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...world can stay with him hour after hour," says George Breedlove, a former top player. Backers still put up the money, Reyes still gets his cut, but the stakes have grown. Three years ago, legendary gambler and professional poker player T.A. Preston Jr., a.k.a. "Amarillo Slim," was in a Dallas pool hall. Slim didn't play much anymore. He was just watching, until a matchmaker told him Reyes would spot him 15-5 in one pocket, best of seven: each player could use one pocket on the table, and Reyes was claiming that in each game he'd sink...
...Smith may not be as big as Ali but, sitting in his trailer, wearing a white singlet and olive trousers tied loosely at his waist, the usually slim and lanky actor looks imposing. His shoulders are huge and his biceps flex whenever he moves his arms. "I'm sharp," he says, boxing the air in front of him. Smith began training for the role in February 2000 when he first met Darrell Foster, a former middleweight boxer and longtime trainer of former champion Sugar Ray Leonard. "He was out of shape," says Foster. Foster put Smith through a professional training...
...CARLOS SLIM built a business empire and the largest fortune in Latin America by turning around railroads, restaurant chains and retail outlets, mostly in his native Mexico. He also controls TELEFONOS DE MEXICO, the country's leading telecom, which last year spun off a wireless subsidiary. Slim, 61, rescued the sinking Internet service provider Prodigy in 1997, adding a Spanish interface and helping boost membership past 3 million from fewer than 200,000. Not bad for a guy who says he is afraid...
Perhaps the academic excellence at Harvard allows students to ignorantly assume that the chance of infection is slim. (Despite this academic excellence, one would hope that students still assume their fellow Harvardians fertile enough for accidental pregnancy). Nationwide, 45 million people ages 12 and older—one of five of the total adolescent and adult population—are infected with HSV-2. If America was reduced to your 20 person Economics section, four of them would test positive. Harvard students get herpes; Harvard students get pregnant. Harvard students even get HIV. So be shocked, because infection from unprotected...
...Sparxxx’ Southern-fried extravaganza “Bubba Talk.” Even “Blow My Buzz,” the drug-addled offering from Eminem protégés D12, has its priorities in order, featuring a typically hilarious and quotable verse from Slim Shady himself...