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...object is a full-blown political and corporate takeover, or takedown, of Gusinsky's media empire, then exile may not have been enough. The next move may belong to a Spanish court, but the real mystery is Putin's wider game plan. And as ever with the poker-faced president, it's simply too early to tell...
...sequence is extraordinary in its casual, almost perfunctory approach to the barter of human life-it's a poker game of the ultimate stakes. Yet, at the same time, Thorne is so wholly in control of the situation that you never feel the jolt-that cinematic shot of adrenaline-that leaves you perched on the edge of your seat. Crowe's character is cool and unflappable, handsome and rugged, but a just a bit too muted and restrained for comfort. The same could be said of the movie he inhabits...
...Mexico has worked this out. If the voters deadlock, the law hands the outcome over to a game of chance: the candidates can flip a coin, draw a card from a deck or play a hand of poker--assuming they can agree. Florida law allows for drawing straws. But this tie is elusive, imperfect as the election that produced it because when you are shuffling through 6 million votes and double-punched ballots and hanging chads and missing postmarks and the whole archaeology of human frailty, every count by machine or by hand yields a different result, each so close...
...solution would be for Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69 simply to sit down and play a round or so of poker. Poker is a card game that requires skill, so this way we can evaluate both candidates' intelligence. The game also plays on notable characteristics of both men: Bush's charisma and Gore's "poker face." Obviously, both can work to the advantage of the players, so neither holds the upper hand...
...Well, even before Opening Ceremonies, I was having fun. This is a big gambling nation. It's got less than a percent of the world's population but more than a fifth of the poker machines, these "pokies" you see everywhere. The Melbourne Cup horse race day is an undeclared national holiday, and the Aussies bet on cards, numbers, events and animals like nobody's business. They did nothing to hide their gambling habit during the Games, which was fine with me. To the great pleasure of my ink-stained-wretch brethren and the chagrin if not horror...