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...correlated to gambling addiction. “The very first thing we learned, which we didn’t expect, was that the vast majority, the overwhelming majority, of gamblers online gamble in a very moderate and mild way,” said HMS Associate Professor of Psychology Howard Shaffer in an interview with Gambling Online Magazine. Approximately 95 percent of players studied only bought a median of about $15.65 in chips at two poker sessions per week. “A minority of most involved players did not show such moderation,” the study noted. The remaining...
...Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Handmaid's Tale - into parables of class inequity and betrayed alliances. (He also did a starchy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon and, for his last script, an ugly botch of the Anthony Shaffer thriller Sleuth.) He directed other men's plays, notably Simon Gray's (Butley), and appeared frequently onstage and screen. The man kept busy...
...guess TIME doesn't remember where Bill Clinton, or Ronald Reagan, or Abraham Lincoln came from. And now Obama's a "prince"? Maybe you should tone it down. Let Obama do his job, and you do yours. You know, report the news - not your own ecstasy. David Shaffer, Delmar, New York...
Equus Harry Potter gets naked! That's the sell line for Broadway's revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 drama, which runs through February. Happily, as the stable boy accused of mutilating horses, Daniel Radcliffe shows off not just his private parts but also his acting chops, and the play, though glib, is still a dazzler...
...There’s a tension between making what you want versus simply making what sells well.” Garber concluded that it is the newer art that most needs patronage, stressing the importance of “pressing the boundaries.” Cambridge resident Susan White-Shaffer, a long-time painter, said she was interested in Garber’s comparison of art and science. “Both are inquiries into the truth and complexity of life.” Garber’s book comes at a time when Harvard is in the midst...