin's theatrical show and then told their neighbors how great it was, so they could go and be snookered...
Which represents the true 1970s: Peter Bogdanovich or Peter Brady? Chinatown or Hong Kong Phooey? Was the decade a wacky jag of smiley faces and bell-bottoms or a daring heyday of nonconformism and creativity? You can decide this month when the two 1970s duke it out in two weirdly complementary cable specials...