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Want to know how Carl Icahn thinks? Icahn will tell you a story. He was at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas a few months ago and played poker with professional gamblers. In a $40,000 game, he wound up as one of two players left in a hand of seven-card stud. Icahn had two pairs; his opponent was showing four to a straight. The pro tipped off Icahn that he had seen his cards and said that because Icahn was an amateur, he felt obliged to tell him so. The pro then bet the table...
...stop the victimization of Africans, first stop thinking of us as victims. Even the most well-intentioned can fall into this superficially benevolent trap, as Christian Aid’s head of policy demonstrated by remarking that “Africa is not a scar, it is a gaping wound.” We all need to stop thinking of Africa as a gash that can be stitched up by so-called “developed nations” and their aid agencies, and start thinking of Africa as a continent of people who have the potential and desire...
...with two quick goals before the half ended, taking full control of the game. "We were sitting on the bench just ready to go back in," Voith said. "We were much more energized." The offense was even more prolific during the second half, netting five goals before the clock wound down. "We came out slow, we weren’t shooting that well," junior co-captain Michael Garcia said. "Once we turned it on in the middle of the second, we put it away." Still, Garcia acknowledged that the missed opportunities in the first quarter indicated that, despite the score...
...final years before the breakup of the Soviet Union. In “Slavs!,” according to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, “words are physical necessities that flood out of every character’s mouth, as blood from a wound.” According to Spillane-Hinks, words propel the play’s plot because, in the particular universe of Kushner’s provocative play, “dialogue is action.” Significantly, the only silent character is a young girl dying of cancer, whose physical...
...should have been more than enough to satisfy their appetites (and, we are dubious of the idea that many students had much work during shopping period). More importantly, by closing the dining halls, students who might not normally go to something like the Harvard State Fair went out and wound up having a ball. By breaking traditional prejudices against carnivals, concerts, and parties, closing dining halls may well have opened up the doors for future events in addition to adding to the fair’s success...