Word: betting
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Wait a minute, wasn't this team talking Super Bowl this summer? As an outside observer, one has to look at the history of this team and question somebody's competence. The only sure bet is that the fault doesn't lie with Archie Manning. You have to feel for the guy--in the decade or so since he left Ole Miss he hasn't played on a winning team (hello, Bob Lanier?). Time is running out for Manning, who in another ten years will be the greatest unremembered quarterback in NFL history. This team should not be this...
Dudley House: People affiliated with this House don't like here, but they come to school every day. They walk, they ride bikes, they drive, and they come by subway. In short, they Commute. I bet you feel silly if you didn't get this...
...that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American space activity, Sagan made a perspicacious wager: he bet a case of chocolate bars that the U.S. would reach the moon by 1970. He won with five months to spare...
...primary explanation for the vote is one most often heard in cases like Skocpol's--she simply hadn't proven herself worthy, by Harvard standards, of tenure here. Although Skocpol looks like a "hot prospect" now, worried departmental administrators are not willing to bet on what she will do in coming decades. They want more proven--and inevitably older--scholars instead...
...legal observers seem prepared to bet next Sunday's collection plate that the court will tamper with the church's tax status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...