Word: crapshooter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What do the candidates' gambling proclivities tell us about who they are? Politicians talk of their campaigns as grand contests of ideas. But in practice, the political battle is both a crapshoot and a poker game, a study in managing risk and in manipulating people. And there is no bigger gamble than a presidential run, which both candidates have conducted very differently this cycle. McCain's campaign, like his life, has been marked by its embrace of living dangerously and by clear runs of fortune and disappointment. Obama, meanwhile, has succeeded, no less remarkably, by diligently executing a premeditated strategy...
...either doom or delight. Delight is what you feel when you’ve been lotteried into Adams. Doom is what you feel when you’ve been exiled to the Quad. For the most part, where you are delivered is out of your control. Housing is a crapshoot at Harvard, and all you can do is block wisely and hold on tight...
...about citation counts than a professor’s reputation within a department. Furthermore, once a candidate passes the first round of vetting, there are secondary and even tertiary stages in the process that give effective veto power to so many parties that getting tenure becomes all but a crapshoot for even the most accomplished scholars.Harvard’s antipathy towards awarding tenure to junior faculty, especially internal junior faculty, is flawed. While Harvard’s professors should be the cream of the crop, its tenure process should be more geared to finding rising stars who will...
...grip on so many of our people. The emotionalism, the rapture that it entails, science can’t give us. The fact that science becomes cut and dried and creationism provides us with mystery and thrill and alleviation of our by-the-numbers existence, it becomes a crapshoot for us: go to heaven, pray, and my life will be saved. When the applause died down after the actors took their final bows, Asner was the last to leave the stage, making sure to collect all of his various props. He left his Bible behind...
...this circumstance," says Russell, who chairs the breast cancer advisory committee for the American Cancer Society. For a patient like Edwards, who is 57, the response to renewed treatment will depend on the specific and unknown genetic makeup of her cancer cells. Says Russell: "It's a total crapshoot." (See portraits of breast cancer survivors...