Word: bets
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...spent to help some of the most endangered freshmen Republicans. A separate effort by the same group to go after Democratic incumbents has been truncated for lack of funding. Grouses G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff: "We're playing a game of poker with Congress: the other side has doubled its bet, and the business community is just walking away from the table...
...fish can be found over that entire Midwestern state. Besides possessing a variable amount of legs, these poor li'l froggies often are missing their eyes entirely, and some exhibit shrunken or missing sex organs. Scientists are not sure exactly what is causing the massive deformation, but you can bet your remaining Crimson Cash that it's some form of pollution...
...Harvard, a movement to support this coalition may be starting. Apparently students at Yale and Princeton are expressing interest as well, although I'd bet that their interest stems from polite false humility and that they won't be too active in the crusade to dump the rankings. Although one of the organizers of the Stanford coalition denies that this movement stems from "sour grapes," it's pretty clear that bitter envy is the driving force behind the effort to reform the rankings. Had Stanford been ranked number one, no one from Stanford would be whining...
This is good news for No. 16 Harvard (5-3, 2-0), because the Crimson seems like the best bet to dethrone the defending Ivy League champions. Of course, "best bet" doesn't mean perfect; Harvard got thumped by Boston University last Wednesday, 7-1, amid a downpour of rain and goals...
...than Netanyahu's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Mordechai, a retired general who allowed that he couldn't say "with finality that...all considerations were taken into account." The army chief of staff, Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, said he had not been consulted. And Ami Ayalon, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, said his recommendation that the opening be paired with a concession to the Palestinians was ignored...