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...served since 1982 as a Reagan appointee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Brilliant, engaging, tenacious and solidly conservative, Scalia (pronounced Skuh-lee-uh) will be a valuable ally for the new Chief Justice (who is already his crony in a floating monthly poker game in Washington) as well as a force on the court in his own right...
...apparently timeless, nonregional appeal is the Reuben, a grilled combination of sauerkraut, corned beef and Swiss cheese served on sourdough pumpernickel. This pungent creation has been attributed to Reuben Kay, a wholesale grocer in Omaha who invented it for a weekly poker group. Another theory gives credit to Arnold Reuben, whose New York restaurant, a superdeli of the '40s and '50s, featured lofty and complex sandwiches named for celebrity regulars. One example: a combination of cream cheese, bar-le-duc (white currant jam), tongue and sweet pickles on whole wheat was inexplicably the Frank Sinatra...
James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok was holding aces and eights when Jack McCall shot him point-blank during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall...
...some form of the substance. In several, the plastic had either obstructed the digestive tract or caused ulcers. Says James Coe, program manager for the Marine Entanglement Research Program at the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle: "We have found everything from toy soldiers to pens, fishing bobbers and poker chips in the birds' stomachs." A study of wedge-tailed shearwaters, which breed on central Pacific islands, showed that 60% of the adults surveyed had ingested plastic. Even sea gulls, which are able to disgorge disagreeable food, are not immune to the plastic threat. They have been strangled...
...government had claimed conversations the FBI taped at Gennaro Angiulo's headquarters in the city's North End and at a poker game site on North Margin Street proved the men were involved in illegal activities and used threats of force to protect the operation...