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...American tribes reaping profits from gaming, commercial companies argued for equal rights. So far, 24 states have legalized casinos, while 37 have embraced lotteries, lured by the prospect of easy money in hard fiscal times. And the games have begun to crossbreed: lottery agencies have added instant-cash video poker and keno games, racetracks have expanded into off-track betting, and grocery shops have installed slot machines. Overall, Americans gambled away more than $40 billion last year--up from $10.4 billion in 1982. On casinos alone, more was spent than on movie tickets, theater, opera and concerts combined...
...Philadelphia, Henri's worldly, rebellious, effusive nature made him a magnet to younger artists, most of whom worked as illustrators for the Philadelphia press--Sloan, Glackens, Shinn and Luks. They drank together, had long poker sessions, bellowed poetry at one another and argued late into the night. Sloan recalled 50 years later that Henri was "a catalyst, an enthusiast ... with the pioneer's contempt for cant and aestheticism." Moreover, he was genuinely interested in the young, and was to inspire several generations of students--not only his younger contemporaries like Sloan and Bellows, but Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis...
...Dogs Playing Poker" sealed its final win against Penn by correctly identifying 1995 San Francisco may-oral candidates Willie Brown, Frank Jordan and Roberta Achtenberg from brief clues given about each...
Harvard's team, "Dogs Playing Poker," was one of 25 teams from 11 schools, including Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, MIT, and Yale, that competed in the invitational tournament...
Other members of "Dogs Playing Poker" are Cyrus C. M. Mody '97 and Gilbert D. Collins...