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...consensus is that we need a new PR man. Pretty much everyone agreed about that,” said conference organizer Kathy McManus, director of nutrition at Brigham & Women’s Hospital...
Online divorce is not an option if the couple can't agree on the terms. Even when they can, not everyone thinks it's a good idea. "Instant divorce is the last thing we need," says Mike McManus, president of the marriage advocacy group Marriage Savers. Instead of a divorce, McManus says, couples often just need time to cool off before working out their differences...
...volunteer couple at least five times to talk about everything from family to finances. "We try to get a couple to note and become aware of strengths, so that when they get into problems down the road, they don't start thinking they married the wrong person," says Harriet McManus, who with her husband Mike runs a nonprofit group called Marriage Savers based in suburban Washington. Couples like the Ruffners sing their mentors' praises. Says Andy: "If anything, the experience just reaffirmed all the reasons why I wanted to marry Kaet." --By Paige Bowers
...play dice with the universe," McManus writes, "but serious gamblers...prefer no-limit Texas hold'em," a particularly hard-boiled poker variant. McManus gives the reader a riveting over-the-shoulder view of the hand-by-hand action as he scours his opponents' poker faces for "tells"--nervous tics that betray their true emotions--while betting his next mortgage payment on the turn of a little cardboard rectangle...
...prose is flashy, funny and unexpectedly erudite, but McManus hardly even needs it--with material this rich, he's holding the writer's equivalent of a royal flush. Between deals he weaves in an anecdotal history that makes the case for poker as America's real national game--baseball's seedier older brother--and the story of a local Vegas gambling prince whose murder is a cautionary tale about the price of forbidden pleasures. Positively Fifth Street--the title is poker slang for the last, and often crucial, card in a hand of Texas hold'em--takes us into...