Word: crapshoots
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...highlight significant conflicts that have intrigued and puzzled people for a very long time.” With some luck, this semester’s launching of the curricular review at Harvard could kick start a process to refashion the humanities portions of our Core from an intellectual crapshoot into something closer approximating the stimulating model offered by Columbia. After all, as Summers might say, it is a categorical imperative that every Harvard student studies Shakespeare while in Cambridge...
...It’s just such a crapshoot as to who’s in the middle of the ECAC,” said Yale coach Tim Taylor ’63. “You never know who’s going to finish ahead of whom. Last year, obviously, it was about as tight as it could get, and I don’t see it shaking out any more this year...
...good thing too, because let me tell you something, folks: peel back the inside information, the hands washing each other, the corruption and the greed, and Wall Street is still, at its heart, a high-stakes crapshoot. And nobody craves advice, good or bad, like gamblers. It gives them some sense of intelligence - and gives them someone to blame when they lose...
...meantime, women like Nancy Ulene who discover they have breast cancer have to decide what to do with their lives and their breasts based on information currently available. There are days when many women would probably agree with Ulene's assessment that it's all a "crapshoot" anyway. After much soul-searching, she finally opted for a partial mastectomy and tamoxifen. It may not happen today. It may not happen tomorrow. But eventually those decisions will start to get easier...
...death seemed to stretch forever. Cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, cirrhosis, pneumonia, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis and even the flu were relentless killers. Some victims might hang on to eke out a normal life span, albeit in disability and pain; some might even recover entirely. But survival was purely a crapshoot, with depressingly unfavorable odds. The hospital was a place where people went to die, not to be cured...