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...Indeed, it is hard to see how Samuels could pen a novel that included all of the adventures that he throws together here, including his three-day stint at Woodstock ’99, a tour of an atomic bomb test site in Nevada, a profile of Bill “the Spaceman” Lee, and his personal ruminations on his marginalia of Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey...
...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 a story about one of his fellow blackjack players receiving a private plane-ride to the Superbowl and watching it from the 50 yard line. Irving emphasized that, despite all the excitement and glamour, blackjack was essentially a means...
...Please see hardcopy of magazine.] STATE (ELECTORAL VOTES) WHITE WORKING-CLASS VOTERS STATEWIDE WINNER (MARGIN OF VICTORY) Wisconsin (10) 64% Kerry (0.4%) Iowa (7) 70% Bush (0.9%) New Mexico (5) 34% Bush (1.1%) New Hampshire (4) 60% Kerry (1.4%) Pennsylvania (21) 56% Kerry (2.3%) Ohio (20) 60% Bush (2.5%) Nevada (5) 56% Bush (2.6%) Michigan (17) 59% Kerry (3.4%) Minnesota (10) 58% Kerry (3.5%) Oregon (7) 64% Kerry...
...contours of the billboard map of Mexico and its neighbors may have been familiar, but not its political boundaries: California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas were shaded in the green of a Mexico that stretched from close to Canada to the jungles of Guatemala. "In an Absolut World!" the billboard proclaimed, alongside the image of a bottle of Absolut vodka...
...Founded in 1917 by electrical pioneer Lucien L. Nunn, the small college on the Nevada-California border is known for giving students an active role in hiring their own professors, required ranch work, and sending what one Deep Springs alum called “a consistent flow” of its graduates to Harvard...