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...meet these challenges.Now I’d like to talk a little about your future. You’re all very successful individuals, and as we all know, success breeds success. This is especially true if you’re ____ (Harvard football, on the honor roll, a repeat offender). But there are always places for improvement, like ____ (sports travel budgets and certain coaches, multiplication, the prison library). Never lose the drive to improve yourself, and try to be a lifelong learner. That ____ (core you took, crazy “new math” you did, license plate manufacturing course) will...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Parting Words Provide Choices | 5/31/2009 | See Source »

...with a goal in a 3-1 victory over Yale Oct. 4, and she notched another goal and an assist in Harvard’s win over Cornell a week later.She would then make it three scores in three games in a victory over Maine, and the ball kept rolling. Hagner came up with the game-winning goal early in the first half at Brown later that week to earn her second Ivy League honor roll of the season. Her goal-scoring rampage reached five games in a row after she found the net with a header in the 61st...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FEMALE BREAKOUT ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Junior Makes Mark In Harvard Midfield | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

According to the casino, Demauro started her roll at 8:13 p.m. She bought into the game with $100 and when the orange-colored dice came around to her, she rubbed her hands together and let them fly. Demauro says she had played craps only once before, and being an inexperienced better, followed Capra's advice when placing bets...

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

...craps turn begins with an initial or "come out" roll, in which the player tries to establish a "point number" - that is, when the dice add up to four, five, six, eight, nine or 10. Once that happens, the player must roll the point again before throwing a seven, which is statistically the most likely outcome on a pair of dice. If the player rolls a seven before the point, the turn ends...

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

Although there is no official organization that keeps track of gambling world records, a number of clubs record significant dice rolls. Before Demauro's, the longest craps roll lasted 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 »

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