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Chris's Billiards in Chicago, where the nation's top pool players rack 'em up before crowds in bleachers, is an old-fashioned pool hall, famous for its grit, its smoky aroma, its hints of intrigue and unsavory wheeling and dealing. For years the club, where Martin Scorsese filmed scenes of his 1986 Tom Cruise--Paul Newman hit, The Color of Money, was the kind of place parents warned their children to stay away from. Yet on a recent Tuesday afternoon Diana Dobrzynski, 5, was there shooting a few games with her brother Joshua, 12, and her grandmother, retired police...
Five years ago, Eric Rosen, the owner of Chris's, would have been shocked to witness such cuteness in a sport famous for fast-talking hustlers with monikers like Minnesota Fats and Cornbread Red. But as pool has exploded in popularity among upscale professionals, baby boomers and now children, Chris's has become one of a growing number of pool parlors to welcome the new breeds of players. To accommodate the steady influx of families, Rosen has installed video games and a jukebox, complete with Britney Spears and 'N Sync, in a family-friendly back room where families can have...
...person who simply reads books, who doesn’t have much to show for it, will have a hard time distinguishing themselves from the [applicant] pool,” explains McGrath Lewis. “We are a little bit more like people from Missouri. We are ‘show me’ kind of people...
Students choose to come to Harvard for a variety of reasons which include its reputation for academic excellence. But for many undergraduates, the rich extracurricular scene enables them to develop academically and to pursue the outside passions that made them stand out in the competitive applicant pool...
...pool of potential recruits for such an insurgency has certainly grown in recent weeks, with the U.S. decision to dissolve the Iraqi military, leaving some 400,000 Iraqi breadwinners with no income. Some 3,000 protested angrily this week in Baghdad, and threatened to take up arms against the U.S. unless they're paid. U.S. administrator Paul Bremer has indicated that the occupying authority will start recruitment for a new national army at the end of this month, but the force would eventually comprise only 40,000 personnel. That leaves hundreds of thousands of military men out in the cold...