How a tiny, impoverished Indian tribe managed to persuade a city, a powerful union, and the U.S. Congress to let them build a Nevada-style casino in the East Bay
Well that is a new deal, isn't it?Back in March, our favorite local memory athlete Chester Santos traveled to New York to defend his 2008 U.S. Memory Championship title. He had been training pretty hard, memorizing decks of playing cards in truly bizarre ways, but apparently, some guy from Grapevine, Texas, simply trained harder, and more bizarrely.Ron White, a dimpled 35-year-old Navy man, memorized decks while
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