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Female pros maintain that playing your femininity against male opponents is just good strategy. Whether you taunt a man into betting a bad hand too aggressively or take advantage of his wish to be fatherly and help you out, you're playing within the rules. Poker is in part about psychology, fooling your opponents into making bad decisions...
...women players who maintain realistic limits, poker can be invigorating socially and even professionally. Jennifer Nichols, 25, a San Francisco public relations executive, hosts a Texas Hold 'Em party for her girlfriends every Monday night. The players, ages 21 to 28, dress sloppy, eschew makeup and dish over Desperate Housewives. "Everyone's so busy," she says, "but at the games my girlfriends and I really get to talk. And because it's considered a male game, other women think it's cool that...
After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the Federal Government changed the rules to permit every household with two adults in residence to make 200 gallons of wine or beer a year. While that sanctioned the work of immigrant winemakers--often Italians and Greeks trying to maintain a liquid connection to the land and traditions they left behind--the amateur vintners usually relied on rustic equipment and grapes they grew in their backyards. Today's garagistes (French for the home enthusiasts who make vintages where they used to park their cars) have gone upscale, using modern equipment, better grapes...
...American empire “will almost certainly fail,” Hobsbawm said. “Will the U.S. learn the lesson [of the British Empire] or will it try to maintain an eroding global position by relying on a failing political force and a military force which is insufficient for the present purposes which the current American government claims it is designed...
...emptive war. These proposals are not revolutionary. What’s important is that he provides a comprehensive intellectual framework from which these goals emerge. This is not empty rhetoric.Walt begins with the familiar premises that American power is unrivalled and that America should do everything it can to maintain its primacy. But as well as summarizing the ways different administrations have chosen to use America’s power, Walt charts the ways other countries deal with American primacy. From North Korea’s nuclear “blackmail...