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Back in Torrance, Ryan and his friends are finishing their game. They have read the instructional books, watched the pros on TV, and are surprisingly good players. At one point Ryan even thought he wanted to be a professional after he leaves high school. But there's no manic intensity to their game. Rather, the boys have a laidback camaraderie, cracking jokes about who's the best liar and paying as much attention to one another as they do to the cards. That camaraderie takes a break when the poker game does and the boys turn to playing video games...
Among the pros on the amputees' Ward 57 at Walter Reed, no one seemed fazed by my injury. But just the word amputation made me shudder. It conjured up a disjointed series of images: a childhood friend who had lost his leg in an auto accident; World War II veterans wheeled into ballparks for holiday games, their empty trousers or shirtsleeves pinned up. I had avoided mirrors all week. Now I feared seeing the startling reality in the faces of my family and friends who would be visiting on my first day in the hospital...
...Since Severgnini has traveled all over the world, he can draw fair comparisons on how we see our society and how it is seen outside our borders. I'm not really patriotic, but your review somehow made me a little prouder of being Italian, with all the pros and cons included. Francesco Villa San Giorgio su Legnano, Italy
Finally, English 10a and 10b both fulfill this Core area. There are pros and cons to taking either to fulfill this Core requirement. On the one hand, you’d be up against those English concentrators who break down sonnets like it’s their job, and the reading list won’t be very focused (unless you consider “excerpts from the Western Canon” focused). On the other hand, you’ll be dealing with classic texts that are either (a) a joy to read or (b) great to say that...
...Bill is a distraction when Hillary shares the stage with him--and more of one when she doesn't--that leaves Hillary with another option: sending him out on the campaign trail alone. What political pros call the surrogate is the most traditional role for the spouse and often the most valuable. But when Bill is subbing for Hillary, you start wondering which one is the candidate. In late July, for instance, people paying $75 a ticket began lining up more than an hour early at Capitale in New York City, where Bill was headlining a fund raiser for Hillary...