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...unexpected economic downturn is that the gambling instinct gets kicked out of everyone. That goes from the man at the Black Jack table who has been up 48 hours drinking Scotch and trying to win a few hundred dollars back, to the person who is too afraid to bet a portion of his income on buy a house because it may lose some of its value...
CRITIC'S PICKS: Here's your TIME reviewer's annotated Oscar ballot. But these predictions (not preferences) come with a caveat: Don't bet your bailout bundle on "expert" opinions. You'd do just as well with a Ouija board...
...Sunday, a huge snow storm hit my hometown of New York, blanketing the city in a layer of white. Luckily, when I checked, they had added some last minute trains between New York and Washington. And with all that snow, I figured the train would be the safest bet. I’d arrive by Monday evening. When I stepped off of my train, Union Station was swarming with people, completely transformed from the last and only time I had ever been in Washington, D.C., four years ago. It was 9:40 PM, and the place...
...best bet is January classes, though these offerings should not bear any resemblance to what’s currently in the course catalog. The shorter January should offer lessons in the general life skills that we bookworms have so often missed—a wood-shop class, for instance—or academic takes on our hobbies and amusements, like deciphering the true meaning of rap lyrics. But the most effective way for the College to remove all semblance of a Harvard J-term to actual school (and therefore drudgery) is to ask its students to serve as teachers...
...know, severe challenges. The recession we're in is the worst I've seen since the Great Depression. I was a kid during the Great Depression, it was a terrible time. Now, is it the same? No. Are there parallels? Yes. Are the parallels scary? You darn bet...