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...despair: What do I do with my money now? Business schools are adding courses on Enron to their fall lineup; a new book, How Companies Lie, promises to help investors see through the smoke and break the mirrors of corporate accounting. People say they have stopped investing and play poker instead; it's a safer bet. The Wall Street Journal profiles the barber who has given up on cnbc and now takes longer walks with his wife because he knows he has to stay in shape--he'll be working more years than he had thought. Fully one-third...
...despair: What do I do with my money now? Business schools are adding courses on Enron to their fall lineup; a new book, How Companies Lie, promises to help investors see through the smoke and break the mirrors of corporate accounting. People say they have stopped investing and play poker instead; it's a safer bet. The Wall Street Journal profiles the barber who has given up on CNBC and now takes longer walks with his wife because he knows he has to stay in shape-he'll be working more years than he had thought. Fully one-third...
...bloodiest years of the 20th century, Capa let his cameras do the talking. "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," he famously declared. Getting close to Capa himself could also be a tricky business, though the challenge was usually surmounted by soldiers, poker players, bartenders, writers, artists and beautiful women. Nearly a half-century after Capa's untimely death while covering the French colonial war in Indochina - and after four years of dogged research - the British journalist and author Alex Kershaw has also gotten close. In his elegant Capa biography, Blood and Champagne (Macmillan...
Gates also engaged in the more traditional college pursuit of late night poker but, according to friends, his mathematical ability did not always translate into winning hands...
Alson had previously acquired some familiarity with gambling, having written a profile piece about one of the world’s most succesful poker players, and having enjoyed some success at the poker table...