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This week's FM scrutiny takes a look at professional poker players. Take, for example, "Darkhawk-2000." It's the online moniker used by one Harvard student who frequents online poker tables. Darkhawk, as he requested to be named, once lost $8,000 in one sitting. But he's had good streaks, too—a grand-prize package that included partying with Charles Barkley and, not to mention, about $80,000 in profits over the past year. You see, Darkhawk is a professional poker player. He's out to win big, and win hard...
...Instead of waiting for that one Crimson article that summarizes everything, I want people to know that this a process; advocacy does take time," Flores said. "The UC is not just for people who want to play politics. It's people who work very hard...We don't just go to sleep until the presidential election and then talk about the issues...
...total, there are five remaining flu clinics this week, which will take place today through Thursday. Two of these clinics will be held at undergraduate house dining halls—Mather is scheduled for tonight and Eliot for tomorrow night...
...Afghan crashes. "In Iraq, helicopter pilots face a greater prospect of being shot at by ground fire," Miller wrote. "In Afghanistan, the greatest threat is the terrain." He described flying in Afghanistan as "'graduate level' piloting more challenging than cruising over the flatlands of Iraq. "It didn't take long to feel the perils of mountainous flying in Afghanistan," he added. "Between Iraq and Afghanistan, most helicopter pilots I've spoken to consider Afghanistan the more dangerous place...
...have nothing to say, except please take good care of my child and send him to school," he was quoted as telling...