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...ways, it’s harder to be a professional gambler than to work on Wall Street because on Wall Street, you’re really screwing around with other people’s money,” Ian says. “To be blunt, a lot of them really don’t have enough of their own skin in the game.” Though some poker players might be capable of beating a bigger game, they don’t move into higher stakes because they know that their bankroll can’t withstand...
...terrible idea, it gets you up just in time for the early football games and most places (except McDonald’s) are still serving breakfast. McDonald’s breakfast ends at 11 o’clock exactly, there is no getting around this, the menus are on a timer, unless you get a key to the manager’s office the night before and change the settings, or push the clocks back manually, still though the employees probably have watches. You can’t really blame people for waking up late on Sundays really; the only...
...wound up and I froze; I couldn’t forcibly stop this little kid I didn’t know, and I still half thought that he was faking. Some gasping syllable came out of my mouth just as I felt a tug on the still-connected headphones around my neck, and the release as momentum freed the iPod. It hit a metal trash can straight on, then skidded off into the street making with a sound like a row of people dropping their cell phones one after the other. None of this happened in slo-motion...
After all of this research, the Lampoon wrote “Nightlight.” The writers used the “corpse” method, in which they sat at a table and went around saying one word at a time forming the story. After many, many hours of “corpsing” and some editing, the 160 page book was created...
...have three pins that I like to wear. One is a pin that was just given to me by the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili. It's a pin called America, and it has an eagle in the middle and four little pearls around it, [symbolizing] justice, equality, prosperity and security. I have a dove pin because I think that's very important. And then I'm sometimes asked what I would wear if I were to meet Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and it's a dove and an eagle - because...