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...three hours and six minutes - accomplished at a Las Vegas casino in 1989, with 118 rolls. And according to gambling expert and author of Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, Frank Scoblete, the highest number of successive dice rolls was 147, thrown by a man operating under the pseudonym the "Captain" in 2005. The average number of dice rolls before sevening out? Eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

Even those who oppose all forms of harsh interrogation are not convinced that the Army manual is adequate. Matthew Alexander, a former military interrogator in Iraq, says he found "police interrogation techniques much more appropriate" when questioning al-Qaeda operatives and Sunni insurgents. Alexander, who uses a pseudonym for security reasons, is the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq. His interrogations led to the location and killing of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Waterboarding: What Interrogators Can Still Do | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...wasn't uncommon in the specialty that I had. Some people [carry out] personal attacks against the people trying to collect taxes, like finding out where you live and harassing you or your family. As a precautionary measure, people often took a professional pseudonym, but those things can only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Tax Collector | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...greatest fault, not in its mislabeling, but in its lack of imagination. The intelligence at work behind these stories is generally apparent, but this fact outpaces creativity more often than not. Their existence seems contingent on Merz (the movement Schwitters founded in 1918—and his pseudonym during his life—that paralleled many of the ideas of Berlin Dada), rather than a strong contribution to its corpus. The language lacks distinction, the plots are sometimes nonexistent and more often overly didactic, and the symbols are tired. For example, in “The Little Clock Spirit...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fairy Tales Horrify, Numb | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Inside the MindTo have coffee with Lily (a pseudonym), you wouldn't get much sense of how she has suffered. She is 40 but could pass for 30. She has blue eyes and long blond hair that falls across her shoulders in slightly curly tendrils. On the December day we met at a diner outside Seattle, she wore a pink wool cap pulled down tight and an Adidas jumper zipped all the way. She was friendly but not terribly expressive, and she carried an aura of self-protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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