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...Iraq could not come at a better time. Going through high school with a degenerate gambler as a friend, I came to learn that the stretch between the Super Bowl and March Madness is the darkest period on the calendar because there are hardly any good sporting events to bet...
...handful of entrepreneurial websites, however, gamblers need not restrict themselves to dull sporting events. At betonsports.com, it’s easy to wager on terrorism, war and even natural disasters. For those not fired up by a Blazers-Nuggets game, there’s a chance to bet on which hemisphere will host the next 7.5 magnitude earthquake (odds say the Eastern) or to wager on which month this year will see the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan destroyed by nuclear weapons. (At 15,000 to 1, the odds for March 2003 are the same as the odds that the Arizona...
...doubt it is macabre to bet on tragedy, but these wagers have the potential to be very helpful in this country’s decision about war in Iraq. Whether for the war or against it, both sides will agree that no citizen should be apathetic about this war. And yet so many are. Apathy stands in the way of an introspective national discussion of this war because people feel like “it” won’t affect them—“it” being the war or the consequences of not going...
...doesn’t go far enough in making people think critically about the conflict. Sure, it mocks the oil aspect of the war, but this lampoon adds little substance to the debate. The way to elicit sober reflection about the conflict is to force every American to bet on these four fundamental propositions...
Considering that the cable-TV industry is just emerging from an advertising slump and that only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks...