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...stage and began recounting his career in the business of gambling. Irvine, an MIT graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp’s book, “Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza in Las Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team in 1993, and about the luxurious perks of playing big in Nevada. To give a sense of the magnitude of these perks, Irvine told...
...senior Natalie Curtis added a goal of her own. Halpern and sophomore Sara Flood also recorded assists for Harvard. “We have so many threats,” Bobzin said. “That’s what makes us so tough. It’s the movement of everyone around that gets Kaitlin open. Our attack works best when we’re working the system.” On the defensive end, sophomore Katherine Martino and senior Kathryn Tylander split time in goal. Martino’s three-save performance in the first half was good...
...That fight has made Lee the face of Hong Kong's democracy movement, especially during the territory's 1997 transition from British to Chinese rule. Under the current "one-country, two systems" policy, voters in Hong Kong may directly elect half of their 60 legislators, but Beijing retains the power to appoint the territory's chief executive. Lee has doggedly lobbied for greater electoral freedom for Hong Kong citizens. "Martin is for Hong Kong what Aung San Suu Kyi is for Burma, and what the Dalai Lama is for Tibet," says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy...
...Viscount?” replied The Stable Boy. His expression revealed neither resistance nor eagerness, though a peculiar movement of his eyes might have indicated that he knew what was coming. “And where is this task to be performed...
...same time, Rice held the door open for members of the Sadrist movement to come back into the political fold as well. Al-Sadr is unlikely to allow his political loyalists to rejoin the government, which he has been boycotting for months because of its association with the Americans...