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...flush from a full house a year ago are pushing in chips and slapping down cards faster than you can say Texas Hold 'Em. Like many men, female players are often drawn in by moneymaking dreams (as in Chris Moneymaker, the unknown online player who inspired many a poker habit by capturing the $2.5 million World Series of Poker prize in 2003). But for women, there's the added appeal of having a great time while smashing through a gender barrier. "When you beat guys, it's a rush," says Gloria Tsang, 32, a Los Angeles nurse who took...
...Comeback?" Dec. 16) that described how ancient religions have at last found their way to the Internet. There seemed something funny and very American about insisting that eternity must scramble to catch up with progress--God's obligation to gadgets. It is the Stout Cortez Syndrome, the New World habit of needing a procession of new worlds, transformative revelations following upon one another like new-model cars...
...guess I’d say I have a curiosity about them. This habit came from my dad. He was in the cattle business and he used to always carry a notebook in case he saw a sick cow or broken fence, so that he’d remember to get somebody to go take care of it. When I started running for governor in 1977 I was being overwhelmed with information and so at that point I took this habit and tried to organize it on a more consistent basis. [He pulls a petite blue log from his pocket...
...wondered if “hook ups,” which he initially referred to as “polymorphous promiscuity” are good for women. “Hook ups,” the perennially-dapper professor said, “will get you in a bad habit that is very hard to get rid of.” “By the age of 30, you see men,” he cautioned, “who are used to getting free samples” and will not enter into loyal, reliable relationships. Citing evolutionary biology...
Your article on President Bush's disturbing habit of placing unqualified individuals in critical government jobs [Oct. 3] again illustrates what has become quite clear: Bush is more concerned with maintaining an insular bubble of yes-men than with running the country. It's too bad thousands of our poorest citizens have had to pay dearly for his cronyism...