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...this recording, gave a brilliant and cogent Duchamp presentation in the Jameson seminar last year.” It’s signed by someone named Vodka. Krukowski, for one, takes his duel life—and the above comment—in stride. “I bet I know who that is,” he says, laughing. “I was in grad school at the time.” Rather than launch into a story of Vodka’s raucous college years, however, Krukowski’s conversation gravitates more toward Duchamp...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indie Rocker Teaches Writing | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

...Bet you didn't know we've been in a bull market for six years. It's true. Despite the burst bubble, most stocks are up 75% or more since the end of 1999. They're probably not the ones you own, though. Big-name companies like GE, Pfizer and Microsoft--which investors and mutual-fund managers tend to gravitate to--have been flailing since the bust. That's why the popular market gauges that those stocks dominate (Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500) still languish below their old highs. Yet the time may have come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Why Blue Chips Are Due | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

DIED. PEDRO GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, 80, dextrous physical comedian and one of Hollywood's earliest recognizable Mexican actors; in Culver City, Calif. In 1953 the aspiring comedian won a spot on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. His goofy dances and witty exchanges with Marx led to a contract with John Wayne and roles in such films as The High and the Mighty and Rio Bravo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 27, 2006 | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

Tradesports.com does not actually accept bets itself, but allows people looking to bet in favor of a particular outcome to find people looking to bet against that outcome...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Website Allows Gamblers To Place Bets On President’s Future | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

Users can bet that Summers is going to resign by buying a contract for $7, which was the going price when this article went to press, or that he isn’t going to resign by selling a contract. In a process called “selling short,” one can sell without already owning a contract...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Website Allows Gamblers To Place Bets On President’s Future | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

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