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...appreciate the advice and the company. But soon I've messed everything up. The dealer is showing a 6 up, my new grandmother has got 11 and I've got 14. This is textbook. She doubles down, doubling her wager and taking only one more card from Tony. Other players at the table have split and/or doubled down repeatedly. By the time the dealer gets to me, there's a shitload of money on the table. Everyone knows what I'm supposed to do. Stay. Odds are the dealer has a 10 or face card underneath his six. This will...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...says that the program has now given him enough tools and knowledge to start his own business. He also says that the lessons he has learned through CEEM are not skills that can be learned through a textbook...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tech. Institute Has UCSB Precedent | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Most models do not score big contracts so soon. Chinweis first job was not strutting in Escada or flexing her calves for Manolo Blahnik; she landed a few photos in a science textbook for Houghton-Mifflin. iThey put me in a yellow T-shirt. Then I was holding some sort of tube,i she remembers. It may not have been New York Fashion Week, but it certainly introduced her to the industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: fm dial | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...fall of my freshman year, I sold my Ec-10 textbook to my roommate and shopped an English seminar instead...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Chatting With Our Brightest | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

Since his change in teaching style, the main complaint Mazur now hears is no longer that he lectures directly from his notes or from the textbook...

Author: By Robin S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Clicker Meets Quarks: New Technology Revolutionizes Physics 1b | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

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