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...most of us armchair movie critics, predicting Oscar winners is a hobby. For Johnny Avello, it's part of his job. Avello, executive director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, runs the only sports book in all of Sin City that sets odds on entertainment. TIME caught up with the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. native to get his picks on which movies will win the hardware Sunday night, and what goes into setting Oscar odds in general. (See TIME's Oscar guide...
...anything, terrible management is to blame. Former president Matt Millen, a former NFL linebacker who joined the team in 2001 and was finally fired this season after a multitude of public fan protests, strung together years of failed draft picks to dig Detroit into its current hole. Although every armchair football aficionado knows that defensive- and offensive-line play wins championships (or at least a game or two), Millen repeatedly spent top draft choices on low-impact wide receivers, despite not having a good quarterback to throw them the ball. The low point: in 2003 Millen used the second overall...
...Lame Duck? That's a Quack Joe Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus...
...Lame Duck? That's a Quack! Joe Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus...
...first stop resembles all the other houses in the neighborhood, sitting behind a chain-link fence. Hartigan bounds up the porch steps, past a worn green armchair, and knocks on the door...