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...Jennings' brainiac (Villard; 269 pages) were a Daily Double on Jeopardy! you would want to bet cautiously. Not only does it have the ugliest cover of any book published so far this year (for what it's worth, the most beautiful is Bruce Wagner's Memorial), but also it is by Ken Jennings--you know, the Mormon computer-programmer celebrinerd who, beginning in 2004, rattled off a record-breaking 74-game Jeopardy! winning streak. Good enough for $2.5 million and 15 minutes of syndicated fame, but a book deal seems like a stretch...
...football picks. Now I say first hopefully, because if I’m at all decent at this, maybe they’ll let me do it every week. As if that’s not enough pressure, I didn’t re-enter my NFL betting pool and Chris Simms apparently is not a good fantasy quarterback. So this column may be all that’s left for me in this world in terms of proving my football acumen. I can already hear the grumbling: “Picking 1-AA football games? What does that prove...
...replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just as Bill Clinton and Al Gore fumbled their handoff, so could Blair and Brown. Blair's next six months may end in Brown's coronation. Afterward, Britain's political future is anyone's bet. --By J.F.O. McAllister
...TENTS AT NEW YORK Fashion Week this month, many of the spring 2007 shows will include clothes destined to be manufactured in China. It's a safe bet, though, that only one of the clothing lines will have been entirely conceived and designed in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen. That distinction belongs to Ports 1961, a newcomer to the U.S. fashion scene, whose origins redefine words like globalization and Made in China...
...replacement in a general election. But polls consistently show that British voters loathe divided parties. Just as Bill Clinton and Al Gore fumbled their handoff, so could Blair and Brown. Blair's next six months may end in Brown's coronation. Afterward, Britain's political future is anyone's bet...