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When James McManus went to Las Vegas to cover the $23 million World Series of Poker, he did what any responsible 49-year-old father of four would do: he bet his advance. He used it to buy into a qualifying match, then won it, and before he knew it, he was swapping $100,000 raises across a few feet of green baize with the high rollers he was supposed to be writing about. Positively Fifth Street (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 422 pages) is his improbable, irresistible account of what happened next...
This year the Bears (10-11-4, 7-5-1) have already lost more games than any Brown team since 1992-93. The Bears have struggled this year following the graduation of the reigning Frozen Four MVP Kristy Zamora and an injury to their fastest player, Krissy McManus...
Ireland has a tradition of dealing with difficult social issues by making them go away. "We export our problems," says Liz McManus, a member of the Irish Parliament. "We sent our unemployed. We sent our criminals." And today, Ireland sends some 7,000 women each year to Britain to end unwanted pregnancies...
...even last year people were going around talking about the A word," says Evelyn Mahon, a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin. "It's our last great taboo." This debate has forced the issue into more open dialogue. The referendum "means that people have to confront an unpalatable truth," says McManus, health spokeswoman for the Labour Party, which opposes the proposal. "We do have a relatively high level of abortion...
Brown would score again on the power play two minutes later. Insalaco sent a beautiful breakaway pass to sophomore winger Krissy McManus, who converted for the score...