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Ocean’s Eleven treads a fine line between sentimentality, cheeky tribute and über-cool self-indulgence, easily Soderbergh’s least “serious” film to date. In blackjack, it is a cardinal rule to double down when holding 11 for the high stakes, winner-take-all bet. Ocean’s Eleven gambles, bets big and takes down the house...
According to Stephen M. Davis ’02, the best players tend to concentrate in subjects that involve some psychology, particularly economics and social studies. Davis explains: “The only two games that you can make money at are blackjack and poker. Blackjack is a lot of brain gymnastics. Poker also involves a lot of math, but it also involves reading people. The human element in addition to mathematics makes it a game of skill as opposed to purely a game of luck. And I suppose that appeals to a Harvard...
...future. That's why HP CEO Carly Fiorina brought them together last week in a stock deal initially valued by the companies at $25 billion. Fiorina, one of the most powerful women in American business, is a steely-nerved visionary who once compared her business to a game of blackjack. She has doubled the stakes on a so-so hand. If she wins, she wins...
...recent interview. "I think that's not correct. The stock market has never had a 20-year period of negative return. Since most people work much longer than 20 years, they ought to have some flexibility. You just can't go invest it in a Las Vegas blackjack table. But you ought to have some options so you can at least put some of your current payroll tax into it so it would be able to create wealth for your retirement...
Filipinos like to tell the story that U.S. General John "Blackjack" Pershing invented the Colt .45 revolver during his 1945 campaign against the Moros in Mindanao because it took at least six slugs to stop one of these fierce tribesmen before he hacked your head off. Today, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is having an even tougher time than Pershing in vanquishing the Moro's pirate descendants: the Islamic militant group known as Abu Sayyaf, which is holding 13 hostages, including three Americans, in the jungles of the country's deepest south...