Word: bets
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...Tory Party," said one former Conservative Cabinet minister. "We will either win magnificently or lose disastrously. I see nothing in between." Her right-ward-ho spirit might have more appeal to voters weary of social and economic complexities than her liberal colleagues imagine. But to hedge the bet, they are already taking measures to prevent Mrs. Thatcher from stacking her shadow cabinet with fellow right-wingers...
With the emphasis on chamber music this weekend, your best bet should be the all-Messaien concert at Kirkland House on Friday. The program will feature the superb Quartet For The End Of Time, which Messaien composed in a German prisoner of war camp. The limitations he faced there gave rise to some of his best writing. Four of the best undergraduate musicians will be performing...
Minnesota has displaced Harvard as the number one college hockey team in the nation in the latest NCAA poll. The gophers sport a 21-9 record. However, the poll was taken before Harvard's Monday night 9-0 Beanpot victory over Northeastern, and it's a good bet that the victory could propel the Crimson back into the number one spot. The win upped Harvard's record to 14-2. Michigan Tech (20-8) is third in the poll, and Boston University (15-3-1) is fourth. Harvard, of course, is still the number one ECAC team with a perfect...
...quarter-century under Communist rule, nobody could dismiss out of hand its chances of achieving Chou's goal. Nonetheless, China also has a way of lurching unpredictably from stability to turbulence and back again (see box page 29). Despite the present hopeful signs, few Sinologists are willing to bet their reputations on a really long interlude of tranquillity...
Middle knowledge or not, surveys reported at the conference show strong national morale. In late November, following the triple shock of 43% devaluation, Arafat's United Nations speech and the Bet She'an massacre, the number of Israelis who felt confident that they could cope with the dangers they faced rose from...