"I'd rather surround myself with sharp young minds than play golf and gin rummy all day, " he says.

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Nostalgia pervades Parsi clubs, where elderly ladies play rummy in faded English dresses.

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You let winners run and discard laggards like you were playing gin rummy.

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Andrew Rosen's father was a bombastic character who played gin rummy with William Holden and pretty much invented designer jeans.

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His mother, along with his sister, is the nightly host of games of kalooki, a rummy variant not unlike Brooklyn-style canasta.

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But one day she came onto the veranda, where he was having tea with a lady friend and innocently playing rummy.

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Playing rummy for small stakes with whoever was the dummy in the bridge game, she cheated, and, when caught, laughed and denied it.

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In 2001, Laird sent a copy of that statement to the man he still calls Rummy, as he recalled in an interview this week.

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Mr. MELVIN LAIRD (Former Secretary of Defense): Rummy - I talked to Rummy last night, and Rummy does not feel that he is worn out in any way.

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But the grudge match between Powell and Rummy is one of the few dependable leitmotivs of the second Bush presidency--though the rivalry harks back to the first Bush.

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It is a cheap shot to denounce Rummy for answering as he did when, to the best of his knowledge, the Army was doing everything humanly possible to meet the current needs.

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