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...ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California State Poker Championship, is something of a poker poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher. He credits the media for the game's revival and points to the Travel Channel's widely watched World Poker Tour series. "There's elimination," says Affleck, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal people...
Perhaps they ought to start sleeping better. According to a sweeping U.S. government study conducted by 20 federal departments and agencies and released last week, the kids are actually doing just fine. By almost any important measure, the report was bursting with good news: teen birthrates are at record lows; teen crime rates are plummeting; kids are swearing off cigarettes (the smoking rate for high school seniors is the lowest it has been in 29 years), staying in school (87% of young Americans now earn high school diplomas) and getting much of the basic health care they need (immunization rates...
...popular version of the game known as Texas Hold 'Em, poker's luck has turned - spectacularly. "It's red hot," says Hard Rock Hotel casino executive Bart Pestrichello. Celebrities play it, Ivy League students play it; even educated kids play it. "It has exploded," says actor Ben Affleck. He ought to know. Affleck, who recently won $356,000 at the California State Poker Championship, is something of a poker poster boy as well as an amateur poker philosopher. He credits the media for the game's revival and points to the popular World Poker Tour TV series, which also shows...
...Porter told The Crimson in June that the only conversation he can recall with the Arkansas governor came during President Bush’s 1989 Education Summit with the Governors, where he joked with Clinton about how the rising politician ought to run for president in much the same fashion as Ronald Reagan—as a Republican...
...think he diminishes the office of the president, which I treasure, when he repeatedly lies,” said Porter this morning. “And I think he ought to be ashamed of himself...