Word: boarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looking at the board, it seemed a little weird that Manteris' team of statisticians set the odds at exactly even. I was about to bet $100 that the first touchdown scorer had gone to a good school when my old Stanford roommate, Ben Wu, decided to run the numbers. According to Wu and perhaps this Excel document he sent me that I can't follow, there's only a 46.1% chance that the first touchdown will be scored by someone who went to a Top 100 school. Which did not stop me from placing my bet. Because real gambling...
...STAKE Now SocGen management is itself under heavy scrutiny. The bank's chief, who called Kerviel a "terrorist," offered his resignation, but the bank's board is backing...
...spent the past 24 years in Cambridge. Before becoming a professor, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in government. Barnard College, a top-ranked liberal arts college, is affiliated with Columbia. Spar has no previous ties to either school. Anna Quindlen, a columnist and the chair of the Barnard Board of Trustees, said in a statement that the search committee found in Spar a candidate who was “a charismatic intellectual deeply committed to the value of single-sex education for women.” At Barnard, Spar will oversee a student body of 2,389 undergraduates...
...Summers also rejected what he called “across-the-board mandates,” criticizing sweeping regulations for ignoring the fact that institutions often have different sizes and structures...
...sophomore, met as interns for Hillary Clinton's campaign, though both argue the site is non-partisan. The newspaper recently incorporated this summer as a not-for-profit entity called Scoop Media, Inc., enjoying pro bono legal assistance from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. It also draws guidance from an advisory board that includes New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter, among others...