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...Athens, the goateed native of Japan's southern Kyushu Island is entered to compete in the 100-m and 200-m dashes and the 4 x 100-m relay. Along the way, he will try to reverse a lingering perception among his countrymen that Asian athletes are somehow physically ill-equipped to be world-beating sprinters...
Birth of a Nation imagines what might happen if the mostly African-American residents of East St. Louis, Ill., fed up with an electoral process that isn't working for them, seceded from the union and declared their city a sovereign state. Fred Fredericks, the mayor turned President of the newly named Blackland, must balance the country's utopian initiatives (adopting hitherto suppressed alternative-fuel technologies) with the difficulties of life in a rogue nation (where federal checks no longer come in). The satire is omnivorous, poking fun at the Bush Administration and Louis Farrakhan...
...Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their poker rooms...
...virtual impossibility. We launched a unilateral and pre-emptive war on Iraq on the basis of false claims, enraging the entire Islamic world, and now a new jihad has developed against us there. Will our foreign policy again midwife a new fundamentalist state into existence? JOHN A. BERTSCHE Normal, Ill...
...Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their poker rooms. Then, within the past 18 months, after the explosion in Internet gambling, which usually takes the form of poker...