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...talent called "card sense." In addition, a really good bridge player has a talent that Charles Goren defines as "the ability to make sound decisions under pressure." Rules, he warns, are made not as the player's master, but as servant. And despite sneers that he is a slave to his own system, few players can break the rules faster and more effectively than Charles Goren. Thus Goren once found himself in this tournament plight...
...William Byrd I came to Virginia from England in 1672, became a tobacco planter, slave dealer and president of the Colonial Council; William Byrd II (1674-1744) owned Westover plantation, 179,000 acres overlooking the James River; Harry Byrd's father, Richard Evelyn Byrd (1860-1925), was speaker of the Virginia house of delegates and a U.S. district attorney; Harry's brother, the late Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the first man to fly to the North and South Poles...
Maidens & Dhows. Gwadar was then the haunt of pirates and pearl divers. Later, in the iQth century, its freebooters prospered by procuring black-eyed Persian maidens for sale in Arabia's slave markets. The British, lords of India and protectors of Muscat, ended this racket. Since World War II smuggling has been Gwadar's chief industry. As the new republics of Pakistan and India, trying to husband their precious foreign exchange, clapped stern restrictions on luxury imports, the enterprisers of Gwadar took to their dhows to keep Karachi's shops well filled with the restricted items. When...
...desires. This is the position of Hobbes, for example, who views all laws as an infringement upon freedom. The second basic definition of freedom characterizes it as an acquired state of mind, and Adler dubs those who uphold it the self-perfectionists. Epictetus, who was once a slave but considered his spirit free, would fall under this category. The third position, which Adler calls the "natural freedom of self-determination." is defined as an individual's ability to determine for himself-though not necessarily to carry out-what he wishes to do or to become. Category No. 3 varies...
...Joseph Stalin? He was last seen publicly at his father's funeral in 1953, and a report later that year said he was in a "correction camp" in the Russian Arctic. Other hearsays turned up as time passed: Vasily Stalin was dead in a central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive in a Moscow prison, mentally sick in a sanitarium. "There is no mystery," said Newsman Alexander Kislov at the U.N., at last getting down to Tass facts, "Vasily Stalin went to pieces after his father's death. It was a matter of drinking too much, poor fellow...