“These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.” StatesSocialSecurityActivityEssentialsGreenCardsVarietyDocumentsSocial SecurityArizonaVisaTraffickingSmugglingSmugglersGreen Card Author:John Shadegg
“If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.” IfsKnowsStillsHappensChristianPoliticalComedyPolicyBaseballAncientBritishCardsSpotsRomeSignalsNerd1960sAncient RomeFixationMinutiaeBaseball CardsBritish Comedy Author:Jonah Goldberg
“'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.” UsedMemoriesRecordsMinutesCardsFallenDevicesSecondsChampionshipDeckOne MinuteMemorizingPlaying CardsDeck Of Cards Author:Joshua Foer
“Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.” PersonsActionThreeGroupsObjectsMastersKingsClubsSentencesFamiliarCardsAssociatesPlaying CardsGroups Of Three Author:Joshua Foer
“The best memorizers in the world - who almost all hail from Europe - can memorize a pack of cards in less than a minute. A few have begun to approach the 30-second mark, considered the 'four-minute mile of memory.'” WorldMemoriesFourMinutesApproachEuropeMarkMilesCardsPacksHail Author:Joshua Foer
“That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.” WantShowsDecisionForeverGoes OnIntegrityLawyerCardsBossAlsInvestigationSectionsJuryGrand Jury Author:Josh Marshall
“In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.” WorldYearsFiveFourKingsEnglandCardsPacks Author:Farouk of Egypt
“Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.” IfsWayWantFactsProblemDifficultPlayerHeardGreenCardsOrchestraGreen Card Author:Lara St. John
“I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.” FeelsStillsFoundStudentsNotesCardsGraduates1960sGraduate Students Author:Lawrence Wright
“She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.” PeoplePlayKidsNightCardsSpotsEveningGuestsUnclesDressed UpSociableSkit Author:Louise Fletcher