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...anecdotal history that makes the case for poker as America's real national game--baseball's seedier older brother--and the story of a local Vegas gambling prince whose murder is a cautionary tale about the price of forbidden pleasures. Positively Fifth Street--the title is poker slang for the last, and often crucial, card in a hand of Texas hold'em--takes us into a mesmerizing mirror world peopled by lost souls for whom a game has become more important than real life. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't want to die there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ante Hero | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

Deep Water slang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...star of Deep Water Slang, Vol. 2, the new album from Oakland hip-hop duo Zion I, is producer Amp Live. Amp juggles diverse textures, tempos and musical idioms, lacing the album with complex yet infectious beats. Though MC Zion’s nasal staccato and superior rhythmic sensibility are well suited for these rich backdrops, it’s ultimately the music—not the words—that fuel this lush and energizing record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...said. “End of link. There’s a lecture on Ebonics in ‘Knowledge of Language’ because it’s a topic that interests students and it’s an opportunity to show that Ebonics is not some freaky slang but a regular language with interesting characteristics...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kuumba Protests Professor’s Comment | 12/13/2002 | See Source »

Friends laughingly remembered how Smith spoke English with a European twist, comically mixing words like “trousers” with American slang...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Outgoing Student Who Brought Cultures Together Dies at 19 | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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