At the same time as the NY Daily News has a rather superficial allegation that Porter Goss accompanied his friend "Dusty Foggo" to a Watergate [Hookergate is the latest appellation connected to this notorious Washington landmark] party because of his "love of poker and fine cigars," then quit his post as DCI for fear he would be exposed, the Financial Times has a lucid article in its Weekend section on the siren-song of this quintessentially American game.
Really worth the read, if the link works.
"Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, ...the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being govern'd, as the sea is, by the moon" [Henry IV, I.ii.31-33] HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF, BUT IT OFTEN RHYMES "There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck
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