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Harvard finally managed to put the game away, 16-14, on a Vince Marin ace and a booming spike by sophomore outside hitter Albert Kim which brought the fans to their feel. With the match knotted at two games apiece, the Crimson appeared to have enough momentum going into the deciding contest for a come-from-behind victory...
Amid the throngs of gamblers in Atlantic City, Debra Kim Cohen stood out. A former beauty queen, she dropped thousands of dollars at blackjack tables. Casino managers acknowledged her lavish patronage by plying her with the perks commonly accorded VIP customers: free limo rides, meals, even rooms. Cohen, after all, was a high roller. It apparently did not disturb casino officials that she was also a teenager and -- at 17 -- four years shy of New Jersey's legal gambling...
...Finally, Kim's father, Atlantic City detective Leonard Cohen, complained to authorities. Kim was subsequently barred from casinos. But by then the damage had been done. "She was an addicted gambler," Cohen says of his daughter. Moreover, Kim had squandered all her money, including funds set aside for college. Officials at the five casinos where she gambled claimed that her case was an anomaly...
...contrary, Kim's sad case is only too common. Gambling researchers say that of the estimated 8 million compulsive gamblers in America, fully 1 million are teenagers. Unlike Kim, most live far from casinos, so they favor sports betting, card playing and lotteries. Once bitten by the gambling bug, many later move on to casinos and racetrack betting. "We have always seen compulsive gambling as a problem of older people," says Jean Falzon, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, based in New York City. "Now we are finding that adolescent compulsive gambling is far more pervasive than...
HARVARD (74): Heather Harris 2-5 0-2 4; Beth Wambach 3-12 3-5 12; Debbie Flandermeyer 11-14 2-4 24; Heidi Kosh 2-3 0-0 5; Maura Healey 2-6 0-0 5; Erin Maher 5-11 3-4 16; Kim Seidel 0-0 0-0 0; Dina Hadrick 2-2 0-1 4; Betsy Odita...