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3rd-graders' math skills are in the cards - 2004-02-02
On Fridays, the riffle and slap of cards shuffled and played punctuates the chitchat in Wanda Parks' third-grade math class.

Students sit around desks pushed together to form tables, holding cards like seasoned poker players, eyes occasionally darting to a board dotted with multicolored pegs in the center of the table.

An adult at each table offers hints and encouragement as the students shout out numbers and occasional cries of triumph.
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Al Sharpton Lays Out His New Deal - 2004-02-02
Reverend Al Sharpton, Jr., Democratic Party candidate for U.S. President and frontrunner for the approaching South Carolina Primary Election on Feb. 3, is many things to many people.

Explaining what you need to run for president to a round table luncheon-press conference at a Beverly Hills hotel not long ago, Sharpton, the 49-year-old civil rights leader from New York, said: “It’s like boxing. If you don’t have the heart to fight these people, you ought not to get in the race, because you are going to get hit.”

Asked to respond to his long-shot status and whether a black man can ever achieve the presidency, Sharpton responded with another handy metaphor. “It’s like playing poker,” he said..
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