Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gobbled up all the details, envying every participant in the event. Would that my checkbook had been able to support my craving to be there in person and spend the bucks for those fabulous fake pearls. There are those who call the event a Camelot "feeding frenzy," but I bet a good many of us, given half a chance, would have loved to purchase a piece of the legend. CHRIS FINKLEIN Warrenton, Oregon...
...know this for sure, but I would be willing to bet that a much higher percentage of Harvard students end up concentrating in the areas they tentatively identified on their college applications (written when they were high school seniors) than do students at other institutions, who do not declare concentrations until the end of their sophomore year. Students simply do not have enough time to sample the many offerings at Harvard's "smorgasbord" before they are forced to determine which of them will serve as their main course. They often come out with the same range of interests with which...
...Whoah, I can't believe I got booted off the team for Mr. Businessman," Otto grumbles as he turns to play the game. "I'll bet I get a little respect once I get that Harvard diploma." And there, among the stuffed toys, is a rolled-up Harvard diploma tied in a red ribbon...
...looking for the same pizzazz and energy that has lit the Wang Center's stage throughout the 1995-96 season, your best bet is to wait until next year, and let "The Sleeping Beauty" slowly ease back into a doze...
...July 14, 1952. He was heir presumptive to the world's most famous preacher, Billy Graham, a name already thundering out of the evangelical South, resounding through the nation and around the world in one mammoth revival meeting after another. A Catholic fan wrote the father: "I'll bet that your new boy will be a Catholic some day, maybe priest, bishop, or cardinal, possibly Pope." But little Franklin's father was already the Protestant Pope, a man who would soon be hailed by admirers as the greatest evangelist since the Apostle Paul...