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Friday, October 19, 2018

Unpacking the deck: How I met the many faces of card-counting

Elina Blazhiyevska/Staff

After perusing a multitude of options, including that one Harry Potter class no one can stop talking about, I arrived at “The Card Counting DeCal: Beating Blackjack and the Statistics Behind It.”
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Friday, January 20, 2017

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ is sometimes goofy, sometimes thrilling, but always engaging

Writer and director M. Night Shyamalan has had a rocky career, to say the least. He’s been called “the next Spielberg,” and is the man behind the classic “The Sixth Sense” as well as one of the best comic book movies of all time, “Unbreakable.” But Shyamalan went on to
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