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Making a couple hundred thousand dollars profit in a weekend, sipping Dom Pérignon champagne, and sitting ringside at a Mike Tyson fight may sound like a dream to most college students. But to blackjack gurus David Irvine and William B. Kaplan ’77, it was just a job. Irvine and Kaplan talked about their business ventures with blackjack and even explained the basics of their card counting strategy as part of the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business’s (WIB) “Risky Business” event in Quincy dining hall last night...
...first year, from memory, we did a few hundred thousand pounds in commission, and the second year we did six million, and the third year we did 35 million or something. So you know, it grew very, very quickly. But even from two or three months in, I remember thinking that we're on to something here, big time...
...perhaps the most notable comfort that this cerebral pontiff offered his flock is his ever more pastoral persona. Entering a morning mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Benedict beamed as several thousand priests and nuns welcomed him with thunderous applause. As the mass ended, he spoke off-the-cuff, saying that the love expressed by the clergy helps him to overcome his own "spiritual poverty...
...unveils the airline's introductory fare--$1,000 round trip between Sydney and Los Angeles--Branson, in jeans and a rumpled polo shirt, interrupts. "That's not good enough," he declares. "What kind of plane are we flying? 777s? Then let's make it $777 for the first thousand tickets!" People cheer, as if Branson has just spontaneously handed out $223 in dollar bills, but his lines are part of a well-choreographed bit of corporate theater--never mind that the first thousand tickets had just been sold...
...talk and let them vent and then I said, 'Here's the deal. They are not going away, we have to do the best we can.'" One angry woman demanded the town leadership do something because the FLDS were practicing polygamy and living in sin. Nikolauk responded: "Two thousand years ago this young fella stood up in defense of a whore and said he who is without sin cast the first stone. I know there are some sinless folks here so why don't you stand up so we can applaud you." That calmed the anger. For a while...