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...Women are the fastest-growing demographic of new players," says Maryann Morrison, publisher of the fledgling Woman Poker Player magazine and founder of the Women's Poker Club, a women-only site. Morrison estimates that about 35% of online players are now female, in part because of the rapid rise of all-female sites. Testifying to that hot new market are a slew of guidebooks by women for women. Among them: Annie Duke's How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions; Cat Hulbert's Outplaying the Boys; and Toby Leah Bochan's The Badass Girl's Guide...
...success in the Iraq war left the American administration, particularly its leading neo-cons, with a sense of immense gratification. Not only had their unilateral campaign toppled a regime believed to have been one of the most threatening in the region, but it also supposedly opened the doors for rapid democratization in a region that was for long ruled by edge of the sword.This period of exhilaration abruptly ceased in the wake of a tenacious insurgency led by nationalists, jihadists, and others who reject, on principle, any American interference in Iraq’s affairs. Soon the world realized that...
...bias of self-selection present in this study: those most interested in Harvard athletics would be those who took the time to answer the e-mail. Because of this, the pathetically small sample size, and other experimental inefficiencies, the results are unfortunately inconclusive, if not just indicative of rapid uptake, then of some awareness of Harvard football brought to school with bed risers and lame dorm posters.So when my father’s in town on Saturday for the Princeton game and the conversation inevitably drifts toward the old days, the cold days, the good days...
...risk their safety by helping apprehend a suspect. “We don’t recommend that students put themselves in any danger or harm; we only ask that they do what they’re comfortable with,” he said. “A rapid call to the HUPD is the best thing that can be done. We take calls of suspicious people in resident halls very seriously and we rapidly respond to them.” The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office did not know yesterday whether Vick was still in jail...
Underground activities inevitably change character when thrust into the limelight. Comedy Central made remote-controlled fighting robots famous with its show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks...