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Here's how the betting lines work: say a casino's sports book favors the Duke basketball team to beat Florida State by 11 points. If you bet on Duke, but Duke wins by only 8 points, you lose. If you bet on Florida State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing The Game | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...Stanford University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina all declined to restrict access to the music-sharing service in letters sent to Howard E. King, the attorney representing Dr. Dre and Metallica...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Universities Snub Napster Ban Request | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...have been designated don't know they have been picked. Even our faith leaders, the people many of us seek out for guidance near the end, have a hard time giving it. "The truth is, clergy are frequently not comfortable with end-of-life care," says Keith Meador, Duke University professor of theology and medicine. A report found that one-third of clergy members had no training to help dying people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Death | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...great debate debate is over. After weeks of wrangling, hemming and hawing, George W. Bush and Al Gore have agreed to meet in three debates and to send their running mates to duke it out in a separate rendezvous. The schedule, which sets the first meeting on October 3, is the same as that initially proposed by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's an Idea: Let's Have Those Debates After All | 9/14/2000 | See Source »

Harvard won't be the first to have granted a female the presidential post; among others, Nannerl Keohane assumed the position at Duke University in 1993 and Judith Rodin has been president at the University of Pennsylvania since the same year. But Harvard has historically been a bastion of WASP gentility--and traces of that aristocratic outlook still exist today. The maids' quarters may now house students, but the male-only final clubs continue to thrive, and those with a Harvard legacy in their family are unjustifiably given preferential treatment in the admissions process. The presidential search is a fortuitous...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: A Ms. at Mass. Hall | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

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