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...everyone has that much self-control. One Cabot ’01 graduate and former gambling addict recounts his experiences. “I got into poker at Yale,” he begins. “I was down there for a year and stumbled into an underground game. The first night I played, I lost $150.” Instead of getting discouraged by his initial disappointment, he was determined to learn how to play the game. Three months later he won his money back, and more. He started playing poker at a “semi-professional?...
...doing with the Big Dig. Virtually alone among major cities in the U.S., Boston has realized the futility of incremental improvements to its transportation infrastructure. Instead of adding a lane here and a new on-ramp there, Boston is completely scrapping and rebuilding its infrastructure, putting vast new roads underground and building new bridges and tunnels as well. The community paid for the multibillion dollar project using public funds from the state, local and federal levels and had to overcome a lot of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) opposition to get it done. The result, when completed, will...
...million people of Arab origin. The point of connection between the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles and Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based networks came via Algeria. There, the military-backed government overturned elections won by the Islamists, banned their party and drove its most extreme elements underground - where they've led a merciless war of terror against politicians and citizens alike. The most notorious Algerian terror faction, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), had been founded by men who'd fought as volunteers alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan's anti-Soviet 'jihad.' When that war ended with the Soviet withdrawal...
...retrospect, I should have taken the train all the way out of Manhattan. Instead, I got off at the next stop, wanting to see if there had just been a joke after all. I also thought that it would be dangerous to be underground if something did explode and the buildings were to collapse on the underground subway system...
...that interpretation, but it is not nearly as simple or polemical as that. Tori has relegated her band to the background after their triumphant arrival on her 1999 release To Venus and Back. On Girls, she picks her way through a wash of reverberating keyboards, as on the Velvet Underground quiet-revolution opener “New Age,” and even some solo piano work that recalls her early albums on “Real Men.” All of these interpretations places the emphasis on her eerie masterful banshee’s voice. The song that...