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...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...
...lunched with Ms. Muni Bonds. But municipals aren't great for someone in the 15% tax bracket, as I expected to be. I attended a delicious complimentary dinner, at which I met Mr. Cash-Flow Chart, who later projected how fantastically my retirement savings would grow. Unfortunately, his math was as fantastic as his chart. Mr. Financial Planner was recommended by a colleague. All I needed to hear of his financial plan was that it was a plan to relieve me of a large chunk of my finances each year in return for his services. Then, through a family friend...
...addition, he said he never struggled against what he described as Germaniuk’s sudden action. According to Feldman, he had been holding onto his math textbook and notes, which were so bloodied afterwards that they had to be discarded...
Feldman said that Germaniuk will compensate him for his discarded math book. Roch said Germaniuk had also been placed on probation for the rest of the summer. Germaniuk declined to comment on any punishment, saying administrators had advised...
...When Yang, now 40, first left his homeland in 1986, he did so out of a sense of patriotic duty. The prevailing wisdom of the decade after the Cultural Revolution held that science, not politics, was the key to China's future. "Jianli decided to study math at Berkeley," says Fu, now a statistician at Harvard Medical School, "because he wanted to serve his country." But when the student democracy protesters began to flood Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, Yang forsook his equations for late nights watching the TV news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several...