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Courageous visionary or cornered opportunist? Confident democrat or hypocritical gambler? Tony Blair may qualify for all these titles thanks to his abrupt, massive and raggedly executed U-turn last week. After months of deriding a referendum on the proposed European Union constitution as a "gross and irresponsible betrayal of the true British national interest," he endorsed the idea after all. The normally dour Conservative leader, Michael Howard, was gleeful as he mocked Blair's pirouette during a House of Commons debate. "Six months ago, the Prime Minister stood before his party conference and said, with all the lip-quivering intensity...
Patrick Wilson’s William Travis is a violent womanizer and gambler who emerges as a naturally strong leader under even the most intense pressure. This mismatch creates a depth of personality and characterization that makes Travis’ majestic leadership rallying the men for their last stand all the more heartbreaking...
...course! Because the choice all of us have is either gambler, drug addict, drunk, or wife beater! On last check, grammar schools across the country weren’t lining up to book Charlie Hustle as a guest speaker...
...July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The 23-year-old landed a piece in Judge three months later, and he was soon on the staff. His earliest contribution was a series on a croupier, utterly impassive as chaos explodes around him either at work (a gambler puts a pistol to his forehead) or at home (the kids attack each other while the croupier rakes in a plate from across the dinner table). His fascination with wordplay paraded itself in his oddments of fictional language: "lurch," "gog" (what is a gog?), be-"fuddle." Within a year...
...think it's an open question whether any adult should gamble ... It's an absolutely closed question whether a baseball player should gamble on baseball." WILLIAM BENNETT, former Secretary of Education, conservative spokesman and confessed gambler, on Pete Rose's admission that he gambled on baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds...