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...played, with varying rules and sizes of table, in virtually every casino on the planet. Craps is a game of chance rather than skill, and with a low house advantage - around 1.4%, which makes it harder to beat than blackjack but easier than roulette - even novices can win. That is, if they're lucky...
...They feel more comfortable singing about some topics, like love, than talking about them. In fact, Wong's only beef with K Lunch is that she can't sing every song. "It's like playing mah-jongg [a popular Asian game played with tiles]," she says. "You can't win all the time. Sometimes, you have to pass the mike to someone else...
...answer questions about the new Pentagon budget. This is an unseemly spectacle under the best of circumstances. Even reasonable members of Congress have been known to empretzel themselves shamelessly, attempting to defend weapons the Pentagon doesn't want or need, but which provide jobs for their constituents. Usually, they win, too. It is just too difficult for a Secretary of Defense to argue against shiny new weapons systems with subcontractors in 46 states, even if they are fantastically over budget and designed to counter a missile threat that the Soviets never perfected 30 years...
...Alongside her highly contrasted menu ("Crisp and soft, sweet and acidulated, light and intense"), Pic serves the legendary crayfish au gratin and bass with caviar - the dishes created by her grandfather André and father Jacques that first helped win Maison Pic three-star status. "Flavors are such an important part of our memory," she explains with feeling. "This is the way forward - to know the best from before, but to continue to find my own creative culinary path." Find out more at www.brp.ch...
...voting for Geert Wilders," he said. His PVV party, like other political outliers, is expected to benefit from mainstream voter apathy. The Trotskyite anti-capitalist movement of Olivier Besancenot could muster 10% of France's vote, for instance, and the anti-immigrant British National Party could win its first seat...